Hong Kong Regulations

PATENTS (GENERAL) RULES - SECT 28

Maintenance of application for standard patent under section 33 of the Ordinance

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

(1) An application to maintain an application for a standard patent under
section 33 of the Ordinance shall be in the specified form. (L.N. 37 of 2004)

(2) Where the period specified in section 33(2) of the Ordinance for the
making of a maintenance application in respect of a patent application has
expired, the Registrar shall, not later than 6 weeks after the last date for
making the maintenance application under that subsection and if the
maintenance fee specified in that subsection remains unpaid, send to the
applicant of the patent application a notice informing him that the period for
making a maintenance application has expired and of the consequences of not
making such an application and paying the fees specified in section 33(4) of
the Ordinance.

(3) Notice under subsection (2) shall be directed to-

   (a)  the address specified by the applicant of the maintenance application
        on payment of the last maintenance fee; or

   (b)  where another address has been notified to him for that purpose by the
        applicant of the maintenance application since the last maintenance,
        that address, or, in any other case, the address for service entered
        in the register.