Marginal note:Officers of Patent Office not to deal in patents, etc.
7 (1) No officer or employee of the Patent Office shall buy, sell, acquire or traffic in any invention, patent, right to a patent, certificate of supplementary protection or right to such a certificate, or any interest in any of them, and every purchase, sale, acquisition or transfer of any of them, or of any interest in any of them, made by or to such an officer or employee is void or, in Quebec, null.
Marginal note:Restriction
(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to a sale by an original inventor or to an acquisition under the last will, or by the intestacy, of a deceased person.
- R.S., 1985, c. P-4, s. 7
- 2017, c. 6, s. 33
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