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In force2023 Revised Edition
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Part · Right to Apply for and Obtain Patent

19. Right to apply for and obtain patent

(1)

Any person may make an application for a patent either alone or jointly with another.

(2)

A patent for an invention may be granted —

(a)

primarily to the inventor or joint inventors;

(b)

in preference to paragraph (a), to any person or persons who, by virtue of any written law or rule of law, or any foreign law or treaty or international convention, or by virtue of an enforceable term of any agreement entered into with the inventor before the making of the invention, was or were at the time of the making of the invention entitled to the whole of the property in it (other than equitable interests) in Brunei Darussalam; or

(c)

in any event, to the successor or successors in title of any person or persons mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b) or any person so mentioned and the successor or successors in title of another person so mentioned, and to no other person.

(3)

Except so far as the contrary is established, a person who makes an application for a patent shall be taken to be the person who is entitled under subsection (2) to be granted a patent and two or more persons who make such an application jointly shall be taken to be the persons so entitled.

Report

Part

Applications for Patents

Part

Procedure for Grant of Patent

Part

Provisions as to Patents After Grant

Part

Property in Patents and Applications for Patents and Registration

Part

Employees’ Inventions

Part

Contracts as to Patented Products

Part

Licences of Right and Compulsory Licences

Part

Use of Patented Inventions for Services of Government

Part

Infringement of Patents

Part

Revocation of Patents and Validity Proceedings

Part

Amendments of Patents and Applications

Part

International Applications for Patents

Part

Legal Proceedings

Part

Offences

Part

Patent Agents

Part

General

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