FIJI ISLANDS

PATENTS (AMENDMENT) ACT 2002
ACT NO. 21 OF 2002

I assent.
[L.S.]
J.I. ULUIVUDA
President

[3 September 2002]

AN ACT

TO AMEND THE PATENTS ACT

ENACTED by the Parliament of the Fiji Islands

Part I PRELIMINARY

Short title, etc

1. This Act may be cited as the Patents (Amendment) Act 2002 and commences on a date appointed by the Minister by notice in the Gazette.

New section inserted

2. The Patents Act (Cap. 239) is amended by inserting after section 3 the following section-

"Exceptions to infringement of patent rights

3A. Notwithstanding section 3, it is not an infringement of patents in pharmaceuticals for any person to make, construct, use or sell the patented invention in respect of a pharmaceutical product or substance, solely for uses reasonably related to the development and submission of information required under any law of the Fiji Islands or of another country that regulates the manufacture, construction, use or sale of such pharmaceutical product or substance."

Passed by the House of Representatives this 9th day of August 2002.
Passed by the Senate this 21st day of August 2002.

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