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PATENTS IN HONG KONG
The Present System and it Future Development.
Introducti on
The purpose of this paper is to discuss
the ways in which the patent law of Hong Kong should be
developed for the benefit of Hong Kong. It is prompted by
changes in patent law that have occurred in the United
Kingdom, the recent promulgation of a patent code in China
and the realisation that, as Hong Kong's manufacturers
become increasingly competitive in international markets
for sophisticated products, the protection of their ideas
by means of patents assumes ever greater importance for the
development of Hong Kong as a manufacturing centre.
What
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is a patent?
described
For the purposes of this paper a patent may be
as a right granted by the state to the inventor of
a technological invention allowing him to prevent others for
a limited time from copying his invention.
details of his invention are made public.
In exchange the
The benefits of granting a patent?
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The theoretical justification for a patent system
can be simply stated.
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