Woodstown register. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 187?-1892, 1883-10-02
FARM N FIRESIDE.
PATENTS.

or discovered anynew or useful art,
machine, manufacture and COM
position Of matter, or any new and
useful improvement thereof, not
known or used by others in this
country, and not patented or des-
cribed in any printed publication in
this or any foreign country before
his invention or discovery thereof,
and not in public use or on sale for
more than prior two yrs to his appli-
cation, unless the same in proved to
have been abandoned, may, upon
payment of the fees required by
law and other due proceedings had,
obtain a patent therefor"
These are the words of the gen.
eral law in regard to the granting
of letters patents for inventions, and
the policy of the Government
in regard to the small fee required
when compared with excessive
charges of foreign countries, is
one of the happiest features Of the
American system of protection to
inventors. "Design patents" are
also issued under the same law to
"any person who, by his own in
dustry, genius, efforts and expense,
has invented and produced any new
and original design for a anu
facture, bust, statue, alto-relievo or
bas,rel,ef 4; any new and original
design for the printing of w~ooilen,
silk, cotton or other fabrics /: any
original impression, ornament,
patent (pattern), print, or picture
to be printed, panied, cast or other
wise placed on or worked into any
article of manufacture ; or any new,
useful and original shape or confg-
uration of any articles of manu-
tacture, the same not having been
known or used by others before his
invention or production thereof,
or patented or described in any
printed publication"
It is frequently the cast that an
inventor wishes times in which TO
perfect his invention, and at the
same time does not desire 10 be de-
prived of his rights by e Of an
other person filing his application
for what may be practically simil.r
invention and obtaining d patent
therefor.
TO provide against such a con
tingency the law allows an inventor,
who desires to mature his invention,
to file in the Pa ent Office a caveat
setting forth the design Of his in
vention and its distinguishing
characteristics.
The caveat is filed in the conf
dental archives of the office and
preserved in secrecy, and is opera
tive for the tenn of one year.
Should application be made within
the year by any ether person for a
patent with which the caveat would
in any manne interfere, the Com
missioner of P4tents deposits the
descripti n, specification, drawings
and model of such application in
the confidential archives of the Of
flee, and gives notice thereof to the
person BY whom the caveat was filed.
II he desires 10 avail himself Of
his caveat, he must file his descrip-
ton, specification, drawings and
model within three months.
A caveat may be renewed by the
payment of asecond caveat fee and
will continue in force for the term
of ore year from the date of the
payment of the fee. 1t may, in
like manner, be subsequently, re-
newed.
A caveat confers no rights and
affords no protection except as to
notice of a n interfering application
filed during its life, giving the
c~aveator (the person who has flied
the caveat), the opportunity o.
proving priority of invention if he
so desires.
The Government fees are as fol-
lows
On fling application for let
tiers patent for inventions, fifteen
do lars.
On filing application for a
design la'ent, ten dollars, wi h no
further charge for the issui e OF
the patent for a term of three
years and six months.
On issuing a design patent for
seven years, five dollars.
On issuing a design patent for
fourteen y, ars, twenty dollars.
On filing every caveat, ten dell