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Intellectual Property Act, No. 36 of 2003.

Country/Territory
Sri Lanka
Document type
Legislation
Date
2003
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Original source
Supplement to Part II of the Gazette of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka of November 14, 2003.
Long title
An Act to provide for the Law Relating to Intellectual Property and for an Efficient Procedure for the Registration, Control and Administration there of; to Amend the Customs Ordinance (Chapter 235) and the High Court of the Provinces (Special) Provisions Act, No. 10 Of 1996; and to provide for Matters Connected therewith or incidental thereto.
Subject
Agricultural & rural development, Food & nutrition, Cultivated plants
Keyword
Intellectual property rights/patents Certification Registration Research Legal proceedings/administrative proceedings
Geographical area
Asia, Asia and the Pacific, Indian Ocean, South Asian Seas, Southern Asia
Abstract

This Act, consisting of 213 sections divided into eleven Parts, provides for the Intellectual Property and for an Efficient Procedure for the related Registration, Control and Administration. It regulates the certification of any invention/patent, preventing within Sri Lanka the commercial exploitation of which is necessary to protect the public order, morality including the protection of human, animal or plant life or health or the avoidance of serious prejudice to the environment. Any interested party shall be entitled to prevent: the use of any means in the designation or presentation of goods that indicates or suggests that the goods including agricultural products, food, wine or spirit in question originated in a geographical area other than the true place of origin in a manner which misleads the public as to the geographical origin of goods, etc.

Full text
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