960

Extension of
time for
applications
under section
64 in certain
cases.

Ord. 5-1947,

s. 4 (3).

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

 

or trade mark, within four months, from such person
applying for protection in the United Kingdom or the
foreign State with which the arrangement is in force.

(3) Nothing in this section contained shall entitle the
patentee or proprietor of the design or trade mark to recover
damages for infringements happening prior to the date of
the actual acceptance of his complete specification, or the
actual registration of his design or trade mark, as the case
may be, in the Colony.

(4) The publication in the Colony during the res-
pective periods aforesaid of any description of the invention,
or the use therein during such periods of the invention, or the
xhibition or use therein during such periods of the design,
or the publication therein during such periods of a descrip-
tion or representation of the design, or the use therein
during such periods of the trade mark, shall not invalidate
the patent granted for the invention, or the registration of
the design or trade mark.

(5) The application for the grant of a patent, or the
registration of a design or a trade mark, under this section
shall be made in the same manner, and subject to the
payment of the same fees, as an ordinary application under
Parts I., 1]., [A. and IT1. respectively of this Ordinance.

(6) In the case of a patent, an application under this
section shall be accompanied by a complete specification
which if it be not accepted within the period of twelve
months, shall with drawings, if any, be open to public
inspection at the expiration of that period.

(7) The provisions of this section shall, in the case of
foreign States, apply only in the case of those foreign States
with respect to which His Majesty, from time to time, by
order in council, declares the provisions of the aforesaid
section 103 of the said first recited Imperial Act, or any
subsequent enactment, to be applicable, and so long only
in the case of cach State as such order continues in force
with respect to that State.

65. (1) The Governor may, as respects any Convention
country (as defined in section 91A of the Patents and
Designs Acts 1907 to 1946, passed by the Imperial Parlia-
ment), if he is satisfied that provision substantially