The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1837-05-17

els Of suitable construction and, also, !
10 consider and determine what models
may be procured in pursuance of, and
in accordance with, the provisions and
limitations in this section contained. And
said commissioners may make aud es-
tablish all such regulations, terms, and
conditions, not Inconsistent with law, ms
in their opinion, may be proper and me-
cessary to carry the provisions Of this
section into effect according to its true
intent.
SEC. 5. And be IL further enacted, That
whenever q patent shall be returned for
correction and reissue under the thir-
teeuth section Of The act to which this is
additional, and the patentee shall desire
several patents 10 be issued for distinct
and separate parts Of the thing paterted,
he shall first pay, in manner and in ad-
dition to the sum provided by that act,
the sum Of thirty dollars, for each ad-
ditional patent so to be issued ProUid-
ed, hOreUer, That no patent made prior
to the aforesaid fifteenth day Of Decem-
Der, shall be corrected and re-issued un-
iii duplicate of the model and drawing
Of the thing as originally invented, veri-
fed by oath as shall be required by the
Commissioner, shall be deposited in the
Patent Office.
Nor shall any addition Of an improve
ment be made to any patent heretofore
aranted, nor any new patent be issued for
gn improvement made in any machine,
manufacture, or process, to the original,
inventor, assignee, or possessor of a pa
ten, therefore, nor any disclaimer be ad
mi,ted 20 record, until a duplicate model
aud drawing Of the thing originally in
tended, verified as aforesaid, shall have
been deposited in the Patent Office, if
the Commissioner shall require the same
nor shall any patent be granted for an
invention, improvement, or discovery,
the model or drawing Of which shall
have been lost, until another model and
drawing, ifrequired by the Commissioner,
shall, in like manner, he deposited in the
Patent Office.
And in all such cases, as well as in
those which may arise under the third
section Of this act, the question of com
pensaton for such models and drawing,
shall be subject to the judgment and de.
cision OF the Commissioners provided for
in the fourth section, under the same
limitations and restrictions us arc therein
prescribed.
SEC. q. And be ii further enacted,
That any patent hereafter to be issued,
may be made and issued to the assignee
or assignees of the inventor or discoverer,
the assignment thereof being first entered
of record, and the application therefor
being duly made, and the specification
duly sworn to by the inventor. Aud in
all cases hereafter, the applicant for
patent shall be held to furnish duplicate
drawings, whenever the case admits of
drawings, one of which to be deposited
in the office, and the other to be annex xed
TO the patent, and considered a part of
the specification.
SEC. z. And be IL further enacted,
That whenever any patentee shall have
through inadver.ence, accident, or mis-
take, made his specification of claim too
broad, claiming more than that Of which
he was the original or first inventor, some
material aud substantial part ofthe thing
patented being truly and justly his own,
any such patentee; his administrators,
executors, aud assigns, whether of the
whole or of a sectional interest therein,
may make disclaimer of such parts of the
thing patented as the dscaimunt shall
not claim to hold by virtue of the patent
or assignment, stating therein the extent
Of his interest in such patent; which dis
clalmer shall be IN writing, attested by
one or more witnesses, and recorded in
the Patent Office, on payment by the
person dsclaiming, in manner as other |
patent duties are required by law to be
paid, of the sum of ten dollars. And
such disclaimer shall thereafter be taksn
aud considered as part of the original
specification, TO the extent of the interest
which shall be possessed in the pa,en, or
right secured thereby, by the disclaimant,
aud by those claiming by or under him
subsequent to the record thereof Blu,
no such disclaimer shall effect any action
pending at the time of its being filed, ex-
cept SO lar as may relate, to the question
of unreasonable neg lect or delay in filing
the same.
SEC. {. And be II further enacted,
That whenever application shall be made
to the Commissioner for any addition of,
newly-discovered improvement to be
made to an existing patent, or whenever
n patent shall be returned for correction
and reissue, the specification of claim
annexed To every such patent shall be
subject to revision and restriction. in the
same manner rs are original application
for patents; the Commissioner shall not
add any such improvement to the paten,
in the one case, nor grant the reissue in
the other case until the applicant shall
have entered disclaimer, or altered bis
specification of claim in accordance with
the decision of the Commissioners; aud
in all such cases, the applicant, if dis
satisfied with such decision, shall have
the same remedy and be entitled TO the