PATENTS.
No. 2 of 1892.
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in which shall be entered the names and addresses of all grantees of patents under this Ordinance and notifications of assignments and of transmissions of such patents and of extensions and revocations thereof.
(2) The register of patents shall be primâ facie evidence of all matters directed or authorised by this Ordinance to be inserted therein.
(3) The record or file of all patents granted before the commencement of this Ordinance shall be deemed part of the register of patents and kept therewith.
ment, etc.
8. (1) Where a person becomes entitled by assignment, transmission, or other operation of law to a patent for which letters patent 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 commencement of this Ordinance, and subject to all equities affecting the same, have power absolutely 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 a certified copy under the hand of such officer as may have the custody thereof, of any entry in such register or record shall be given to any person requiring the same, on payment of the fees hereinafter provided.
[s. 10, rep. No. 43 of 1912, Supp. Sched.]
11-(1) It shall be lawful for the owner of an invention to petition the Governor in Council for provisional protection in respect of the said invention pending the grant of letters patent therefor, and the Governor in Council may, if he shall consider it expedient so to do, direct that the invention may for such reasonable period as he shall think fit be used and published in the Colony without prejudice to the letters patent to be granted for the invention.