Hong Kong Ordinances

PATENTS ORDINANCE - SECT 12

Who may apply

Right to apply

(1) The person who may apply for the grant of a standard patent for an
invention is-

   (a)  the person named as applicant in a designated patent  application for
        a patent for the invention, or his successor in title to the rights
        under the designated patent application in Hong Kong; or

   (b)  in preference to the person mentioned in paragraph (a), the person who
        is entitled to the property in the invention in Hong Kong.

(2) Subject to any determination under section 13, the applicant for a
standard patent for an invention in proceedings before the Registrar shall for
the purpose of those proceedings be deemed to be the person entitled to apply
for the grant of a patent for that invention under subsection (1). [cf. 1977
c. 37 s. 7 U.K.]