Patents and Designs Act 1907
1907 c.29
Part I Patents
1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F1
Miscellaneous
37. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F2
47 Patent Museum.
1
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2
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48. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F5
Part II
49. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F6
Part III General
Patent Office, and Proceedings thereat
62 Patent Office.
C3C41
The Treasury may continue to provide for the purposes of F7the 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.
C5C62
The Patent Office shall be under the immediate control of the comptroller, who shall act under the superintendence and direction of F8the Secretary of State.
C63
Any act or thing directed to be done by or to the comptroller may be done by or to any officer authorised by F9the Secretary of State.
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63 Officers and clerks. C7
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There shall continue to be a comptroller-general of patents, designs, and trade marks, and F11the Secretary of State may, subject to the approval of the F12Minister for the Civil Service, appoint the comptroller, and so many examiners and other officers and clerks, with such designations and duties as F11the Secretary of State think fit, and may remove any of those officers and clerks.
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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.
65. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F13
Evidence, &c.
77. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F14
82. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F15
83. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F16
Powers, &c., of Board of Trade
86. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F17
88. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F18
89. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F19
International and Colonial Arrangements
91. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F20
91A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F21
91B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F22
92. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F23
Repeal Savings and Short Title
97. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F24
99F25Short 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.
SCHEDULES
F26F26FIRST AND SECOND SCHEDULES
Ss. 48–61, 62(4), 65–:81, 83–87, 89, 90, 91(2)–(2C), 91B–91D, 92–:98, Schs. 1, 2 repealed by Patents Act 1949 (c. 87), Schs. 2, 3 and Registered Designs Act 1949 (c. 88), s. 48, Sch. 2
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Act: by 1994 c. 26, s. 106(1), Sch. 4 para. 2(1)(4); S.I. 1994/2550, art. 2 it is provided (retrospectively) that the repeal of this Act, except certain provisions, shall be deemed not to have extended to the long title, date of enactment or enacting words or to so much of section 99 as provides the Act with its short title