The record-union., 1899-01-31
American Manufacturers Contem-
plating Showing Their Products
Need Have No Fear Concerning the Pro-
lection of Patents or Trademarks.
The French Government Will Take
Every Care to Guard the Rights
Of Exhibitors-Ru1es Laid Down
Which Will be in Full Force
During the Coming Exposition.

CHICAGO, JAN. 30-American manu-
facturerS who intend exhibiting at the
Paris Exposition of 1900 need not fear
concerning the protection by the French
Government of their patents, registered
designs or trademarks. A dispatch
from Berne, Switzerland, setting forth
the basis of the fear of Americans in
tending to make exhibits has been taxi
en- up by Henri Merou, French Consul,
for Chicago, and the facts regarding the
laws specifically and otherwise, of the
French Republic created for the pro-
lection of exhibitors at their interna-
tional exposition is shown in the fol-
lowing statement issued by the Press
Bureau for the Commissioner General.
Special rules and regulations made by
the exposition authorities at Paris and
applying to this case contain the fol-
lowing provisions:
Section 20. No works of art, no pro-
ducts exhibited in the buildings, parks
or gardens may be sketched, copied or
reproduced in any way whatsoever
without authorization from the exhib-
itor countersigned by the department
Director General The Commissary
General may give permits for the re-
production of ensemble views.
Section IL Exhibitors shall have all
the rights and immunities created by
the law of May %, 1868, as to the
guarantee of inventions liable to be
patented and also with manufactured
designs subject to the conditions of the
said law
The law of May, 1868, as it applies in
these cases, is incorporated in the or
ganic Act of the republic providing for
expositions. The law is in relation to
all exhibitors, and guarantees ample
protection to exhibitors who may not
previously have exhibited their manu-.
featured articles in the republic of
France up to a time not exceeding
three calendar months following the
close of the exposition, provided such
exhibitor within thirty days after the
opening of the exposition makes or
shall have made application to the Pre-
feet of the Seine for a patent. This APP
plicatien as well as the general forms
thereof corresponds with those usually
followed in applications for patents~in
the republic of France. Prefect referred
to corresponds with our Commissioner
of Patents.
The law of May %, 1868. above re-
ferfed to, provides as follows: Every
-
try, his successors or assigns, who
may be the owner, discoverer or inver-
tor of a discovery or invention, upon or
for which it is possible to obtain a pat
ent in the republic of France under
the law Of July 5, 1884, whether such
discovery or invention is of such char
acter as to require a design or descrip-
ton Of the same to be deposited with
the Prefect or Sous Project in conform
ity with the law of March IS, 1906 or
otherwise can, if such discovery or in
vention be admitted to exhibition in
any exposition authorized by the Gov
eminent of France secure from the
Project or Sous Project in whose de-
partment or reimbursement such expo
sition is held a certificate describing
such exhibited articles gratuirously.
Such certificate insures to such own
er, discoverer or inventor the same
rights and privileges as if regular
patent had been issued on the same in
the republic of France without preju-
dice to any patent which such owner,
discoverer or inventor may apply for
or any application he otherwise would
have been entitled to make previous to
the date of admission of such discovery
or invention to exhibition in such ex-
position and the last day of the third
month following the close of such ex-
hibition
Application for such gratuitous GER
tificate herein referred to must be made
within the first thirty days next sue
ceeding the opening of any such expo
sition, and the application for the same
should be addressed to the Prefecture
or Sous Prefecture of the Departments
where the exposition is located and
should be accompanied by a full de-
.scription of the article or discovery to
be patented and. if required by law in
the ordinary application of a patent. by
plans and designs fully descriptive of
same.
Such application, as well as any de-
cisions affecting the same that may be
made by the Project or Sous Prefect,
will be entered on as any decisions af-
fecting the same that may be made by
the Project or Sous refect will be en-
tered on a special register, and such
application and registration will ulti-
mately be transmitted to the Minister
of Agricultural, Commerce and Public
Works upon application and without
charge to the applicant"
PHILIPPINE ISLANDS.