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Patents Act, 1978 (Act No. 57 of 1978)

Chapter II : The Registrar of Patents and the Patent Journal

10. Register of patents

 

 

(1) There shall be kept at the patent office a register in which shall be entered—
(a) the names and addresses of applicants for and grantees of patents and of the inventors of the relevant inventions and the classification of such patents according to subject-matter; and
(b) such other particulars as may be prescribed.

 

(2) Copies of all deeds, agreements, licences and other documents affecting any patent or application for a patent, which are required to be recorded in the register, shall be supplied to the registrar in the prescribed manner for filing in the patent office.

 

(3) The registrar shall maintain at the patent office such indices in relation to particulars entered in the register in terms of subsection (1) as may be prescribed.

 

(4) The register kept in terms of section 6(1) of the repealed law shall be incorporated with and form part of the register to be kept under this section, and all copies of deeds, agreements, licences and other documents supplied to the registrar of patents in terms of section 6(2) of the repealed law shall be deemed to have been supplied to the registrar in terms of subsection (2) of this section.