Despatch N. 34 of 1855...
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ANNO VICESIMO SEXTO
VICTORIÆ REGINE.
By His Excellency SIR HERCULES GEORGE ROBERT ROBINSON, Knight, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, with the Advice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.
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publication of the act. -mending postponement of 4th December 1853.
No. 14 of 1862.
HERCULES G. R. ROBINSON.
An Ordinance for granting Patents for Inventions within this Colony,
[3rd July, 1862.]
HEREAS Patents for Inventions granted in England are not usually extended to the Colonies, and it is expedient that power should be vested in Ilis Excellency the Governor with the Advice of the Executive Council to grant Letters Patent for the exclu- sive use of Inventions within this Colony, for which Letters Patent have already been granted in England: Be it therefore enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Hong- Kong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:----
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tion for Letters Patent.
I. It shall be lawful for the Inventor or for the Owner by Assignment or otherwise Authority to Owners from any Inventor of any Invention or of the exclusive Right thereto within this Colo- of Inventions to Peti- ny to petition His Excellency the Governor for Letters Patent for any Invention, for which Letters Patent have already been granted in England; and such Petition may be in the Form set forth in Schedule A hereto. Every such Petition shall be accompanied by a Specification of the said Invention identical as far as practicable with the Specification filed on the Petition for Letters Patent for the said Invention in England, and by a Declaration which may be in the Form set forth in Schedule B or in such other Form not being less specific as to the Governor shall appear proper.
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II. Such Petition, Specification and Declaration shall be filed in the Office Petition, Specifica- of the Colonial Secretary, and Notice thereof and of any Intention to apply for tion and Declaration such Letters Patent, and of the time of the sitting of the Executive Council before Colonial Secretary and which the matter of the Petition will come for decision together with such other to be advertised." particulars as the Governor shall require, shall be inserted twice in the Hongkong Government Gazette, and shall be otherwise advertised as the Governor shall direct.
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III. His Excellency the Governor with the Advice of the said Executive Council Governor in Coun shall, at the sitting to be so appointed for deciding on such Petition for Letters Patent to grant Letters as aforesaid or at any adjournment thereof, determine on such application for Letters Patent and grant or refuse the prayer of the said Petition as shall appear expedient, and for such time or times not exceeding the then Duration of the Letters Patent for the said Invention or for any less period and subject to such Conditions in all respects as to His Excellency the Governor with the Advice of the said Executive Council shall seem fit. The said Letters Patent may be in such form as is prescribed by the Patent Law Amendment Act 1852 of the Iniperial Parliament or as near thereto as circums- tances will perinit.
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