460. PENALTIES AND FINES.-Falsification or forgery of entries punishable as a misdemeanor by labor on the roads or other public works, for any term not exceeding five years, or by fine and imprisonment. Penalty for unauthorized uses of the word patent £100; one half to her Majesty and the other half, with full costs of suit, to any person who shall sue for the said penalty by action of debt.

461. PROCEEDINGS TO OBTAIN A PATENT.-The applicant is to deposit at the office of the Chief Secretary an instrument under his hand seal, a particular description of his invention, with a copy of the instrument, and of drawings, if any, by doing which he obtains six months' protection, with the privilege of letters patent for that period. The specification may be amended during the six months.

The specification is to be on skins of parchment, written on both sides, twenty-one inches long by fifteen broad, with a margin of an inch and a half on each side. The drawings may be on larger sheets of parchment, with a margin of an inch and a half. The copies of specification and drawings are to be on sheets of paper of the same size as the parchment.

After making a deposit of these documents he is to give notice, at the chambers of the Attorney or Solicitor General, of his intention to proceed for a patent, stating the title of the invention and date of deposit, and produce at the same time the certificate of the deposit. The Law Officer is then to give the applicant an appointment in due form, which he is to publish in the Government gazette and in some Melbourne newspaper, and twice in

some newspaper published at or near where the applicant uses the invention or resides.

The letters patent are to be issued by the Chief Secretary within three months after the Law Officer's warrant and during the protection; but if the sealing has been delayed by accident, and not by the willful neglect of the applicant, it may be done within one month after the expiration of the protection, with the sanction of the Governor.

462. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR PATENT.—

of

I, , [state address and profession,] send greeting. Whereas I am desirous of obtaining royal letters patent for securing unto me her Majesty's special license, that I, my executors, administrators, and assigns, and such others as I or they should at any time agree with, and no others, should, and lawfully might, from time to time, and at all times during the term of fourteen years, (to be computed from the day on which this instrument shall be left at the office of the Chief Secretary,) make, use, exercise, and vend, within the Colony of Victoria and its dependencies, an invention for [insert the title of the invention]; and in order to obtain the said letters patent I must, by an instrument in writing, under my hand and seal, particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, and must also enter into the covenant hereafter contained. Now, know ye, that the motive of the said invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, is particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement, that is to say, [describe the invention.] And I do hereby, for myself, my heirs, executors, and admistrators, covenant with her Majesty, her heirs and successors, that I believe the said invention to be a new invention as to the public use and exercise thereof, and that I do not know or believe that any other person than myself is the true and first inventor of the said invention, and that I will not deposit these presents at the office of the Chief Secretary with any such knowledge or belief as last aforesaid. In witness, &c.

463. LAW, DATE, AND WHERE RECORDED.-Decree of 4th July, 1844. (See Commissioners of Patents' Journal, vide supra 71, No. 322.)

464. KINDS OF PATENTS.-Patents of invention, improvement, and of importation.

465. DURATION.-Five, ten, and fifteen years at most. Original term prolonged. Foreign inventions according to the duration of the original patent.

466. GOVERNMENT FEES.-£15 for five years; from £30 to £40 (according to importance) for ten years; from £60 to £70 for fifteen years. Inventions already patented in the Netherlands are subject only to the usual stamp duties. The remainder of taxes of patents annulled returned.

467. DOCUMENTS REQUIRED AND WHERE TO BE LEFT.An application to the Governor General, at Paramaribe; a description and drawings, &c., (sealed;) an undertaking to supply the patent article within two years, and to take up the patent within three months of its date, and to pay the fees thereon.

468. WORKING.-Within two years from the date of patent.

469. ASSIGNMENTS.-By consent of the Governor General. Registration fee, £2.

470. ANNULMENT.-In case of-1. Defective or false specification; 2. Previous publication; 3. Not being worked within two years; 4. Obtaining patents abroad, except the Netherlands and their colonies; 5. Not supplying the patent article within two years at a moderate price; 6. For reasons of public safety; 7. For neglecting to register assignments.

471. LIST OF PATENTS DELIVERED.-In the Surinam Courant, and in a special register, open to applicants for patents.

472. SPECIFICATIONS PUBLISHED.-At the expiration or annulment of patents, unless it be found advisable to delay such publication.

473. ORIGINALS OF SPECIFICATIONS, (MODELS.)-At the Governor General's, at Paramaribe. A copy at the Colonial Ministry at the Hague.

474. Law, DATE, and where RECORDED.-Royal decree of 5th August, 1836. Law of the 29th June, 1842. (See Commissioners of Patents' Journal, vide supra 71, Nos. 314,

475. KINDS OF PATENTS.-Patents of invention and importation granted to natives of Wurtemberg and of

the Zollverein.

476. PREVIOUS EXAMINATION.-For novelty. No guaranty as to priority or utility.

477. DURATION.--Ten years at most. Prolonged by legislative act. Patents of importation become extinct at the expiration of the foreign patent.

478. GOVERNMENT FEES.-From 8s. 4d. to £1 14s. annually.

479. DOCUMENTS REQUIRED AND WHERE TO BE LEFT.A petition of inventor or importer to the Minister of the Interior; a description, drawings, and models, or patterns. To be left with the magistrate of the district.

480. WORKING AND PROLONGATION.-To be worked within and not to be interrupted for two years, except patentee shows good cause for delay. Original terms prolonged to ten years, if applied for before the beginning of the last year, and in cases of importation before the expiration of the first half of the original term. 481. ASSIGNMENTS.-Published.

482. SPECIFICATIONS, INSPECTION AND COPIES OF.-By natives and by consent of the patentee in the last year of the legal term of the patent. Patents of importation in the latter half of their legal term. Free when expired. At the Ministry of the Interior.

483. ANNULMENT.-For want of novelty; for having been known or worked abroad or in Wurtemberg; for false statements and incorrect descriptions, whereby patentees, moreover, incur a penalty.

484. LIST OF PATENTS DELIVERED.-In the Wurtemberg Gewerbeblatt.