CO129-458 - Public Offices & Others - 1919 — Page 162

MEMORANDUM.

BY

150

THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF PATENTS DESIGNS & TRADE MARKS.

The answer should be that the previous publication

of an invention in a Colony or British Fossession only, forme no legal bar to the grant of a Patent for the

. same invention in the United Kingdom (See Rolls v. Isacce

19 Ch. D.268.)

Further,

As far as our information goes the only official communication made to the United Kingdom is an intimation that an order granting provisional protection has been made. No official publication of the invention is made here.

Consequently no action would appear to be necessary to safeguard the inventor's interests. there is no statement that an official publication of a provisional specification is made in Hong Kong and assuming that no such official publication takes place there, it is the inventor's own fault if any publication is made in the United Kingdom prior to the filing of his application here.

(S) W. Temple Franks

21/10/19

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