(2) The rights acquired during the same time by subjects of countries other than enemy countries (sec. 5 of the above-cited decree) shall be respected. Berlin, January 25, 1917. (Signed) Dr. HELFFERICH, Deputy Chancellor of the Empire. (From 33 La Propriété Industrielle, 17, of Feb. 28, 1917.) INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY APPLICATIONS CONVENTION PRIORITY AMERICAN HOLDERS-STATUS AS CONCERNS WAR MEASURES-NOTICE No. 5843 oF MAY 5, 1917. [Translation,] [Notice concerning the prolongation of terms of priority to the United States of America.] By virtue of section 1, paragraph 2, of the decree of the Federal Council of May 7, 1915, concerning the extension of the terms of priority provided for by Article 4 of the revised Convention of Paris, June 2, 1911, for the protection of industrial property (Reichsgesetzblatt, p. 272), it is thereby declared that in the United States of America the terms of priority, in so far as they have not expired prior to August 1, 1914, or will not expire after December 31, 1917, are prolonged in favor of subjects of countries that grant substantially the same rights to United States citizens, even also in favor of German subjects, for a period of nine months. However, this prolongation is granted only when the applicant, by reason of the state of war, has been prevented from observing the term, and it does not apply if and so long as the state of war exists between the country to which the applicant is a subject and the United States of America. Berlin, May 5, 1917. (Signed) Dr. HELFFERICH, Vice Chancellor of the Empire. (Translation from 33 La Propriété Industrielle, 57.) PATENTS TRADE MARKS-AMERICAN HOLDERS-ABROGATION OF CERTAIN FACILITIES, "WAR MEASURES "-NOTICE No. 5844 oF MAY 6, 1917. [Translation.] [Notice concerning the abrogation of certain temporary facilities accorded to the United States of America in patent and trade-mark matters.] The notice of October 21, 1914 (Reichsgesetzblatt, p. 450), is abrogated in so far as it declares that German subjects enjoy, in the United States, facilities analogous to those provided for by the decree of the Federal Council, September 10, 1914, concerning temporary facilities granted in the domain of patents, Gebrauchsmuster, and trade-marks (Reichsgesetzblatt, p. 403). Berlin, May 6, 1917. (Signed) Dr. HELFFERICH, Vice Chancellor of the Empire. INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY-FEES IN THE UNITED STATES-PROHIBITION OF PAYMENT DECREE OF AUGUST 9, 1917-EFFECTIVE AUGUST 13, 1917. [Translation.] [Decree prohibiting the making of payments in the United States of America.] By virtue of the provisions of section 3 of the law of August 4, 1914, authorizing the Federal Council to take measures of economic order, etc. (Reichsgesetzblatt, p. 327), the Federal Council has decreed by way of reprisal the following dispositions: ARTICLE 1. The prescriptions of the decree of September 30, 1914, prohibiting the making of payments in England are declared applicable to the United States of America. This application is subject to the following restrictions: 1. In order to determine whether the relief extends its effects to the holder, acquirer, or not (see. 2, par. 2, of the decree of Sept. 30, 1914), the only question to be considered is that of knowing whether the acquisition has been effected prior to or after April 6, 1917, without taking account of the domicile or location of the establishment of the acquirer. 2. The dispositions that concern the entry into force of the decree of September 30, 1914, are replaced by those that concern the entry into effect of the present decree. ART. 2. The Chancellor of the Empire may, by way of reprisal, declare the provisions decreed against enemy States applicable to other countries. ART. 3. The present decree shall become of effect from the date of its publication.1 The Chancellor of the Empire shall determine at what date and to what degree it shall cease to be of effect. Berlin, August 9, 1917. (Signed) DR. HELFFERICH, Vice Chancellor of the Empire. (From 33 La Propriété Industrielle, 105.) 1 Published in Reichsgesetzblatt, No. 191, of August 13, 1917. INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY-FEES IN THE UNITED STATES-PERMISSION OF PAYMENT-DECREE OF SEPTEMBER 12, 1917. [Translation.] [Decree permitting the effecting in the United States of America of payments relative to industrial property (of Sept. 12, 1917).] By virtue of Article 1, paragraph 1, of the decree of the Federal Council (Bundesrath) of August 9, 1917, interdicting the making of payments in the United States of America (Reichsgesetzblatt, No. 708), and of section 7, paragraph 1, of the decree of September 30, 1914 (Reichsgesetzblatt, No. 421), the payments prescribed for obtaining, preserving, or prolonging the protection obtained in America in the matter of patents, designs, or models, or of trade-marks for subjects of the Empire, of allied countries, and of neutral States, shall be authorized under new order. Berlin, September 12, 1917. (Signed) DR. HELFFERICH, Vice Chancellor of the Empire. (From 33 La Propriété Industrielle, 117, which credits Reichsgesetzblatt, No. 217, of Sept. 12, 1917.) INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY-GERMAN HOLDERS-NOTIFICATION OF STATUS IN UNITED STATES-DECREE No. 6199, OF JANUARY 3, 1918. [Translation.] [Decree concerning the facilities granted in the United States of America in industrial property matters.] By virtue of section 3 of the decree of the Bundesrat of September 10. 1914, concerning the temporary facilities accorded in the domain of patents, Gebrauchsmuster, and trade-marks (Reichsgestzblatt, p. 403), notice is given that in the United States analagous facilities are granted to subjects of the German Empire. Berlin, January 3, 1918. By order of the Chancellor of the Empire. (Signed) DELBRÜCK. (From 34 La Propriété Industrielle, 2.) INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY.-AMERICAN HOLDERS.-RELIEF MEASURES.-RECIPROCITY WITH UNITED STATES.-" WAR MEASURES."-DECREE No. 6200, OF JANUARY 3, 1918. [Translation.] [Decree concerning the rights of citizens of the United States in industrial property matters.] By virtue of section 7, paragraph 2, of the decree of the Bundesrat of July 1, 1915, concerning the rights of the subjects of enemy countries in industrial property matters (Reichsgesetzblatt, p. 414), the following is ordered by way of reprisal: ARTICLE 1. The prescriptions of sections 1, 3, and 4 of the decree of July 1, 1915, concerning the rights of the subjects of enemy countries in industrial property matters are declared applicable to citizens of the United States of America. ART. 2. The present decree shall become effective from the date of its publication. Berlin, January 3, 1918. By order of the Chancellor of the Empire. (Signed) DELBRÜCK. (From 34 La Propriété Industrielle, 2.) INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY APPLICATIONS CONVENTION - PRIORITY AMERICAN HOLDERS-RECIPROCAL RELIEF "WAR MEASURES"DECREE NO. 6198, OF JANUARY 3, 1918. [Translation.] [Decree concerning the extension of the terms of priority as to the United States of America.] By virtue of section 1, paragraph 2, of the decree of the Bundesrat of May 7, 1915, concerning the extension of the terms of priority provided for by Article 4 of the revised Convention of Paris of June 2, 1911, for the protection of industrial property (Reichsgesetzblatt, p. 272), the decree of May 5, 1917, concerning the prolongation of the terms of priority as to the United States of America (Reichsgesetzblatt, p. 401), is modified to the effect that in the first phrase the words "or will not expire after December 31, 1917," and in the second phrase the words "and it does not apply if and so long as the state of war exists between the country to which the applicant is a subject and the United States of America" are deleted. Berlin, January 3, 1918. By order of the Chancellor of the Empire. (Signed) DELBRÜCK. (From 34 La Propriété Industrielle, 2.) GREAT BRITAIN, IRELAND, AND THE ISLE OF MAN. [A. D. 1623.-21 James I.] CAP. III.-An act concerning monopolies and dispensations with penal laws, and the forfeitures thereof. For as much as your most excellent Majesty, in your royal judgment and of your blessed disposition to the weal and quiet of your subjects, did in the year of our Lord 1610, publish in print to the whole realm and to all posterity, that all grants of monopolies and of the benefit of any penal laws, or of power to dispense with the law or to compound for the forfeiture, are contrary to Your Majesty's laws, which Your Majesty's declaration is truly consonant and agreeable to the ancient and fundamental laws of this your realm, (2) and whereas Your Majesty was further graciously pleased expressly to command, that no suitor should presume to move Your Majesty for matters of that nature, (3) yet nevertheless upon misinformations and untrue pretenses of public good many such grants have been unduly obtained, and unlawfully put in execution to the great grievance and inconvenience of Your Majesty's subjects contrary to the laws of this your realm and contrary to Your Majesty's most royal and blessed intention so published as aforesaid, (4) for avoiding whereof and preventing of the like in time to come may it please Your Excellent Majesty at the humble suit of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled, that it may be declared and enacted (5) and be it declared and enacted by authority of this present Parliament that all monopolies and all commissions, grants, licenses, charters, and letters patents heretofore made or granted or hereafter to be made or granted to any person or persons bodies politic or corporate whatsoever or for the sole buying, selling, making, working, or using of anything within this realm or the Dominion of Wales, (6) or of any other monopolies or of power, liberty of faculty to dispense with any others or to give license or toleration to do, use, or exercise anything against the tenor or purport of any law or statute, (7) or to give or make any warrant for any such dispensation, license, or toleration to be had or made or to agree to compound with any others for any penalty or forfeitures limited by any statute or of any grant or promise of the benefit, profit, or commodity of any forfeiture, penalty, or sum of money that is or shall be due by any |