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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 88

Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous.

18. Documents in any language other than English, deposited in the Patent Office, must be accompanied by translations into English certified to as correct by some person approved of by the Patent Officer, and the regulations relating to original documents shall apply to translations.

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20. The fee of one shilling for every search and inspection mentioned in the Eighth Schedule to the said Act shall be paid for the inspection of each book, specification, and the drawings appertaining to each Letters Patent, Letters of Registration, or Application.

21. Applications for copies of documents or drawings in the Patent Office must be accompanied by a deposit of such sum as the Registrar of Patents shall consider sufficient to cover the cost of copying. Copies of drawings are to be charged for according to the time and labour required in each case.

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23. In the interpretation of these regulations, the following terms and expressions shall have the meanings hereby assigned to them :—

(1.)A "statutory declaration" means a declaration made in Great Britain or Ireland, or any British colony, or New Zealand, before a Justice of the Peace, notary public, or other person having authority to take or receive a declaration under any law for the time being in force; and, if made in any foreign country, means a like declaration made before a British Consul or Vice-Consul, or other person having authority to take or receive such a declaration under any Act of the Imperial Parliament for page 11 the time being in force authorizing the taking or receiving thereof.
(2.)A "certified copy" means a copy of any deed or instrument certified by a statutory declaration as aforesaid, or by a notary public, to be a true and correct copy, and shall include any such copy under the seal of any Patent Office or other department issuing any such patent, and certified under the hand of any Commissioner or other officer of such office or department to be a true copy thereof.

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The following is the Schedule referred to in Regulation No. 4:—

To All to Whom These Presents Shall Come,

I,___, of___, in the___of___, Send Greeting:

Whereas I am desirous of obtaining Royal Letters Patent for securing unto me Her Majesty's special license that I, my executors, administrators, and assigns, and such others as I or they should at any time agree with, and no others, should and lawfully might from time to time, and at all times during the term of fourteen years (to be computed from the day on which this instrument shall be left at the office of the Patent Officer), make, use, exercise, and vend, within the Colony of New Zealand and its dependencies, an invention for [Insert the title of the invention]; and in order to obtain the said Letters Patent I must, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, and must also enter into the covenant hereinafter contained: Now know ye that the nature of the said invention and the manner in which the same is to be performed is particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement (that is to say) [Describe the invention, and the especial novelty therein for which Letters Patent are claimed]. And I do hereby, for myself, my heirs, page 12 executors, and administrators, covenant with Her Majesty, her heirs and successors, that I believe the said invention to be a new invention as to the public use and exercise thereof, and that I do not know or believe that any other person than myself is the true and first inventor of the said invention, and that I will not deposit these presents at the the office of the Patent Officer with any such knowledge or belief as last aforesaid. And I do hereby declare that no Letters Patent have been applied for elsewhere by me for the invention in respect of which this application is made. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this day of, 18.

Witness to signature—