Prevention of indirect use of invention

(1) While in force, a patent shall confer, on its owner, the right to prevent all persons not having his authorization, from supplying or offering to supply in Belize, a person (other than a person entitled to engage in commercial working of the patented invention) with means relating to an essential element of that invention, for putting it into effect therein, provided that the person knows, or it is obvious to a reasonable person in the circumstances that those means are suitable for putting, and are intended to put, that invention into effect. (2) Sub-section (1) shall not apply where the means referred to therein are staple commercial products, except where the person induces the person supplied to commit acts which the owner of the patent is entitled to prevent by virtue of section 33 of this section. 35 (3) Any person who commits an act referred to in section 33(4)(c) or (d) shall not be considered to be a person entitled to engage in commercial working of the invention for the purposes of sub-section (1). invalidation of Patents Licences