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Authority to

owners of inventions to petition for Letters Patent.

Petition, specification and decla-

ration to be filed in office of Colonial

ORDINANCE No. 14 of 1862.

Patents.

this Colony, for which Letters Patent have already been granted in England: Be it therefore enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

1. It shall be lawful for the inventor or for the owner by assignment or otherwise from any inventor of any invention or of the exclusive right. thereto within this Colony to petition His Excellency the Governor for Letters Patent for any invention, for which Letters Patent have already been granted in England; and such petition may be in the form set forth in schedule A hereto. Every such petition shall be accompanied by a specification of the said invention identical as far as practicable with the specification filed on the petition for Letters Patent for the said invention in England, and by a declaration which may be in the form set forth in schedule B or in such other form not being less specific as to the Governor shall appear proper. [Amended by Ordinance. No. 32 of 1889 (repealed); and by Ordinance No. 6 of 1890.]

2. Such petition, specification and declaration shall be filed in the office of the Colonial Secretary, and notice thereof and of any intention to apply for such Letters Patent, and of the time of the sitting of the Secretary and Executive Council before which the matter of the petition will come for decision together with such other particulars as the Governor shall require, shall be inserted twice in the Hongkong Government Gazette, and shall be otherwise advertised as the Governor shall direct.

to be adver

tised.

Governor in Council to grant Letters Patent."

Effects of such grant.

القسم

3. His Excellency the Governor with the advice of the said Executive Council shall, at the sitting to be so appointed for deciding on such petition. for Letters Patent as aforesaid or at any adjournment thereof, determine on such application for Letters Patent and grant or refuse the prayer of the said petition as shall appear expedient, and for such time or times not exceeding the then duration of the Letters Patent for the said inven- tion or for any less period and subject to such conditions in all respects. as to His Excellency the Governor with the advice of the said Executive Council shall seem fit. The said Letters Patent may be in such form as is prescribed by [the Patent Law Amendment Act 1852 of the Imperial Parliament: Repealed by Ordinance No. 32 of 1889 (repealed); and by Ordinance No. 6 of 1890, and new words substituted] or as near thereto as circumstances will permit.

4. Letters Patent to be granted under this Ordinance shall confer all the rights and privileges and shall subject the grantees thereof to all the provisions affecting Letters Patent in England as fully as if the same