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Act 743 ( HB1409 ) - The act expands the definition of the criminal offense of " hindering apprehension or prosecution " to include purposefully providing erroneous information , documents , or other instrumentalities known to be false to a certified law enforcement officer that would inhibit the investigation . Each attorney or agent who prepares or prosecutes the application ; and Every other person who is substantively involved in the preparation or prosecution of the application and who is associated with the inventor , with the assignee or with anyone to whom there is an obligation to assign the application . Appeals by relatives to higher regional police or prosecution authorities , according to testimonies , sometimes led to the release of prisoners detained without charge , but there seemed to be no effective channel for complaints and appeals for judicial review readily available to the majority of detainees , particularly in the regions remotest from the capital , Addis Ababa . Assaults may be dismissed as not worthy of further investigations or prosecution . The ICC will be complementary to national jurisdictions , and will act only when national systems are unable or unwilling to genuinely carry out investigations or prosecutions of such crimes . Section 1.4 is also amended to add a new paragraph ( g ) related to an applicant who has not made of record a registered attorney or agent being required to state whether assistance was received in the preparation or prosecution of a patent application .