Patent term may be extended seven years beyond the first term of fourteen, on application to commissioner, setting forth reasons, giving public notice of same, furnishing tion of invention, profit and loss, &c., and the Board appointed to judge with descripobtaining a favourable decision of the said the patent by a certificate of said decision. No grant of extension can be made if the first term be already expired.

Board. Commissioner is then to extend

Applications pending at time of passing Act, and on which duty is paid, to be proceeded with as though filed after the passing thereof.

within the current year to high public functionaries, who do nothing in the matter, out of the pockets of inventors seeking security for their own discoveres;—what have they received in return? about 300 lumps of green wax! not a "drachma" more; not a particle of information has been granted-not the slightest guarantee of the validity of the patent has been vouchsafed, and so little real knowledge has been purchased by this enormous outlay, that the instruments to which these lumps are appended, have been correctly defined by one intimately conversant We have extracted the Fees, and with them, to be generally traps tabulated them for convenient reference, for the unwary, sources of heart-break- | and also to exhibit more conspicuously ing annoyance, and, in many cases, the vexatious pre-eminence as to excauses of utter ruin.' pense, which a "subject of the king of Great Britain" must hold, so long as his own government will not follow the example of other nations, and relieve or remove the oppressive burden. Duties to be paid on Applications, &c., for Patents, and other Business relating thereto, under an Act of the United States, passed the 4th of July, 1836, entitled "An Act to promote useful Arts," &c.

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The original bill of the United States is so little altered by the Act, and the abstract we gave of the former at p. 76, is so copious and correct, that we consider it unnecessary to reprint the new document. There are some additions, of which the following are the principal.

Commissioner has the privilege of franking all letters and packages by mail, relating to the business of the Patent-Office.

On a renewed application for a patent being refused, applicant may have examiners of his claim appointed.

Inventor not to lose his right to a patent, "by reason of his having previously taken out letters-patent therefor in a foreign country, and the same having been published at any time within six months, next preceding the filing of his specification."

Patent, on request, may date from filing of specification, if the same do not exceed six months from issuing of patent.

Specification, on_request, may be preserved secret in the Patent-Office for a year, or until the necessary models be furnished; during which time applicant to be entitled to notice of interfering applications.

Caveat must set forth the design and characteristics of invention,-may be preserved secret in Patent-Office. Person filing caveat to file his specification, &c., within three months after receiving notice of interfering application.

Defendant in an action relying on previous invention, knowledge, or use of the thing patented, must give special notice of the name and residence of party possessing such prior knowledge.

Patentee believing himself inventor at time of application, not to lose patent on account of invention having been known or used in a foreign country, it not appearing that it had been patented or described in any printed publication.

Dulls.

£ s. d.

......

5.

40...

376 900

6.

Register of Transfer of Patent
Right

3... 0 13 6

7.

15... 376 .10 Cents.. 0 0 54

8.

9.

Surrender of an invalid Patent

for Renewal
Attested Copy of Specification,
per 100 Words
Copies of Drawings," reasona-
ble expense of making them."
An Examiner not to be paid,
in any one case, more than
10 Dollars (£2. 5s.) for his
services.

We must not be understood as giving our unqualified approbation to the whole of this New Patents Act of the United States, nor expressing an opinion that it is perfect; but in our extreme destitution it would be absurd to be fastidious, and we cordially congratulate our TransAtlantic brethren on, their valuable acquisition, hoping, though against conviction, that a few years may wipe out one article, at least (viz., 2 b), from their Tariff.

Patent-Law Grievance. No. VII.

THE penalties inflicted on the inventive genius of Britain during the present year, up to the 25th ult., in the shape of government stamps and fees on patents, amount to more than £33,000!

N.B. This sum has been paid in

ready money, on taking the first steps, and as many of the inventors are poor men, (operatives,) and a great many others of them persons to whom it would be very inconvenient to pay at least £100 down, they have been obliged to go into debt, or mortgage or dispose of their inventions, either wholly or in part, &c.

NEW PATENTS. 1836.

N. B.-The first Date annexed to each Patent, is that on which it was sealed and granted; the second that on or before which the Specification must be delivered and enrolled. The abbreviation For. Comm., signifies that the invention, &c., is "a communication from a foreigner residing abroad."

TOTAL, AUGUST...19.

SEPTEMBER.

204. ROBERT GRIFFITHS, Birmingham, Warw., Machine-maker, and JOHN GOLD, of the same place, Glass-cutter; for improvements in machinery for grinding, smoothing, and polishing plate-glass, window-glass, marble, slate, and stone; and also glass vessels, and glass spangles, and drops. Sept. 1.-March 1.

205. JOHN PICKERSGILL, Coleman-st., Lond., Merchant; for improvements in preparing and in applying India-rubber (caoutchouc) to fabrics. Sept. 1.-March 1.

For. Comm.

206. JAMES SURREY, York-house, Battersea, Surry, Miller; for a new application of a principle by which mechanical power may be obtained or applied. Sept. 1.—Jan. 1.

207. WILLIAM BUSH, Wormwood-st., Lond., Surveyor and Engineer; for improvements in the means of, and in the apparatus for, building and working under water, part of which improvements are applicable for other purposes. Sept. 3.March 3.

208. CHARLES FARINA, Clarendon-pl., Maida Vale, Middx., Gent.; for an improved mashing apparatus. Sept. 15. March 15.

211. JOSHUA BATES, Bishopsgate-st., Lond., Merchant; for improved apparatus or machinery for making metal hinges. Sept. 15.-March 15. For. Comm.

212. PETER ASCANIUS TEALDI, late of Mondovi, Piedmont, Manchester, Lanc., Merchant; for a new extract or vegetable acid obtained from substances not hitherto used for that purpose, which may be employed in various processes of manufacture, and in culinary or other useful purposes, together with the process of obtaining the same. Sept. 15.-March 15. For. Comm.

213. WILLIAM BATES, Leicester, Fuller and Dresser; for improvements in the manufacture of reels for reeling cotton. Sept. 16.-March 16.

214. MOSES POOLE, Lincoln's-inn, Middx., Gent.; for improvements in the description of public vehicles, called cabs. Sept. 21.-March 21. For. Comm.

215. ROBERT JUPE, Bond-st., Middx., Cabinet-maker; for improvements in apparatus applicable to book and other shelves, Sept. 22.-March 22.

216. WILLIAM CROFTS, Radford, Nott., Machine-maker; for certain improvements in machinery for making bobbin-net lace, also called twist-net or lace, part of which improvements are for the purpose of making figured or ornamental bobbin-netlace, or ornamental twist-lace. Sept. 22.

209. WILLIAM HINCKES COX, Bedmin--March 22. ster, Bristol, Tanner; for improvements in tanning hides and skins. Sept. 15.March 15.

210. JOHN FREDERICK WILLIAM HEMPEL, of Oranienburg, Prussia, Clapham, Surry, Officer of Engineers, and HENRY BLUNDELL, Hull, York., Paint and Colour Manufacturer; for an improved method of operating upon certain vegetable and animal substances in the process of manufacturing candles therefrom. Sept. 15March 15. For. Comm.

217. HENRY VAN WART, Birmingham, Warw., Gent., and SAMUEL ASPINALL GODDARD, of the same place, Merchant; for certain improvements in locomotive steam-engines and carriages, parts of which improvements are applicable to ordinary steam-engines and to other purposes. Sept. 22.-March 22.

218. JOHN SMITH, Halifax, York., Dyer; for certain improvements in machinery for dressing worsted and other woven fabrics. Sept. 22.-March 22.

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BRITISH ASSOCIATION.

BRISTOL SESSION.

As we by no means consider the appointments of officers to the British Association as merely honorary, or complimentary, we have thought it a duty to obtain a more correct list of them than it was possible to do before the publication of our last Number. We now insert it. The visiters of the several Sections may therefore see to whom the management of each was confided. If we could have extended the salutary regulation recently adopted in Parliamentary Committees, and thus have been enabled to report the actual attendance of each officer, and each committee-man, we would have cheerfully done so. We have been told that many members were never seen at the Committees to which they were appointed. To prevent those members from being either commended or blamed, who were not at Bristol at all, we have printed their names in italics.

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