sfer of a mark registered in accordance with Article 4, the ment to be made when the request for the notification is pre ed. 20. The Branch Office for Industrial Property shall immediately notice of a registration ceasing to be in force, as also of the usfer of an international registered mark sent in under Article 6 the Office at the Hague, which shall communicate the notices to International Office at Berne. 21. The marks which have been already registered at the date of is Decree coming into operation, in accordance with the instrucons of the Royal Decree of the 6th April, 1885, as amended by e Royal Decree of the 10th July, 1888, shall have the same otection as if they had been registered in accordance with this ecree. The twenty years mentioned in Article 17 (2) begin, r those marks, to run from the day on which the registration was ade according to the Decree first mentioned. Those marks shall be accounted as having been sent in according Article 3 in applying Article 6 of this Decree, and the French ranslation of the description to be sent in according to that Article tall be replaced by one of those which were sent in according to Article 1 of the Royal Decree of the 6th April, 1885, aforesaid. 22. A mark already made note of by the Registrar of the Council of Justice at Batavia, at the date of this Decree coming into operatron, on the written request of the sender, shall be at once registered by the Branch Office for Industrial Property in the public register mentioned in Article 4, reserving the provision in Article 8. The second and third paragraphs of Article 4 are applicable to such a mark, as also other Articles of this Decree, but be it understood that- (1.) As regards Article 6, the mark shall be accounted to have been sent in according to Article 3, and the French translation of the description sent in according to that Article shall be replaced by one of those which were sent in by Article 1 of the Royal Decree of the 6th April, 1885, amended by that of the 10th July, 1888; (2) Refusal of registration is not allowed, and a request or requisition for annulling the registration is not admissible if at the date aforesaid six months have already elapsed since the announcement in the "Javasche Courant" prescribed in Article 2 of the Decree last mentioned; (3.) The period of six months fixed in Article 9 shall be reduced by as many months as at the above date have already elapsed since the announcement in the "Javasche Courant" prescribed in Article 2 of the Decree last mentioned; (4.) Requests or requisitions as mentioned in Article 3 of the above Decree, which at the aforesaid date may be pending at the Council of Justice at Batavia, or at the High Court of Justice in Netherlands India, shall be treated and decided by them, with due observance of Article 10 to Article 14 inclusive of that Decree, as if their object were to nullify the registration. 23. At the date when this Decree comes into operation all registers and other documents relating to trade-marks shall be transferred from the Registry of the Council of Justice at Batavis to the Branch Office for Industrial Property. 24. This Decree is not applicable to marks in use by public authorities. 25. On this Decree coming into operation, the Royal Decree of the 6th April, 1885, as amended by that of the 10th July, 1888 ceases to be in force, with the exception of Article 10, which is still valid. 26. As regards Netherlands India, this Decree shall come into operation on the 1st January, 1894. The Ministers of the Colonies and of Justice, so far as each is concerned, are charged with the execution of this Decree, which shall be inserted in the "Staatsblad," and a copy thereof sent to the Council of State. The Loo, November 9, 1893. V. DEDEM, Minister of the Colonies. EMMA. NOTIFICATION of the Government of the Netherlands, respecting the Establishment of a Trade-Marks Bureau at the Hague.-The Hague, November 22, 1893. (Translation.) THE Minister of Justice informs all persons concerned : At the same date, viz., Friday, the 1st December next, when the Law of the 30th September relating to trade-marks comes into operation, the Bureau for Industrial Property, mentioned in Ar ticle 1 of that Law, will be installed. That Bureau, from the 1st December next, is exclusively charged with the registration of trade-marks. From the date aforesaid such marks must, therefore, be no longer sent in to the registry of a Law Court, but to the Director of the Bureau for Industrial Property al the Hague, post paid. In order to obtain registration in the Netherlands, a "cliché" of the mark, in length and breadth not less than 15 centim. and not exceeding 10 centim. and not more than 24 centim. thick, which an be distinctly produced in print, must be sent in, as also two igned copies of a distinct drawing and a careful description of the nark, mentioning the nature of the goods for which the mark is ntended, and the address of the sender. On sending in marks the mount of 10 fl. must be inclosed for each mark. An international registration may also be obtained for a mark egistered at the Office in the Netherlands to include Netherlands India, Surinam, Curaçao, Belgium, and its Colonies, France, Portugal, with the Azores and Madeira, Spain, and Cuba, Porto Rico, and the Philippines, Tunis, and Switzerland. For this object the person concerned shall send to the Director of the Bureau three copies, one with his signature, of the distinct drawing of the mark and a "cliché" as aforesaid, together with the sum of 55 fl. for each mark. Marks already notified at the registry of a Court of Law before the 1st December next, but not yet registered, may also be registered at the Bureau aforesaid. No other formality is required for this object than a written application to the Director, with satisfactory proof of the notification. In no case can the registration be effected at the Registry of the Court of Law on or after the 1st December. An international registration may also be obtained for marks notified at the Registry of a Court of Law before the 1st December Dext, provided that they have also been already registered at the registry before that date or later on at the Bureau. In the application made for international registration to the Director of the Bureau, the handing over of a "cliché" of these marks is not absolutely necessary, but it is desirable. If needs be a French translation duly signed of the description of the mark sent in previously to the Registry of the Court of Law may be substituted. Further information on the subject may be obtained at the Bureau for Industrial Property on and after the 1st December next. If information in writing is required, the sum of 50 cents, if preferred in postage stamps, must be inclosed with the application. The Bureau aforesaid shall be installed provisionally in the building of the Department of Justice, on the Plein at the Hague, and shall be opened to persons concerned on all working days from 10 A.M. till 2 P.M. The Hague, November 22, 1893. SMIDT, Minister of Justice. ORDINANCE of the Government of Hong Kong, to consolidate and amend the Law relating to the Grant in this Colony of Letters Patent for Inventions. [No. 2.] (L.S.) WILLIAM ROBINSON, Governor. [April 1, 1892.] BE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows: 1. This Ordinance may be cited for all purposes as "The Patent Ordinance, 1892." 2.-(1.) It shall be lawful for the inventor or for the owner by assignment, transmission, or other operation of law, of any inven tion or of the exclusive right thereto within this Colony to petition the Governor for Letters Patent for any invention, for which Letters Patent have already been granted in England; and such Petition may be in the form set forth in Schedule (A) hereto. (2.) Every such Petition shall be accompanied by a Specification of the said invention identical as far as practicable with the Specifi cation filed on the Petition for Letters Patent for the said invention in England, and by a declaration which may be in the form set forth in Schedule (B), or in such other form, not being less specific, as to the Governor shall appear proper. (3.) Every such declaration shall be made before some person duly authorized to administer an oath in the country where it is made and every person who shall knowingly make any untrue or false statement in any such declaration shall, upon conviction, be liable to the penalties of perjury. 3. Such Petition, Specification, and Declaration shall be sent to the Office of the Colonial Secretary, and notice thereof and of any intention to apply for such Letters Patent, and of the time of the sitting of the Executive Council before which the matter of the Petition will come for decision, together with such other particulars as the Governor shall require, shall be inserted twice in the "Gazette," and shall be otherwise advertised as the Governor shall direct. 4. The Governor in Council shall, at the sitting to be so appointed for deciding on such Petition for Letters Patent as aforesaid or at any adjournment thereof, determine on such applica tion for Letters Patent, and grant or refuse the prayer of the said Petition as shall appear expedient, and for such time or times not exceeding the then duration of the Letters Patent for the said invention or for any less period, and subject to such conditions in all respects as to the Governor in Council shall seem fit. The said Letters Patent may be in such form as is prescribed by "The 'atents, Designs, and Trade-Marks Acts, 1883 to 1888," or any ules made thereunder, or as near thereto as circumstances will ermit. 5. Letters Patent to be granted under this Ordinance shall confer all the rights and privileges, and shall subject the grantees hereof to all the provisions, affecting Letters Patent in England is fully as if the same had been granted with an extension thereof to this Colony by Her Majesty under the provisions of the Statutes now in force in England, or as near thereto as the circumstances of this Colony will admit of. 6. In case Her Majesty shall, by the advice of the Judicial Committee of Her Majesty's Privy Council, extend the privileges of any Letters Patent in England for any invention for any period, it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to extend in like manner such Letters Patent if already granted for this Colony, or otherwise to grant original Letters Patent for a like extended period for the same invention. 7.-(1.) There shall be kept at the Colonial Secretary's Office a book called "The Register of Patents," in which shall be entered the names and addresses of all grantees of patents under this Ordinance, notifications of assignments, and of transmissions of such patents, and of extensions and revocations thereof. (2.) The "Register of Patents" shall be prima facie evidence of all matters directed or authorized by this Ordinance to be inserted therein. (3.) The record or file of all patents granted under the Ordinances bereby repealed shall be deemed part of the Register of Patents, and kept therewith. 8.-(1.) Where a person, which term shall include a body corporate, becomes entitled by assignment, transmission, or other operation of law, to a patent for which Letters Patent have been granted in this Colony, and which Letters Patent are valid and subsisting, the Governor in Council shall, on request and on proof of title to his satisfaction, cause the name of such person to be entered as the proprietor of the patent in the "Register of Patents." (2.) The person for the time being entered on the "Register of Patents" as the proprietor of a patent shall, subject to any rights appearing from such register, or to any prior title duly recorded prior to the passing of this Ordinance, and subject to all equities affecting the same, have power absolutely to assign, grant licences as to or otherwise deal with the same and to give effectual receipts for any consideration for such assignment, licence, or dealing. 9. The "Register of Patents" shall at convenient times be open to the inspection of the public, and certified copies under the hand |