Nebraska advertiser., 1861-04-11
GBJ1iSe&llaa0ns.
Ne NeW Patenf LaK.


In view Of the vast interest involved in
Patents, we feel il incumbent upon US TO
give our readers a synopsis of the New
Patent Law passed by the late Session of
Congress, and which has already gone
into operation. This provides that all
patents hereafter granted, except for de-
signs, shall run for seventeen years. and
that the fee payable to the Government
on the filing the application for such
patent, shall be SIS. and $50 additional
when the patent passes for issue, if the
application be allowed, but if not allowed.
there will be no further fee required. All
applications which have heen pending, and
all applications which shall not be .tpade
complete within two years from the time
of filing shall be considered 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 original de-
sign in manufactures-printing, bas relief
in alto or basSO relieUO, ornament, or new
styles of stove plates, picture frames, all
new forms of articles of glass, china or
earthenware; also, pictures, prints, paint
ings and artistic designs of every possible
description. and no person can use or pat
tern after the same without the consent
of the inventor. 1t also provides that any
new form of manufacture may be patent-
ed, merchants and druggists can obtain
patents upon their trade marks and labels,
which they attach to their goods. PRINT
ers may secure new designs for type, &c;
bookbinders, new styles of binding or de-
signs for 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, cornices,
mouldings, tables, chairs, or any other
article of furniture; also, ratings, ban
listers, doors, &c., g., for tie terms of
three and one-half, seven and fifteen
years, as the applicant may desire. The
fees being for three and half years,
SO; for seven years, SIS; for fifteen
years $50.
This law also abohshes so much of the
thirteenth section of the act of July 4th,
1886, as authorizes the Commissioner to
issue kind of supplemental Patent for
additional Improvements or inventions al
ready granted, making it necessary to take
out original patents for all Improvements.
The fee upon the filing of an application
for a REISSUE viii hereafter be $50, and
the fee upon the filing of caveat will be
$40, which will not hereafter be consid-
cred a portion of the patent fee. This
law also abolishes the discriminating fees
against all foreigners whose respective
governments, give our citizens the same
privilege they do their own, thus allow
ing 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,
ercept in case of designs, trade marks,
patterns, &c,
This law also provides that fee Of
$50 shall be paid to the Government upon
the filing of every appeal to the Commis-
sioner, and on the filing Of every appli-
cation for an extension, $50; and in case
the patent be extended, an additional fee
of $50; but no patent hereafter granted
lCiU be eriended.
1t is farther provided, that at least ten
copies of every patent shall be printed
both the specification and drawing and
il is farther provided, that any magistrate
before whom dispositions are taken, to be
used in any contested case pending before
the Commissioner of Patents, shall have
power to issue process to compel the at
tendance Of witnesses as in other Judicial
proceedings.