If for any reason the Committee is unable to make a decision within 30 days after the hearing is held, the inventor shall be at liberty to act by himself and he may then take the necessary steps for patenting his invention or discovery; if he secures the patent certificate, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico would then have no right or share in the invention or discovery.
History —Mar. 20, 1951, No. 35, p. 84, § 4, eff. 90 days after Mar. 20, 1951.