The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-31
PROTECT PATENTS,
The Law Regarding Exhibits mt the Paris
Exposition.

Chicago Jan. a0.-American manIea,-
| turers who intend exhibiting at the
Paris exposition of 1900 need not fear
| concerning the protection by the French
government or their patents, registered
designs or trade marks. A dispatch
from Berne, Switzerland. setting forth
the basis of the fears of Americans in
tending to make exhibits has been
taken up by Henri Merou, French con-
SUI Tor Chicago, and the facts regard
ing the laws, specifically and otherwise,
or the French republic created for the
protection of exhibitors at their interna-
tlonai eXpositions are 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 the case contain the follow
ing provisions:
Section S0-No works of art, no pro-
ducts exhibited in the buildings. parks
or gardens may be sketched, copied or
reproduced in any way whatsoever with
out authorization from the exhibitor,
countersigned by the department of the
director general. The commissioner gen
eral may give permits for the reproduce
ton Of ensemble views.
Section T-Exhibitors shall have all
the rights and immunities created by
the laws of May %, 1868, as to the guar
antee Of inventions liable to be patent
ed and also with manufactured designs
subject to the conditions of the said
law.
The law of May %, 1868, as it applies
to these cases, is Incorporated in the or
ganic act Of the republic providing for
exhibitions. 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 time not exceeding
three calendar months following the
close of the exposition, provided such
exhibitor within 80 days after the open
ing of the exposition makes or shall
have made application to the project of
the Seine for a patent. This application
as well as the general forms thereof
corresponds with those usually followed
in applications for patents in the re-
public of France. The project referred
to corresponds with our commissioner
Of patents.
The law of May 49, 1868. above re
ferred to, provides as follows:
Every citizen Of France or any for
eign country, his successors or assigns,
who may be the owner, discoverer or
inventor of a discovery or invention,
upon or for which it is possible to obtain
a patent in the republic of France UNI
der the law of July 5, 1874, whether such
discovery or invention is of such char
acter as to require design or descrip
ton of the time to be deposited with
the project in the conformity Of the
law of March Is, 1906, or otherwise, can,
If such discovery or invention be adj
mitted ito exhibit in any expositions au-
thorized by the government of France,
secure from the project in whose depart
ment such exposition is held certii-
cate describing such exhibitors articles
gratuitously. Such certificates insures
to such owner, discoverer or inventor
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
owner, discoverer or inventor may APP
ply for. Application for such gratui-
tous certificate herein referred to must
be within the first 20 days next sue
ceeding the opening of any such EXPOSE
ton and the application for the same
should be addressed to the prefecture
Of the department where the exposition