WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 1988
EFFECTIVE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY REGIME VITAL TO ECONOMIC GROWTH
OF AN EFFECTIVE THE GOVERNMENT RECOGNISES THAT THE PROVISION
ESSENTIAL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY REGIME IS
TO HONG KONG'S ECONOMIC THE SECRETARY FOR TRADE GROWTH AND TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENT, INDUSTRY, MR HAMISH MACLEOD, SAID TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
SPEAKING AT THE OPENING OF A SYMPOSIUM ON
DEVELOPMENT,
FRAMEWORK
AND ECONOMIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL LEGISLATIVE/JUDICIAL INNOVATION AND DEVELOPMENT.
WAS IMPORTANT
"EQUALLY IMPORTANT IS THE COMMITMENT TO
AND
INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY HE SAID A STRONG TO PROMOTE LOCAL
EFFECTIVE ENFORCEMENT
OF LEGISLATION AND IN THIS, HONG KONG HAS A VERY GOOD RECORD.
"
COMPLACENT AND MR MACLEOD SAID HOWEVER THAT HONG KONG WAS NOT
AND ENFORCEMENT CONTROLS TO WAS REVIEWING ITS EXISTING LEGISLATION ENSURE THAT IT COULD CONTINUE TO MEET THE CHALLENGES OF THE FUTURE.
THE ON COPYRIGHT, HE SAID HONG KONG'S PRESENT LAW WAS BASED ON
TECHNOLOGY IN U.K. COPYRIGHT ACT OF 1956 WHICH HAD BEEN OVERTAKEN BY A NUMBER OF IMPORTANT WAYS.
IN DETAIL HONG "THE LAW REFORM COMMISSION IS NOW CONSIDERING
RECENTLY KONG'S FUTURE REQUIREMENTS AND AS AN INTERIM MEASURE WE HAVE EXTENDED THE U.K. COPYRIGHT (COMPUTER SOFTWARE) AMENDMENT ACT 1985 HONG KONG ΤΟ ENSURE THAT COMPUTER COPYRIGHT," HE SAID.
PROGRAMMES
TO ARE PROTECTED BY
MR MACLEOD AS TO PATENT PROTECTION,
BEEN STUDYING HONG COMMITTEE HAD
KONG'S BEGINNING OF LAST YEAR, AND HOPED TO REPORT YEAR.
SAID A
PATENT STEERING THE FUTURE NEEDS SINCE IN THE MIDDLE OF THIS
REGISTERED DESIGNS PROTECTION HE ALSO NOTED THAT AT PRESENT, IN HONG KONG COULD BE ACHIEVED BY REGISTERING DESIGNS IN THE U.K.
THE "THIS IS A PARTICULARLY CONFUSED AREA OF THE LAW, AND BOTH
COPYRIGHT AND THE LAW REFORM COMMISSION SUB-COMMITTEE STUDYING
THE POSITION SHOULD BE PATENT STEERING COMMITTEE HAVE IDEAS ON HOW CLARIFIED.
"THE TWO COMMITTEES WILL BE LIAISING ON OUT A WORKABLE SOLUTION."
THIS SUBJECT TO MAP
WHILE
NOTING THAT HONG KONG WAS
WORLD'S MR MACLEOD SAID THERE WERE PRACTITIONER OF FREE TRADE, BETWEEN FREE TRADE IDEALS AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IDEALS.
THE
FOREMOST PARALLELS
THE IDEALS OF FREE
HE ADDED THAT HONG KONG WAS COMMITTED TO TRADE AND THE PROTECTION OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY.
THE THREE-DAY
SYMPOSIUM,
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ORGANISATION
WHICH IS
BY ORGANISED
THE WORLD AND THE JAPANESE PATENT OFFICE IS ATTENDED BY MORE WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT,
AND
OF REPRESENTATIVES
14 THAN 40 LOCAL DELEGATES
ASIAN-PACIFIC
COUNTRIES.
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