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