CO129-359 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [12] — Page 352

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I think it is desirable that the principle of scotion

4.27 of the Imperial Act of 1907 should apply

to the Hong Kong Patent Law. At the same time

it is clear to me that, as the only method of

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getting Batent rights in Hong Kong is to take

out a patent in England, it might operate

harshly upon an inventor in the Colony, who

contrives something specially adapted to be

made and used there, were the section in

quest ion to be applied in its entirety.

For it would be impossible for the patentee

to be sure of maintaining his patent rights

in Hong Kong unless he were to take the prac-

tically impossible step of setting up machin-

ery in England to make an article which is not

wanted here if indeed it can be made at all.

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Further, on the same assumption, the

patentee would retain his Hong Kong rights

were

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