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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, AUGUST 13, 1909.
No. 496.-His Excellency the Governor has given his assent, in the name and on behalf of His Majesty the King, to the following Ordinance passed by the Legislative Council:-
Ordinance No. 22 of 1909.—An Ordinance to amend the Patents Ordinance 1892.
HONGKONG.
No. 22 OF 1909.
An Ordinance to amend the Patents Ordinance
1892.
F. D. LUGARD,
LS
Governor.
[13th August, 1909.]
Short title
and con. struction.
Amends section 2 of the Principal
BE it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Patents Amend- ment Ordinance 1939 and it shall be read and construed as one with the Patents Ordinance 1892, hereinafter called the Principal Ordinance,
2. Section 2 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby amended
Ordinance.
Substitutes
"United
Kingdom' for
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England".
Certain documents
to accom.
pany petition.
Particulars of authority to apply to be furnished
if required.
Amends
section 3 of the
Principal Ordinance.
Repeals section 4 of the
Principal Ordinance.
Hearing &c. of petition.
(a) by the substitution of the words United King- dom" for the word “England" in the fifth line of sub-section (1).
(b) by the repeal of sub-section (2) and the substitu-
tion therefor of the following
(2) Every such petition shall be accompanied by the original Letters Patent granted for the said invention in the United Kingdom or by a certified copy of the same and also by certified copy of the complete speci- fication filed on the petition for Letters Patent for the said invention in the United Kingdom."
(c) by the insertion at the beginning of sub-section
(3) of the following words :--
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Every such petition shall be further accom- panied by a declaration which may be in the Form No. 2 in the said Schedule or in such other form not being less specific, as to the Governor may appear proper."
(d) by the addition of the following sub-section :— "(4) Where an applicant other than the pa-
teutee to whom Letters Patent have been granted in the United Kingdom claims to be entitled by virtue of licence, assign- ment, transmission, or other operation of law to be entered on the Register of Patents as proprietor in this Colony of such Letters Patent, he shall furnish such particulars as the Governor may require of the licence, assignment, transmission, or other opera- tion of law in virtue of which his claim is made."
3. Section 3 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby amended by the omission of the words and of the time of the sitting of the Executive Council before which the matter of the petition will come for decision" in the third, fourth, and fifth lines thereof.
4. Section 4 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby re- pealed and the following section is substituted therefor :--
"(1) Every petition for a grant of Letters Patent shall be considered by the Governor who may refuse the prayer of the said petition or may grant it absolutely or subject to such condi- tious, amendments, and modifications as he may think fit: Provided always that no grant of Letters Patent shall be made in this Colony for a period execeding the period of the dura- tion of the Letters Patent in the United Kingdom.