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C.S.O. 3596/22.

1794

No. 48-14.11.32.-1.]

Short title.

Registrar of Patents.

Application

for registra Hong Kong

tion in

of patent granted in the United Kingdom.

Application to be accompanied by certain documents.

Issue of certificate of registra- tion.

Nature of rights conferred by

A BILL

INTITULED

An Ordinance to consolidate and amend the law relating to the

Registration of United Kingdom Patents.

BE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Registration of United Kingdom Patents Ordinance, 1932.

2.-(1) It shall be lawful for the Governor to appoint a Registrar of Patents.

(2) Until the Governor shall make an appointment under sub-section (1), the officer who immediately before the com- mencement of this Ordinance was discharging the duties of Registrar of Patents, shall be the Registrar of Patents for the purposes of this Ordinance.

3. Any person being the grantee of a patent in the United Kingdom, or any person deriving his right from such grantee by assigninent, transmission or other operation of law, may, within five years from the date of issue of the patent, apply to have such patent registered in Hong Kong. Where any partial assignment or transmission has been made all pro- per parties shall be joined in the application for registration

4. Every application under this Ordinance shall be ac- companied by a certified copy of the specification or specifica- tions (including drawings, if any) of the United Kingdom patent and a certificate of the Comptroller General of the United Kingdom Patent Office giving full particulars of the issue of the patent on such specification or specifications

5. Upon such application being received, together with the documents mentioned in section 4, and upon payment of the prescribed fees and of the cost of any prescribed advertise- ment, the Registrar of Patents shall issue a certificate of registration.

6. Such certificate of registration shall confer on the applicant privileges and rights, subject to all conditions estab- registration. lished by the law of Hong Kong, as though the patent had been issued in the United Kingdom with an extension to Hong Kong.

Period of rights con. ferred by

7. The privileges and rights so granted shall date from the date of the patent in the United Kingdom and shall continue. registration. in force only so long as the patent remains in force in the United Kingdom: Provided that no action for infringement shall be entertained in respect of any manufacture, use or sale of the invention prior to the date of issue of the certificate of registration in Hong Kong.