Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-30
Law Regarding Exhibits at the
Paris Fair.
INVENTORS WERE TIMID
And Statement Was Sent Out By the
Managers of the Exposition--
An Old Statute.

| Ch1cago, Jan. 30.-American manufac-
turers who intend exhibiting at the Paris
exposition of 1900 need not fear concern
'iis the protection by the French govern
iiieiit OF thelr patents, registered designs
or trade marks. dispatch from Berne
| switzerland, setting forth the basis of
the fears of Americans intending to make
! eXhlblts, has been taken up by Henri
! Merou, French consul for Chicago. and
the facts regarding the laws, specifically
ana otherwise, Of the French republic
created 1or the protection of exhibitors
: at their International expositions is
SHOWN in the following statement issued
! py the press bureau for the commissioner
general. Special rules and regulations
made by the exposition authorities at
Paris and applying to the case contain
the following provisions:
! Section 70-No works of art no mod
ucts exhibited in the buildings. parks or
! gardens may be sketched, copied or re-
produced IN any way whatsoever with
out authorization from the exhibitor.
4 countersigned by the department of the
director general. The commissioner gem
eral may give permits for the reproduc-
tion of ensemble views.
! Section 71-EXhibitors shall have all
t the rights and immunites created by the
! laws of May %, 1868, as to the guarantee
i 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 organic
act of the republic providing for exhibi-
tons. The law is in relation to all ex-
hlb1tors and guarantees ample protec-
ton to exhibitors who may not previous
1y have exhibited their manufactured ar
ticles in the republic of France up to a
! time not exceeding three calendar months
following the close of the exposition pro-
Vided such exhibitor within 80 days after
the opening of the exposition makes or
shall have made application to the pre-
feet of the Seine for patent. This ap-
| plication as well as the general forms
/ thereof, corresponds with these usually
followed in applications for patents in the
republic of France. The prefect referred
to corresponds with our commissioner of
patents.
The law of May 90, 1868, above referred
/ to, provides as follows:
! Every citizen of France or any foreign
| country, his successors or assigns, who
may be the owner, discOVerer or inventor
j of a discovery or invention, upon or for
which it is possible to obtain patent in
the republic of France, under the law of
| y July 1914, whether SuCH discovery or IN
vention is of such character as to require
a design or description of the time to be
! deposited with the prefect in the con-
! formty of the law of March Is, 1906, or
! otherwise, can, if such discovery or in
vention be admitted to exhibit in any ex-
positions authorized by the government
of France, secure from the prefect in
/ whose department such exposition is held,
certificate describing such exhibitors
articles gratuitOuSly. Such certificates
inSures to such owner discOverer or in
/ ventor the same rights and privileges as
| if regular patent had been issued on the
same in the republic of France without
prejudice to any patent which such own
er, discOverer or inventor may apply for.
| Application for such gratuitous certifi
cate herein referred to must be within the
first so days next succeeding the opening
of any such exposition and the applica-
ton for the same should be addressed to
the prefecture of the department where
the exposition is to be held and should be
accompanied by full description of the
article to be exhibited. Such application
as we'll as any regulations will ultimately
be transmitted to the minister of agricul-
ture commerce and public works upon
application and without charge to the
applicant.