Registration of a patent in Tanzania is done through filing form No. P.2 accompanied by a patent document in triplicate and submitted to the Registrar of Patents with Business Registrations and Licensing Agency (BRELA).
An Applicant for patent rights may be a natural or legal person who shall file such an application with the Registrar of Patents with BRELA.
It is important to know that, in the registration of patent in Tanzania, the patent document has to contain; the title for an invention, the general description of an invention, the claim(s), an abstract, and technical drawings (if any).
When talking of registration of patents in Tanzania one must think of the necessary criteria required in the patent grant. These criteria are; novelty that is an invention must be new for it to be patentable, invention step which connotes that an invention is patentable if is beyond obvious, and industrial applicability which implies that an invention shall be capable of being industrially workable to be patented.
Sections 18 to 30 of The Patents (Registration) Act, Cap 217 provides for grant of patent in Tanzania. Every application for grant of a patent in Tanzania shall be made to the Registrar and shall contain; a request which shall state the name of and other prescribed data concerning the applicant, the inventor and the agent if any, and the title of the invention, description, one or more claims, one or more drawings (where necessary), and an abstract