No. 2.-Persons brought before Magistrates, 1900-continued.

No. 46. TRADE MARK Certificates issued, 1894–5.

Classification. For the purpose of registration, an application made to the Registrar-General for a Trade-mark is entered under one of the 50 classes, as shown in the following return.

Local Registrations.-The returns do not wholly apply to registrations of local manufactures, as Trade-marks, like Patents, are unprotected in the Colony if not registered locally.

Cost of Registration.-An application for Registration costs £3 3s., and a transfer of a Trade-mark, £1 1s. No charges, however, are made for applications withdrawn or refused, excepting in cases where gazetting is demanded by the applicant.

The Copyright Act (42 Vic., No. 20) was passed in May, 1879, and became law on the 1st July following. Under the International Copyright Act, 1886 (49 and 50 Vic., clause 33), and the Orders in Council thereunder, the greater part of the body of Imperial Copyright law applicable to literary and artistic works together with the Copyright Convention of Berne, became reciprocally applicable to Great Britain and the countries that are parties to the Convention, namely:-Great Britain with her Colonics and Possessions, France and her Colonies (including Algiers), Germany, Italy, Spain with her Colonies, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Monaco, Hayti, Belgium, Montenegro, and Tunis; consequently, it is now possible for Colonial Copyright works to receive International protection within the limitations prescribed by law. The same Act places Colonial Copyright in literary works upon the same footing as Imperial Copyright, that is to say, a work first published in a colony may by registration in such colony obtain protection throughout the British dominions. The registrations effected under the Act up to the end of 1895 amounted in number to 2,146, receipts to £669, and disbursements (salaries) to £5,531.

Duration of Copyright.-Books are protected for the natural life of the author and for 7 years after his death, or for 42 years from first publication, whichever may be the longer period; paintings, drawings, sculpture, and engravings, for 14 years; photographs, 3 years; articles composed wholly or chiefly of metal, wood, stone, cement, glass, earthenware, ivory, bone, and similar substances, 3 years; paperhangings, carpets, oilcloths, and all kinds of textile and woven articles, 2 years. To obtain the benefits of the Act in reference to designs, every article must bear the word “ Registered," together with the name of the proprietor and the date of registration.

Useful, Ornamental, or Otherwise.

Class 1. Articles of manufacture, composed wholly or chiefly of any metal or mixed metals

Class 2. Articles of manufacture, composed wholly or chiefly of wood, stone,
cement, or plaster

Class 3 Articles of manufacture, composed wholly or chiefly of glass
Class 4. Articles of manufacture, composed wholly or chiefly of earthenware
Class 5. Articles of manufacture, composed wholly or chiefly of ivory, bone,
papier-maché, and every other solid substance not already comprised in
the above classes, numbered 1, 2, 3, 4

Class 6. Paperhangings

Class 7. Carpets, tapestry, floor-cloths, and oil-cloths

Class 8. Shawls, &c., if printed in colours

Class 9. Shawls not comprised in Class 8

Class 10. Yarn, thread, or warp, if the design be applied by printing or any
other process by which colours are or may hereafter he produced..

Class 11. Woven fabrics, excepting the articles included in Class 12
Class 12. Woven fabrics, composed of linen, cotton, wool, silk, or hair, or of
any two or more of such materials, if the design be applied by printing or
by any other process by which colours are or may hereafter be produced
upon tissue or textile fabrics, such woven fabrics being or coming within
the description technically called furnitures, and the repeat of the design
whereof shall be more than 12 in. by 8 in.

Class 13. Woven fabrics, not comprised in any preceding class..

Class 14. Lace and any article of manufacture or work of art or substance not comprised in any preceding class..

Designs

Total Registrations
Total Receipts

SYDNEY:

CHARLES POTTER, GOVERNMENT PRINTER.