the grant of compulsory licenses and the appointment of examiners. The aim of the framers of the Act has been to lessen the cost and simplify the procedure in connection with the taking out of letters patent and the registration of designs and trade marks. The result is generally admitted to be satisfactory, although nothing can at present be said as to the manner in which the duties of the examiners of patents will be performed. It has been urged that the payments subsequent to the grant of letters patent are calculated to restrain the progress of invention, inasmuch as, being largely in excess of the amounts required for the working of the Patent Office, they impose a direct tax upon a special class. If this be the case, a remedy is provided by the Act without the necessity of further legislation, for by s. 24, sub. 2, the Board of Trade may from time to time, if they think fit, with the consent of the Treasury, reduce any of the prescribed fees. The Act has been so framed that the author has been enabled to make use of it as the text. References to the rules indicated by figures, and explanatory notes and notes of decided cases by letters, are appended to the sections. To avoid inconveniently increasing the size of the book, such notes as are common to several sections have frequently been inserted under only one of them, and a reference given to the section or sections under which the remainder may be found. Such matter as could not conveniently be inserted in this way appears in the introductory chapter. It is hoped that the General Index which has been carefully prepared will afford the means of remedying any inconvenience which may result from the method which has been adopted. 2, HARCOURT BUILDINGS, TEMPLE, 28th Jan., 1884. Johns. K. & J. L. J. Ch. L. J. C. P. L. J. Ex. L. J. Q. B. Johnson's Reports. Jurist, New Series. Kay and Johnson's Reports. Law Journal Reports, Chancery. Law Journal Reports, Common Pleas. Law Journal Reports, Exchequer. Law Journal Reports, Queen's Bench. App. Cas., or L. R. App. Cas. The Law Reports, Appeal Cases. Ch. D., or L. R. Ch. D. The Law Reports, Chancery Division. Mac. & G., or Mac. & Gord. Macnaghten and Gordon's Reports. Webs. P. R., or Webs. P. C. Webster's Reports of Patent Cases. LIST OF CASES. A. ADAIR V. Young, 12 Ch. D. 13, Higgins' Digest Patent Cases, Adair's Patent, in re, 6 App. Cas. 176; 22 W. R. 746 Adamson's Patent, in re, 6 D. G. M. & G. 420 Ainsworth v. Walmesley, 35 L. J. Ch. 352; 12 Jur. (N. S.) 205 Allsopp v. Walker, Seb. Dig. 325 PAGE xlix 121 49 127 64 liv 18 78 B. BACON V. Jones, Goodeve Abs. P. C. p. 12; 4 Myl. & Cr. 433 68 67 Badische Anilin & Soda Fabrik v. Levenstein, W. N. 1883, p. 62; 48 L. T. (N. S.) 822; 24 Ch. D. 156 xliii, liv, 61, 73 Bailey v. Roberton, 3 App. Cas. 1055 ex parte L. R. 8 Ch. 60 . Ball's Patent, in re, 4 App. Cas. 171. Barrows' Trade Mark, in re, 5 Ch. D. 353, 363. Beard v. Egerton, 3 C. B. 97; 19 L. J. C. P. 36 Betts v. De Vitre, 11 Jur. (N. S.) 9 v. Menzies, 2 Coop. C. C. 41; Goodeve Abs. Pat. Cas. 22, Bewley v. Handcock, 6 De G. M. & G. 403 Bickford v. Skewes, 1 Webs. P. R. 218; L. R. 1 Q. B. 938 Birch v. Mather, 52 L. J. Ch. 292 Bircot's Case, 3 Jur. 184; 1 Webs. P. R. 214 PAGE 70 . li, 68 . xlviii 68 v. Crate, L. R. 1 Eq. 388. v. Moore, Dav. P. C. 361; 2 Coop. C. C. 56 v. Hadley, 17 C. B. (N. S.) 435; 10 L. T. (N. S.) 650 75 v. Keyworth, 7 E. & B. 725 70 liii, lv, 73 British Dynamite Company v. Krebs, 25 S. J. 316 Brown v. Annandale, 8 Cl. & Fin. 437 Budson v. Benecke, 12 Beav. 1. Burgess v. Burgess, 3 De G. M. & G. 89 Burnett v. Tate, 45 L. T. (N. S.) 743 Bury v. Bedford, 32 L. J. Ch. 732; 4 De G. J. & S. 352; CALDWELL V. Vanvlissingen, 9 Hare, 415; 21 L. J. Ch. 97 Carpenter v. Smith, 1 Webs. P. R. 534 Cartwright v. Armatt, 2 B. & P. 43 xlviii Carr's Patent, L. R. 4 P. C. 539 Carver v. Bowker, Seb. Dig. 350; 1 Trade Marks, 252 51 82 119, 131 11 Chollet v. Hoffman, 7 E. & B. 686; 26 L. J. Q. B. 249 |