Patents [No. 40 of 2016 “convention country” means a country or an intergovernmental body which is Party to the Paris Convention; “Convention on Bio-Diversity” means the Convention recognising biological diversity, signed in Rio de Janeiro, in 1992, at the Earth Summit; “date of lodging” means the date on which a document is lodged or where it is deemed by virtue of any provision in this Act to have been lodged; “depository institute’ means a scientific institution established in accordance with the Budapest Treaty; “designated office” means the national office of, or acting for the state designated by the applicant in accordance with the Patent Cooperation Treaty; “DNA” means deoxyribonucleic acid that carries the genetic information in cells and some viruses; “elected office” means the national office of, or acting for, the state elected by the applicant inaccordance with the Patent Cooperation Treaty; “examiner” means an officer appointed in accordance with section eight; “exclusive licence” means a licence, in writing, signed by or on behalf of a patentee authorising the licensee, to the exclusion of all other persons, to exercise a right that would otherwise be exercisable exclusively by the patentee, and “exclusive licensee” shall be construed accordingly, with the necessary modifications; “exploit” means making, importing, offering for sale, selling or using a product or process, and includes stocking up a product for the purpose of offering for sale, selling or using; “filing date” means the date of receipt of an application for the grant of a patent which complies with the requirements stipulated in section twenty-seven; “foreign application” means an application for the grant of a patent or any other protection filed with any other country other than Zambia by an applicant for the grant of a patent in accordance with this Act; “genetic resource” means any genetic material of a biological resource containing genetic information having actual or potential value for humanity and includes derivatives, fauna and flora of terrestrial, aquatic and any other origin which 801