Short title:
Industrial Designs Act, 2016
Long title:
An Act to encourage the creation of designs and
development of creative industries through enhanced
protection and utilisation of designs; to provide for the
registration and protection of designs; to provide for the
rights of proprietors of registered designs: to provide for
the restriction, publication and communication of
registered designs; to provide for contractual and
compulsory licences; to provide for the use and acquisition
of registered designs by the Government; to give effect
to the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial
Property 1883, the Harare Protocol on Patents and
Industrial Designs adopted on December 10, 1982, the
World Trade Organisation Agreement on Trade Related
Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights 1994 and any other
relevant international treaty or Convention to which
Zambia is a State Party; to repeal and replace the
Registered Designs Act, 1958; and to provide for matters
connected with, or incidental to, the foregoing.
Year of Act:
2016
Number of Act:
22
Date of assent:
6 June 2016
Date of promulgation:
7 June 2016
Date of commencement:
1 August 2016
In force:
2017
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