No. 4907 Government Gazette 23 March 2012 Act No. 1, 2012 17 INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY ACT, 2012 Immunity for official acts 11. The Registrar or the Deputy, an Assistant Registrar, any staff member or other employee appointed in terms of section 4 to work in the Office is not personally liable in respect of anything done in good faith under this Act. CHAPTER 2 PATENTS PART 1 PATENTS FOR INVENTIONS Definitions and interpretation 12. (1) For the purposes of this Chapter – “anticipated” means forming part of or disclosed by prior art; “art” means - (a) all matter disclosed to the public, anywhere in the world, by publication in any form, or by oral disclosure, by use or in any other way; (b) matter contained in a pending application for a patent as contemplated in section 14(3); (c) knowledge developed by or in possession of a local or indigenous community and which originated at a date prior to the priority date of the relevant invention; “exploit”, in relation to a patented invention, means doing any of the following acts: (a) when the patent has been granted in respect of a product - (i) making, importing, disposing of, offering to dispose of or using the product; (ii) stocking such product for the purposes of disposing of, offering to dispose of or using; (b) when the patent has been granted in respect of a process - (i) using the process; (ii) doing any of the acts referred to in paragraph (a) in respect of a product obtained directly by means of the process; “invention” means an idea of an inventor in the form of new knowledge of a technical nature;