Section 2

"patent" means letters pa ent for an invention;

"Registrar of Patents"

eans the person appointed as such by name or office by he Yang di-Pertuan Agong for the purposes of. this ,Act;

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· "Registrar of Patents, S · gapore" means the person for the time being appointed t such office under any written law of Singapore correspon ing to this Act;

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Interpreta-tion~ .

_ "We-st Mal~ysia" has th .. meaning assigned thereto in section 3 of the Interpretat n Act, 1967, and includes the 23/67-

Federal Territory.

3 .. Any person being a gra tee·· of a patent in the United t P=

Kingdom or any p~rson deri ing his right from such grantee ti~n in by assignment, transmission or oth~r _operation of law, may ::ysiaof apply to the Registrar of Pat nts withm three years from the patenm d

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granted ate of issue of the patent t have such patent registere m in the

~es~ Malaysia. Where . an partial assignment ~r. tran_s- ~~m.

nuss1on has been made, all roper parties shall be 3omed m the application for registrati n:

. Provided that ·the Registr r of Patents may, in his_ discr:e~

hon: accept the application where it is s~own to his satis-faction _th~t for any reason the applica~ion could not be

!1}ade withm three years fro the date of 1ssue of the patent in the United Kingdom. . ._

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oocuments which must accompanY application.

Issue of certificate of registra-tion.

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under se tion 3 shall be accompanied 4 Every apphcation of the s ecification or specifications by a certified ~opy if any) 0 the United Kingdom patent

(including drawmgs,f the Co ptroller-General of Patents and a certificated

O Marks of the United Kingdom giving

Designs _and Traf ~he issue of the patent on such specifica.

full particulars o.

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tion or specifications .

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hen any su h United Kmgdom patent is

ProV1ded. !ha~ tin Singapord under the provisions of any alr~ady {:~~~~sponding to th~s Act relatin_g to the registra-

::t: United Kingdom _Pate~ts, the Registrar of_ Patents ma in his discretion, waive a~l o_r any of the requ!r~ments of ibis section abs~lutely, or subJect to such cond1ttons as he.may think fit to impose.

s. Upon such applicat!on be!ng received toget_her with the documents mentioned sechoh 4, where req~rred, and ~he application fee, the Reg1strar of Patents shall issue a certifi-cate of registration.

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