Patents, Designs and Trade Marks. |Ch.31. No. 18.

troller General of the United Kingdom Patent Office, giving
full particulars of the issue of the patent on such specifi-
cation or specifications.

(2) Upon such application being received, together
with the documents mentioned in subsection (1) of this
section the Registrar shall issue a certificate of registration.

(3) Such certificate of registration shall confer on the
applicant privileges and rights, subject to all conditions

established by the law of the Colony, as though the patent.

had been issued in the United Kingdom with an extension
to the Colony.

(+) Privileges and rights so granted shall date from
the date of the patent in the United Kingdom, and shall
continue in force only so long as the patent remains in force
in the United Kingdom:

Provided that no action for infringement shall be enter-
tained in respect of any manufacture, use, or sale of the
invention prior to the date of issue of the certificate of
registration in the Colony.

16a. The Court shall have power upon the application
of any person who alleges that his interests have been
prejudicially affected by the issue of a certificate of regis-
tration under subsection (2) of section 16, to declare that
the exclusive privileges and rights conferred by such
certificate of registration have not been ac quired on any
of the grounds upon which the United Kingdom patent
might be revoked under the law for the time being in force
in the United Kingdom.

Such grounds shall be deemed to include the manufacture,
use or sale of the invention in the Colony prior to the date
of the patent in the United Kingdom, but not to include the
manufacture, use or sale of the invention in the Colony
by some person or persons after the date of the patent
in the United Kingdom and prior to the date of the issue
of the certificate of registration under subsection (2) of
section 16,

17. The Registrar shall record in the Register of Patents,
Ina special part to be set aside for United Kingdom patents,
under a distinguishing number and in the order in which

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Issuc of
certificate of
registration,

Rights con-
ferred by
certificate.

Duration

of rights
conferred by
certificate.

No action
for infringe-
ment prior
to issue of
certificate.

Power of
Court to
adjudicate
on privileges
conferred by
a certificate
of registra-
tion.

Register of
Patents,