subsection (2), as read with subsection (3), of section six; “Convention country” means a country or territory which the President has, in terms of section seventy-nine, declared to be a Convention country for the purposes of this Act; “Court” . . . . . . [repealed by Act 9 of 2002, with effect from the 20th December, 2002.] “date of lodging”, in relation to any document lodged under this Act, means the date on which the document is lodged or, where it is deemed by virtue of any provision of this Act to have been lodged on any different date, the date on which it is deemed to have been lodged; [amended by Act 9 of 2002, with effect from the 20th December, 2002.] “department of the State” means any— (a) department of the State; or (b) statutory corporation or authority which is prescribed for the purposes of this definition; “effective date”, in relation to— (a) an application which has been ante-dated or post-dated under this Act, means the date to which that application has been so ante-dated or post-dated; [amended by Act 9 of 2002, with effect from the 20th December, 2002.] (b) an application in a Convention country, means the date on which the application in respect of the relevant invention was made in the Convention country in question or is in terms of the laws of that country deemed to have been so made; (c) any other application, means the date on which that application was lodged at the Patent Office; “examiner” means a person appointed in terms of paragraph (c) of subsection (2) of section three to be an examiner; “exclusive licence” means a licence from a patentee which confers on the licensee, or on the licensee and persons authorized by him to the exclusion of all other persons, including the patentee, any right in respect of the patented invention; “invention” means any new and useful art, whether producing a physical effect or not, process, machine, manufacture or composition of matter which is not obvious or any new and useful improvement thereof which is not obvious, capable of being used or applied in trade or industry and includes an alleged invention; “inventor” means the person who actually devised the invention and includes the legal representative of an inventor but does not include a person to whom an invention has been communicated, either from within or outside Zimbabwe; “Journal” means the Patent and Trade Marks Journal published in terms of section ninety-five; “legal representative” means— (a) the liquidator or receiver of a company; the representative recognized by law of any person who has died, (b) become insolvent or bankrupt or assigned his estate, is an infant or a minor, is of unsound mind or is otherwise under a disability; “Minister” means the Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs or any other Minister to whom the President may from time to time assign the administration of this Act; “patent” means letters patent for an invention granted for Zimbabwe under section twenty-one; “patentee” means the person for the time being entered on the Register as grantee or proprietor of a patent; “patent agent” means a person who is registered or deemed to have been registered as such in terms of this Act; “patent of addition” means a patent granted under section twenty-six; [amended by Act 9 of 2002, with effect from the 20th December, 2002.] “Patent Office” means the Patent Office established under section three;