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that effect and a certified copy of the patent. New drawing、 must also be furnished as in the case of an original application.

(248a.)

Form of Petition for Re-issue.

TO THE COMMISSIONER OF PATENTS:

Your petitioner, A. B., a citizen of the United States residing at L., in the County of M. and State of N. (or subject of, etc.), prays that he may be allowed to surrender the letters patent for an improvement in

granted to him

,19, whereof he is now sole owner (or whereof C. D., on whose behalf and with whose assent this application is made, is now sole owner by assignment), and that letters patent may be issued to him (or the said C. D.) for the same invention upon the annexed amended specification. With this petition is filed an abstract of title, duly certified, as required in such cases.

Assent of Assignee to Re-issue.

A. B.

The undersigned, assignee of the entire (or undivided) interest in the above. mentioned letters patent, hereby assents to the accompanying application.

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A. B., the above-named petitioner, being duly sworn, deposes and says chat he verily believes that his aforesaid letters patent are inoperative (or Invalid or both) by reason of a defective (or insufficient) specification (or both, or by reason of the patentee claiming as his own invention or discovery more than he had a right to claim as new) and that the error arose by inadvertence (accident or mistake) without any fraudulent or deceptive intent; that he is the sole owner of said letters patent (or that E. F. is the sole owner of said letters patent, and that this application is made on the behalf and with the consent of the said E. F.) and that he verily believes himself to be the first and original inventor of the improvement set forth and claimed in this amended specification, and does not believe that the same was ever before known or used.

Sworn to and subscribed before me this

day of

A. B.

19 C. D.

(Title of office)

Applications for re-issues will not be kept secret; and information respecting the same will be furnished upon inquiry, as well as copies of the proposed claims for publication.

DISCLAIMERS.

Where, by inadvertence, accident, or mistake, the original patent is too broad, a disclaimer may be filed either by the original patentee or by any assignee of the patent or of any sectional interest therein.

The following is sufficient form for a disclaimer:

(250.)

Form for a Disclaimer.

TO THE COMMISSIONER OF PATENTS:

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Your petitioner, A. B., a citizen of the United States, residing at L. in the County of M. and State of N. (or a subject of &c.) represents that in the matter of a certain improvement in for which letters patent of the United States, No. were granted to him (or to C. D.) on the day of he is (here state the exact interest of the disclaimant; if assignee, set out book and page where assignment is recorded) and that he has reason to believe that through inadvertence (accident or mistake) the specification and claim of said letters patent are too broad, including that of which said patentee was not the first inventor.

Your petitioner therefore, hereby enters his disclaimer to that part of the claim in said specification which is in the following words, to wit:

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No patents can be extended except by a special act of Congress. Such extensions are rarely granted, and therefore the rules of the office in reference to them are of too limited application to be inserted here.

DESIGNS.

Patents for Designs are provided for by section 4929 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, as follows:

"Any person, who by his own industry, genius, efforts, and expense, has invented or produced any new and original design for a manufacture, bust, statue, alto-relievo, or bas-relief; any

new and original design for the printing of woolen, silk, cotton, or other fabrics; any new and original impression, ornament, pattern, print, or picture, to be printed, painted, cast, or otherwise placed on or worked into any article of manufacture; or any new, useful, and original shape or configuration of any article of manufacture, the same not having been known or used by others before his invention or production thereof, or patented or described in any printed publication, may upon payment of the fee prescribed by law, and other due proceedings had the same as in cases of inventions or discoveries, obtain a patent therefor."

Patents for designs may be granted for the term of three years and six months, or for seven years, or for fourteen years, as the applicant may in his application elect.

The fee for a design patent for three and one-half years is ten dollars, for one for seven years fifteen dollars, and for fourteen years thirty dollars, payable in each case when the application is filed.

In all other cases in which fees are required the same rates are charged as in the case of patents for inventions or discov. eries.

The proceedings on applications for patents for designs are substantially the same as in those for inventions or discoveries

The specification must distinctly point out the characteristic features of the design and carefully distinguish between what is old and what is claimed to be new.

The design must be represented by a drawing made to conform to the rules laid down for drawings of mechanical inventions.

(251.)

Form of Application for Patents for Designs.

TO THE COMMISSIONER OF PATENTS:

Your petitioner, A. B., a citizen of the United States, residing at L., in the County of M. and State of N. (or subject, etc.), whose post-office address prays that letters patent may be granted to him for the term years for the new and original design for

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(252.)

Form of Specification for Designs.

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, A. B., a citizen of the United States, (or subject etc.) residing at L., in the County of M. and State of N., have invented a new, original and ornamental design for watch cases or lockets, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawing forming part thereof.

Figure is a sectional view of my newly designed case, Fig. 2 a side elevation of the same, and Fig. 3 an edge view, these three views being deemed necessary to fully illustrate my design.

Heretofore watch cases and lockets have been made which presented when viewed in elevation as in Fig. 2, a scalloped outline or periphery, some being made to imitate shells. In these the scallops extend entirely across from lid to lid, and in a watch case the center which holds the movements is also scalloped to correspond.

The leading feature of my design consists in a raised or "struck up" scalloped surface, the outlines of which, when viewed in elevation, as in Fig. 2, will fall entirely within the circular outline or circumference of the center.

A is the center of the case, which is circular in its general contour and B B are the lids. These are also circular in their outer contour where they join the center, but have scallops, C C C, formed upon them substantially as represented in the several figures. The indented outline of the scalloped surface falls within the outer contour line of the case, thus presenting to the eye the combined effect of a smooth circular outline or center and an indented or scalloped outline within it.

I claim

The design for a watch case or locket herein shown and described, the same consisting of the raised scallops, C C C, on the lid, forming an indented outline wholly within the circular outline of the edge of the lid and the the center A. A. B.

Witnesses:

C. D.

E. F.

The form of oath to accompany the petition is substantially the same as that used in cases of patents for inventions, substituting the word "design design" for "improvement," and "four

months" for "twelve."

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FOREIGN PATENTS.

The taking out of a patent in a foreign country does not prejudice a patent previously obtained here; nor does it prevent obtaining a patent here subsequently by a person otherwise entitled thereto unless the application for such foreign patent was filed more than twelve months, or in cases of designs four months, prior to the filing of the application in this country, in which case no patent will be granted.

An application for a patent in this country by any person who has previously filed an application for the same invention in a foreign country which affords similar privileges to citizens of the United States will have the same force and effect as the same application would have if filed in this country on the date of first filing of such foreign application provided the application here is filed within twelve months, or in case of designs four months, from the date of such foreign application, and provided also that the invention has not been in public use or on sale in this country or been described in a printed publication for more than two years prior to the filing of the application in this country. When application is made for a patent for an invention which has been already patented abroad, the inventor will be required to make oath, that, according to the best of his knowledge and belief, the same has not been in public use or on sale in the United States for more than two years prior to the application. An applicant who has obtained a foreign patent or patents, should state in what country or countries such patents have been obtained, and the dates and numbers thereof. The reason of this is, that the statute provides that the patent granted in this country shall expire with the foreign patent, or, if there be more than one, at the same time with that having the shortest unexpired term; and in no case can it be in force more than seventeen years.

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