Section 1: In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires-

"agent " means a legal practitioner resident and practicing in Sierra Leone; "ARIPO" means the African Regional Intellectual Property Organisation; "ARIPO Protocol" means the Protocol on Patents and Industrial Designs adopted at Harare in December 1984; "Court" means the High Court; "industrial design" means any composition of lines or colours or any three dimensional material, whether or not associated with lines or colours, provided that such a composition, form or material gives a special appearance to a product of industry or handicraft, can serve as a pattern for a product of industry or handicraft and appeals to and is judged by the eye; "invention" means an idea of an inventor which permits in practice a solution to a specific problem in the field of technology; "Minister" means the Minister responsible for Trade; "patent" means the title granted to protect an invention; "priority date" means the date of the earlier application that serves as the basis for the right of priority provided in the Paris Convention; "Paris Convention" means the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property of March, 20 1883; "Registrar" means the Registrar of Intellectual Property; "Registry" means the office of the Registrar. PART II - PATENTABILITY