D. 1892.]

PATENTS.

[No. 2.

89

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 authorized by this Ordinance to be inserted therein. 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.

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(1.) Where a person becomes entitled by assignment, transmission, registration 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 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 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.

and by ord. 27/9.5.8: Restored by £6 you 22/11

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 the Colonial Secretary, or of 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, on payment of the fees hereinafter 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 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.

Rules and regulations 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.

(1.) The Governor-in-Council may make, and, when made, may

(2) Such rules and regulations and fees shall from time to time be published in The Gazette, and shall take effect from the date specified in such notification.

(3) Until altered, amended, or revoked, the fees mentioned in the Second Schedule to this Ordinance shall be the fees under this Ordinance.

new sections added by ord. 27/9.5.8 Second Schedule.

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