Last Change:
01/23/2025
The Industrial Property Act
Year: 2001
Type: Domestic law
Rights Category: Housing, land & property
Link to external source:
https://kenyalaw.org/kl/fileadmin/pdfdownloads/Acts/Industrial_Property_Act__No._3_of_2001.pdf
Description
This Act provides for the protection of patents, industrial designs, and utility models.
Selected provisions
Section 85 - Right to industrial design; naming of creator
Subject to the provisions of any other written law, the creator of an industrial design or his successors in title shall have the exclusive rights to sell or cause to be sold for commercial or industrial purposes the goods in which the design is incorporated, subject to the conditions of this Act.
Section 21 - Meaning of “invention”
For the purposes of this Part, “invention” means a solution to a specific problem in the field of technology.