Entry of failure to pay fees. Entry of licenses. Hours of inspection of register. Certified copies of documents. 73. If a patentee fails to make any prescribed payment within the prescribed time or any enlargement thereof duly granted, such failure shall be duly entered in the register. 74. An examined copy of every license granted under a patent shall be left at the Patent Office by the licensee, with a request that a notification thereof may be entered in the register. The licensee shall cause the accuracy of such copy to be certified as the Comptroller may direct, and the original license shall at the same time be produced and left at the Patent Office if required for further verification. (See Form M). 75. The register of patents shall be open to the inspection of the public on every week day between the hours of ten and four, except on the days and at the times following:(a.) Christmas Day, Good Friday, the day observed as Her Majesty's birthday, days observed as days of public fast or thanksgiving, and days observed as holidays at the Bank of England; or (b.) Days which may from time to time be notified by a placard posted in a conspicuous place at the Patent Office; (c.) Times when the register is required for any purpose of official use; 76. Certified copies of any entry in the register, or certified copies of, or extracts from, patents, specifications, disclaimers, affidavits, statutory declarations, and other public documents in the Patent Office, or of or from registers and other books kept there, may be furnished by the Comptroller on payment of the prescribed fee. (See Form Q.) POWER TO DISPENSE WITH EVIDENCE, &C. 77. Where, under these Rules, any person is required to do any act or thing, or to sign any document, or to make any declaration on behalf of himself or of any body corporate, or any document or evidence is required to be produced to or left with the Comptroller, or at the Patent Office, and it is shown to the satisfaction of the Comptroller that from any reasonable cause such person is unable to do such act or thing, or to sign such document, or make such declaration, or that such document or evidence cannot be produced or left as aforesaid, it shall be lawful for the Comptroller, with the sanction of the Board of Trade, and upon the production of such other evidence, and subject to such terms as they may think fit, to dispense with any such act or thing, document, declaration, or evidence. REPEAL. 78. All general rules made by the Lord Chancellor, or by Repeal. any other authority, under the Patent Law Amendment Acts, and in force on the 31st day of December 1883, shall be and and they are hereby repealed as from that date, without prejudice, nevertheless, to any application then pending. Dated the 21st day of December 1883. (Signed) J. CHAMBERLAIN, President of the Board of Trade. AND RULES REGULATING THE PRACTICE 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 14 days from the date of the decision appealed against file in the Patent Office, a notice of such his intention. (See Form T.) 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 14 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. IX. The law officer shall, at the request of either party, order the attendance at the hearing on appeal, for the purpose of being cross-examined, of any person who has made a declaration in the matter to which the appeal relates, unless in the opinion of the law officer, there is good ground for not making such order. X. Any person requiring the attendance of a witness for cross-examination 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 14 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. FIRST SCHEDULE. LIST OF FEES PAYABLE ON AND IN CONNEXION WITH LETTERS PATENT. 1. On application for provisional protection I O O 2. On filing complete specification. or 3 O 3. On filing complete specification with first application 5. On notice of opposition to grant of patent. By opponent 6. On hearing by Comptroller. By applicant and by opponent respectively 7. On application to amend specification 8. Up to sealing. By applicant : 9. On notice of opposition to amendment. By opponent. 10. On hearing by Comptroller. By applicant and by op ponent respectively. 11. On application to amend specification during action or proceeding. By patentee. 12. On application to the Board of Trade for a compulsory license. By person applying 13. On opposition to grant of compulsory license. By patentee 14. On certificate of renewal 15. Before end of 4 years from date of patent or in lieu of the fees of £50 and £100, the following 16. Before the expiration of the 4th year from the date of the patent 10 19. Before the expiration of the 7th year from the date of the patent 25. 12th 13th دو On enlargement of time for payment of renewal fees:26. Not exceeding 1 month 2 months 3 months 29. For every entry of an assignment, transmission, agreement, license or extension of patent 30. For duplicate of letters patent each 31. On notice to Comptroller of intended exhibition of a patent under section 39 32. Search or inspection fee 33. For office copies 34. ment. دو 20 370 ΙΟ each every 100 words (but never less than one shilling) of drawings, cost according, to agree 35. For certifying office copies, MSS. or printed, each O |
