TNAG-2890-FCO40-4162-Reform-and-localisation-of-the-Hong-Kong-Patent-System-1993 — Page 71

CONTENTS

Page

Chapter

1.

Summary

1*

2.

The Patents Steering Committee

11

3.

General introduction to patents

15

4.

Patent systems

27

5.

Patent systems - registering patents

37

granted elsewhere

6.

Hong Kong's present legal system for

48

protecting patents

7.

Trade and economic issues

8.

Trade, economic and legal

53

77

constraints on change

9.

Recommended patent system

84*

10.

Part I

Proposals for a Patents Bill

92

225

Part II

Outline of proposals for a Patents Bill

104

Part III

List of abbreviations used in

147

Parts I & II

11.

Does Hong Kong need a petty patent system

149

12.

Options for a petty patent system

161