The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-08-03
HINTS TO INVENTORS.
The fee for a caveat is $40.

The fee for a caveat Is $40.
a patent In Belgium costs 500.
The fee for the issuance Of patent
| is $50
All fees of the patent office must be
paid In advance.
The expense of obtaining u patent in
| Switzerland is SlOO
The patent office of Great Britain does
not require models.
Any person may take out a patent
for an invention or discovery.
The fee for filing each original appli-
cation for a patent is $l5.
German patent covers Prussia and
all the states oh the German empire.
A Belgium patent lasts 20 years, pro-
| vided that it is worked in Belgium.
A German patent costs 500, this sum
covering also the tax for six years.
ANY new or useful art, machine. man
ufacture or method may be patented.
In Germany patents may be taken
out for improvements of inventions al
ready patented.
A caveat may be filed in Canada just
as In the United States. the entire ex-
pense being $50.
A Spanish patent covers Spain and
all the Spanish colonies that are not
held by insurgents.
In Russia a patent may be taken out.
at the pleasure of the patentee. for
three. five or ten years.
A German patent must be worked in
that country within three years from its
date or it becomes void.
Any new or original design for the
printing of silk. cotton, WOODEN or other
fabrics may be patented.
All patents are ISSUED in the name
and under the seal of the United States
| and OF the patent office.
All patents are assignable by law.
and an interest in a patent may be as
signed as easily as the whole.
The cost of an application for a Brit
ish patent is $50. which includes govern
ment tax and all expenses.
The fee in design cases for three years
and six months is $40: for seven years.
SIS; for IA years. $50.
A new and useful shape or contigura-
tion Of an article of manufacture en-
titles the inventor to IL patent right.
All specifications and claims must be
signed by the inventor and attested by
the signatures Of two witnesses.
Any new or useful improvement upon
a machine manufacture or device not
previously known may be patented.
~ French patent must be prior to
patents taken out In other countries.
otherwise the application will not be
granted.
Improvement upon patent in France
may at amy time be made by the inven-
tor upon the payment Of small Zee.
The fee to be- paid for certified cop
les of patents and other papers In man
usIript ur typewritten is cents per
100 wordS.>
Two additional terms of six years
| each may be granted to the owner of Il
patent upon the payment OF $25 for
each term.
The French government makes no Of
licial examination of the device for
which u patent is asked. and requires no
models.
In Canada models of patents are not
required unless specially asked for ny
the Canadian commissioner of patents
A French patent Is issued for Is years
and is subject TO an annual tax OF so,
being revoked upon nOn-payment.
The first applicant for an invention or
device receives the patent in Great Bri-
tain, whether he be the real inventor or
not.
Colaborers who jointly have invented
a device are entitled to a joint patent
Neither can claim one separately from
the other.
All applications for issuance of letters
patent must he made I'm writing to the
commissioner of patents at Washing
ton city. st. Louis obe-Democrat.