59. LAW, DATE, AND WHERE RECORDED.-Acts 15 and 16 Vict., cap. 83; 16 Vict., cap. 5; 16 and 17 Vict., cap. 115. In operation since 1st October, 1852. (Patent Law Amendment, Patent Office 25 Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane.) 60. KINDS OF PATENTS.-Letters patent, disclaimers, and memoranda of alteration issued to British subjects and aliens residing or represented in the United Kingdom. Provisional protection during six months. Valid for the whole of the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man. Medicines vended under a Government stamp as "patent medicines" have never been the subject of letters patent. 61. PREVIOUS EXAMINATION.-None as to novelty or utility. 62. DURATION.-Patents are issued for fourteen years, subject to prolongation by Privy Council. Patents expire at the end of the third or seventh year, if the requisite payments in stamp duties are not made. Letters patent are dated from the day of application, and when antedated are to be of the same validity as if sealed on the day of the date. Letters patent for patented foreign inventions according to the term of foreign patent. 63. STAMP DUTIES TO BE PAID.-On petition, £5; on certificate of record on notice to proceed, £5; on warrant for letters patent, £5; on the sealing of letters patent, £5; on specification, £5; on the letters patent before the expiration of the third year, £50; on the letters patent before the expiration of the seventh year, £100: i. e., £175 for a patent of fourteen years; on certificate of record on notice of objections, £2; for every search and inspection, 1s.; for entry of assignment or license, 5s.; on certificate of assignment or license, 5s.; on application for disclaimer, £5; on caveat against disclaimer, £2; on office copies of documents, for every seventy-two words, 2d. The payments for the above stamp duties are made at Somerset House, (Inland Revenue Department,) and the certificates for such payments are delivered at the Patent Office, (gratis.) Fees to be paid to the law officers and to their clerks: By the person opposing a grant of letters patent, £3 10s.; by the petitioner on the hearing of the case of opposition, £3 10s.; by the petitioner for the hearing previous to the first allowing a disclaimer or memorandum of alteration in letters patent and specification, £3 5s.; by the person opposing the allowance of such disclaimer, £3 5s.; by the petitioner for the first allowing a disclaimer or memorandum of alteration in letters patent and specification, £3 15s. 6d. 64. DOCUMENTS REQUIRED AT THE PATENT OFFICE.A petition to the Queen by the inventor or his agent; a declaration of the inventor or his agent, made before a master in chancery, or justice of the peace, or a British consul abroad; a provisional or complete specification, (two copies of the latter, one on parchment,) together with the necessary drawings, (two copies on parchment,) one inch to a foot recommended; an abridgement (two copies) of provisional specification, or of complete specification, when filed with the petition and declaration; notice to proceed, eight weeks clear before the expiration of six months; warrant and great seal, twelve clear days before the expiration of six months, (upon special circumstances the Lord Chancellor may allow a further extension of time;) notice of opposition to be given within twenty-one days after the date of notice to pro ceed in the gazette, or, in case of opposition to great seal, twelve days before the expiration of provisional protection. (N. B.-Application by letter cannot be entertained.) For the Great Seal Patent Office, the initials are W. C., the district being western central. In the direction of a letter, these initials should be legibly written in a separate line, and should in all cases end the address, thus: THE COMMISSIONERS OF PATENTS, Great Seal Patent Office, 25 Southampton Buildings, London, W. C. 65. ASSIGNMENTS AND LICENSES.-Recorded in the Register of Proprietors at the Patent Office. Entries may be expunged. 66. LIST OF PATENTS AT THEIR DIFFERENT STAGES.Published in the London Gazette and in the Commissioners of Patents' Journal, within five days of the application and notice to proceed and within a fortnight of the sealing of the Patent; also, List of Patents on which the stamp duty of £50 and £100 has been paid, &c. (Compare Commissioners of Patents' Journal, [vide infra, § 71.]) 67. SPECIFICATIONS, DISCLAIMERS, MEMORANDA OF ALTERATIONS, PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION, ASSIGNMENTS, AND LICENSES.-Open to the inspection of the public at the Patent Office, London; at the Enrollment Office of the Court of Chancery, in Dublin; and at the office of the Directory of Chancery in Scotland. (N. B. Not within the term of provisional protection.) 68. SPECIFICATIONS, DISCLAIMERS, MEMORANDA OF ALTERATIONS, AND INDEXES.-Published by the Commission ers of Patents, and sold at cost price, at the Patent Office, within a month of the issue of the letters patent. All old specifications have been published likewise, and are sold at cost price. In course of publication and partly published, (thirty-six classes,) Abridgments (in classes and chronologically arranged) of all Specifications of Patented Inventions, from the earliest enrolled to those published under the act of 1852. 69. ORIGINALS OF SPECIFICATION, ETC., (MODELS.)-Kept at the Patent Office. Models are not required, but when presented or lent, they are deposited in the Museum of the Commissioners of Patents, South Kensington, which is open daily to the public free of charge. 70. FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF PATENTS. The Reading-Room in the office of the Commissioners of Patents is open daily from 10 till 4 o'clock. In addition to the printed specifications, indexes, and other publications of the Commissioners of Patents, the Library includes the official publications of foreign patents and a collection of the leading British and foreign scientific journals and text-books, in the various departments of science and art, (about sixty thousand volumes.) The Commissioners of Patents' publications may be consulted at the public libraries of the chief continental States, the British Colonies, and America. 71. COMMISSIONERS OF PATENTS' JOURNAL.-Published on Tuesdays and Fridays: price, 2d; by post, 3d. Contents: 1. Applications for letters patent; 2. Grants of provisional protection for six months; 3. Inventions protected for six months by the deposit of a complete specification; 4. Notices to proceed; 5. Patents sealed; 6. Patents extended; 7. Patents canceled; 8. Patents on which the third year's stamp duty has been paid; 9. Patents which have become void by non-payment of the stamp duty of £50 before the expiration of the third year; 10. Patents on which the seventh year's stamp duty has been paid; 11. Patents which have become void by non-payment of the stamp duty of £100 before the expiration of the seventh year; 12. Colonial patents and patent law; 13. Foreign patents and patent law; 14. Weekly price lists of printed specification, &c.; 15. Official advertisements and notices of interest to patentees and inventors generally. The patent laws of the colonies of Great Britain and of foreign States are published in full in about eighty numbers of the Commissioners of Patents' Journal, the official organ of the British Patent Office, which should be found, as well as all other publications of the British Commissioners, in the Patent Office, Washington; Peabody Institute, Baltimore; Franklin Institute and Philadelphia Library, Philadelphia; Astor Library, New York; Free Library, Boston; Young Men's Association Library, Chicago; Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison; and Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, to which institutions they have been presented by the British Government. The following is a list of the foreign States the laws of which have been published in the Commissioners of Patents' Journal: Argentine Republic, Nos. Bavaria, 262. 1393, 1394, 1453. Austria, 291. Baden and petty States of Belgium, 292, 348. British Guiana, 798. Canada, 279, 625, 856, 1106, 1188, 1629. |