The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1861-03-27
p'be New Pu.ent Law.

In view Of the vast interest involved in
Patents, we feel it encumbent upon us to
give our readers synop,is OF the New Pat
ent law passed by the late Session of Con-
aress, and which has already gone INFO opc
ration. 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 filing the
appl cation for such Patent, shall be Sl5
and $40 additional wien the Patent passes
for issue, if the application-be allowed, but
if not allowed there will he no further Fee
required. All applications which have been
pending, and all applications which shall
not e made complete within two years from
the time of filing shall be considered aban-
doned. and will he so treated unless good
cause be shown to the Commissioners for
such delay. ...... ....t.z.rf
This Law also provides that Patents may
be granted for any new and original design
in nufactureS--printing, has relief, in
alto or basso relieuo, ornament, or new style
Of stove plates, picture frames, all new forms
of articles Of glass, china or earthernware /;
also, pictures, prints, paintings and artistic
designs of every possible description, and
no persnIp can use or pattern after the same
without the consent of the inventor 1t
also provides that any new form, Of manu-.
facture ma, be patented, merchants and
druggists, can Obtain patents upon their
trade marks and labels, which they attach to
their goods. Printers may secure new de.
signs FIR type, &C. bookbinders, new styles
of binding or designs G,r covers; mechanics,
for any new article Of tool, pattern or plan,
used in any trade or profession, any new
form or style Of gates, fences, posts, cornces,
nouldings, tables, chairs, or any other article
Of furniture ALSO ratings, baniSters, doors.
&c, &C., for the terms OF three AMI one-half,
seven and fifteen years, asthe applicant NAV
desire. The Fees being for three and half
years, $40; for seven years. SIS for fifteen
years, $50.
This Law also abolshes so much Of the
thirteenth Section. of the Act of July 4fh.
| 1885. as authorizes the Commissioner to
issue kind of supplemental Patent for ad-
ditiona' 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 a re-
| issue, will hereafter be $50, and the Fee
upon the filing Of a caveat will be SO,
winch will not hereafter be considered a
| portion of the Patent Fee. This Law also
abolis''es the discrimi mating Fees against all
| foreigners whose rcspectiv, governments,
give our citizens the same privilege they do
their own, thus allowing English, Belgian,
Austrian, French, Russian and Spanish, and
| indeed, all OF .er foreigners but Canadians,
to take Patents upon the same terms as our
own citizens, erteptin cases ofdeSigns, trade
marks, patterns, dc. |
This Law also provides that a Fee Of $50
shall be paid to the Government upon the
| fling of every appeal to the Commissioner,
and on the fling of every application for an
extension, $50; and in case the Patent be
extended, an additional Fee of $50; but no
Patent hereafter granted ssiU be ertenasd
1t is farther provided, that at least ten
copies ofevery Patent shall be printed
the specification and drawing and it is
farther provided, that any magistrate before
whom dispositions are taken, to be used in
any contested case pending before the Com,
missioner Of Patents, shall have power to
| issue process to compel the attendance of
witnesses as in other Judicial proceedings.
These are the principal features Of this
important Law, for which synopsis we are
! indebted to McSsrs BRoADNAX & GRAY,
! Patent Lawyers and Solicitors. Washington,
| Chicago, and st. Louis, who will checrefully
| furnish any information upon application by
letter or otherwise, to either of the above
napcd places. .gt a9