behalf.) Penalty for unauthorized use of word patent,

445. LAW, DATE, AND WHERE RECORDED.-Separate ordinance. (See Commissioners of Patents' Journal, vide supra 71, No. 883, An., 1862.)

446. DURATION.-Fourteen years.

447. GOVERNMENT FEES.-On presentation of bill, $50; government printer's charge, $10=$60, (£12 10s.)

448. KINDS OF PATENTS.-Bill for granting for a limited time the exclusive benefit of a certain invention.

449. DOCUMENTS REQUIRED AND WHERE TO BE LEFT.Petition to the Government. Specifications to be delivered within six months after the passing of ordinance to the Registrar General.

450. SPECIFICATIONS.-Recorded in the office of the Registrar General.

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451. Law, date, and where recorded. 457. Assignments.

451. LAW, DATE, AND WHERE RECORDED.-Act of the

Lieutenant Governor of the Colony of Victoria, Anno Decimo Septimo Victoriæ Reginæ. Assented to 31st March, 1854. Repealed 11th March, 1857, and superseded by act Anno Vicesimo Victoriæ Reginæ. Dated 11th March, 1857. (See Commissioners of Patents' Journal, vide supra 71, Nos. 186 and 359.)

452. KINDS OF PATENTS.-Letters patent for inventions and for imported inventions granted by the Queen to the true and first inventor of manufactures. Letters patent granted in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, on or before the 31st December, 1857, to be also valid in Victoria. (N. B. Letters patent not to prevent the use of inventions in foreign ships resorting to ports in Victoria, except reciprocal rights be denied to British ships in such foreign ports as they belong to.)

453. PREVIOUS EXAMINATION.-By the Law Officer, and, if required, by one or more competent person or persons appointed by him, in case of opposition raised within one month of the notice to proceed, inserted in the Government gazette and two other papers, both applicant and opponent being present.

454. DURATION.-Original inventions fourteen years. Imported inventions according to the duration of the foreign patent, or, if more than one, according to the shortest duration. Letters patent may be repealed by scire facias. Extension of term, not exceeding fourteen years, by petition to Government six months before the expiration of the patent.

455. GOVERNMENT FEES.-On depositing specification, £2 108.; to the Law Officer for any appointment, £2 4s. 6d.; on obtaining letters patent, £2 10s.; at or before the expiration of the third year, £15; at or before the expi

ration of the seventh year, £20; to the Law Officer with particulars of objections, £2 4s. 6d.; on presenting petition for extension or confirmation, £2 108.; every search and inspection, 18.; entry of assignment or license, 108.; certificate of assignment or license, 10s.; filing memorandum of alteration or disclaimer, £2 10s.; entering any caveat, £210s.; copy or extract of any writing, per common law folio, 18.

456. DOCUMENTS Required, and where to be Left.— An instrument in writing (and copy) describing invention, (with drawing, if any,) and deposited at the office of the Chief Secretary at Melbourne for provisional protection for six months. Such specification, on parchment, twenty inches by fifteen, may be amended within said term. Notice to proceed within six months of deposit. Opposition open for one month, before the Law Officer appointed to hear applications and objections and to award costs. Warrant for letters patent issued by said Law Officer. Letters patent to be sealed within three months after the date of said warrant and during the term of provisional protection; said term may be prolonged for one month by the Governor. Disclaimer or memorandum of alteration entered with or without public notice.

457. ASSIGNMENTS.-Entered in the Register of Proprietors.

458. SPECIFICATIONS AND INDEXES TO SPECIFICATIONS.Open to the public at all reasonable times. Certified copies to be evidence.

459. LISTS OF PATENTS DELIVERED.-Applications published in the Government gazette; also in the Registry of Patents and Proprietors, open to the public.

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.

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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.