Kenya - 2001 - Trade, Industry and Investment

Industrial Property Act, 2001

Kenya, Ministry of Industry, Trade and Cooperatives

This is a parliamentary Act that provides for the promotion of inventive and innovative activities, to facilitate the acquisition of technology through the grant and regulation of patents, utility models, technovations and industrial designs, to provide for the establishment, powers and functions of the Kenya industrial property institute and for purposes incidental thereto and connected therewith. It provides for the establishment of the Kenya industrial property institute in Nairobi. The institute shall control, supervise and administer the assets of the institute in such manner as best promotes the purpose for which the institute is established.

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January 2022

This is a parliamentary Act that provides for the promotion of inventive and innovative activities, to facilitate the acquisition of technology through the grant and regulation of patents, utility models, technovations and industrial designs, to provide for the establishment, powers and functions of the Kenya industrial property institute and for purposes incidental thereto and connected therewith. It provides for the establishment of the Kenya industrial property institute in Nairobi. The institute shall control, supervise and administer the assets of the institute in such manner as best promotes the purpose for which the institute is established.

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