Registrar-Generals-Department-Annual-report-1958-1959 — Page 32

Patents Registrable

PART VI

PATENTS REGISTRY

47. There is no original registration of patents in Hong Kong, but patents granted in the United Kingdom may be registered under the Registration of United Kingdom Patents Ordinance (Cap. 42). This provides that the grantee of a patent in the United Kingdom, or any person deriving his right from the grantee, may, within five years from the date of issue of the patent, apply to have it registered here, and that such registration shall confer the same rights as though the patent had been issued in the United Kingdom with an extension to Hong Kong. Applications must be accompanied by a certified copy of the United Kingdom specification and a certificate from the Comptroller General of the United Kingdom Patent Office giving full particulars of the issue of the patent,

Patents Registered

48. Sixty patents were registered. The total number of patents on the Register on 31st March, 1959, was 354. The numbers of patents registered annually since the Registry's post-war re-opening on 1st September, 1951, have been as follows:

1950/51...

48

1951/52 ...

24

1952/53.

9

1953/54 ...

30

1955/56... 1956/57 1957/58 ... 1958/59 ...

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+88

44

80

60

1954/55...

28

Fees

49. Fees collected during the year amounted to $3,088.

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