IT has been thought advisable to avoid loading the text of this Primer with references to authorities. Those, however, to whom a knowledge of authorities is of importance, and those desirous of studying the details of the English Patent System, may refer to the following sources of information. PART I The majority of treatises on Patent Law have remarks here and there upon the general and historical aspects of the System and its Policy; but the subject of Part I. will be found more particularly treated in the books, reviews, and discussions as under : Jeremy Bentham; Manual of Political Economy, ch. III.; Rationale of Reward, ch. IX. [some general considerations and criticism of defects in the law].—Edinburgh Review (1849), vol. 89, p. 47 [Patent Journal; Mechanic's Magazine]; (1865), vol. 121, p. 578 [Select Committee's Proceedings].-Quarterly Review (1859), vol. 105, p. 136 [publications of the Commissioners of Patents, 1852-8].-R. A. Macfie; Recent discussions on the abolition of Patents (1869) [the case for the abolition of the system]. -Society of Arts; Paper on the Expediency of Protection for Patents (1874), by F. J. Bramwell [the case for the retention of the system].— Rt. Hon. Lyon Playfair, M.P.; The Nineteenth Century (1877), vol. 1, p. 315 [Patents and the New Patent Bill].— Dr. Cunningham, Alien Immigrants to England (1897), and Growth of English Industry, Part I. (1903) [a mine of information].-J. W. Gordon, Monopolies by Patents (1897) [bears evidence of much original research; a valuable contribution to history, temp. James I.].-T. Fairman Ordish, Early English Inventions, The Antiquary (1885), vol. 12 [an account of Elizabethan and Jacobean patents].-E. Wyndham Hulme, Consideration of the Patent Grant; History of the System under the Prerogative and Common Law; History in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, The Law Quarterly Review (1897), vol. 13; (1900), vol. 16; (1902), vol. 18; Patent Law, History, Literature, and Library, The Library (1898) [the results of careful investigation and research at the Record Office and elsewhere]. -Ivan Levinstein, Patent Legislation and British Industries (1900) [pamphlet, a case for compulsory licensing].- Patent Office Library Series, No. 3, Bibliographical Series, No. 2 (1900). A mass of information also lies embedded in the Government Publications (Appendix B), in which, in one place or another, almost every aspect of the System is reviewed. PART II As regards the law relating to patents, the text-books, by their number and size, reflect the interest that is taken in this special branch of the general law, and also the importance of the subject. The majority of the works are primarily intended for patent agents and the legal profession; but some of them are addressed to inventors, and are often of an uncritical character. Among the publications which deal with patent law, or aim at its exposition, are the following treatises and reports of cases which have been decided by the Courts and by other recognised tribunals. The publications are indicated by their authors' or compilers' names and by the dates of their publication. In some instances the number of pages is added. Liardet v. Johnson, 1778; report of case in MS. in the Patent Office Library.-7. D. Collier, 1803; with historical chapters and appendices. -7. Davies, 1816; reports of cases, with an introduction.-R. Godson, 1840.-T. Webster, 1841; reports of cases, with notes, 2 vols., 1844-6. -W. Carpmael, 1843-51; reports of cases, 2 vols.-W. M. Hindmarch, 1846, 807 pp.; of special interest as regards the Old Law and in respect of the application of general legal principles to patents.-W. Spence, 1847; a treatise on specifications.-E. Macrory, reports of cases, illustrated, 1852-6, 256 pp.-W. Carpmael, 1852.-7. Coryton, 1855.W. W. Wynne, the "Bovill" patent, 1873; a partisan criticism of the lengthy legal proceedings.-W. F. Agnew, 1874.-T. Aston, 1883.— H. 7. Johnson, Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., vol. 18, 1885, Patents. -T. M. Goodeve, abstract of cases to end of 1883, 634 pp.-R. Griffin, reports of cases from 1883 to end of 1886, 362 pp.; reports of cases decided in 1885-7,61 pp.-R. Morris, Patents Conveyancing precedents, with notes, 1887, 443 pp.-J. F. Waggatt, Prolongations by the Privy Council, 1887, 132 pp.-A. W. Renton, Chambers's Encyclopædia, Patents.-J. and J. H. Johnson, Patentees' Manual, 1890, 534 pp.C. Higgins and G. E. Jones, Digest of Law and Practice, 1890, 584 pp. -A. W. Renton, Patent Right in England and the United States, The Law Quarterly Review, 1891, vol. 7.-T. M. Goodeve, Practice on Oppositions before the Comptroller and the Law Officers, with Appendix, 1893, 80 pp. and 55 pp.-H. Cunynghame, 1894, 635 pp.; with diagrams. -T. Terrell and W. P. Rylands, 1895, 605 pp.-L. Edmunds and T. M. Stevens, 1897, 943 Pp.-G. J. Wheeler, Prolongation by the Privy Council, 1898, 309 pp.- W. F. Craies, Encyclopædia of the Laws of England, Monopoly and Statute of Monopolies, 1898.-R. Frost, 1898, 919 pp.-W. N. Lawson, 1898; Patents Acts considered section |