93 Patent

AuthorRalph Hone
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CHAPTER 93.

PATENT.

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS.

SECTION.

  1. SHORT TITLE.

  2. INTERPRETATION.

  3. PERSONS DESIRING TO OBTAIN LETTERS PATENT MUST FILE A SPECIFICATION OF INVENTION.

  4. PUBLICATION OF FILING OF SPECIFICATION.

  5. NOTICE OF OPPOSITION TO THE GRANT OF THE PATENT MAY BE GIVEN WITHIN Two MONTHS AT THE REGISTRY OF RECORDS.

  6. WHEN GOVERNOR SHALL DIRECT THE ISSUE OF LETTERS PATENT.

  7. INVENTIONS MADE IN GERMANY OR JAPAN.

  8. UNDER CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES THE GOVERNOR MAY DIRECT PATENTEE TO GRANT LICENCES.

  9. PUBLICATION OF THE ORDER ISSUED SHALL BE SUFFICIENT NOTICE TO A PATENTEE.

  10. FEE.

  11. EVERY PERSON OBTAINING LETTERS PATENT MAY MAKE, USE, EXERCISE AND VEND INVENTION DESCRIBED IN SPECIFICATION FOR SPACE OF SEVEN YEARS.

  12. UNLAWFUL TO COUNTERFEIT, IMITATE OR RESEMBLE INVENTION.

  13. REMEDY AGAINST ANY PERSON WHO MAKES, USES, EXERCISES, PUTS IN PRACTICE OR VENDS INVENTION WITHOUT CONSENT OF GRANTEE.

  14. PRIVILEGES UNDER THIS ACT NOT CONFERRED ON ANY PERSON NOT BEING TRUE AND FIRST INVENTOR.

  15. PRIVILEGE NOT GIVEN TO USE OR IMITATE ANY INVENTION OR WORK PREVIOUSLY FOUND OUT AND INVENTED AND PUBLICLY USED.

  16. SPECIFICATIONS FILED TO BE NUMBERED.

  17. PATENTS ASSIGNABLE.

  18. NOTICE OF LETTERS PATENT GRANTED TO BE PUBLISHED IN Gazette.

  19. RENEWAL OF PRIVILEGES.

  20. FEES PAYABLE ON RENEWAL OF PRIVILEGES.

  21. CERTIFICATE OF RENEWAL.

  22. COPIES OF SPECIFICATIONS OPEN TO INSPECTION.

  23. LETTERS PATENT, ETC, TO BE RECORDED IN A BOOK.

  24. FEE FOR MAKING A SEARCH.

  25. REGISTER OF PROPRIETORS TO BE KEPT.

    SCHEDULE.

    FoRMS OF PETITION AND DECLARATION.

    ICH.93. 1449

    CHAPTER 93.

    PATENT.

    AN ACT RELATING TO THE LAW OF PATENTS.

    [23rd May 1889.1

  26. This Act may be cited as The Patent Act.

  27. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires'assigns' shall include grantees of the sole use or benefit in the Colony of an invention or of the sole use of an exclusive privilege for a limited time;

    'invention' shall be deemed to include any art, process or manner of producing, preparing, or making an article, and also any article prepared or produced by manufacture and any improvement thereon;

    'inventor' shall include the importer of an invention not publicly known or used in the Colony, and shall also include the heirs, executors, administTators or assigns of an inventor as the case may be.

  28. Every person who desires to obtain exclusive privileges in respect of any inventions as are hereinafter in this Act mentioned shall file or cause to be filed by an attorney appointed for the purpose in the Registry of Records, a complete specification of the invention, particularly describing and ascertaining the nature of the invention, and in. what manner the same is to be performed, and shall within ten days thereafter present a petition to the Governor accompanied by a copy of such specification, and a declaration according to the forms in the Schedule to this Act, praying for a grant of letters patent in connection with his invention:

    Provided that where the nature of the case admits of drawings, the applicant shall furnish a copy of such drawings which shall also be filed with the said specification.

    23 of 1889.

    2 of 1890.

    12 of 1891.

    3 of 1900.

    26 of 1947.

    G.N. 172 of 1964.

    Short title.

    Interpretation.

    Persons desiring to obtain letters patent must file a specification of invention.

    2 of 1890, s. 1.

    26 of 1947, s. 3.

    Schedule.

    Drawings to be filed with specification where possible.

    12 of 1891, s. 2.

    Publication of filing of specification.

    2 of 1890, s. 3.

  29. Whenever a complete specification has been filed, the Registrar General shall issue immediately and publish in the Gazette a notice to the following effect:

    REGISTRY OF RECORDS, Nassau, 19

    Notice of opposition to the grant of the patent may be given within two months at the Registry of Records.

    2 of 1890, s. 4.

    Notice of opposition to be given to the applicant.

    G.N. 172 of 1964.

    Governor shall direct an examination and enquiry into the application and opposition thereto.

    When Governor shall direct the issue of letters patent 2 of 1890, s. 5.

    Inventions made in Germany or Japan.

    26 of 1947, s. 2.

    A specification has this day been filed in this office under The Patent Act by (name of inventor) for (state name of invention).

    1. B., Registrar General.

  30. -(1) Any person may at any time within two months from the date of the advertisement of the filing of the complete specification give notice in writing at the Registry of Records to the Registrar General of opposition to the grant of the patent on the ground of the applicant having obtained the invention from him, or from a person of whom he is the legal representative, or on the ground that the invention has been patented in the Colony on an application of prior date, or on the ground that the specification comprises the same invention as is comprised in a specification bearing the same or a similar title and accompanying a previous application, but on no other ground.

    (2) Where such notice is given the Registrar General shall give notice of the opposition to the applicant or his attorney.

    (3) When such notice shall have been given, the Governor shall direct an examination and enquiry into the application and opposition thereto before such person or persons, and in such manner as he may think fit, with a report as to whether the grant ought or ought not to be made.

  31. If there is no opposition, or in case of opposition, if the report made under subsection (3) of section 5 of this Act is in favour of the grant of a patent, it shall be lawful for the Governor, to direct the issue of letters patent to the said applicant which shall extend to the Colony.

  32. -(1) In this section'company' means any body of persons, corporate or unincorporate, and, in relation to a country, means any such body having its principal place of...

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