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.
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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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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
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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.