The Judicial Committee will hear the AttorneyGeneral or other counsel on behalf of the Crown against granting any application made under either the second or fourth section of the said Act in case it shall be thought fit to oppose the same on such behalf. RULES RELATING TO APPLICATIONS FOR PATENTS FOR INVENTIONS AND PROCEEDINGS THEREON, AND REGISTRATION OF PATENTS; WITH LIST OF FEES, AND RULES FOR APPEALS TO THE LAW OFFICERS. Short title. By virtue of the provisions of the Patents Designs and Trade Marks Act, 1883, the Board of Trade do hereby make the following rules (a): (a) See s. 101, page 156. Short Title. 1. These rules may be cited as the Patents Rules, 1883. Commencement. Commence- 2. These rules shall come into operation from ment. and immediately after the 31st day of December, 1883 (b). (b) For saving as to existing rules, see s. 115, page 167. Interpretation. tion. 3. In the construction of these rules, any words Interpretaherein used defined by the said Act shall have the meanings thereby assigned to them respectively (c). 99.66 (c) See s. 117 for definitions of "person," court," ""law officer," "the Treasury," "comptroller," "prescribed," &c. See s. 46 for definitions of "patent," "patentee," and "invention." Fees. 4. The fees to be paid under the above-mentioned Act, in addition to the fees mentioned in the second schedule thereto, so far as it relates to patents, shall be those specified in the list of fees in the first schedule to these rules (d). (d) See page 215. Forms. Fees. Alterations. 5. The forms A, B, and C in the first schedule Forms. to the said Act shall be altered or amended by the substitution therefor respectively of the forms A, A1, B, and C in the second schedule hereto (e). (e) See pp. 219–223. For forms in first schedule to Act, see pp. 170, 171. tion. 6. (1.) An application for a patent shall be made Applicaeither in the form A or the form A1 set forth in the second schedule hereto, as the case may be. tion. (2.) The form B in such schedule of provisional Specificaspecification and the form C of complete specification shall respectively be used. Other forms. Hours of business. Agency. Statement of address. (3.) The remaining forms set forth in such schedule may, as far as they are applicable, be used in any proceedings under these rules. General. 7. The Patent Office shall be open to the public every weekday during the hours of ten and four, except on the days and times following: Christmas Day. Good Friday. The day observed as Her Majesty's birthday. The days observed as days of public fast or thanksgiving, or as holidays at the Bank of England (ƒ). (f) See s. 98, page 154. 8. An application for a patent must be signed by the applicant; but all other communications between the applicant and the comptroller, and all attendances by the applicant upon the comptroller, may be made by or through an agent duly authorised to the satisfaction of the comptroller, and, if he so require, resident in the United Kingdom. 9. The application shall be accompanied by a statement of an address to which all notices, requisitions, and communications of every kind may be made by the comptroller, or by the Board of Trade, and such statement shall thereafter be binding upon the applicant, unless and until a substituted statement of address shall be furnished by him to the comptroller. He may in any particular case require that the address mentioned in this rule be in the United Kingdom. documents. 10. All documents and copies of documents sent size, etc., of to or left at the Patent Office or otherwise furnished to the comptroller or to the Board of Trade shall be written or printed in large and legible characters in the English language upon strong wide-ruled paper (on one side only), of a size of 13 inches by 8 inches, leaving a margin of two inches on the left-hand part thereof, and the signature of the applicants or agents thereto must be written in a large and legible hand. Duplicate documents shall at any time be left, if required by the comptroller (g). (g) See s. 5, subs. 2-5, page 13. discretion by comp. 11. Before exercising any discretionary power Exercise of given to the comptroller by the said Act adversely ary power to the applicant for a patent or for amendment of a troller. specification, the comptroller shall give ten days' notice, or such longer notice as he may think fit, to Notice of the applicant of the time when he may be heard personally or by his agent before the comptroller (h). (h) See s. 94, page 152. hearing. applicant. 12. Within five days from the date when such Notice by notice would be delivered in the ordinary course of post, or such longer time as the comptroller may appoint in such notice, the applicant shall notify to |