New Zealand Legislation: Bills
Bills are proposed Acts
(1) A patent has effect throughout the patent area.
(2) However, a patent may be assigned for any place in, or part of, the patent area as effectively as if it were granted so as to extend to that place or part only.
(3) A patent has the same effect against the Crown as it has against any other person.
(4) Subsection (3) is subject to the provisions of this Act and to section 7(3) of the Crown Proceedings Act 1950.
(5) A patent must be in the prescribed form.
Compare: 1953 No 64 s 29(1)–(3)