MONDAY, MARCH 13, 1989
BUT, MR LO WENT
ON,
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SATISFIED AS
HONG KONG
ITS WAS WITH COMPLACENT FOR AND INFALLIBLE
ACHIEVEMENTS AND PROGRESS SO FAR, IT WAS NOT BECOMING WAS COMPLETELY LEGISLATION
EVOLVE IN MUST PROCEDURES
IT RECOGNISED THAT NO
ADMINISTRATIVE
RESPONSE TO CHANGING
CIRCUMSTANCES.
HONG
WAS KONG
CURRENTLY
CARRYING
APPLICABLE
OUT A
ΤΟ THE
WITH THIS IN MIND, REVIEW OF ALL EXISTING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAWS TERRITORY.
THE INDEPENDENT LAW TWO SUB-COMMITTEES HAD BEEN SET UP UNDER
LAW) REFORM COMMISSION, ONE TO LOOK INTO COPYRIGHT (INCLUDING DESIGN
COMMON LAW IN GENERAL AND THE OTHER TO CONSIDER WHETHER THE EXISTING
OTHERWISE KNOWN AS "TRADE RELATING TO "BREACH OF CONFIDENCE",
A BI
STATUTORY REPLACED BY
ORDINANCE. SECRETS", SHOULD RECOMMENDATIONS WERE EXPECTED BY THE END OF THE YEAR.
THEIR
1987,
FROM
ALSO, MR LO SAID, A PATENT STEERING COMMITTEE, SET UP IN WAS LOOKING INTO HONG KONG'S PATENT LEGISLATION THAT WAS DERIVED
A LOCALLY THE RELEVANT BRITISH ACT, WITH A VIEW TO REPLACING IT WITH
THE ENSURE THAT
RIGHTS RELATING TO ENACTED ORDINANCE WHICH WOULD PATENTS IN HONG KONG WOULD CONTINUE TO APPLY AFTER 1997 WHEN HONG KONG BECAME A SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION OF CHINA.
FURTHERMORE, MR LO WENT
ON, THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT WAS
CONSIDERING THE INTRODUCTION OF LEGISLATION IN TWO OTHER AREAS.
ONE WAS THE STRENGTHENING OF THE TRADE
MARKS ORDINANCE WHICH TO INCLUDE
AT PRESENT PROVIDES ONLY FOR TRADE MARKS FOR GOODS, SO AS THE REGISTRATION OF TRADE MARKS FOR SERVICES,
NEW FORM OF THE OTHER WAS TO PROVIDE FOR THE PROTECTION OF A
AND OTHER INTELLECTUAL PROFERTY, THAT OF SEMI-CONDUCTOR CHIP DESIGNS
BEING EXAMINED BY THE ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY DESIGNS (WHICH WERE ALSO
WAS EXPECTED ΤΟ HAVE WORLD INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ORGANISATION). IT THE LEGISLATION READY BY 1990.
SCHEDULE FINALLY, MR LO SAID, BECAUSE OF THE HEAVY LEGISLATIVE
GROWING IMPORTANCE OVER THE NEXT TWO YEARS AND IN RECOGNITION OF THE
WOULD OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS INTERNATIONALLY, THE GOVERNMENT
TASKED BE SETTING UP ON APRIL 1, 1990, A NEW DEPARTMENT
LEGISLATION AND POLICY WITH ADMINISTERING ALL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
DIRECTIVES.
ALL THESE
SPECIFICALLY
HONG DEMONSTRATED THE FIELD OF INTELLECTUAL
KONG'S
MR MEASURES,
SAID, LO INTENTION "TO REMAIN AT THE FOREFRONT IN PROPERTY PROTECTION".
WE
INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY TO CURB "WE WELCOME INITIATIVES BY THE
AND COUNTERFEITING AND OTHER FORMS OF PATENT AND COPYRIGHT PIRACY WILL CONTINUE TO SUPPORT INTERNATIONAL EFFORTS," HE ADDED.
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