Inspection.

33. On such days and during such hours as the Comptroller Office hours. shall from time to time determine and notify by a placard posted at the Patent Office any person paying the prescribed fee may, on production of the number of any design of which the copyright has ceased, inspect such design, and any person paying the prescribed fee may take a copy or copies of such design.

Certificate by Comptroller.

legal pro

34. Where a certificate is required for the purpose of any Certificate in legal proceeding or other special purpose as to any entry, ceeding. matter, or thing which the Comptroller is authorized by the said Act or these Rules to make or do, the Comptroller may, on a request in writing and on payment of the prescribed fee, give such certificate, which shall also specify on the face of it the purpose for which it has been requested as aforesaid.

See Forms H, I, J, Second Schedule, post, pp. 276, 277, 278.

Searches on Production of Sketch of Design.

35. The Comptroller may, on receipt of the prescribed fee, Search. make searches among the designs registered at the Patent Office after the commencement of the Act, and inform any person requesting him so to do whether a particular design produced by such person, and to be applied to goods in any particular class, is or is not identical with or an obvious imitation of any design applied to such goods and registered since the commencement of the Act.

See First Schedule (Fees), post, p. 271.

Industrial and International Exhibition.

bition.

36. Any person desirous of exhibiting a design, or any Notice of exhi article to which a design has been applied, at an industrial or international exhibition, or of publishing a description of a design during the period of the holding of the exhibition, shall, after having obtained from the Board of Trade a certificate

Repeal of previous Rules.

that the exhibition is an industrial or international one, give to the Comptroller seven days' notice in writing of his intention to exhibit the design or article, or to publish a description of the design, as the case may be.

For the purpose of identifying the design in the event of an application to register the same being subsequently made, the applicant shall furnish to the Comptroller a brief description of the nature of the design, accompanied by a sketch or drawing thereof, and such other information as the Comptroller may in each case require.

Repeal.

37. All general rules and regulations made by any authority under the Acts relating to the Copyright of Designs, and in force on the 31st December 1883, shall be, and they are hereby repealed as from that date without prejudice nevertheless to any application then pending.

J. CHAMBERLAIN, President of the Board of Trade.

21st December 1883.

SCHEDULES.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

FEES.

1. On application to register one design to be applied to single articles in each class except classes 13 and 14 . 2. On application to register one design to be applied to single articles in classes 13 and 14

3. On application to register one design to be applied to a set of articles for each class of registration

4. On notice of appeal to Board of Trade against refusal of Comptroller to register

5. Copy of certificate of registration, each copy

6. On request for Certificate of Comptroller for legal proceedings or other special purpose

7. On request to enter name of subsequent proprietor

£ s. d.

0 10 0

.

010

1 0 0

8. On notice to Comptroller of intended exhibition of an unregistered design

9. Inspection of design of which the copyright has expired, for each quarter of an hour

10. Copy of one such design .

11. On request to correct clerical error

12. On request for search under section 53

13. On request to enter new address. 14. For office copy, every 100 words.

15. For certifying office copies, MSS. or printed

050

same as

registration fee.

050

NOTE.-The term "set" to include any number of articles ordinarily on sale together, irrespective of the varieties of size and arrangement in which the particular design may be shown on each separate article.

Approved,

J. CHAMBERLAIN,
President of the Board of Trade.

CHARLES C. COTES,

HERBERT J. GLADSTONE,

Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury.

4th December 1883.