The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 88
Letters Patent
Letters Patent.
4. Every specification relating to applications for Letters Patent shall be subject to the following conditions :—
a. | Drawing-paper, tracing-paper, or tracingcloth may be used; should be as white, clean, and smooth as possible, and should be rolled up and not folded. |
b. | The drawings should be made with Indian ink, freshly rubbed down, quite black, free from grit and glaze. |
Pale ink must on no account be used.
No colour but black is allowed.
All lines, writing, figures, and letters must be clearly and firmly drawn, so as to allow of their being visible when considerably reduced by the process of photo-lithography.
All shading must be by black lines sufficiently wide apart for the purpose aforesaid.
5. The notice of an intention to proceed with an application for Letters Patent must be delivered at the Patent Office at least ninety days before the expiration of the period of protection.
6. When in any case the Patent Officer deems it expedient, he may make an order that the applicant or his agent, and the objector or his agent, shall deposit before the hearing such sum as the Patent Officer may think fit to meet any costs of the hearing, or costs connected therewith or incident thereto.
7. When an applicant is desirous of submitting an amended specification or drawing for the allowance of the Patent Officer, such amended specification or drawing must be left at the Patent Office at least five days preceding the day of hearing.
8. No amendment or alteration at the instance of the applicant will be allowed in any specification or drawing after the specification shall have been registered, except on the hearing of the application for Letters Patent, and then only in the cases permitted by the proviso to the seventh section of the said Act, or for the correction of merely clerical errors, or of omissions made per incuriam.
9. The Patent Officer, or, in case of his illness or absence from Wellington, the Registrar of Patents, shall have power to adjourn from time to time the hearing of any application for Letters Patent.
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11. Notwithstanding the issue of the Patent Officer's warrant, no Letters Patent shall be prepared until application in writing shall have been made by the applicant or his agent for the preparation of the Letters Patent, and until the fee payable on obtaining Letters Patent shall have been paid.
12. If any Letters Patent be lost or destroyed, duplicate Letters Patent of the like tenor and effect, and sealed and dated as of the same day as such lost or destroyed Letters Patent, may be issued upon evidence of such loss or destruction being produced to the satisfaction of the Patent Officer. The fee of ten shillings shall be paid on making application for now Letters Patent, and the fee of two pounds on obtaining the same.