CO129-510-5 Registration of United Kingdom Patent Amendment Ordinance- 1928 draft bill 14-2-1928 - 17-7-1928 — Page 7

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the time limit for making applications in Hong Kong

shall, in the case of patents granted in the United

Kingdom before the 1st January, 1926, run from the

31st December, 1925, i.e., the day before the commencement

of Ordinance No. 13 of 1925, instead of from the date of the

issue of the patent in the United Kingdom.

3. The present amending Ordinance also extends the

time limit generally to five years instead of three years.

4. In spite of the provisions of section 12 of the

Interpretation Ordinance, 1911, Ordinance No.31 of 1911,

some doubts have been expressed as to the continuance of

rights acquired under the Patents Ordinance, 1892,

Ordinance No. 2 of 1892, which was repealed by Ordinance

No. 13 of 1925. In particular some doubts have been

expressed as to whether the right to register assignments,

conferred by section 8 of Ordinance No. 2 of 1892, still

subsists. In order to allay these doubts section 3 of the

present amending Ordinance has been inserted.

5. The terms of this Ordinance have been approved of

by the Secretary of State for the Colonies.

6.

In my opinion this is an Ordinance to which

His Excellency the Governor may properly assent in the

name of His Majesty and on His behalf.

Mr. E. Porloch

Attorney General.