Secretary of

State may waive the benefit of the invention.

Communication

of the invention to the Secretary of State is no publication.

(8.)

shall be delivered to any person authorized by writing under the hand of the Secretary of State to receive it.

.) "Where the Secretary of State certifies as aforesaid, after an application for a patent has been left at the Patent Office, but before the publication of the specification or specifications, the application, specification or specifications, with the drawings (if any) shall be forthwith placed in a packet sealed by authority of the Comptroller, and such packet shall be subject to the foregoing provisions respecting a packet sealed by authority of the Secretary of State.

(9.) "No proceeding by petition or otherwise shall lie for revocation of a patent granted for an invention in relation to which the Secretary of State has certified as aforesaid.

(10.) "No copy of any specification or other document or drawing, by this section required to be placed in a sealed packet, shall in any manner whatever be published or open to the inspection of the public, but save as in this section otherwise directed, the provisions of this part of this Act shall apply in respect of any such invention and patent as aforesaid.

(11.) The Secretary of State may, at any time by writing under his hand, waive the benefit of this section with respect to any particular invention, and the specifications, documents and drawings shall be thenceforth kept and dealt with in the ordinary

way.

(12.) "The communication of any invention for any improvement in instruments or munitions of war to the Secretary of State, or

to any person or persons authorized by him to investigate the same, or the merits thereof, shall not, nor shall anything done for the purposes of the investigation, be deemed use or publication of such invention so as to prejudice the grant or validity of any patent for the same."

Copies of deeds and licences affecting proprietorship to be sent to Comptroller.

Trust.

CHAPTER XII.

REGISTER OF PATENTS.

S. 23 (1.) "THERE shall be kept at the Patent Office a book called the Register of Patents, wherein shall be entered the names and addresses of grantees of patents, notifications of assignments and of transmissions of patents, of licences under patents, and of amendments, extensions, and revocations of patents, and such other matters affecting the validity or proprietorship of patents as may from time to time be prescribed.

(2.) “The Register of Patents shall be primâ facie evidence of any matters by this Act directed or authorized to be inserted therein.

(3.) "Copies of deeds, licences, and any other
documents affecting the proprietorship in
any letters patent, or in any licence
thereunder, must be supplied to the
Comptroller in the prescribed manner for
filing in the Patent Office."

S. 85. "There shall not be entered in any Register
kept under this Act, or be receivable by
the Comptroller, any notice of any trust
expressed, implied, or constructive."
S. 87. "Where a person becomes entitled by
assignment, transmission, or other opera-
tion of law to a patent, the Comptroller
shall on request, and on proof of title to
his satisfaction, cause the name of such

S. 88. "

S. 100.

person to be entered as proprietor of the
patent in the Register of Patents. The

person for the time being entered in the
Register of Patents as proprietor of a
patent, shall, subject to any rights appear-
ing from such Register to be vested in any
other person, have power
power absolutely to
assign, grant licences as to, or otherwise
deal with the same, and give effectual
receipts for any consideration for such
assignment, licence, or dealing. Provided
that any equities in respect. of such patent
may be enforced in like manner as in re-
spect of any other personal property."
Every Register kept under this Act shall
at all convenient times be open to the in-
spection of the public, subject to such
lations as may be prescribed; and certified
copies, sealed with the seal of the Patent
Office, of any entry in any such Register
shall be given to any person requiring the
same on payment of the prescribed fee."

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Copies of all specifications, drawings, and amendments left at the Patent Office after the commencement of this Act, printed for, and sealed with the seal of the Patent Office, shall be transmitted to the Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art, and to the Enrolments Office of the Chancery Division in Ireland, and to the Rolls Office in the Isle of Man, within twenty-one days after the same shall respectively have been accepted or allowed at the Patent Office; and certified copies of, or extracts from, any such documents shall be given to any person requiring the same on payment of the prescribed fee; and any such copy or extract shall be admitted in evidence in all Courts in

Sealed copies to be received in evidence.

Rectification of
Registers by

Court.

S. 89.

Scotland and Ireland and in the Isle of Man, without further proof or production of the originals."

Printed or written copies or extracts, purporting to be certified by the Comptroller, and sealed with the seal of the Patent Office, of or from patents, specifications, disclaimers, and other documents in the Patent Office, and of or from Registers and other books kept there, shall be admitted in evidence in all Courts in Her Majesty's dominions, and in all proceedings, without further proof or production of the originals."

S. 90 (1.) "The Court may, on the application of any
person aggrieved by the omission without
sufficient cause of the name of any person
from any Register kept under this Act, or
by any entry made without sufficient
cause in any such Register, make such
order for making, expunging or varying
the entry, as the Court thinks fit; or the
Court may
refuse the application; and in
either case may make such order with
respect to costs of the proceedings as the
Court thinks fit.

S. 91.

(2.) "The Court may in any proceeding under
this section decide any question that it
may be necessary or expedient to decide
for the rectification of a Register, and may
direct an issue to be tried for the decision
of any question of fact, and may
award
damages to the party aggrieved.
(3.)" Any order of the Court rectifying a
Register shall direct that due notice of the
rectification be given to the Comptroller.
"The Comptroller may, on request in
writing accompanied by the prescribed

fee