Explanatory note

This Order vests in the Custodian certain Letters Patent for inventions.

The Letters Patent affected are those which are the property of individuals resident in Germany, business concerns constituted or incorporated under the laws of Germany and concerns controlled by the foregoing. The Order vests also the interest in Letters Patent for inventions of any such individual or concern who with any other person is the patentee and the interest in Letters Patent for inventions in which the invention has been communicated to the patentee by any such individual or concern. The Order does not apply to Letters Patent applied for on or after 3rd September, 1939.