Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-07-12
INVENTIVE ZEAL
Intimations as to How a Patent Nav
Be Secured

Nearly all OF us at some time or other
nave been fired with inventive zeal said
patent onlcial 10 a Star man this morn.
Nis' ana letters pour into the office asking
an SORTS OF questions about patents The
auui'ioHaI rules | will give you are known
u US ana to patent attorneys but 10 the,
general public the details of our business ia
complex and misty. If the following few
suggestions and rules are borne I'm mind
they VIII be found of invaluable service "a
time savers and preventives, of worry. The
one great question which is fired at us is:
How may patent be obtainedn
a patent may be obtained by any per-
son VINO has invented or discovered any
new and useful art, machine Manufacture
or composition Of matter or any ncv and
useful improvement thereof not known ar
used by others i'm this country before his
invention or discovery thereof and not mai.
ented or described in any printed publica-
tlon in this or in any foreign country he
lore ms invention or discovery thereof or
more than two years prior To his apnlica-
uon and not I'm public use or on sale i'm
the United states for more than two wears
prior TO his application. unless the same is
proved 10 have been abandoned. upon pay
ment OF the fees required by law and other
due proceedings had.
A patent may also he obtained by any
person, who. by his own industry rcpius
EFFORTS and expense has invented and pro
duced any new anu original design for a
manufacture, busts. statue alto-relieVo or
bas-rel:ef; any new and original design for
the printing of wooden. silk cotton or other
FABRICS: any new and original impression
ornament, pattern. print or picture TO be
printed painted. cast OF otherwise nlaced
on or worked into any article of manufac-
ture' or any new. useful and original shane
or coniiguration of any article of manufac-
ture, the same not having been known or
used by others before his invention or pro-
auction thereof, nor patented nor described
in any printed publication. upon the pay
ment of the usual fees and upon the usual
proceedings
The receipt of letters patent from for
eiSn government will not prevent the in
ventor from obtaining a pa i'm the United
states unless the application upon which
the foreign patent was granted was filed
more than seven months prior to the filing
of the application in this country. i'm which
case no patent shall be granted i'm this
country.
In case of the death of the inventor
the application Will he made by and the
patent will issue to his executor or admin
istrator and where the inventor dies during
the time intervening between the filing Of
mis- application and the granting of n pat
ent, letters patent will likewise issue to
the executor or the administrator Where
an inventor becomes insane the application
may be made by and the patent issued
to his legally appointed guardian. Joint in
Ventors are entitled to joint patent and
neither of them can obtain a patent for an
invention Jointly invented by them. indie
pendent inventors of distinct and independ-
ent improvements in the same machine can
not obtain a joint patent for their separate
inventions.
These are the great fundamental rules
upon which patents are issued and should
be pasted in the hat for future reference"