PART II

Patents Generally

CHAPTER I

The Patents Office and the Controller

6. —(1) The Patents Office and the Controller of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks shall continue in being for the purposes provided for by this Act or any other enactment.

(2) The Controller of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks shall continue as a corporation sole with perpetual succession and an official seal which shall be judicially noticed and may sue and be sued by that name.

(3) The Patents Office shall be under the control of the Controller who shall be independent in the discharge of the functions conferred on him by this Act or any other enactment.

(4) References in any enactment to the Industrial and Commercial Property Registration Office and to the Controller of Industrial and Commercial Property shall continue to be construed respectively as references to the Patents Office and the Controller.

7. —Patents shall be granted by the Controller subject to and in accordance with the provisions of this Act.

8. —The subsequent provisions of this Part shall, in relation to short-term patents to which Part III applies, have effect subject to the provisions of that Part.