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 :—

(1.) It must be written in a large, legible hand, or printed in fair legible type, and shall be in the form contained in the First Schedule to the said Act, or to the like effect. ( See Schedule hereafter.)
(2.) It shall be written book wise upon both sides of one or more skins of parchment, and every page thereof shall be twenty inches in length by fifteen inches in breadth.
(3.) The title of the invention must state distinctly and specifically the nature and object of the invention, and every specification must be limited to one invention.
(4.) After describing the details of the invention with precision, it shall contain a distinct claim for the especial novelty thereof, and
(5.) A declaration that no Letters Patent have been applied for elsewhere by the applicant for the invention in respect of which the application is made.
(6.) Every copy of any specification shall be legibly written upon pages of foolscap paper, and upon one side only of each page.
(7.) The drawings (if any) accompanying such specification shall be made upon parchment or tracing-cloth, and the following directions must be observed in making copies of drawings :—
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.