The Hawaiian gazette., 1884-10-22
Bn 1ntlluritn.
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SESSION LAWS OF 1884,
AN ACT

IN AL
To REGULATE THE IssUISG OF PATENTS.
BE It Enacted by the King and the Legis-
latiye Assembly Of the Hawaiian Islands,
in the Legislature of the Kingdom as
sembled:
SECTION ! All patents shall be issued
IN the name of His Majesty the King, I'M
der the Seal of the Interior Department.
and shall be signed by the Minister of the
Interior and countersigned by the Com
missioneos of Patents, and they shall be
recorded together with the specification
IN the Office Of the Interior Department in
books kept for that purpose.
Section . Every patent shall contain
a short title or DESCRIPTION of the inyen-
ton or discovery, correctly indicating its
nature and design. and grant to the pa
teutee, his heirs or assigns for the term of
10 years, Of the exclusive right to make,
use, and vend the invention or discovery
throughout the Hawaiian Islands, refer
ring to the specification for the particulars
thereof. A copy OF the specifications and
drawings shall be annexed to the patent
and be part thereof.
SECTION 3. Any person who has inTen
ted or discovered any new and useful art
machine, manufacture, process or com.
position Of matter, or any new and useful
Improvement thereof not known or used
by others in this country, and not patent
ed Tor described IN any printed publica
tom in this or any foreign country before
ms invention or discovery thereof, may,
upon payment of the fees required by law,
and other due proceedings had, obtain a
patent therefor. Provided, however, that
any person who has invented or discover
ed any new and useful art, machine, man
ufacture. process or composition of mat
ter, or any new and useful improvement
thereof, and has received a patent or pa
tents therefor from any foreign govern
ment may also obtain patent therefor in
tels country as provided above, unless the
thing patented has been introduced into
public use in the Hawaiian Islands for more
than one year prior to the application for
a patent. But every patent granted for
an invention which has been previously
patented in foreign country, shall be so
limited that it shall not continue longer
than the time OF the expiration of such
foreign patent, or if there are several pa
tents, 1t shall not continue longer than
the time Of the expiration of the one with
the shortest unexpired term, and in no
case shall 1t be in force more than ten
years.
SECTION i Befor any inventor or dis
cOyerer shall receive a patent for his in
yentlon or discovery he shall apply there
for in writing to the Minister of the Inter
Tor, and shall file in the office of the Inter
Tor Department written description of
the same and Of the manner and process
OF making, compromising and using it, in
clear, concise, and exact terms, and in case
Of q machine he shall explain the princi
pie thereof and Of the manner in which
he has applied that principle so as to dis
tinguish it from other inventions. and he
shall particularly point out and distinctly
claim the part Improvement or combina-
ton which he claims as his invention or
discovery. When the nature of the case
admits Of drawings the applicant shall
furnish them as set forth in Section 2.
When the invention or discovery is of a
composition of matter, the applicant shall
furnish specimen of ingredients and of
the composition, sufficient in quantity for
the purpose of experiment. In all cases
which admit Of representation by model,
the applicant shall, if required, furnished
a model Of convenient size to exhibit
advantageously the several parts of his
invention
SECTION s. The applicant shall make
oath that he believes himself to be the
original and first inventor or discoverer of
the art, machine, manufacture, compost
ton or Improvement for which he solicits
patent, and that he does not know or
believe that the same was ever before
known or used, and shall state of what
country he Is a citizen.
SECTION 6. On filing of any such ap-
pLcatIon and the payment of the fees re-
CURED by law, the Commissioner of Pa
tents shall examine the alleged new inven-
ton or discovery, and if upon such exami-
nation 1t shall appear that the claimant is
justly entitled to patent under the law
and that the same is sufficiently useful and
important, he shall report accordingly to
she Minister of the Interior, who shall
cause a patent to be issued therefor.
SECTION Z, Any person who makes any
new invention or discovery, and desires
futher time to mature the same, may on
payment of the fees required by law, file
IN the Interior Department caveat set
ting forth the design thereof and its dis
tlnguishing characteristics, and praying
protection of his right until he shall have
matured the invention. Such cayeat shall
be preserved in secrecy and shall be ope-
ratiye for the term of one year from the
filing thereof
SECTION s. The Commissioner of Pa
tents shall be appointed by the Minister
OF the Interior and shall examine and re-
port on all applications for patents and
shall receive for such services fee of
twenty dollars for each application ex-
amined and reported by him, which fee
shall be paid by the applicant in advance.
In addition to this fee the following fees
shall be charged all applicants for patents,
upon filing each original application for a
patent, five dollars and upon issuing
patent, 1--we dollars and FIVE dollars shall
be charged for the filing of caveat.
SECTION 8. This Act shall take effect
and become a law from and after its pub
LEGATION, and An Act to amend Sections
255 and 256 Of the Civil Code, and add a
new Section to the Civil Code to be mum
bered Section 256A," approved the 22nd
day Of June, A D. 1868, is hereby repealed.
Approved TINS 29th day of August, A.
d. 1884.
KATAK Alta REV