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Ord. No. 25/79

Amendment of section 8.

Repeal and replacement of section 9.

Consequential amendments.

Schedule.

REGISTRATION OF UNITED KINGDOM PATENTS (AMENDMENT)

(iii) by deleting "In this subsection the expression "priority date" has the meaning assigned to it in section 5 of the aforesaid Act.".

10. Section 8 of the principal Ordinance is amended- (a) in subsection (1)—

(i) by deleting "United Kingdom" in the first place where it occurs; and

(ii) by inserting after "revoked" the following-

"or treated as revoked"; and

(b) in subsection (2) by deleting paragraph (b).

11. Section 9 of the principal Ordinance is repealed and replaced by the following-

"Amendment of specification or drawings.

9. Whenever the specification or drawings of a patent registered in Hong Kong has or have been amended or treated as amended, according to the law of the United Kingdom, a request, accompanied by a copy of the specifica- tion and drawings (if any) as amended, or a copy of the translation into English of the amendment, as the case may be, duly certified by the comptroller, may be made to the Registrar to substitute the specification and drawings as amended for the specification and drawings originally filed.".

12. The enactments specified in the first column of the Schedule are amended to the extent and in the manner set out in the second column of the Schedule.

REGISTRATION OF UNITED KINGDOM

PATENTS (AMENDMENT)

Ord. No. 25/79

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Passed by the Hong Kong Legislative Council this 25th day of April 1979.

STEPHEN S. P. TAM,

Clerk to the Legislative Council.

This printed impression has been carefully compared by me with the bill, and is found by me to be a true and correctly printed copy of the said bill,

STEPHEN S. P. TAM, Clerk to the Legislative Council.

SCHEDULE

[s. 12.]

(Cap. 42. sub. leg.)

(Cap. 42, sub. leg.)

(Cap. 133.)

(Cap. 159, sub. leg.)

(Cap. 300.)

CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS

Registration of United Kingdom

Patents Rules.

Registration of United Kingdom

Patents (Fees) Rules. Agricultural Pesticides Ordinance.

Solicitors (Trade Marks and

Patents) Costs Rules.

Crown Proceedings Ordinance.

Rule 1 is amended by deleting "United Kingdom".

Rule 1 is amended by deleting "United Kingdom".

Section 20 is amended by deleting "United Kingdom”.

Rule 2 is amended-

(a) in paragraph (1), in the defini- tion of "register", by deleting "United Kingdom" in both places where it appears; and

(b) in paragraph (3), by deleting "United Kingdom" in each place where it appears.

Section 5(2) is amended-

(a) by inserting after "Patents Act

1949," the following-

"section 55 of the Patents

Act 1977,"; and

(b) by deleting “United Kingdom" in the first place where it ap- pears.