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STATUTE OF MONOPOLIES.

21 Jac. I. c. 3 (in part) (a).

An Act concerning Monopolies and Dispensations, with Penal Laws and the Forfeitures thereof.

[A.D. 1623.]

void.

1. All monopolies, commissions, grants, licences, charters, and letters Monopolies, patent heretofore or hereafter made or granted to any person, body &c., declared politic, or corporate, for the sole buying, selling, making, working, or illegal and using of anything within this realm or the dominion of Wales, or of any other monopolies, or of power, liberty or faculty to dispense with any others, or to give licence or toleration to do, use or exercise anything against the tenor or purport of any law or statute, or to give or make any warrant for any such dispensation, licence or toleration to be had or made, or to agree or compound with any others for any penalty or forfeiture limited by any statute, or of any grant or promise of the benefit, profit or commodity of any forfeiture, penalty, or sum of money that is or shall be due by any statute before judgment thereupon had; and all proclamations, inhibitions, restraints, warrants of assistance, and all other matters and things whatsoever any way tending to the instituting, erecting, strengthening, furthering or countenancing of the same, or any of them, are altogether contrary to the laws of this realm, and so are and shall be utterly void and of none effect, and in nowise to be put in use or execution.

fourteen years

or under.

6. Provided that any declaration before mentioned shall not extend Except letters to any letters patent and grants of privilege for the term of fourteen patent for years or under hereafter to be made of the sole working or making of new invenany manner of new manufactures within this realm to the true and tions for first inventor and inventors of such manufactures, which others at the time of making such letters patent and grants shall not use, so as also they be not contrary to the law nor mischievous to the state, by raising prices of commodities at home, or hurt of trade, or generally inconvenient, the said fourteen years to be accounted from the date of the first letters patent or grants of such privilege hereafter to be made, but that the same shall be of such force as they should be if this Act had never been made, and of none other.

(a) This Act is referred to in the Introductory Chapter, ante, pp. 2, 3, 11.

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y any Act of Parliament now in force, so long as the same inue in force.

ed also that this Act shall not extend to any warrant or ade or directed, or to be made or directed by his Majesty, successors, to the justices of the Courts of King's Bench Pleas and Barons of the Exchequer, justices of assize, yer and terminer and gaol delivery, justices of the peace istices for the time being, having power to hear and deteres done against any penal statute, to compound for the f any penal statute depending in suit and question before y of them respectively after plea pleaded by the party

led also that this Act or anything therein contained shall not xtend or be prejudicial unto the City of London, or to any h or town corporate within this realm for or concerning charters or letters patent to them or any of them made or for or concerning any custom or customs used by or within y of them, or unto any corporations, companies, or fellowart, trade, occupation or mystery, or to any companies or merchants within this realm, erected for the maintenance, = or ordering of any trade or merchandize; but that the rs, customs, corporations, companies, fellowships and socieir liberties, privileges, powers and immunities shall be and such force and effect as they were before the making of of none other; anything before in this Act contained ry in anywise notwithstanding.

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SECTION

1. Short title

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS.

PART I.-PRELIMINARY.

2. Division of Act into parts
3. Commencement of Act.

PART II.-PATENTS.

Application for and Grant of Patent.

4. Persons entitled to apply for patent
5. Application and specification....
6. Reference of application to examiner

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7. Power for comptroller to refuse application or require amendment
8. Time for leaving complete specification

9. Comparison of provisional and complete specification
10. Advertisement on acceptance of complete specification
11. Opposition to grant of patent

12. Sealing of patent

13. Date of patent

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25. Extension of term of patent on petition to Queen in Council

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35. Patent to first inventor not invalidated by application in fraud of him.

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36. Assignment for particular places

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37. Loss or destruction of patent....

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38. Proceedings and costs before law officer

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39. Exhibition at industrial or international exhibition not to prejudice patent rights.....

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40. Publication of illustrated journal, indexes, &c.

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99. Declaration by infant, lunatic, &c.

100. Transmission of certified printed copies of specifications, &c.

101. Power for Board of Trade to make general rules for classifying goods and

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103. International arrangements for protection of inventions, designs, and

trade marks

104. Provision for Colonies and India

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