Orders of the Board, for the registration of patent agents in pursuance of Section 84 of the Act. The Register of Patent Agents existing at the commencement of the Act shall be incorporated with and form part of the Register of Patent Agents under the Act.

3. Contents of Register. The Register shall contain in one list all patent agents who are registered under the Act and these Rules.

Such list shall be made out according to the surnames of the registered persons, and shall also contain the full name of each registered person, with his address, the date of registration, and a mention of any honours, memberships, or other additions to the name of the registered person which the Council of the Institute may consider worthy of mention in the Register. The Register shall be in the Form 1 in Appendix A., with such variations as may be required.

4. Printed copies to be published annually, and to be evidence of contents of Register. The Institute shall cause a correct copy of the Register, but with the names arranged alphabetically, to be printed under their direction and published and placed on sale. Such correct copy shall be printed and published not later than the end of February in each year. A copy of the Register for the time being purporting to be so printed and published shall be admissible as evidence of all matters stated therein, and the absence of the name of any person from the Register shall be evidence, until the contrary is made to appear, that such person is not registered in pursuance of the Act or any Act repealed by the Act.

5. Registrar. The Institute shall continue in office or appoint a Registrar, who shall keep the Register in accordance with the provisions of the Act and these Rules, and, subject thereto, shall act under the directions of the Institute, and the Board.

6. Registration of persons who were patent agents prior to the passing of this Act. A person who is desirous of being registered in pursuance of the Act, on the ground that prior to the 24th day of December, 1888, he had been bonâ fide practising as a patent agent, shall produce or transmit to the Board a statutory declaration in the Form 2 in Appendix A; provided that the Board may, in any case in which they shall think fit, require further or other proof that the person had prior to the passing of the Act been bonâ fide practising as a patent agent. Upon the receipt of such statutory declaration, or of such further or other proof to their satisfaction, as the case may be, the Board shall transmit to the Registrar a certificate that the person therein named is entitled to be registered in pursuance of the Act, and the Registrar shall on the receipt of such certificate cause the name of such person to be entered in the Register.

7. Final qualifying examination for registration. Subject to the provisions of the Act in favour of every person who proves to the satisfaction of the Board that prior to the 24th day of December, 1888, he had been bonâ fide practising as a patent agent, no person shall be entitled to be registered as a patent agent unless he has passed, and produces or transmits to the Registrar a certificate under the seal of the Institute that he has passed, such final examination as to his knowledge of patent law and practice and of the duties of a patent agent as the Institute shall from time to time prescribe.

8. Exemption of pupils and assistants from preliminary examination. Any person who has been for at least five years engaged as a pupil or technical assistant to one or more registered patent agents, and any person for the time being entitled to practice as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Judicature in England or Ireland, or as a law agent before the Court of Session in Scotland, shall be entitled to be registered without passing any examination other than the final examination provided for in the last preceding Rule.

9. Qualifications of persons generally for registration. Any person who is not qualified under Rule 8 must, in order to be entitled to present himself for the final qualifying examination, beA person who has passed one of the preliminary examinations which the Institute shall by regulation prescribe.

10. Final qualifying examinations to be held by the Institute. The Institute shall hold at least once in every year, a final qualifying examination, which shall be the final qualifying examination required under Rules 7 and 8; and the Institute shall, subject to these Rules, have the entire management and control of all such examinations, and may from time to time make regulations with respect to all or any of the following matters, that is to say,

a) The subjects for and the mode of conducting the examination of candidates;

b) The times and places of the examinations, and the notices to be given of examinations;

c) The certificates to be given to persons of their having passed the examinations;

d) The appointment and removal of examiners, and the remuneration, by fees or otherwise, of the examiners so appointed; and

e) Any other matter or thing as to which the Institute may think it necessary to make regulations for the purpose of carrying out this Rule.

11. Corrections of names and addresses in Register. The Registrar shall from time to time insert in the Register any alteration which may come to bis knowledge in the name and address of any person registered.

12. Erasure of names of deceased persons. The Registrar shall erase from the Register the name of any registered person who is dead.

13. Erasure of names of persons who have ceased to practise. The Registrar may erase from the Register the name of any registered person who has ceased to practise as a patent agent, but not (save as hereinafter provided) without the consent of that person. For the purposes of this Rule the Registrar may send by post to a registered person to his registered address a notice inquiring whether or not he has ceased to practise or has changed his residence, and if the Registrar does not within three months after sending the notice receive an answer thereto from the said person, he may, within fourteen days after the expiration of the three months, send him by post to his registered address another notice referring to the first notice, and stating that no answer has been received by the Registrar; and if the Registrar either before the second notice is sent receives the first notice back from the dead letter office

of the Postmaster-General, or receives the second notice back from that office, or does not within three months after sending the second notice receive any answer thereto from the said person, that person shall, for the purpose of this Rule, be deemed to have ceased to practise, and his name may be erased accordingly. 14. Erasure of name for non-payment of fees. If any registered person shall not, within one month from the day on which his annual registration fee becomes payable, pay such fee, the Registrar may send to such registered person to his registered address a notice requiring him, on or before a day to be named in the notice, to pay his annual registration fee; and if such registered patent agent shall not within one month from the day named in such notice pay the registration fee so due from him, the Registrar may erase his name from the Register: Provided that the name of a person erased from the Register under this rule may be restored to the Register by direction of the Institute or the Board on payment by such person of the fee or fees due from him, together with such further sum of money, not exceeding in amount the annual registration fee, as the Institute or the Board (as the case may be) may in each particular case direct.

15. Registrar to act on evidence. In the execution of his duties the Registrar shall, subject to these Rules, in each case act on such evidence as appears to him sufficient.

16. Erasure of incorrect or fraudulent entries. The Board may order the Registrar to erase from the Register any entry therein wich is proved to their satisfaction to have been incorrectly or fraudulently inserted.

17. Erasure of names of persons convicted of crimes, and persons found guilty of disgraceful conduct. If any registered person shall be convicted in His Majesty's dominions or elsewhere of an offence which, if committed in England, would be a felony or misdemeanor, or after due inquiry, is proved to the satisfaction of the Board to have been guilty of disgraceful professional conduct, or having been entitled to practice as a Solicitor or Law Agent shall have ceased to be so entitled, the Board may order the Registrar to erase from the Register the name of such person. Provided that no person shall be adjugded by the Board to have been guilty of disgraceful professional conduct unless such person has received notice of, and had an opportunity of defending himself from, any charge brought against him.

18. Restoration by Board of erased name. Where the Board direct the erasure from the Register of a name of any person, or of any other entry, the name of the person or the entry shall not be again entered in the Register, except by order of the Board.

The Board may in any case in which they think fit restore to the Register such name or entry erased therefrom either without fee, or on payment of such fee, not exceeding the registration fee, as the Board may from time to time fix, and the Registrar shall restore the name accordingly.

19. Inquiry by Board of Trade before erasure of name from Register. For the purpose of exercising in any case the powers of erasing from and of restoring to the Register the name of a person, or an entry, the Board may appoint a committee consisting of such persons as they shall think fit. Every application to the Board for the erasure from, or restoration to, the Register of the name of any patent agent shall be referred for hearing and inquiry to the committee, who shall report thereon to the Board, and a report of the committee shall be conclusive as to the facts for the purpose of the exercise of the said powers by the Board.

20. Restoration by Institute of erased name. The name of any person erased from the Register at the request or with the consent of such person shall, unless it might, if not so erased, have been erased by order of the Board, be restored to the Register by the Registrar on his application and on payment of such fee, not exceeding the registration fee, as the Institute shall from time to time fix. 21. Appeal to Board of Trade. Any person aggrieved by any order, direction, or refusal of the Institute or Rigistrar may appeal to the Board.

22. Notice of appeal. A person who intends to appeal to the Board under these Rules (in these Rules referred to as the appellant) shall, within 14 days from the date of the making or giving or the order, direction, or refusal complained of, leave at the office of the Institute a notice in writing signed by him of such his intention.

23. Case on appeal. The notice of intention to appeal shall be accompanied by a statement in writing of the grounds of the appeal, and of the case of the appellant in support thereof.

24. Transmission of notice of appeal to Board of Trade. The appellant shall also immediately after leaving his notice of appeal at the Institute send by post a copy thereof with a copy of the appellant's case in support thereof addressed to the Secretary of the Board of Trade, 7, Whitehall Gardens, London.

25. Directions as to hearing appeal. The Board may thereupon give such directions (if any) as they may think fit for the purpose of the hearing of the appeal.

26. Notice of hearing of appeal. Seven days' notice, or such shorter notice as the Board may in any particular case direct, of the time and place appointed for the hearing of the appeal shall be given to the appellant and the Institute and the Registrar.

27. Hearing and decision of appeal. The appeal may be heard and decided by the Board, and such decision may be given or order made in reference to the subject-matter of the appeal as the case may require.

28. Fees. The fees set forth in Appendix B. to these Rules shall be paid in respect of the several matters, and at the times and in the manner therein mentioned. The Board may from to time, alter any of, or add to, the fees payable under these Rules.

29. Alteration of regulations. Any regulation made by the Institute under these Rules may be altered or revoked by a subsequent regulation. Copies of all regulations made by the Institute unter these Rules shall, within twenty-eight days of the date of their being made, be transmitted to the Board, and if within twenty-eight days after a copy of any regulation has been so transmitted, the Board by an order signify their disapproval thereof, such regulation shall be of no force or effect; and if, after any

regulation under these Rules has come into force, the Board signify in manner aforesaid their disapproval thereof, such regulation shall immediately cease to be of any force or effect.

30. Report to Board of Trade. The Institute shall once every year in the month of March transmit to the Board a report stating the number of applications for registration which habe been made in the preceding twelve months, the nature and results of the final examinations which have been held, and the amount of fees received by the Institute under these Rules, and such other matters in relation to the provisions of these Rules as the Board may from time to time require.

31. Commencement. These Rules shall come into operation from and immediately after the 31st December, 1907, and all general rules relative to the Register of Patent Agents in force on the 31st December, 1907, shall be and are hereby repealed as from that date without prejudice nevertheless to any thing done under such Rules or to any application or other matter then pending.

I, A. B. [insert full name, and in the case of a member of a firm add, "a member of the firm of “], of

Patent Agent, do solemnly and sincerely declare as follows:

in the county of

1. That prior to the 24th December, 1888, I had been bonâ fide practising in the United Kingdom as a patent agent.

2. That I acted as patent agent in obtaining the following patents:

[Give the official numbers and dates of some patents for the United Kingdom in the obtaining of which the declarant acted as patent agent.]

3. That I desire to be registered as a patent agent in pursuance of the said Act.

And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true and by virtue of the provisions of the Statutory Declarations Act, 1835.

Declared at

Fischer-Rödiger, Patentgesete. III.

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Rowland Bailey, Esq., I.S.O., M.V.O., the King's Printer of Acts of Parliament.

And to be purchased, either directly or through any Bockseller, from

Wyman and Sons, Ltd., Fetter Lane, E.C.; or Oliver and Boyd, Tweeddals Court, Edingburgh; or Edward Ponsonby, 116, Grafton Street, Dublin.

Schweiz.

Bundesgesetz betreffend die Erfindungspatente.
(Vom 21. Juni 1907.)

Die Bundesversammlung der schweizerischen Eidgenossenschaft, in Anwendung des Art. 64 der Bundesverfassung; nach Einsicht einer Botschaft des Bundesrates vom 17. Juli 1906, beschließt:

I. Allgemeine Bestimmungen.

Art. 1. Für neue gewerblich verwertbare Erfindungen werden Erfindungspatente erteilt.
Diese sind entweder Hauptpatente oder Zusaßpatente.

Art. 2. Von der Patentierung sind ausgeschlossen:

1. Erfindungen, deren Verwertung den Geseßen oder den guten Sitten zuwiderlaufen würde; 2. Erfindungen von chemischen Stoffen, sowie Erfindungen von Verfahren zur Herstellung solcher chemischer Stoffe, welche hauptsächlich zur Ernährung von Menschen oder Tieren bestimmt sind; 3. Erfindungen von auf anderem als chemischem Wege hergestellten Arzneimitteln, Nahrungsmitteln und Getränken für Menschen oder Tiere, sowie Erfindungen von Verfahren zur Herstellung solcher Erzeugnisse;

4. Erfindungen von Erzeugnissen, welche durch Anwendung nicht rein mechanischer Verfahren zur Veredlung von rohen oder verarbeiteten Textilfasern jeder Art .erhalten werden, sowie von derartigen Veredlungsverfahren, soweit als diese Erfindungen für die Textilindustrie in Betracht kommen.

Art. 3. Die Patente werden ohne Gewährleistung des Vorhandenseins, des Wertes oder der Neuheit der Erfindung erteilt.

Art. 4. Eine Erfindung gilt nicht als neu, wenn sie vor der Patentanmeldung im Inland schon derart offenkundig geworden, oder durch veröffentlichte, im Inland vorhandene Schrift oder Bildwerke so dargelegt worden ist, daß die Ausführung durch Fachleute möglich ist.

Vorbehalten bleiben die Bestimmungen über die Anmeldung von Erfindungen im Ausland (Art. 36) und den Ausstellungsschuß (Art. 37).

Art. 5. Für jede Erfindung, deren Patentierung nachgesucht wird, ist ein Patentanspruch aufzustellen, welcher die Erfindung durch diejenigen Begriffe definiert, die der Patentbewerber zur Bestimmung des Gegenstandes des Patentes als erforderlich und als ausreichend erachtet.

Dieser Patentanspruch ist maßgebend für die Neuheit der Erfindung und den sachlichen Geltungsbereich des Patentes.

Zur Auslegung des Patentanspruches kann die Beschreibung der Erfindung (Art. 26) herangezogen werden.

Zur Ergänzung der im Patentanspruch gegebenen Definition der Erfindung dürfen Unteransprüche aufgestellt werden.

Art. 6. Ein Patent darf nicht mehrere Erfindungen umfassen.

Insbesondere dürfen Patente für Erfindungen von Verfahren zur Herstellung chemischer Stoffe je nur ein Verfahren zum Gegenstand haben, das unter Verwendung ganz bestimmter Ausgangsstoffe zu einem einzigen Endstoff führt.

Art. 7. Das Patent hat die Wirkung, daß der Patentinhaber ausschließlich zur gewerbsmäßigen Ausführung der Erfindung berechtigt ist.

Betrifft die Erfindung ein Erzeugnis, so ist der Patentinhaber ausschließlich berechtigt, dasselbe zu verkaufen, feilzuhalten, in Verkehr zu bringen oder gewerbsmäßig zu gebrauchen. Diese Wirkung erstrect sich auch auf die unmittelbaren Erzeugnisse eines patentierten Verfahrens.

Wenn die Erfindung ein Verfahren zur Herstellung eines neuen chemischen Stoffes zum Gegenstande hat, so gilt bis zum Beweise des Gegenteiles jeder Stoff von gleicher Beschaffenheit als nach dem patentierten Verfahren hergestellt.

Art. 8. Die Wirkung des Patentes tritt gegen denjenigen nicht ein, welcher bereits zur Zeit der Patentanmeldung im guten Glauben die Erfindung im Inland gewerbsmäßig benüßt oder besondere Veranstaltungen zu solcher Benüßung getroffen hat. Er ist befugt, die Erfindung zu seinen Geschäftszwecken auszunüßen; diese Befugnis kann er nur zusammen mit seinem Geschäft auf andere übertragen.

Auf Einrichtungen an Fahrzeugen, welche nur vorübergehend in das Inland gelangen, erstreckt sich die Wirkung des Patentes nicht.

Art. 9. Das Patent ist übertragbar und vererblich. Es kann zum Gegenstand einer Lizenz gemacht werden, die einen Dritten zur Benüßung der Erfindung ermächtigt.

Ist das Patent Eigentum mehrerer, so kann jeder Miteigentümer nur mit Einwilligung der andern Lizenzen erteilen und die durch das Patent verliehenen Befugnisse ausüben; jeder kann aber selbständig Klage wegen Patentverlegung erheben und über seinen Anteil verfügen.