1985
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CONFIDENTIAL
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GOVERNMENT SECRETARIAT LOWER ALBERT ROAD
HONG KONG
香港下亞厘畢道
DIEL
本署檔號 OUR REF:
SGD 2/02/9
Mr. Hill
來函檔號 YOUR REF.:
HKK 124/1 Yes, seaking their views
legal advisers
ET KEMON DRO
Office for information?
on what Hill are doing. 25 March 1986
Our own
should also comment.
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НКК 124/2
M. T. Hill Esq.,
HKD,
FCO
7154
RECEIVED IN REGISTRY
- 7 APR 1986
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HKK 124/1.
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Dear Hill,
Future of Hong Kong:
Intellectual Property Regime
I am sorry for the inordinate delay in replying to your letter of 24 October 1985. A working party was set up to consider the present patent system in Hong Kong and its future development. It produced a report on 11 December 1984, a copy of which I enclose. The report was subsequently considered by a small working group comprising the Secretary for Economic Services, the Registrar General, Attorney General, and a few Unofficials, including
Mr. Anthony Rogers, QC, an acknowledged expert in the field. One of the conclusions reached by the working party was that Hong Kong could not grant its own patents, but should continue the present system of registering patents granted elsewhere. Alternatives to the UK Patent Office as a source of registrable patents should be considered. enclose an extract from the subsequent Minute by the Secretary for Economic Services branch summarising the arguments which led the working group to recommend against setting up a patent office to grant patents in Hong Kong.
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The Registrar General floated some of these options at a lunch with Mr. LIU Gushu (General Manager of the China Patent Agent (HK) Limited) on 11 July 1985. LIU's reaction was that Hong Kong should either have its own original patents office, after 1997, or should re-register from Peking instead of UK. He did not appear to have considered re-registration from Europe, and made no comment on this
idea.
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