A statement must be drawn up and signed by the applicant and the registrar of the provincial government, or by the commissioner of the district, containing the day and hour of the deposit and the title of the invention, the inventor's Christian and surname, calling, and address, or those of his agent. If a patent of importation, that fact must be mentioned, with the date and duration of the patent in the country where it originated, and the name of the patentee. This document must also contain an acknowledgment of the payment of the first annual fee, and be attached to the packet containing the specification and drawings. A copy gratis will be given to the applicant.

The offices for registration of patents are open daily from 10 a. m. to 2 p. m.

A register of all documents secured at the offices will be open to public inspection at the office of the Minister

of the Interior.

In case of omissions or irregularity of form, rectifications may be made, and a note of such alterations mentioned in the register.

A certificate of the Minister of the Interior will be given to the applicant without delay, stating that the prescribed formalities have been complied with. This certificate will constitute his patent right. The first copy will be given gratis, but all others must be paid for.

55. DECLARATION.

PROVINCE OF

This day, [day of the month, 18,] at

o'clock, Mr.

has

deposited in our hands the present package, sealed with his seal, which he has informed us contains all the descriptive documents of [title of patent], for which he solicits a patent of invention [or importation] for five, ten, or fifteen years, as is indicated in the petition annexed. Mr.

has declared to us that he is the inventor [or importer of the said object.]

Done at the secretarial of the provincial government the

day of

or

56. FORM OF A PATENT OF INVENTION, IMPORTATION, OR IMPROVEMENT.

We, Leopold, King of the Belgians, to all present and to come, greeting: Seeing the demand of Mr.

for

domiciled

tending to

obtain, according to the law of 25th January, 1817, a patent of years, for [the title], of which he declares himself to be the inventor, [or importer,] as appears by the procès-verbal made on the deposit of the documents at the secretarial of the province of

the

Seeing the drawings and descriptions, as follows:
We have decreed and decree:

above described.

the

This patent guaranties the following rights to its possessor:

1. To make and sell exclusively in the whole kingdom, during the whole term of the patent, the patented objects, or to cause them to be made or sold by others whom he may authorize.

2. To pursue in the courts of law those who in any way infringe on the exclusive rights which have been accorded him, and to proceed against them at law for the purpose of obtaining confiscation for his profit of the objects made according to l.is pattern model, but not yet sold, and of the amount for which any such objects may have been sold, as likewise to institute actions for damages and interest, if there be any. The Government guaranties in nowise the novelty or the merits of the invention, and it may declare the present patent null, and publish the invention for one of the causes named in article 8 of the law of 25th January, 1817.

The objects patented shall be made in the country, and the patentee or his assigns shall (at the expiration of the delay fixed by letter C of article 8 of the law, and earlier if the patent so stipulates) be required to produce to the Minister of Interior, at any time he may require it, a sufficient proof of the patented object having been put into activity in an established and regular way, so that it may be considered as being usefully in activity in the country.

The Government reserves to itself the faculty of quashing the patent and giving the object to the public if these obligations be not strictly complied with.

57. FORM OF ACT OF TRANSFER OF PATENT.—

This day,

184, Mr.

presented himself at our secretarial of the provincial government, to require a procès-verbal to be made up of the transfer which he has made to Mr.

by notarial

act, of the whole or part of the patent which was granted to him the

for which procès-verbal the parties interested have signed with us, after having paid the dues indicated in the arrangement for the delivery of the patent.

Done at the secretarial of the province of

the

58. FORM OF CERTIFICATE OF RECEPTION OF A PATENT BY TRANSFER.

181, Mr.

This day, presented himself at our secretarial, to obtain a procès-verbal of the acquisition which he has made, as proved by act of the notary by right of succession, of the whole or part of a patent of invention which we delivered the

Mr.

, deceased.

, for

to

Which procès-verbal the interested party has signed with us, after having paid the dues indicated in the tariff of the arrangement for the delivery of patents.

Done at the secretarial of the province of
Enacted by his Majesty the 26th March, 1817.

SEC.

the

The Secretary of the Department of Instruction
of the Arts and Sciences.

VI. Great Britain and Ireland.

59. Law, date, and where recorded. 60. Kinds of patents.

61. Previous examination.

62. Duration.

63. Stamp duties to be paid.
64. Documents required at the Pat-
ent Office.

65. Assignments and licenses.
66. List of patents at different
stages.

67. Specifications, disclaimers, alter

SEC.

ations, provisional specifications, assignments, licenses. 68. Specifications, disclaimers, alterations, and indexes.

69. Originals of specifications, etc. 70. Free Public Library of the Commissioners of Patents. 71. Commissioners of Patents' Journal.

72. Infringements.

73. Other legal provisions.

59. LAW, DATE, AND WHERE RECORDED.-Acts 15 and 16 Vict., cap. 83; 16 Vict., cap. 5; 16 and 17 Vict., cap. 115. In operation since 1st October, 1852. (Patent Law Amendment, Patent Office 25 Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane.)

60. KINDS OF PATENTS.-Letters patent, disclaimers, and memoranda of alteration issued to British subjects and aliens residing or represented in the United Kingdom. Provisional protection during six months. Valid for the whole of the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man. Medicines vended under a Government stamp as "patent medicines" have never been the subject of letters patent.

61. PREVIOUS EXAMINATION.-None as to novelty or utility.

62. DURATION.-Patents are issued for fourteen years, subject to prolongation by Privy Council. Patents expire at the end of the third or seventh year, if the requisite payments in stamp duties are not made. Letters patent are dated from the day of application, and when antedated are to be of the same validity as if sealed on the day of the date. Letters patent for patented foreign inventions according to the term of foreign patent.

63. STAMP DUTIES TO BE PAID.-On petition, £5; on certificate of record on notice to proceed, £5; on warrant for letters patent, £5; on the sealing of letters patent, £5; on specification, £5; on the letters patent before the expiration of the third year, £50; on the letters patent before the expiration of the seventh year, £100: i. e., £175 for a patent of fourteen years; on certificate of record on notice of objections, £2; for every search and inspection, 1s.; for entry of assignment or license, 5s.;

on certificate of assignment or license, 58.; on application for disclaimer, £5; on caveat against disclaimer, £2; on office copies of documents, for every seventy-two words, 2d. The payments for the above stamp duties are made at Somerset House, (Inland Revenue Department,) and the certificates for such payments are delivered at the Patent Office, (gratis.) Fees to be paid to the law officers and to their clerks: By the person opposing a grant of letters patent, £3 10s.; by the petitioner on the hearing of the case of opposition, £3 10s.; by the petitioner for the hearing previous to the first allowing a disclaimer or memorandum of alteration in letters patent and specification, £3 58.; by the person opposing the allowance of such disclaimer, £3 58.; by the petitioner for the first allowing a disclaimer or memorandum of alteration in letters patent and specification, £3 15s. 6d.

64. DOCUMENTS REQUIRED AT THE PATENT OFFICE.A petition to the Queen by the inventor or his agent; a declaration of the inventor or his agent, made before a master in chancery, or justice of the peace, or a British consul abroad; a provisional or complete specification, (two copies of the latter, one on parchment,) together with the necessary drawings, (two copies on parchment,) one inch to a foot recommended; an abridgement (two copies) of provisional specification, or of complete specification, when filed with the petition and declaration; notice to proceed, eight weeks clear before the expiration of six months; warrant and great seal, twelve clear days before the expiration of six months, (upon special circumstances the Lord Chancellor may allow a further extension of time;) notice of opposition to be given within twenty-one days after the date of notice to pro