Drawings drawings must not be folded, but must be delivered at the Patent Office either in a perfectly flat state or rolled upon a roller so as to be free from creases or breaks.* 13. With the view of preparing an illustrated journal of for journal. patented inventions as directed by the Act, every applicant must, after his application has been accepted, also furnish the Patent Office with the drawing and concise explanatory statement required by Rule 31. Rules, how 14. Copies of the Patent Rules (price, prepaid, [7d.], obtained. including postage within the United Kingdom) can be obtained from the Patent Office Sale Branch, 38, Cursitor Street, Chancery Lane, E.C. Time application continues in force. Fees, how paid. Applications for copies of the Rules should be addressed to the Comptroller, at the above address. 15. An application for provisional protection continues in force nine months from the date of the application; but if a patent is required in connexion with such application, unless a "complete" specification be left at the Patent Office within nine months from the date of the application for such provisional protection, the application will be deemed to be abandoned. 16. Every patent will be granted for the term of 14 years from its date, subject to the payment of 50l. before the end of the 4th year of the term, and 1007. before the end of the 8th year, or in lieu thereof to the payment of annual or renewal fees of 10., 157., and 207., commencing before the expiration of the 4th year of the term, and extending to and inclusive of the 13th year; for amount of fees, see Schedule of Fees annexed to the Rules. These payments must be made by way of stamped forms which may be obtained at the places set forth in the list in paragraph 5. * As the drawings accompanying the provisional and complete specification respectively are copied at the Patent Office for publication by the process of lithography, this rule must be strictly observed in order that correct copies may be made. 17. The fees to be paid upon applications made prior Fees on to the 1st of January 1884, are: (a) applications made Jan. 1884. (a.) The seventh year's payment, which under the con- prior to 1st ditions of Letters Patents is payable before the end of the seventh year, must be paid as heretofore in (6.) The payments, which under the condition of the (c.) The stamp duties required under the Patent Law Amendment Acts of 1852-3, must be paid upon subsequent proceedings in connexion with Applications made prior to 1st January 1884, up to and including the 51. stamp duty upon filing the "final" specification as required by Act. All Procedure applications under the Acts of 1852-3 must be on suchapplicacompleted in accordance with their provisions up tions. to the stage of filing the final specification. Patents granted upon applications made prior to the 1st January 1884 are exempt from the provisions of the Act of 1883 as to the compulsory grant of Licenses. (a) See Introduction. K Time for appeal. Notice of appeal. To whom sent. Papers. Extension RULES REGULATING THE PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE ON I. When any person intends to appeal to the law officer from a decision of the Comptroller in any case in which such appeal is given by the Act (a), he shall within 14 days from the date of the decision appealed against file in the Patent Office, a notice (b) of such his intention. (a) For cases in which appeal is allowed to law officer see note to S. 38. (b) For Form of Notice see Patents Forms, T. A fee of 31. is payable. II. Such notice shall state the nature of the decision appealed against, and whether the appeal is from the whole, or part only, and if so, what part of such decision. III. A copy of such notice of intention to appeal shall be sent by the party so intending to appeal to the law officers' clerk at room 549, Royal Courts of Justice, London; and when there has been an opposition before the Comptroller (a), to the opponent or opponents, and when the Comptroller has refused to seal a patent on the ground that a previous application for a patent for the same invention is pending, to the prior applicant (b). (a) E.g., By another applicant under S. 7, or opposition under S. 11. (b) See S. 7, Subs. (5), (6). IV. Upon notice of appeal being filed, the Comptroller shall forthwith transmit to the law officers' clerk all the papers relating to the matter of the application in respect of which such appeal is made. V. No appeal shall be entertained of which notice is of time. not given within 14 days from the date of the decision appealed against, or such further time as the Comptroller may allow, except by special leave upon application to the law officer. VI. Seven days' notice, at least, of the time and place Notice of appointed for the hearing of any appeal, shall be given by hearing. the law officers' clerk, unless special leave be given by the law officer that any shorter notice be given. VII. Such notice shall in all cases be given to the To whom Comptroller and the appellant; and, when there has given. been an opposition before the Comptroller, to the opponent or opponents; and, when the Comptroller has refused to seal a patent on the ground that an application for a patent for the same invention is pending, to the prior applicant. VIII. The evidence used on appeal to the law officer Evidence. shall be the same as that used at the hearing before the Comptroller (a); and no further evidence shall be given, save as to matters which have occurred or come to the knowledge of either party, after the date of the decision appealed against, except with the leave of the law officer upon application for that purpose. (a) See Patents Rules, 13, 35-36, and 51-52. IX. The. law officer shall, at the request of either party, Cross-exorder the attendance at the hearing on appeal, for the amination. purpose of being cross-examined, of any person, who has made a declaration, in the matter to which the appeal relates, unless in the opinion of the law officer, there is good ground for not making such order. X. Any person requiring the attendance of a witness Conduct for cross-examination shall tender to the witness whose money. attendance is required a reasonable sum for conduct money. XI. Where the law officer orders that costs shall be Costs. paid by any party to another, he may fix the amount of such costs, and if he shall not think fit to fix the amount Payment of costs. Evidence thereof, he shall direct by whom and in what manner the amount of such costs shall be ascertained. XII. If any costs so ordered to be paid be not paid within 14 days after the amount thereof has been so fixed or ascertained, or such shorter period as shall be directed by the law officer, the party to whom such costs are to be paid may apply to the law officer for an order (a) for payment under the provisions of section 38 of the Act. (a) Such order may be made a Rule of Court. See S. 38. XIII. All documentary evidence required, or allowed how filed. by the law officer to be filed, shall be subject to the same regulations, in all respects, as apply to the procedure before the Comptroller, and shall be filed in the Patent Office, unless the law officer shall order to the contrary. XIV. Any notice or other document required to be given to the law officers' clerk, under these rules, may be sent by a prepaid letter through the post. HENRY JAMES, A.-G. 3. On filing complete specification with first. 400 4. On appeal from Comptroller to Law Officer. By appellant 300 |