Enclosure No, 2.
ATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS,
Hong Kong...13th July .192 8.
REPORT ON ORDINANCE No.......................of 192
1.
I have examined the accompanying Ordinance. intituled an Ordinance
to amend the Registration of United Kingdom Patents Ordinance,
1925, and to make certain provisions with regard to letters
patent granted under the Patents Ordinance, 1892, and I am of
opinion that the Ordinance is one which is not contrary to the
Governor's instructions.
2.
The Registration of United Kingdom Patents Ordinance,
Ordinance, No.13 of 1925, was introduced on the instructions
of the Secretary of State in order to carry out the
recommendations of the British Empire Patent Conference, 1922,
and of the Imperial Economic Conference, 1923. It provided
inter alia that applications for registration in Hong Kong
must be made within three years from the date of the issue of
the patent in the United Kingdom. One effect of this is to
make it impossible to register here patents which were issued
in the United Kingdom more than three years before the
commencement of the new Ordinance. The present amending
Ordinance proposes to relieve this hardship by providing that
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