Chapter:	522	Title:	REGISTERED DESIGNS ORDINANCE	Gazette Number:
Section:	35	Heading:	Rights of third parties to continue use of registered designs	Version Date:	30/06/1997

(1) A person who in Hong Kong before the filing date of an application for registration of a design-

(a) does in good faith an act which would have constituted an infringement of the design if it had been registered at the time the act is done; or
(b) makes in good faith effective and serious preparations to do such an act,

(a) the right to continue to do or, as the case may be, to do the act referred to in subsection (1);
(b) if such act was done, or such preparations had been made, by an individual in the course of a business-
(i) the right to assign the right to do the act or to transmit such right on death; and
(ii) the right to authorize the doing of the act by any of his partners for the time being in the business in the course of which the act was done or the preparations had been made; and
(c) if such act was done, or such preparations had been made, by a body corporate in the course of a business, the right to assign the right to do the act or to transmit such right on the body's dissolution,