Organization : Financial Services Commission
Type of Facility : Patent Application
Country: Montserrat
Website : http://www.fscmontserrat.org/legislations/
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Patent Application :
Persons entitled to apply for patent:
(1) Any person, whether a belonger or not, may make an application for a patent.
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(2) Two or more persons may make a joint application for a patent, and a patent may be granted to them jointly.
(3) An applicant may be:
(a) the actual inventor; or
(b) his assigns; or
(c) the actual inventor jointly with the assigns of a part interest in the invention; or
(d) the legal representative of a deceased actual inventor or of his assigns; or any person to whom the invention has been communicated;
(e) by the actual inventor, his legal representatives, or assigns (if the actual inventor, his legal representatives, or assigns is or are not resident in Montserrat).
Applications and specification:
(1) An application for a patent must be made in the form set forth in the Schedule, or in such other form as may from time to time be prescribed and must be left at the Registrar’s office in the prescribed manner.
(2) An application must contain a declaration by the applicant, or, in the case of a joint application, by one of the applicants, to the effect that the applicant or one or more of the applicants is or are in possession of an invention, whereof the applicant or one or more of the applicants claims or claim to be the true and first inventor or inventors, and for which the applicant or applicants desires or desire to obtain a patent. The application must be accompanied by either a provisional or complete specification, and must state an address for the reception of notices and other communications with respect to the application or invention.
(3) A provisional specification must describe the nature of the invention, and be accompanied by drawings, if required.
(4) A complete specification, whether left on application or subsequently, must particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the invention, and in what manner it is to be performed, and must be accompanied by drawings, if required:
Provided that the requirement as to drawings shall not be deemed to be insufficiently complied with by reason only that instead of beingaccompanied by drawings the complete specification refers to the drawings which accompanied the provisional specification.
(5) A specification, whether provisional or complete, must commence with the title, and, in the case of a complete specification, must end with a distinct statement of the invention claimed
Register of patents:
(1) There shall be kept at the Registrar’s office a book called the register of patents wherein shall be entered the names and addresses of grantees of patents, notification of assignments and of transmissions of patents, of licences under patents, and of amendments, extensions, andrevocations of patents, and such other matters affecting the validity or proprietorship of patents as may from time to time be prescribed.
(2) The register of patents shall be prima facie evidence of any matters by this Act directed or authorised to be inserted therein.
(3) Copies of deeds, licences, and any other documents affecting theproprietorship in any letters patent or in any licence thereunder, must be supplied to the Registrar in the prescribed manner for filing in his office.
Fees:
Such fees as may be prescribed shall be levied and paid to the credit of the general revenue of Montserrat.