Patents, Designs and Trade Marks, (Ch. 31. No. 18.

 

cation describing the nature of the invention, and, if required
by the Registrar, accompanied by plans, and shall, in lieu
of the fees otherwise payable on application for a patent,
pay a fce of $4.80 or such other fee as may be prescribed, the
Registrar may issue to the applicant a certificate in the
form E in the said Schedule, and the invention may there-
upon be used for a period of nine months or until within
such period a patent shall have been granted for the same
without prejudice to such patent, and in such case such
patent shall be granted on delivery within such period of
nine months of such complete specification as hereinbefore
mentioned, and on payment of the balance of the fee
payable on application for a patent.

(4) On an application for a patent, the specification or
provisional specification and drawings, if any, accom-
panying or Ieft in connection with such application shall
not at any time be open to public inspection or be published
by the Registrar, unless and until such patent has been
granted.

5. (1) The Registrar shall keep a book at the registry
called ‘‘ The Register of Patents,’ and shall record therein
under a distinguishing number and in the order in which
application shall have been duly made to him, every such
invention, and the christian and surname of the inventor,
and the day of the date of the patent, and shall cause every
specification to be marked with the distinguishing number
of the invention to which the specification refers.

(2) All assignments, charges, transmissions, amend-
ments, extensions, and revocations of patents, and such
other matters affecting the validity or proprictorship of
patents as may from time to time be prescribed, shall be
notified to the Registrar, who shall, on sufficient evidence
thereof, and on payment of the prescribed fee, note the same
in the Register of Patents.

6. Every patent shall vest in the patentce, his executors,
administrators, or assigns and licensces, the sole right and
benefit of using within the Colony the invention mentioned
in such patent for and during the space of fourteen years
next after the granting of such patent: Provided that, at
any time before the expiration of such period, the Governor

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Specification
and draw-
ings not
public.

Register of
Patents.

Patent to
vest exclu-
sive right
for 14 years.