the filing of such Specification, whether the default in such filing has happened before or shall happen after the passing of this Act: Provided always, that, except in any case that may have arisen before the passing of this Act, it shall not be lawful for the Lord Chancellor to extend the time for the sealing of any Letters-patent, or for the filing of any Specification, beyond the period of one month. doubts as to pro visions of 15 & 16 Vict. c. 83, remaking and specting the sealing of new for a further VII. And whereas doubts have arisen whether the pro- Removing vision of the Patent Law Amendment Act, 1852, for the making and sealing new Letters-patent for a further term, in pursuance of Her Majesty's Order in Council, in the cases mentioned in section forty of the said Act, extends to the Letters-patent making and sealing of new Letters-patent in the manner by term. such Act directed, where such new Letters-patent are granted by way of prolongation of the term of Letters-patent issued before the commencement of the said Act: And whereas it is expedient that such new Letters-patent granted by way of prolongation shall be granted according to the provisions of the said Patent Law Amendment Act: Be it declared and enacted, That where Her Majesty's Order of Council for the sealing of new Letters-patent shall have been made after the commencement of the said Act, the said provision of the said Act for making and sealing in manner aforesaid of new Letters-patent shall extend, and shall as from the commencement of the said Act be deemed to have extended, to the making and sealing in manner aforesaid of new Letters-patent for a further term, as well where the original Letters-patent were made before as where such original Letters-patent have been issued since the commencement of the said Act. VIII. This Act and the Patent Law Amendment Act, 15 & 16 Vict. 1852, shall be construed together as one Act. c. 83, and this Rules and Regulations WITH REFERENCE TO PROCEEDINGS IN THE CASE OF LETTERS-PATENT. FIRST SET OF RULES AND REGULATIONS under the Act 15 & 16 Vict. c. 83, for the passing of Letterspatent for Inventions. By the Right Honourable Edward Burtenshaw, Lord St. Leonards, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, the Right Honourable Sir John Romilly, Master of the Rolls, Sir Frederic Thesiger, Her Majesty's Attorney-General, and Sir Fitz Roy Kelly, her Majesty's SolicitorGeneral, being four of the Commissioners of Patents for Inventions under the said Act. WHEREAS a commodious Office is forthwith intended to be provided by the Crown as the Great Seal Patent Office; and the Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury have, under the powers of the said Act, appointed such Office as the Office also for the purposes of the said Act: I. All Petitions for the grant of Letters-patent, and all Declarations and Provisional Specificatiops, shall be left at the said Commissioners' Office, and shall be respectively written upon sheets of paper of twelve inches in length by eight inches and a half in breadth, leaving a margin of one inch and a half on each side of each page, in order that they may be bound in the books to be kept in the said Office. II. The drawings accompanying Provisional Specifications shall be made upon a sheet or sheets of parchment, paper or cloth, each of the size of twelve inches in length by eight inches and a half in breadth, or of the size of twelve inches in breadth by seventeen inches in length, leaving a margin of one inch on every side of each sheet. III. Every Provisional Protection of an invention allowed by the Law Officer shall be forthwith advertised in the London Gazette, and the advertisement shall set forth the name and address of the Petitioner, the title of his invention, and the date of the application. IV. Every invention protected by reason of the deposit of a Complete Specification shall be forthwith advertised in the London Gazette, and the advertisement shall set forth the name and address of the Petitioner, the title of the invention," the date of the application, and that a Complete Specification has been deposited. V. Where a Petitioner applying for Letters-patent after Provisional Protection, or after deposit of a Complete Specification, shall give notice in writing at the Office of the Commissioners of his intention to proceed with his application for Letters-patent, the same shall forthwith be advertised in the London Gazette, and the advertisement shall set forth the name and address of the Petitioner and the title of his invention; and that any persons having an interest in opposing such application are to be at liberty to leave Particulars in writing of their objections to the said application at the Office of the Commissioners within twenty-one days after the date of the Gazette in which such notice is issued. VI. The Lord Chancellor having appointed the Great Seal Patent Office to be the Office of the Court of Chancery for the filing of Specifications, the said Great Seal Patent Office and the Office of the Commissioners shall be combined; and the Clerk of the Patents for the time being shall be the Clerk of the Commissioners for the purposes of the Act. VII. The Office shall be open to the public every day, Christmas Day and Good Friday excepted, from ten to four o'clock. VIII. The charge for office or other copies of documents in the Office of the Commissioners shall be at the rate of twopence for every ninety words. (Signed) Dated the 1st Oct., 1852. ST. LEONARDS, C. JOHN ROMILLY, M. R. By the Right Honourable Edward Burtenshaw, Lord Ordered, that there shall be paid to the Law Officers and to their clerks the following fees: . By the Person opposing a Grant of Letters-patent. By the Petitioner on the Hearing of the Case of Opposition. By the Petitioner for the Hearing, previous to the Fiat of the Law Officer allowing a Disclaimer or Memorandum of Alteration in Letters-patent and Specification. By the Person opposing the Allowance of such Disclaimer or Memorandum of Alteration on the Hearing of the Case of Opposition. By the Petitioner for the Fiat of the Law Officer allowing a Disclaimer or Memorandum of Alteration in Letters-patent and Specification. Ordered by the Right Honourable Edward Burtenshaw, Lord St. Leonards, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain. I. All Specifications in pursuance of the conditions of Letters-patent, and all Complete Specifications accompanying Petitions and Declarations before grant of Letters-patent, shall be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office. II. All Specifications in pursuance of the conditions of Letters-patent, and all Complete Specifications accompanying Petitions for the grant of Letters-patent, shall be respectively written bookwise upon a sheet or sheets of parchment, each of the size of twenty-one inches and a half in length by fourteen inches and three fourths of an inch in breadth; the same may be written upon both sides of the sheet, but a margin must be left of one inch and a half on every side of each sheet. III. The drawings accompanying such Specifications shall be made upon a sheet or sheets of parchment, each of the size of twenty-one inches and a half in length by fourteen inches and three fourths of an inch in breadth, or upon a sheet or sheets of parchment, each of the size of twenty-one inches and a half in breadth by twenty-nine inches and a half in length, leaving a margin of one inch and a half on every side. of each sheet. IV. The charge for office or other copies of documents in the Great Seal Patent Office shall be at the rate of twopence for every ninety words. (Signed) ST. LEONARDS, C. Dated the 1st Oct., 1852. NOTE. It is recommended to applicants and Patentees to make elevation drawings according to the scale of one inch to a foot. |