Hong Kong Regulations

PATENTS (GENERAL) RULES - SECT 42A

Failure to file address for service

(1) Where an address for service is not filed as required by section 42, or
where the Registrar is satisfied that the address for service of the
proprietor of a patent or a party to any proceedings before the Registrar is
no longer valid, the Registrar may send to the person concerned, at any of the
addresses referred to in subsection (2), a notice to file an address for
service.

(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), the addresses are—

   (a)  any previously filed address for service of the person;

   (b)  any address of the person in Hong Kong that is shown in the register;

   (c)  any residential or business address of the person in Hong Kong; and

   (d)  any other address of the person that is known to the Registrar.

(3) If any person to whom a notice is sent under subsection (1) fails to file
an address for service within 2 months after the date of the notice—

   (a)  any application (other than an application for a patent), notice or
        request filed by that person shall be treated as abandoned or
        withdrawn; and

   (b)  the person shall be deemed to have withdrawn from any proceedings
        before the Registrar of which he is a party (other than as an
        applicant for a patent).

(4) This section is without prejudice to the operation of sections  17 and 68.
(L.N. 37 of 2004)