Part III General

Patent Office, and Proceedings thereat

62 Patent Office.

C1C21

The Treasury may continue to provide for the purposes of F1the Patents Act 1977, the Registered Designs Act 1949 and the Trade Marks Act 1994, an office with all requisite buildings and conveniences, which shall be called, and is in this Act referred to as, the Patent Office.

C3C42

The Patent Office shall be under the immediate control of the comptroller, who shall act under the superintendence and direction of F2the Secretary of State.

C43

Any act or thing directed to be done by or to the comptroller may be done by or to any officer authorised by F3the Secretary of State.

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63 Officers and clerks. C5

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There shall continue to be a comptroller-general of patents, designs, and trade marks, and F5the Secretary of State may, subject to the approval of the F6Minister for the Civil Service, appoint the comptroller, and so many examiners and other officers and clerks, with such designations and duties as F5the Secretary of State think fit, and may remove any of those officers and clerks.

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The salaries of those officers and clerks shall be appointed by F5the Secretary of State, with the concurrence of the F6Minister for the Civil Service. . ..

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.