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DRAFT.
Patents Ordinance compelling the registration
in Hong Kong of English evocations, and that
the Ordinance does not specifically enact that
an English revocation operates simultaneously
as a revocation of the Hong Kong Patent, in-
dependently of the registration in Hong Kong
of the revocation in England. Consequently
there is some doubt whether an English revoca-
tion takes effect forthwith in Hong Kong under
section 5 or whether that effect is deferred
registration.
until actual révocation of the revocation in
Hong Kong under section 7 (1) of the Ordinance.
I consider therefore that the Ordinance
should be so amended as to lay down clearly
the consequences of revocation in England of
a patent also registered in Hong Kong, and the
procedure to be adopted with regard to the
registration of such revocations.
5.
As regards the question of policy,
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