The volumes containing Abridgments of specifications arranged chronologically in classes are of immense utility to inventors who wish to discover what has been already done in any particular branch of invention. Copies of the Commissioners' publications are presented to the principal Public Offices, Seats of Learning, Societies, Institutions, Libraries, British Colonies, and Foreign States. PUBLIC LIBRARY. A library has been established in connection with the Patent Office, and this is open free to the public. The whole of the publications of the office are on the shelves of the library, where may also be consulted all the leading British and Foreign Scientific Journals and text-books in the various departments of science and art. PATENT MUSEUM. The Patent Museum at South Kensington is transferred by the forty-first section of the new Act to the Department of Science and Art, which is empowered by the forty-second section to require any patentee to furnish them with a model of his invention on payment of the cost, the amount in case of dispute to be settled by the Board of Trade. ADDITIONS TO RULES. The following instructions have been issued by the Comptroller of Patents since the issue of the Patents Rules:: CONCISE EXPLANATORY STATEMENT NOT REQUIRED. By direction of the Board of Trade, the concise explanatory statement' required by Rule 31 of the Patents Rules will no longer be required to be furnished to this Office by applicants for Patents. The drawing, as prescribed by Rule 31, must, however, be supplied. CAVEATS AS TO PATENTS AND AMENDMENTS. Any person who may be interested in knowing the date when the complete specification in respect of any particular application shall have been accepted by the Comptroller and advertised in the Official Journal, or the date when an application for leave to amend any particular specification shall have been filed at the Patent Office and advertised, may be informed of such dates upon his forwarding to the Comptroller a request in writing (upon foolscap paper), to that effect, together with a Patents' Form Q., bearing a 58. stamp. AS TO PATENTS OF COMMUNICATION. Patents Rule 6 prescribes that an application for a patent shall be made upon Form A or Al. Form Al provides only for the declaration being made by a person resident in the United Kingdom. An application for a Patent upon Al from persons resident abroad will not therefore in future be received at the Patent Office. This regulation will not, it is believed, in any way impede the introduction of inventions into the United Kingdom. Applications by persons resident abroad can, as heretofore, be made upon Form A, or through an agent residing in the United Kingdom on Form Al. The regulation is only intended to prohibit agents living abroad from making the declaration on Form A1, and does not interfere with their acting for applicants in the preparation of their specifications, drawings, amendments, &c., &c. PAYMENT OF SEVENTH YEAR'S DUTIES BY INSTALMENTS. The Board of Trade, with the consent of the Treasury, have made the following reduction relating to certain fees prescribed by the Second Schedule of the Patents, Designs, and Trade Marks Act, 1883. In the case of patents granted before the commencement of the said Act, a patentee who has paid the prescribed fee of 50%. may in lieu of the prescribed fee of 100l. payable before the end of seven years from the date of patent, pay the following annual fees: L 8. d. The Board of Trade, with the consent of the Treasury, have ordered that from and after the 1st of October, 1884, the fee No. 36 in the First Schedule to the Patents Rules, 1883, be amended, and shall in future be as follows: No. 36. On request to Comptroller to correct a clerical error, £ s. d. |