tion, without notice. No particular form of assignment or conveyance is prescribed, but the trade-mark must be identified by the certificate number. 16. Owners of trade-marks for which protection has been sought by registering them in the patent office under the act of July 8, 1870 (declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of the United States), may register the same for the same goods, without fee, on compliance with the foregoing requirements. With each application of this character a specific reference to the date and number of the former certificate is required. 17. Applicants whose cases were filed under the act of 1870, either prior to or since the decision of the Supreme Court declaring it unconstitutional, which are now pending before the office, are advised to prepare applications in conformity with the law and foregoing rules. On the receipt of such an application, referring to the date of the one formerly filed, all fees paid thereon will be duly applied. Those who have paid only $10 as a first fee are advised that the law does not provide for a division of the legal fee of $25, and that the remainder of the entire fee is required before the application can be entertained. COPIES AND PUBLICATIONS. 18. Printed copies of the statement and declaration in each case, with a duplicate of the trade-mark, can be furnished by the office. The Official Gazette of the patent office, published weekly, will contain a list of all trade-marks registered, with the name and address of the registrant, a brief statement of the essential features of the trade-mark, and the particular description of goods to which it is applied. FEES. 19. On filing an application for registration of the trade mark........ For recording assignments Under 300 words.... Over 300 and less than 1000 words......... Over 1000 words........ For single printed copy of statement and declaration. For single copy of Official Gazette....... Annual subscription Official Gazette.... .$25 00 100 2.00 3 00 25 10 5 00 CORRESPONDENCE. 20. All letters should be addressed to "The Commissioner of Patents"; and all remittances by postal order, check, or draft should be to his order. 21. Letters relating to pending applications should refer to the name of the applicant and date of filing. Letters relating to registered trade marks must refer to the name of registrant, number or date of certificate, and the class of merchandise to which the trade-mark is applied. 22. The office can not undertake to respond to inquiries propounded with a view to ascertain whether certain trade-marks have been registered, or, if so, to whom, or for what goods; nor can it give advice as to the nature and extent of the protection afforded by the law, or act as its expounder, except as questions may arise upon applications regularly filed. A copy of these rules with this paragraph marked will be regarded as a courteous answer to all such inquiries. Approved. A. BELL, Acting Secretary. E. M. MARBLE, Commissioner of Patents. REGISTRATION OF PRINTS AND LABELS. Sections 3, 4, and 5 of the act of Congress relating to patents, trade-marks, and copyrights, approved June 18, 1874 (18 Statutes at Large, p. 78), are as follows: "SEC. 3. That in the construction of this act the words 'engraving, cut, and print' shall be applied only to pictorial illustrations or works connected with the fine arts, and no prints or labels designed to be used for any other articles of manufacture shall be entered under the copyright law, but may be registered in the Patent Office. And the Commissioner of Patents is hereby charged with the supervision and control of the entry or registry of such prints or labels, in conformity with the regulations provided by law as to copyright and prints, except that there shall be paid for recording the title of any print or label, not a trade-mark, six dollars, which shall cover the expense of furnishing a copy of the record, under the seal of the Commissioner of Patents, to the party entering the same. "SEC. 4. That all laws and parts of laws inconsistent with the foregoing provisions be and the same are hereby repealed. "SEC. 5. That this act shall take effect on and after the first day of August, eighteen hundred and seventy-four." The words "prints" and "labels" as used in this act, so far as it relates to registration in the Patent Office, are construed as synonymous, and are defined as any device, picture, word or words, figure or figures (not a trade-mark) impressed or stamped directly upon the articles of manufacture, or upon a slip or piece of paper or other material, to be attached in any manner to manufactured articles, or to bottles, boxes, and packages containing them, to indicate the contents of the package, the name of the manufacturer or the place of manufacture, the quality of goods, directions for use, &c. By the words "articles of manufacture" (to which such print or label is applicable by this act) is meant all vendible commodities produced by hand, machinery, or art. But no such print or label can be registered unless it properly belongs to an article of commerce, and be as above defined; nor can the same be registered as such print or label when it amounts to a lawful trade-mark, or when its use in connection with the article to which it is applied is arbitrary or fanciful. To entitle the owner of any such print or label to register the same in this office, it is necessary that five copies of the same be filed, one of which copies shall be certified under the seal of the Commissioner of Patents, and returned to the registrant. The certificate of such registration will continue in force for twenty-eight years. The fee for registration of a print or label is six dollars, to be paid in the same manner as fees for patents. The benefits of this act seem to have been originally confined to citizens or residents of the United States; but appear to be extended to British subjects and citizens of Germany by existing E. M. MARBLE, Commissioner of Patents. treaties. Approved, May 2, 1881. S. J. KIRKWOOD, Secretary. APPENDIX OF FORMS. Petitions. 1. BY A SOLE INVENTOR. To the Commissioner of Patents: Your petitioner, A. B., a citizen of the United States residing at S., in the county of M., and State of N. [or subject, &c.], prays that letters patent be granted to him for the improvement in sewing machines set forth in the annexed specification. 2. BY JOINT INVENTORS. To the Commissioner of Patents: A. B. Your petitioners, A. B. and C. D., citizens of the United States, residing respectively at L., in the county of M., and State of N., and at G., in the county of H, and State of I. [or subject, &c.], pray that letters patent may be granted to them, as joint inventors, for the improvement in washing machines set forth in the annexed specification. A. B. 3. BY AN INVENTOR FOR HIMSELF AND AN ASSIGNEE. 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, &c.], prays that letters patent may be granted to himself and C. D., a citizen of the United States residing at L., in the county of M., and State of N., as his assignee, for the improvement in printing presses set forth in the annexed specification. 4. PETITION with Power OF ATTORNEY. To the Commissioner of Patents: A. B. Your petitioner, A. B., a citizen of the United States residing at L., in the county of M., and State of N. [or subject, &c.], prays that letters patent may be granted to him for the improve |