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

the copyright in a registered design, or to a registered
trade mark, the Registrar shall, on request, and on proof of
litle, cause the name of such person to be entered as
proprietor of the patent, copyright in the design, or trade
mark, in the Register of Patents, Designs, or Trade Marks,
as the case may be. The person for the time being entered
in the Register of Patents, Designs, or Trade Marks
as proprictor for a patent, copyright in a design, or trade
mark, as the case may be, shall, subject to the provisions of
this Ordinance, and to any rights appearing from = such
register to be vested in any other person, have power
absolutely to assign, grant licences as to, or otherwise deal
with the came, and to give effectual receipts for any
consideration for such assignment, licence, or dealing:
Provided that any equities ino respect of such) patent,
design, or trade mark may be enforced in like manner as in
respect of any other personal property: Provided also,
that the priority of all assignments and charges shall, as
regards purchasers for value without notic — be determined
by priority of registration.

55. [every register kept under this Ordinance shall be
prima facte evidence of all matters duly entered therein;
and every such register and the specification: of every
registered patent shall be open to the inspection of the public
on payment of the prescribed fee, subject to the provisions
of this Ordinane and to such regulations as may be
preseribed, and cerlifted copie. , caled with the seal of the
Registrar, of any entry in such register, or of any such
specification, shall be given to any person requiring the
same on payment of the prescribed fees Provided that
whenever any specification or extract includes any tracing,
drawing, or diagram, an additional fee for any copy thereof
shall be paid equal to the cost of preparing such tracing,
drawing, or diagram,

56. The Registrar may, on request in writing, accom-
panied by the preseribed fe
(a) correct any clerical error in or in connection with
an application for a patent, or for registration of a
design or trade mark;

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Power of
propriclor

"to assign,

Priority,

Inapection

of and
extracts

from register.

Correction
of errors,
cancellation,
and amend-
ment.