Code Of Intellectual Property Act (No. 52 of 1979)

Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts

Rights derived from prior manufacture or use

83.

(1) Where a person at the filing or, where applicable; the priority date of the patent application-

	(a) was in good faith in Sri Lanka making the product or using the process which is the subject of the invention claimed in such application ;

	(b) had in good faith in Sri Lanka made serious preparations toward the making of the product or using the process referred to in paragraph (a),

(2) The right referred to in subsection (1) shall not be assigned or transmitted except as part of the business of the person concerned.