Hong Kong Ordinances

PATENTS ORDINANCE - SECT 6

Other references

(1) Unless the context otherwise requires, a reference in this Ordinance to a
patent is a reference to a standard patent or a short-term  patent granted
under this Ordinance.

(2) Unless the context otherwise requires, a reference in this Ordinance to an
international agreement is a reference to-

   (a)  the agreement, or any other international agreement replacing it, as
        may from time to time be amended or supplemented by or in accordance
        with any international agreement (including any protocol or annex);

   (b)  any instrument made under any such agreement to provide for amendment
        to or supplementation of the agreement.

(3) Unless the context otherwise requires, a reference in this Ordinance to an
enactment or law of a country, territory or area other than Hong Kong shall be
construed as a reference to that enactment or law as it may from time to time
be amended or extended by or under any other enactment or law of the country,
territory or area.

(4) Unless the context otherwise requires, a reference in this Ordinance to an
invention being worked in Hong Kong includes a reference to the invention
being worked by importation into Hong Kong for the purpose of putting the
patented product on the market or stocking it for that purpose.

(5) For the purposes of this Ordinance matter shall be taken to have been
disclosed in any designated patent application or in the specification of a
patent or a designated patent if it was either claimed or disclosed (otherwise
than by way of disclaimer or acknowledgment of prior art) in any such
application or specification. [cf. 1977 c. 37 s. 130(3) U.K.]