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that the main reason for registration in Hong Kong is to
protect patented goods from competition from imported or
locally manufactured copies for local consumption.
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By contrast Hong Kong manufacturers compete very
successfully in markets al over the world. Goods emanating
from Hong Kong and alleged to infringe a patent would have
to be the subject of infringement proceedings in each of
the markets for those goods if proceedings could not be
brought in Hong Kong. It is therefore also reasonable to
assume that the main reason for registering UK patents here
is to enable the flow of such goods to be stopped at source.
14.
Hong Kong holders of UK patents do not often
appear in the lists of applicants for registration.
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a very small part of the whole. What is the reason?
Registration itself is an easy and inexpensive step, so
the explanation must lie at an earlier stage. There seem
to be three possible reasons:
(1) Hong Kong's manufacturing industry simply
does not produce many patentable inventions.
(2) Hong Kong's innovators are not sufficiently
aware of the advantages to be gained from
protecting their ideas by means of patents.
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