Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1861-03-30
The New Patent Law.

In view OF the vast interest involved
in Patents, we feel it incumbent upon
US to give our readers synopsis of the
New Patent Law passed by the late
Session Of Congress, and which has al
ready gone into operation. This Law
provides that all Patents hereafter
granted, except for Designs, shall run
for seventeen years, and that the fee
payable to the Government on the fl
ing the application for such Patent,
shall be SIS and $40 additional when
the Patent passes for issue, if the appi
cation be allowed, but if not allowed
there will be no further Fee required.
All applications which have been pend
ing, and all applications which shall
not be made complete within two years
from the time of filing shall be consid-
cred abandoned, and will be so treated,
unless good cause be shown TO the
Commissioners for such delay.
This Law also provides that Patents
may be granted for any new and orig
inal design in Notwithstanding,
bas relief, in otto or basso re1iovo, Or
nament, or new styles Of stove plates,
picture frames, all new forms of articles
of glass, china or earthenware also,
pictures, prints, paintings and artistic
designs of every possible description,
and no person can use or pattern after
the same without the consent Of the
inventor. It also provides that any
new form Of manufacture may be pat
ented, merchants and druggists can
obtain patents upon their trade marks
and labels, which they attach to their
goods. Printers may secure new de-
signs for type, &C.; bookbinders, new
styles of binding or designs for covers;
mechanics, for any new article Of tool
pattern OF plan, used in any trade or
profession, any new form OF style Of
gates, fences, posts, cornices, mould
ings, tables, chairs, OF any other arti-
Gle of furniture; also, ratings, banis
tiers, doors, &c, &c, for the terms Of
three and one-half, seven and fifteen
years, as the applicant may desire
The Fees being for three and a half
years, $40; for seven years, $l5, for
fifteen years, $50.
This Law also abolishes so much of
the thirteenth Section Of the Act Of Ju-
ly 4th, 1886, as authorizes the Commits
sioner TO issue kind Of supplemental
Patent for additional improvements or
inventions already granted, making it
necessary to take out Original Patents
for all improvements. The Fee upon
the filing Of an application for reissue
will hereafter be $50, and the Fee upon
the filing Of caveat will be $40, which
will not hereafter be considered D por-
ton of the Patent Fee This Law az
so abolishes the discriminating Fees
against ali foreigners whose respective
governments, give our citizens the
same privilege they do their own, thus
allowing English, Belgian, Austrian,
French, Russian and Spanish, and
indeed, all other foreigners but
Canadians, to take Patents upon the
same terms as our own citizens, except
in case of designs, trade marks,
patterns, &c.
This Law also provides that q Fee
of 800 shall be paid to the Government
upon the filing Of every appeal to the
Commissioner, and on the filing Of ev-
. cry application for an extension, $50 :;
and in case the Patent be extended,
an additional Fee Of $50; but no Pot
ent hereafter grG1etod aojU be extended.
It is farther provided, that at least
ten copies Of every Patent shall Zoe
printed-both the specification and
drawing and it is farther provided,
that any magistrate before whom dep
ositions are taken, to be used In any
contested case pending before the
Commissioners Of Patents, shall have
power to issue process to compel the
attendance of witnesses as in other Ju-
dseial proceedings.
These are the principal features of
this important law, for which synopsis
we are indebted to Messrs. BRoADNAx
& GRAY, Patent Lawyers and Solicit
tors, Washington, Chicago and st.