Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1898-05-10
Synopsis Of the First Report Presented
by This Of1Cial.
Brief History Of the Bureau Of Patents from
It's Inception List Of Patents
Granted In Two Years.

teT VI luteTlOT LUZ tu6 ldto Uleu-
nial period, in view of the fact
that the report is the first present
ed, briefly reviews the history of
the Bureau of Patents as follows:
"In the year 1916, under the
reign of Kamehameha III, the
first provision was made for grant
ing Letters Patent in the kingdom.
This law was very brief, simply
giving to the Minister of Interior
power to grant patents at the
direction of His Majesty in privy
council il deemed in the estima-
ton of His Majesty beneficial to
the interests of the kingdom. No
drawings or models we're required
and No limit of time for the life
of the patent. No record is found
of patents being issued under this
law, but in 1859 the original law
was amended by limiting the life
of the patent to ten years and re-
curing drawings and descriptions
of the inventions. In 1868 the
law was further amended by pro-
viding that the fee for a patent
granted to a citizen of the king.
dom should be thirty dollars and
to a foreigner one hundred dollars,
and also providing for the filing
of "caveats," the cost of which
should be thirty dollars. In 1884
the laws were further amended
by providing for the appointment
.ef q Commissioner of Patents, and
reducing the cost of filing a
caveat to five dollars, the
present rate. In 1883 the laws
w,sre again amended to permit an
appeal from the decision of the
Commissioner of Patents to the
Supreme Court in banco. The
laws regarding patents as amend
ed at this time were copied from
those in force in the United
States, but were far from complete,
yet NO change was mede until the
Session of 1896, when they were
amended by changing the life of
a patent from ten to fifteen years
and tho addition of some pro-
visions found by experience to be
necessary.
Rules of practise have been
adopted from time to time and
these with the full text of the laws
relating t, patents have been pub
lished for the guidance of those
having business with this Bureau
and these ale called for by persons
residing in all parts of the world.
The number of patents granted
each year is increasing, and in
the lines of sugar and coffee ma.
chinery the demand is greater
than in other classes Of improve
ments.
The Bureau receives complete
file of the weekly reports Of the
United States Patent Office, which
are strongly bound into volumes
of the proper size, thus making a
valuable library, the Oldest volume
of which is under date of A. D.
1870, and the records on file are
very nearly complete from that
date to the present.
Following is a list of the pa
tents granted during the past two
years:
T.. N. Dickerson & j. j. Suck
ert, process OF an apparatus fol
producing and liquifying Acety-
lene gas.
s. d. Poole, improvements in
Disc plows.
j. A. Rodriguez, separator in
evaporators for vacuum process.
f. A. Taber, embossed photo
graphs.
David Douglas, bumpers and
couplings.
Sidney Lawrence, mechanism
in marine propulsion.
Henry Arzt, generator OF cleo
tricity.
Geo. SpauIding, Disc pillow.
w. W. Wright, road carts.
M. 8. Cody, mail bag fasteners
j. p. Wright, match machine.
Marshall Pridham, process and
apparatus for purifying and deco
lorizing saccharine and other Ii
guilds.
Marshall Pridham, process and
apparatus for generating ozone.
John A. Hughes, dumping cars
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