Patents

The new Patents Ordinance provides for the grant of standard patents
based on patents granted in the Chinese Patent Office, the UK Patent
Office or the European Patent Office designating the UK. It also provides
for the grant of short-term patents. In all, 1 340 patents were registered
during the year under the later-repealed Registration of Patents Ordinance.
The Patents Registry received 842 requests for registration and grant of
standard patents under the new Patents Ordinance and 147 were granted.
There were also 30 applications for grant of short-term patents, none of
which had been granted by December 31.

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