485. SPECIFICATIONS PUBLISHED.-In the Wurtemberg Gewerbeblatt and other technical periodicals.

486. OTHER PROVISIONS.-Parties using a patent process in complete ignorance of the patent right of a third party are liable to confiscation and damages. Patent articles may be imported without consent of the patentee. 487. PROCEEDINGS TO OBTAIN A PATENT.-Applicants must deliver a petition to the authorities of the district in which they reside or intend to carry on their works, with a complete and true specification, and the required drawings, models, or plans. Specifications must be under a sealed cover, not to be opened by the district authorities. The authorities are then to give to applicants a certificate stating the day and hour when the delivery took place, and forward the documents to the Minister of the Interior.

1. REQUISITES AND TERM OF CAVEAT.-Any citizen of the United States who shall have made any new invention or discovery, and shall desire further time to mature the same, may, on payment of the duty required by law, ($10,) file in the Patent Office a caveat, setting forth the design thereof, and of its distinguishing characteristics, and praying protection of his right until he shall have matured his invention; and such caveat shall be filed in the confidential archives of the office and preserve in se

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