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No. 2 of 1892.

PATENTS.

Effect of grant.

*

Procedure to obtain revocation.

Limitation

on revocation

7 Edward VII c. 29.

(2) Letters patent granted under the provisions of this Ordinance shall be in such form as may be prescribed in the United Kingdom for letters patent there granted or as near thereto as circumstances will permit.

5.-(1) Subject to the provisions of sub-section (2) letters patent 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 the United Kingdom as fully as if the same had been granted with an extension thereof to this Colony by His Majesty under the provisions of such statutes as were in force on 13th August, 1909, in the United Kingdom or as near thereto as the circumstances of this Colony shall admit of.

(2) Revocation of letters patent granted in this Colony, except at the request of the registered proprietor when the same may be granted by the Governor, shall be obtained only on petition to the Supreme Court, and the plaintiff shall be required to satisfy the Court that such revocation is justified in this Colony on grounds similar to those on which the revocation of letters patent is justified in the United Kingdom.

Provided that an order of revocation made under section 27 of in Hongkong. the Patents and Designs Act, 1907, shall not operate so as to revoke or to constitute a ground for revocation of any letters patent granted in this Colony under this Ordinance, and provided also that letters patent granted in this Colony shall not be revoked solely on the ground that the patented article or process is manufactured or carried on exclusively or mainly outside the Colony if it is manu- factured or carried on exclusively or mainly in the United Kingdom or in any British Possession.

Extension of

6. In case His Majesty, by the advice of the Privy Council, letters patent. extends the privileges of any letters patent in the United Kingdom

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for any invention for any period, it shall be lawful for the Governor- in-Council to extend in like manner such letters patent, if already granted for this Colony, or otherwise to grant original letters patent for a like extended period for the same invention.

Register of Patents.

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7.—(1) There shall be kept at such office and in the custody of such officer as the Governor may, by order to be published in the

* As amended by No. 22 of 1909, No. 22 of 1911, No. 1. of 1912 and

No. 2 of 1912.

+ As amended by No. 22 of 1909, No. 22 of 1911, No. 51 of 1911

and No. 1 of 1912. .

§ As amended by No. 48 of 1912 Supp: Sched.

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