Hong Kong Regulations

PATENTS (GENERAL) RULES - SECT 32

Renewal of standard patents

PART IV

PROVISIONS AS TO PATENTS AFTER GRANT

Standard patents

(1) Payment of the renewal fee prescribed for the purposes of section 39(2) of
the Ordinance shall be made by filing a request for renewal in the specified
form accompanied by the renewal fee.

(2) On receipt of the request for renewal duly completed and renewal fee, the
Registrar shall issue a confirmation of payment.

(3) Where the period for payment of a renewal fee pursuant to section 39(2)
and (3) of the Ordinance has expired, the Registrar shall, not later than 6
weeks after the last date for payment under that section and if the fee still
remains unpaid, send to the proprietor of the standard patent a notice
reminding him that payment is overdue and of the consequences of non-payment.

(4) Notice to a proprietor under subsection (3) shall be sent to-

   (a)  the address in Hong Kong specified by the proprietor on payment of the
        last renewal fee;

   (b)  where another address in Hong Kong has been notified to the Registrar
        for that purpose by the proprietor since the last renewal, that
        address; or

   (c)  in any other case, the address for service entered in the register.

(5) The late payment of a renewal fee in the manner provided for in section
39(4) of the Ordinance shall be made by filing a request for renewal in the
specified form accompanied by the renewal fee and any additional fee
prescribed for the purposes of that section.