A BILL
to repeal and re-enact the law relating to the protection of inventions.
WHEREAS
it is expedient to repeal and re-enact the law relating to protection of inventions;
It is hereby enacted as follows:-
CHAPTER I
PRELIMINARY
1. (1) This Act may be called the Patent Act 1998.
(2) It extends to the whole of Pakistan.
(3) It shall come into force on such day as the Federal Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, appoint.
2. In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context,
(1) "Controller" means the Controller of Patents and Designs appointed under section 3;
(2) "convention application" has the meaning assigned to it by sub-section (2) of section 11;
