September, 1914 (see 12 P. & T. M. Rev., 364 Ed.) are hereby rescinded and repealed.

PATENTS OF INVENTION-AMENDMENT TO ORDER IN COUNCIL OF

OCTOBER 2ND, 1914.

AT THE GOVERNMENT HOUSE AT OTTAWA.

Friday, the 8th day of March, 1918.

Present: His Excellency, the Governor General in Council. His Excellency, the Governor General in Council, on the recommendation of the Acting Minister of Agriculture, and under and by virtue of the provisions of the War Measures Act, 1914, is pleased to order that the regulations respecting patents of invention, established by Order in Council of 2nd October, 1914 (P. C. No. 2,436), shall be and the same are hereby amended by adding thereto the following regulation No. 12:

REGULATION.

"12. Any person to whom a license is granted to make, use, exercise or vend a patented invention under the provisions of regulation three, shall have the same power and right to take any action or other legal proceedings to prevent or restrain any infringement of the said patent which affects the rights of such person under such license, or to recover compensation or damages for any such infringement, that the owner of a patent would have for an infringement of his patent.” RODOLPHE BOUDREAU, Clerk of the Privy Council.

(Signed)

INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY-ENEMY COUNTRIES-WAR MEASURESORDER OF FEBRUARY 8, 1915.

We are indebted to Mr. Owen N. Evans, of Montreal, for the text of the following order:

[P. C. 291.]

PRIVY COUNCIL, CANADA,

AT THE GOVERNMENT HOUSE AT OTTAWA,

Monday, the 8th day of February, 1915.

Present: His Royal Highness the Governor General in Council. His Royal Highness the Governor General in Council in pursuance of the provisions of an Order in Council of date the 6th day of Jan

uary, 1915, respecting the granting of licenses in connection with the Royal Proclamations relating to Trading with the Enemy, published in the Canada Gazette on the 12th day of September, 1914, and the 15th day of October, 1914, doth hereby give and grant license to all persons resident, carrying on business or being in the Dominion of Canada:

To pay any fees necessary for obtaining the grant or for obtaining the renewal of patents or for obtaining the registration of Designs or Trade-marks or the renewal of such registration in an "enemy country";

And also to pay on behalf of an "enemy" any fees payable in the Dominion of Canada on application for or renewal of the grant of a patent or on application for the registration of Designs or Trademarks or the renewal of such registration.

The expression "enemy country" herein means the territories of the German Empire and of the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary, together with all the Colonies and Dependencies thereof, as well as the Dominions of His Imperial Majesty the Sultan of Turkey other than any territory in the occupation of His Britannic Majesty or His Allies.

The expression "enemy" herein means any person or body of persons of whatever nationality resident or carrying on business in the enemy country, but does not include persons of enemy nationality who are neither resident nor carrying on business in the enemy -country. In the case of incorporated bodies, enemy character attaches only to those incorporated in an enemy country.

(Signed)

RODOLPHE BOUDREAU, Clerk of the Privy Council.

PATENTS REGULATIONS "WAR MEASURES ACT"-ORDER IN COUNCIL (AMENDATORY) OF FEBRUARY 14, 1916.

AT THE GOVERNMENT HOUSE AT OTTAWA,

Monday, the 14th day of February, 1916. Present: His Royal Highness the Governor General in Council. His Royal Highness the Governor General in Council is pleased to order that the Orders and Regulations respecting Patents of Invention of date the 2nd October, 1914,1 made under and in virtue of the authority conferred by The War Measures Act, 1914, shall be and the same are hereby amended as follows:

1. That section 5 of said Orders and Regulations be amended by adding thereto "and shall be valid notwithstanding any previous extension or extensions granted either under authority of The Patent Act or these Orders and Regulations.

1 See 13 P. & T. M. Rev., 11.

2. That the following section be added:

"10. In any case in which through circumstances arising from the present state of war the Commissioner may deem it expedient, he may order that during the continuance of the war and for six months thereafter, neither the failure to construct or manufacture in Canada any patented invention nor the importation of such invention into Canada shall in any way affect the validity of the patent granted in respect of such invention, notwithstanding anything in The Patent Act or in such patent."

FRANCE.

[Law of the 5th of July, 1844.1

CHAPTER 1.

GENERAL PROVISIONS.

ARTICLE 1. Every new discovery or invention, in all departments of industry, confers upon its author, under the conditions and for the term hereinafter mentioned, the exclusive right of working for his own profit the said discovery or invention.

This right is established by deeds delivered by the Government, under the name of Patents of Invention.

ART. 2. The following shall be considered as new inventions or discoveries:

The invention of new industrial products.

The invention of new methods, or the new application of known methods, for obtaining an industrial result or product.

ART. 3. The following are not patentable:

1. Pharmaceutical compositions and remedies of all kinds, such objects remaining subject to the special laws and regulations for these matters, and especially to the decree of the 18th of August, 1810, relating to secret remedies.

2. Schemes and combinations relating to credit or finance.

ART. 4. The duration of patents shall be five, ten, or fifteen years. Every patent shall be subject to the payment of a tax fixed as follows:

Five hundred francs for a patent of five years.

One thousand francs for a patent of ten years.

Fifteen hundred francs for a patent of fifteen years.

This tax shall be paid by annuities of one hundred francs, under penalty of forfeiture if the patentee allow any year to elapse without paying it.

CHAPTER II.

FORMALITIES RESPECTING THE DELIVERY OF PATENTS.

Section I.-Applications for Patents.

ART. 5. Any person who may wish to obtain a patent of invention shall deposit under seal, at the office of the Secretary of the Pre

'fecture in the department which he is domiciled, or in any other department, on electing domicile there:

1. His petition to the Minister of Agriculture and Commerce;

2. A specification of the discovery, invention, or application forming the subject of the patent applied for;

3. The drawings or specimens which may be necessary for the comprehension of the specification; and,

4. A memorandum of the documents deposited.

In the Department of the Seine applications for patents shall be lodged at the bureaux of the National Office of Industrial Property. [NOTE. The words in italic were added by the Finance Law of the 26th of December, 1908.]

ART. 6. The application shall be limited to a single principal object, with the points of detail that constitute it, and its applications which shall be indicated.

It shall mention the duration which the applicants wish to assign to their patent within the limits fixed by Article 4, and shall contain neither restrictions, conditions, nor reservations.

It shall set forth a title containing a short and precise designation of the object of the invention.

The specification may not be written in a foreign language. It should be without alterations or interlineations. Words erased shall be counted and verified, the pages and references being initialed. It should not contain any denomination of weights or measures other than those inserted in the table annexed to the law of the 4th of July, 1837.

The drawings shall be made in ink and to a metrical scale.

A duplicate of the specification and drawings shall be annexed to the petition.

All documents shall be signed by the applicant or by an attorney. whose power shall remain annexed to the petition.

ART. 7. (of the Law of the 9th of July, 1901). The drawings accompanying applications for patents of invention and certificates of addition, in conformity with the provisions of Article 6 of the Law of the 5th of July, 1844, shall be prepared in the form and to the scale to be determined by a decree of the Minister of Commerce, Industry, Posts and Telegraphs.

ART. 7. No deposit shall be received except on the production of a receipt proving the payment of a sum of one hundred francs on account of the patent tax.

A report drawn up without charge by the General Secretary of the Prefecture in the Departments and by the Director of the National Office of Industrial Property in Paris shall prove every deposit, indicating the day and hour when the documents were delivered.

[NOTE. The words in italic were substituted by the Finance Law of the 26th of December, 1908.]