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.

47 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.

479. Documents required and where 485. Specifications published.

to be left.

480. Working and prolongation.

486. Other provisions.

487. Proceedings to obtain a patent.

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

995.)

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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.

485. SPECIFICATIONS PUBLISHED.-In the Wurtemberg Gewerbeblatt and other technical periodicals.

486. OTHER PROVISIONS.-Parties using a patent process in complete ignorance of the patent right of a third party are liable to confiscation and damages. Patent articles may be imported without consent of the patentee. 487. PROCEEDINGS TO OBTAIN A PATENT.-Applicants must deliver a petition to the authorities of the district in which they reside or intend to carry on their works, with a complete and true specification, and the required drawings, models, or plans. Specifications must be under a sealed cover, not to be opened by the district authorities. The authorities are then to give to applicants a certificate stating the day and hour when the delivery took place, and forward the documents to the Minister of the Interior.