Hong Kong Ordinances

PATENTS ORDINANCE - SECT 42

Determination after grant of questions referred before grant

(1) If a question with respect to a standard patent or application 
for a standard patent is referred by any person to the Registrar or the court
under section 13, whether before or after the making of an application for the
patent, and is not determined before the time when the application is first in
order for a grant of a patent in pursuance of the application, that fact shall
not prevent the grant of a standard patent, but on its grant that person shall
be treated as having referred to the Registrar or the court under section 55
any question mentioned in that section which the Registrar or the court thinks
appropriate.

(2) In determining any such question under section 55 the Registrar shall
exercise only the powers that are available to him for the purposes of
determining the same question referred to him under section 13. [cf. 1977 c.
37 s. 9 U.K.]