| 1.
| | This Act may be cited as the Intellectual Property Act, No. 36 of 2003. |
| 2.
| | Appointment and powers of the Director-General. [2, 8 of 2022] |
| 3.
| | Director and Deputy Directors. |
| 4.
| | Office and Maintenance of registers. [3, 8 of 2022] |
| 5.
| | Interpretation. [2, 8 of 2021] |
| 6.
| | Works Protected. |
| 7.
| | Derivative works. |
| 8.
| | Works not protected. |
| 9.
| | Economic rights. |
| 10.
| | Moral rights. |
| 11.
| | Fair use. |
| 12.
| | Act of fair use. |
| 12A.
| | Fair use of a work by any authorized entity to facilitate a beneficiary person [3, 8 of 2021] |
| 13.
| | Duration of copyright. |
| 14.
| | Original ownership of economic rights. |
| 15.
| | Presumption of authorship and of representation of the author. |
| 16.
| | Assignment or licence of authors rights. |
| 17.
| | Rights requiring authorization of performers. |
| 18.
| | Rights of producers of sound recordings. |
| 19.
| | Equitable remuneration for use of sound recordings. |
| 20.
| | Rights of broadcasting organisation. |
| 21.
| | Limitations on protection. |
| 22.
| | Enforcement of rights and disputes resolution. |
| 23.
| | Measures, remedies and sanctions against abuses in respect of technical means. |
| 24.
| | Protection of expressions of folklore and damages. |
| 25.
| | Registration of society administration of rights by societies control over the rights and submission of report. |
| 26.
| | Scope of application. |
| 27.
| | Protection of performers. |
| 28.
| | Conditions for protection. |
| 29.
| | Scope of this Part. |
| 30.
| | Definition of industrial design. |
| 31.
| | Definition of novelty. |
| 32.
| | Ownership and right to protection of industrial. |
| 33.
| | Industrial design. |
| 34.
| | industrial design created by the employee to accrue employer. |
| 35.
| | Naming of creator of an industrial design. |
| 36.
| | Requirements of application. |
| 37.
| | Right of priority. |
| 38.
| | Application fee. |
| 39.
| | Examination of application. |
| 40.
| | Registration. |
| 41.
| | Issue of certificate of registration. |
| 42.
| | Register of Industrial Designs. |
| 43.
| | Examination of register and certified copies. |
| 44.
| | Publication of registered industrial designs. |
| 45.
| | Duration of registration. |
| 46.
| | Renewal. |
| 47.
| | Rights of a registered owner or an industrial design. |
| 48.
| | Limitation of registered owner's rights. |
| 49.
| | Assignment and transmission of application and registrations. |
| 50.
| | Joint ownership of applications and registration. |
| 51.
| | Interpretation. |
| 52.
| | Form and record of licence contract. |
| 53.
| | Rights of licensee. |
| 54.
| | Rights of licensor. |
| 55.
| | Invalid clauses in license contracts. |
| 56.
| | Effect of nullity of registration of license contract. |
| 57.
| | Expiry termination or invalidation of licence contract. |
| 58.
| | Licence contracts involving payments abroad. |
| 59.
| | Renunciation of registration. |
| 60.
| | Nullity of registration. |
| 61.
| | Date and effect of nullity. |
| 62.
| | Definition of invention. |
| 63.
| | Patentable inventions. |
| 64.
| | Novelty. |
| 65.
| | Inventive step. |
| 66.
| | Industrial application of invention. |
| 67.
| | Right to a patent. |
| 68.
| | Assignment of Patent application or patent by court in case of asumption. |
| 69.
| | Inventions made by an employee or pursuant to a commission. |
| 70.
| | Naming of inventor. |
| 71.
| | Requirements of applications. |
| 72.
| | Application fee. |
| 73.
| | Search report. |
| 74.
| | Unity of invention. |
| 75.
| | Amendment and division of application. |
| 76.
| | Right of priority |
| 77.
| | Filing date. |
| 78.
| | Examination of applications amo;c. |
| 79.
| | Grant of patent. |
| 80.
| | Register of Patents. |
| 81.
| | Examination of register and certified copies. |
| 82.
| | Inspection of files. |
| 83.
| | Duration of patent. |
| 84.
| | Rights of owner of patent. |
| 85.
| | Burden of proof to be on the alleged infringer. |
| 86.
| | Limitation of owner's rights. |
| 87.
| | Rights derived from prior manufacture or use. |
| 88.
| | Assignment and transmission of patent applications and patents. |
| 89.
| | Joint ownership of Patent applications or patents. |
| 90.
| | Interpretation. |
| 91.
| | Form and record of licence contract. |
| 92.
| | Rights of licensee. |
| 93.
| | Rights of the licensor. |
| 94.
| | Invalid clauses in licence contracts. |
| 95.
| | Effect of patent application not being granted or patent being declared null and void. |
| 96.
| | Expiry, termination or invalidation of licence contract to be recorded. |
| 97.
| | Licence contracts involving payments abroad. |
| 98.
| | Surrender of Patent. |
| 99.
| | Nullity of patent. |
| 100.
| | Date and effect of nullity. |
| 101.
| | Definitions. [4, 8 of 2022] |
| 102.
| | Admissibility of marks. |
| 103.
| | Marks inadmissible on objective grounds. |
| 104.
| | Marks inadmissible by reason of third-party rights, |
| 105.
| | Trust not to be entered in register. |
| 106.
| | Requirements of application. |
| 107.
| | Right of priority. |
| 108.
| | Temporary protection of mark exhibited at international exhibition. |
| 109.
| | Application fee. |
| 110.
| | Examination of application a to form. |
| 111.
| | Registration of mark after further examination and publication of mark. |
| 112.
| | Non completion of registration. |
| 113.
| | Register of marks and issue of certificate. |
| 114.
| | Publication of registered marks |
| 115.
| | Examination of register and certified copies. |
| 116.
| | Associated marks. |
| 117.
| | Assignment and user of associated marks. |
| 118.
| | Duration of registration. |
| 119.
| | Renewal. |
| 120.
| | Alteration of registered mark. |
| 121.
| | Rights of registered owner. |
| 122.
| | Limitation of registered owner?s rights. |
| 123.
| | Assignment and transmission of applications and registrations. |
| 124.
| | Interpretation. |
| 125.
| | Form and record of licence contract. |
| 126.
| | Rights of licensee. |
| 127.
| | Rights of licensor. |
| 128.
| | Nullity of licence contract and certain clauses, |
| 129.
| | Cancellation of licence contracts. |
| 130.
| | Licence contracts involving payments abroad. |
| 131.
| | Effect of nullity of registration on licence contract. |
| 132.
| | Expiry, termination or invalidation of licence contract. |
| 133.
| | Renunciation of registration. |
| 134.
| | Nullity of registration. |
| 135.
| | Date and effect of nullity. |
| 136.
| | Removal of mark. |
| 137.
| | Date and effect of removal of mark. |
| 138.
| | Collective marks |
| 139.
| | Application for registration of collective marks. |
| 140.
| | Registration and publication of copy of collective mark . |
| 141.
| | Changes in condition governing the use of collective marks. |
| 142.
| | Certification marks. |
| 143.
| | Protection of trade name. |
| 144.
| | Assignment and transmission of trade names. |
| 145.
| | Assignment of transmission of trade names. |
| 146.
| | Right to protection. |
| 147.
| | Originality |
| 148.
| | Scope of protection. |
| 149.
| | Commencement and duration of protection. |
| 150.
| | Requirements of the Application., |
| 151.
| | Registration of layout design in the Register. |
| 152.
| | Right to transfer and rectification of the Register. |
| 153.
| | Changes in the ownership and contractual licences. |
| 154.
| | Cancelling of a Registration of a layout design. |
| 155.
| | Representation by an Agent. |
| 156.
| | Infringement. |
| 157.
| | Offences. |
| 158.
| | Application of certain provisions of the Act. |
| 159.
| | Interpretation. |
| 160.
| | Unfair competition and undisclosed information. [5, 8 of 2022] |
| 160A.
| | Definitions [6, 8 of 2022] |
| 161.
| | Protection of geographical indications. [2, 7 of 2018] [7, 8 of 2022] |
| 161A.
| | Admissibility
of geographical indications for registration [8, 8 of 2022] |
| 161B.
| | Application to register geographical indications [8, 8 of 2022] |
| 161C.
| | Publication of the application [8, 8 of 2022] |
| 161D.
| | Opposition to registration [8, 8 of 2022] |
| 161E.
| | Renewal of registration of geographical indications [8, 8 of 2022] |
| 161F.
| | Issue of certificate of registration [9, 8 of 2022] |
| 161G.
| | Register of Geographical Indication [9, 8 of 2022] |
| 161H.
| | Rights of a registered owner [9, 8 of 2022] |
| 161I.
| | Registered geographical indication not to become generic [9, 8 of 2022] |
| 161J.
| | Cancellation of registration of geographical indications [9, 8 of 2022] |
| 161K.
| | Foreign geographical indications [9, 8 of 2022] |
| 161L.
| | Alterations to registered geographical indications [9, 8 of 2022] |
| 161M.
| | Geographical Indications registered as a Certification Mark under this Act [9, 8 of 2022] |
| 162.
| | Appointed & c of Advisiory Commission. [10, 8 of 2022] |
| 163.
| | Correction and rectification of register. |
| 164.
| | Power to make copies of damaged volumes of any register,to prepare and insert reconstructed folios. |
| 165.
| | Certificate of Director-General to be evidence. |
| 166.
| | Certified copies to be evidence. |
| 167.
| | Mode of giving evidence. |
| 168.
| | Exercise of discretionary power by Director-General. [11, 8 of 2022] |
| 169.
| | Director-General may seek assistance of Attorney-General. |
| 170.
| | Infringement and the remedies. |
| 171.
| | Infringement proceedings by or at the request of licensee. |
| 172.
| | Declaration of non-infringement. [13, 8 of 2022] |
| 173.
| | Appeals. |
| 174.
| | Costs of preceeding before Director-General and Court. |
| 175.
| | Registered agents. |
| 176.
| | Fund. |
| 177.
| | Falsification of entries in any register. |
| 178.
| | infringement of Copyright. |
| 179.
| | Infringement of Industrial Designs. |
| 180.
| | False representations regarding industrial Designs. |
| 181.
| | Infringement of Patents. |
| 182.
| | False representations regarding Patents. |
| 183.
| | Unlawful disclosure of information relating to Patents. |
| 184.
| | Infringement of Marks. |
| 185.
| | False representations regarding marks. |
| 186.
| | Other offences as to marks and trade descriptions. |
| 186A.
| | Offences relating to geographical indications [14, 8 of 2022] |
| 187.
| | Offences by bodies corporate. |
| 188.
| | Interpretation. |
| 189.
| | False name or initials. |
| 190.
| | Forging marks. |
| 191.
| | False declaration to be an offence. |
| 192.
| | Applying Marks and descriptions. |
| 193.
| | Exemption certain persons employed in ordinary course of business. |
| 194.
| | Mark how described in pleading. |
| 195.
| | Rules as to evidence. |
| 196.
| | Punishment of accessories. |
| 197.
| | Search warrant. |
| 198.
| | Costs of defence and of prosecution. |
| 199.
| | Provisions as to false description not to apply in particular class. |
| 200.
| | Savings. |
| 201.
| | Cognizable and bailable offences. |
| 202.
| | Limitation of prosecution. |
| 203.
| | Implied warranty on sale of marked goods. |
| 204.
| | Regulations. |
| 205.
| | Amendment of Act No .10 of 1996. |
| 206.
| | Amendment of section 101 of the customs Ordinance(Chapter 235) |
| 207.
| | Insertion of new sections in thecustoms Ordinance. |
| 208.
| | Repeals and savings. |
| 209.
| | Saving of Designs. |
| 210.
| | Savings of Patents. |
| 211.
| | Savings of Marks |
| 212.
| | Interpretation. [15, 8 of 2022] |
| 213.
| | Sinhala text to inconsistency. |
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