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[PATENT.]

SIR,

Patents, Designs, and Trade Marks Act, 1883.

FORM P.

FORM OF REQUEST FOR CORRECTION OF CLERICAL ERROR.

I HEREBY request that the following clerical error (a) may be cor

rected in (b).

To the Comptroller,

Signature
Full Address

Patent Office, 25, Southampton Buildings.

Chancery Lane, London, W.C.

(a) Or errors.

(b) Here state whether in application, specification, or register.

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I,

Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs, and Trade

Marks, hereby certify

[PATENT.]

Patents, Designs, and Trade Marks Act, 1883.

FORM R.

FORM OF NOTICE FOR ALTERATION OF AN ADDRESS IN REGISTER.

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(a) Here state name or names and full address of applicant or applicants. (b) Here insert full address.

PATENT.]

(a)

Patents, Designs, and Trade Marks Act, 1883.

FORM S.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR ENTRY OF ORDER OF PRIVY
COUNCIL IN REGISTER.

hereby transmit an office copy of an Order in Council

with reference to (b)

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I, (a)

of (a)

-hereby give notice of my intention to appeal to the Law Officer from (b)) of the Comptroller of the day of 188, whereby he (c)

No. (d)

of

the year 188- (d)

Signature-
Date-

N.B. This notice has to be sent to the Comptroller General at the Patent Office, London, W.C., and a copy of same to the Law Officers' Clerk at Room 549, Royal Courts of Justice, London.

21st December 1883.

(Signed) J. CHAMBERLAIN, President of the Board of Trade.

(a) Here insert name and full address of appellant.

(b) Here insert "the decision" or "that part of the decision" as the case may be.

(e) Here insert "refused [or allowed] application for Patent," or "refused [or allowed] application for leave to amend Patent," or otherwise, as the case may be. (d) Insert number and year.

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LAW OFFICER'S RULES.

RULES REGULATING THE PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE ON APPEALS TO THE LAW OFFICERS.

I. When any person intends to appeal to the law officer from a decision of the Comptroller in any case in which such appeal is given by the Act, he shall within fourteen days from the date of the decision appealed against file in the Patent Office a notice of such his intention.

II. Such notice shall state the nature of the decision appealed against, and whether the appeal is from the whole, or part only, and if so, what part of such decision.

III. A copy of such notice of intention to appeal shall be sent by the party so intending to appeal to the law officers' clerk at room 549, Royal Courts of Justice, London; and when there has been an opposition before the Comptroller, to the opponent or opponents; and when the Comptroller has refused to seal a patent on the ground that a previous application for a patent for the same invention is pending, to the prior applicant.

IV. Upon notice of appeal being filed, the Comptroller shall forthwith transmit to the law officers' clerk all the papers relating to the matter of the application in respect of which such appeal is made.

V. No appeal shall be entertained of which notice is not given within fourteen days from the date of the decision appealed against, or such further time as the Comptroller may allow, except by special leave upon application to the law officer.

VI. Seven days' notice, at least, of the time and place appointed for the hearing of any appeal, shall be given by the law officers' clerk, unless special leave be given by the law officer that any shorter notice be given.

VII. Such notice shall in all cases be given to the Comptroller and the appellant; and, when there has been an opposition before the Comptroller, to the opponent or opponents; and, when the Comptroller has refused to seal a patent on the ground that an application for a patent for the same invention is pending, to the prior applicant.

VIII. The evidence used on appeal to the law officer shall be the same as that used at the hearing before the Comptroller; and no further evidence shall be given, save as to matters which have occurred or come to the knowledge of either party, after the date of the decision appealed against, except with the leave of the law officer upon application for that purpose.

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IX. The law officer shall, at the request of either party, order the ttendance at the hearing on appeal, for the purpose of being crossxamined, of any person, who has made a declaration in the matter which the appeal relates, unless in the opinion of the law officer here is good ground for not making such order.

X. Any person requiring the attendance of a witness for crossexamination shall tender to the witness whose attendance is required a reasonable sum for conduct-money.

XI. Where the law officer orders that costs shall be paid by any party to another, he may fix the amount of such costs, and if he shall not think fit to fix the amount thereof, he shall direct by whom and in what manner the amount of such costs shall be ascertained.

XII. If any costs so ordered to be paid be not paid within fourteen days after the amount thereof has been so fixed or ascertained, or such shorter period as shall be directed by the law officer, the party to whom such costs are to be paid may apply to the law officer for an order for payment under the provisions of section 38 of the Act.

XIII. All documentary evidence required, or allowed by the law officer to be filed, shall be subject to the same regulations, in all respects, as apply to the procedure before the Comptroller, and shall be filed in the patent office, unless the law officer shall order to the contrary.

XIV. Any notice or other document required to be given to the law officers' clerk, under these rules, may be sent by a prepaid letter through the post.

HENRY JAMES, A.G.
FARRER HERSCHELL, S.G.

PATENTS RULES, 1885.

Short title.

Commencement.

By virtue of the provisions of the Patents, Designs, and Trade Marks Act, 1883 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act), the Board of Trade do hereby make the following rules :—

SHORT TITLE.

1. These rules may be cited as the Patents Rules, 1885.

COMMENCEMENT.

2. These rules shall come into operation from and immediately after the 14th day of August, 1885.

FEES.

Fees.

Forms.
Alterations.

Application.

Specification.

Other forms.

3. In addition to the fees mentioned in the second schedule to the principal Act so far as it relates to patents, and in the list of fees contained in the first schedule to the Patents Rules, 1883, there shall be paid under the said Act and the Patents, Designs, and Trade Marks (Amendment) Act, 1885, the fees specified in the first schedule to these Rules.

FORMS.

4. The Forms A, B, and C in the first schedule to the principal Act shall be altered or amended by the substitution therefor respectively of the Forms A, A1, B and C in the second schedule hereto.

5. (1.) An application for a patent containing the declaration mentioned in sub-section 2 of section 5 of the principal Act shall be made either in the Form A or the Form A1, set forth in the second schedule hereto, as the case may be (7).

(2.) The Form B in such schedule of provisional specification and the Form C of complete specification shall respectively be used.

(3.) The remaining forms other than A, A1, B, and C, set forth in the second schedule to the Patents Rules, 1883, and in the second

() As to these applications, see ante, pp. 11-13, and sect. 5 of the Act of 1883, ante, p. 308.

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