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(3) Hong Kong could depart from the present

system of registering only United Kingdom

patents or European Patents designating the United Kingdom. As the European Patent

Office is by far one the most advanced and

sophisticated patent office in the world, it may be more advantageous to register

European Patents granted by the European Patent Office and designating any of the member states of the European Patent Convention (The member states are Belgium, Denmark, France, Federal Republic of

Germany, Greece, Republic of Ireland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Netherlands,

Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom).

(4) Alternatively, it may be possible to

register patents granted by the newly

established Chinese Patent Office in the

People's Republic of China.

(5) Subject to further consideration and

negotiations, it may even be possible and indeed desirable to register patents granted by [both the European Patents Office and the

Chinese Patent Office.

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Patent Office