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 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
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