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.C1C2

Annotations:
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
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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

Part I Patents

1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F1

Miscellaneous

37. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F2

47 Patent Museum.

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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 this Act and the M1Trade Marks Act 1905, 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 the Board of Trade.

C63

Any act or thing directed to be done by or to the comptroller may be done by or to any officer authorised by the Board of Trade.

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63 Officers and clerks. C7

1

There shall continue to be a comptroller-general of patents, designs, and trade marks, and the Board of Trade may, subject to the approval of the F22Minister for the Civil Service, appoint the comptroller, and so many examiners and other officers and clerks, with such designations and duties as the Board of Trade think fit, and may remove any of those officers and clerks.

2

The salaries of those officers and clerks shall be appointed by the Board of Trade, with the concurrence of the F22Minister for the Civil Service, and those salaries and the other expenses of the execution of this Act and the M2Trade Marks Act 1905, shall continue to be paid out of money provided by Parliament.

64 Seal of Patent Office.

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

65. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F7

Evidence, &c.

77. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F8

82. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F9

83. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F10

Powers, &c., of Board of Trade

86. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F11

88. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F12

89. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F13

International and Colonial Arrangements

91. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F14

91A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F15

91B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F16

92. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F17

Repeal Savings and Short Title

97. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F18

99F19Short 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

F20F20FIRST AND SECOND SCHEDULES

Annotations:
Amendments (Textual)
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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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