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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 27TH FEBRUARY, 1892.
Registration of assign- ments, &c.
Inspection of Register.
Power to transfer
Register and Record of
Fatents from Colonial Secretary's Office.
Regulations. Fees.
Fees to be
notified in the Government Gazette.
Repeal.
(3.) The record or file of all patents granted under the Ordinances hereby repealed shall be deemed part of the Register of Patents and kept therewith.
8. (1.) Where a person, which term shall include a body corporate becomes entitled by assignment, transmission, or other operation of law, to a patent for which Letters Patents have been granted in this Colony and which Letters Patent are valid and subsisting the Governor in Council shall on request and on proof of title to his satisfaction cause the name of such person to be entered as the proprietor of the patent in the "Register of Patents."
(2.) The person for the time being entered on the "Register of Patents" as the proprietor of a patent shall subject to any rights appearing from such register, or to any prior title duly recorded prior to the passing of this Ordinance, and subject to all equities affecting the same, have power abso- lutely to assign, grant licences as to or otherwise deal with the same and to give effectual receipts for any consideration for such assignment, licence or dealing.
9. The "Register of Patents" shall at convenient times be open to the inspection of the public and certified copies under the hand of the Colonial Secretary or such other officer as may hereafter have the custody thereof of any entry in such register or record shall be given to any person requiring the same upon payment of the fees herein- after provided.
10. It shall be lawful for the Governor to direct by order to be published in the Gazette that the record or file of patents heretofore kept under the Ordinances hereby repealed and the Register of Patents herein provided for, be transferred from the Colonial Secretary's Office to such place and be placed under the custody of such officer as he may think fit.
11. (1.) The Governor in Council may make and, when made, may, from time to time, alter, amend, or revoke rules and regulations for the better carrying out of this Ordinance and a table of fees to be charged and paid thereunder.
(2.) Such rules and regulations and fees shall from time to time be notified in the Government Gazette and shall take effect from the date specified in such Notification.
(3.) Until altered, amended, or revoked the fees in schedule C hereto shall be the fees under this Ordinance.
12. Ordinances No. 14 of 1862, No. 6 of 1890 and No. 8 of 1891 are hereby repealed but such repeal shall not affect any right acquired, privilege granted, or anything lawfully done or suffered under the said Ordinances or any or either of them.
SCHEDULES. (A.)
FORM OF PETITION.
The humble petition of A.B., (or as the case may be of C.D. as agent for A.B.) &c.
That your petitioner (or as the case may be, that A.B. of whom your petitioner is the agent, assignee, executor or administrator) has obtained Her Majesty's Letters Patent dated the
day of
189 for (state the title of the invention as granted) and that such Letters Patent are to continue in force
years from the
day of
for
189
That your petitioner believes that the said invention is not now and has not hitherto been publicly used in this Colony.
That the following is the description of the said invention (here state the particulars shortly in accordance with the specification on which the Letters Patent in England were granted)."
Your petitioner therefore prays for leave to file a
specification of the said
invention pursuant to the provisions of Ordi- nance No. of 189
And your petitioner will ever pray, &c.
(B.)
I (here insert name, condition, and place of residence) do solemnly and sincerely declare that I am (or if made by an agent, then that A.B. of
is) in possession absolutely (or if made in respect of a locally confined interest then within the Colony of Hongkong or according to fact) of an invention for (state the nature of the invention in terms of the English Patent) and which invention, I believe, will in all probability be of great public utility within Hongkong; and that the same is not publicly used within the said Colony; and that to the best of my knowledge and belief the instrument in writing under my hand hereunto annexed parti- cularly describes and ascertains the nature of the said invention and in what manner the same is to be performed.
Dated the
day of
189
(Signed)
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