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Comptroller, one who observes and examines the accounts of collectors of public money; an officer of the royal household; also the Comptroller-general of patents, designs, and trade-marks, who has the immediate control of the Patent Office under the superintendence and direction of the Board of Trade. See the (English) Patents and Designs Acts, 1907 to 1932. The 1907 Act sets out (ss. 73-76) the powers and duties of the Comptroller.