thereof any appointment or regulations may be made and things done for the purpose of bringing these Rules into operation on the said day.

31. These Rules may be cited as the Register of Patent Title. Agents Rules, 1889.

Register of Patent Agents Rules, 1889.

I, A.B. [insert full name, and in the case of a member of a firm add, 'a member of the firm of

in the county of

do solemnly and sincerely declare as follows:

'], of

1. That prior to the 24th December, 1888, I had been bonâ fide practising in the United Kingdom as a patent agent.

2. That I acted as patent agent in obtaining the following patents :

[Give the official numbers and dates of some patents for the United Kingdom in the obtaining of which the declarant acted as patent agent.]

3. That I desire to be registered as a patent agent in pursuance of the said Act.

And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true and by virtue of the provisions of the Statutory Declarations Act, 1835.

Declared at

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APPENDIX B.

PARTICULARS OF PRELIMINARY EXAMINATIONS.

1. The Matriculation Examination at any University in England Scotland, or Ireland.

2. The Oxford or Cambridge Middle Class Senior Local Examinations.

3. The Examinations of the Civil Service Commissioners for admis. sion to the Civil Service.1

In pursuance of Rule 8 the Institute has, with the approval of the Board of Trade, prescribed the following additional examinations:

4. The First Public Examination before Moderators at Oxford.

5. The Previous Examination at Cambridge.

6. The Examination in Arts for the second year at Durham.

7. The Examination for First Class Certificate of the College of Preceptors (40 & 41 Vict. c. 25, sec. 10).

8. An examination resulting in the obtaining of a Whitworth Scholarship.

PART II

FOREIGN PATENTS,

THE inventor who is not satisfied with the protection affor led him at home should consider well the countries in which his invention is likely to come into use, and also his own personal prospects of pushing his invention abroad, before incurring a large outlay in applications for foreign patents.

There are many rules with respect to foreign patents which differ from our British regulations: for instance, the patent for an imported invention frequently expires with the determination of the grant in that country from which the invention has been imported, and the inventions patented must be put into practice within a certain definite period from the grant, and must be continued in use year by year during the term. Annual and other duties have to be paid, and in some states the patented articles must be made in the country itself, and cannot be imported, and in some prior publication at home is a bar to obtaining a valid patent afterwards.

The International Convention on patents is printed on page 373 of this appendix, and it will be found to make the following important provisions as to patents taken out by subjects of the several states who are parties to it. First, the subjects or citizens of each of the states of the Union will enjoy in all the other states the same advantages as regards patents that their respective laws grant to their own subjects or citizens. Second, any person who has made an application for a patent in any one of the states enjoys, as regards the application for a patent in the other states, a right of priority for a term of six months from the date of the earliest application, a month longer being allowed for countries beyond the sea. Third, the introduction by the patentee into the country where the patent has been granted of objects manufactured in any of the other states does not entail forfeiture, but the patentee must work his patent in conformity