[CAP. 400 Patents CHAPTER 400 PATENTS An Act to make provision relating to patents for inventions and . for other purposes incidental thereto. [I st April, 1958] PART I PRELIMINARY I. Federal Acts 13 of 1957 12 of 1959 36 of 1960 IIJfl962 Act No. 26 af 19R7 Act No. III of 19110 Act No. 1:\ of 1994 Government Notices 185 o{ 1964 497 of 1964 Statutorv Instrument 175 of 1965 Short title This Act may be cited as the Patents Act. 2. (I) In this Act. unless the context otherwise requiresI "applicant" includes a person in whose favour a direction has been given undersection twenty-three. or his legal representative; "article" includes any substance or material. and any equipment. machinery or apparatus. whether affixed to land or not; I "assignee" means­ , (a) the person who has derived his title to the invention for Zambia directly or indirectly from the inventor thereof or from the latter's assignee; or (h) the legal representative of such person; "Convention" means the Union Convention of Paris, dated the 20th March. 1883. for the Protection of Industrial Property, revised at Brussels on the 14th December, 1900. at Washington on the 2nd June. 1911, at The Hague on the 6th November, 1925. and at London on the 2nd June, 1934, and any revision thereof to which the *former Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland or the former Protectorate of Northern Rhodesia may have acceded or to which the **Rcpublic may accede in terms of section seven; "convention application" means an application made by a per­ son referred to in paragraph (c) of section eleven; "convention country", in relation to any provision of this Act. means a country (including any colony, protectorate or ter­ ritory subject to the authority or under the suzerainty of that country. or any territory over which a mandate or trustee­ ship is exercised) which the Minister has, with a view to the fulfilment of the provisions of the Convention. by statutory r"!otice. declared to be a convention country; • Acceded with effect from 15t April, 1958. (F.G.N. No. 39 of 1958.) •• Acceded with effect from 24th October. 1964. (G.N. No. 1751 of 1965.) Interpretation 7