Patents Act, 1992

CHAPTER VI

The Effects of a Patent and a Patent Application

Prevention of direct use of invention.

40.—A patent while it is in force shall confer on its proprietor the right to prevent all third parties not having his consent from doing in the State all or any of the things following:

(a) making, offering, putting on the market or using a product which is the subject-matter of the patent, or importing or stocking the product for those purposes;

(b) using a process which is the subject-matter of the patent, or, when the third party knows, or it is obvious to a reasonable person in the circumstances, that the use of the process is prohibited without the consent of the proprietor of the patent, offering the process for use in the State;

(c) offering, putting on the market, using or importing, or stocking for those purposes, the product obtained directly by a process which is the subject-matter of the patent.