800 No. 40 of 2016] Interpretation Act No. of 15 of 2010 Act No. 15 of 2010 Cap. 1 Patents 2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires— “Agency” means the Patents and Companies Registration Agency established under the Patents and Companies Registration Act, 2010; “anticipation” means the prior invention or disclosure of a claimed invention by another person or the inventor’s own disclosure of the claimed invention by publication, sale or offer to sell if that prior invention or disclosure predates the date of the patent application filing; “applicant” means a person who applies for a grant of a patent or utility model certificate, and includes a person making, any other formal application in accordance with this Act; “ARIPO” means the African Regional Intellectual Property Organisation, established by an agreement adopted at Lusaka on 9 December, 1976; “article” includes any substance, material, equipment, machinery or apparatus, whether affixed to land or not; “assessor” means an expert in Intellectual Property or a relevant field appointed by the Registrar; “assignee” means a person who derives title to an invention from a patentee; “authorised person” includes a contractor, subcontractor, firm or corporation that is authorised, in writing, to undertake an activity for non-commercial purposes for or on behalf of the Government; “Board” means the Board of the Agency constituted in accordance with the Patents and Companies Registration Agency Act, 2010; “Budapest Treaty” means the Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Micro-organisms for the purposes of Patent Procedure established at Budapest on 28 April, 1977, as amended and modified from time to time; “child” has the meaning assigned to it in the Constitution; “commercially exploit” means to use or develop something for business purposes, and includes selling; “compulsory licence” means a licence granted by the Minister, in accordance with, and for the purposes stated in, section ninety-nine; “convention application” means an application for the grant of a patent from a convention country;