European Union
Albania
Patents (including Plant Variety Protection)
33. Please describe if your legislation provides for limited exceptions to the exclusive rights conferred by a patent. If affirmative, please make a reference to relevant legislation.
Article 27, paragraph 3 of the law states: The owner of a patent shall have no right to prevent third parties from performing, without his authorization, the acts referred to in paragraphs (1) and (2) (cited above) in the following circumstances: a) where the act concerns a product covered by the patent after it has been put on the market by the owner of the patent, or with his express consent, in the Republic of Albania or in any territory specified in the bilateral or multilateral agreements which have been acceded to by Republic of Albania; b) where the act is done privately and for non-commercial purposes, provided that it does not significantly prejudice the economic interests of the owner of the patent; c) where the act is done for purely experimental purposes or for scientific research; d) where the act consists of the extemporaneous preparation for individual cases, in a pharmacy or by a medical doctor, of a medicine in accordance with a medical prescription or acts concerning the medicine so prepared.