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Patents and Designs Act 1907

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Contents: 23 provisions
  1. Title and introductory text
  2. 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
  3. 37 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
  4. 47 Patent Museum.
  5. 48 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
  6. 49 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
  7. 62 Patent Office.
  8. 63 Officers and clerks.
  9. 64 Seal of Patent Office.
  10. 65 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
  11. 77 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
  12. 82 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
  13. 83 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
  14. 86 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
  15. 88 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
  16. 89 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
  17. 91 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
  18. 91A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
  19. 91B . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
  20. 92 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
  21. 97 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
  22. 99 Short title and commencement.
  23. FIRST AND SECOND SCHEDULES

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23 provisions

Title and introductory text

Patents and Designs Act 1907 1907 c.29 An Act to consolidate the enactments relating to Patents for Inventions and the Registration of Designs and certain enactments relating to Trade Marks.

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47 Patent Museum.

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62 Patent Office.

(1) The Treasury may continue to provide for the purposes of the Patents Act 1977, the Registered Designs Act 1949 and the Trade Marks Act 1994, an office with all requisite buildings and conveniences, which shall be called, and is in this Act referred to as, the Patent Office. (2) The Patent Office shall be under the immediate control of the comptroller, who shall act under the superintendence and direction of the Secretary of State. (3) Any act or thing directed to be done by or to the comptroller may be done by or to any officer authorised by the Secretary of State. (4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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63 Officers and clerks.

(1) There shall continue to be a comptroller-general of patents, designs, and trade marks, and the Secretary of State may, subject to the approval of the Minister for the Civil Service, appoint the comptroller, and so many examiners and other officers and clerks, with such designations and duties as the Secretary of State think fit, and may remove any of those officers and clerks. (2) The salaries of those officers and clerks shall be appointed by the Secretary of State, with the concurrence of the Minister for the Civil Service. . ..

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64 Seal of Patent Office.

Impressions of the seal of the Patent Office shall be judicially noticed and admitted in evidence.

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99 Short title and commencement.

This Act may be cited as the Patents and Designs Act 1907, and shall, save as otherwise expressly provided, come into operation on the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and eight.

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FIRST AND SECOND SCHEDULES

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