2684
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 101

3. Register of Application for Letters Patent.
4. Register of Patents.
5. Register of Subsequent Proprietors of Letters Patent(e).
6. Index of Patentees(f).
7. Index of Proprietors of Letters Patent granted prior to 1890(g).
8. Index of Specifications(h).

Designs.

(Search fee, 1s. each quarter of an hour.)

1. Register of Designs, with Index of Names of Proprietors.
2. Classified Representations of Designs in respect of which Copyright has expired.
3. Index of Designs.

Trade Marks.

(Search fee, 1s. each quarter of an hour.)

1. The files relating to all applications for registration of trade marks.
2. Register of Applications for Registration of Trade Marks.
3. Register of Trade Marks.
4. Index of Applicants for Registration of Trade Marks(i).
5. Index of Trade Marks.
6. Classified Representations of Trade Marks, with indexes.

Miscellaneous.

Register of Patent Agents.

Forms.

The following forms, &c., may be had on application:—
Application for letters patent.
Provisional specification.
Complete specification and copy thereof.
Application for registration of design.
Application for registration of trade mark.
Applications for extension of time.
Requests by subsequent proprietor to enter name on Register of Patents and Trade Marks.
Printed sheets of information as to fees and procedure to obtain letters patent and to register a trade mark(j).
Pamphlet containing Act and Regulations (price 1s.).

OFFICIAL PUBLICATIONS.

The following publications may be obtained from the Government Printer, Wellington:—
Printed specifications to the end of the year 1879.
Annual lists of letters patent and letters of registration applied for, and particulars of applications lapsed, and patents lapsed, from 1880 to 1888 inclusive.
Annual reports of the Registrar, containing alphabetical lists of applicants for letters patent and of inventions patented from 1889 to 1904 inclusive.
The Patents Supplement to Gazette (containing notifications, applications for letters patent, abridged descriptions and drawings of inventions, &c.), published fortnightly.

LOCAL PATENT OFFICES.

Local patent offices for the reception of applications for letters patent without extra payment have been appointed at the following places: Ashburton, Auckland, Blenheim, Christchurch, Dunedin, Gisborne, Greymouth, Hokitika, Invercargill, Napier, Nelson, New Plymouth, Oamaru, Queenstown, Thames, Timaru, Wanganui, Westport. These are situated in the Supreme Court Buildings and S.M Court Houses.

PATENT AGENTS.

A list of registered patent agents may be obtained on application.

Despatch.—Industrial Property Convention — Accession of New Zealand to Additional Act, and Accession of Germany.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 25th October, 1905.

THE following despatch, with enclosures, from His Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies is published for general information.

JAMES McGOWAN.

(New Zealand.—General.)
Downing Street, 31st August, 1905.

MY LORD,—With reference to my despatch, General, of the 27th May, 1903, and to Lord Ranfurly’s despatch, No. 87, of the 2nd September, 1903, I have the honour to state for the information of your Ministers that the Swiss Government was duly notified of the accession of New Zealand to the International Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property as modified by the additional Act of Brussels of December, 1900, and I have now the honour to transmit lists of the countries which are parties to the convention and additional Act.

2. I transmitted to you in my despatch, General, of the 29th March last, documents relative to the adhesion of Japan, Cuba, and Mexico, and I have to express my regret that a copy of the Order of the King in Council, dated 9th October, 1903, giving effect in this country to the accession of Germany to the Convention, &c., was not included. A copy is herewith enclosed.

I have, &c.,

ALFRED LYTTLETON.

Governor the Right Honourable Lord Plunket,
K.C.M.G., K.C.V.O., &c.

STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS, 1903, No. 867.—PATENTS, DESIGNS, AND TRADE-MARKS.—INTERNATIONAL ARRANGEMENTS.—GERMANY.

ORDER IN COUNCIL applying the Provisions of the Patents, &c., Act to Germany.

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 9th day of October, 1903.

Present:

THE KING’S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section 103 of “The Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks Act, 1883,” as amended by section 6 of “The Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks (Amendment) Act, 1885,” it is enacted as follows: (1.) If Her Majesty is pleased to make any arrangement with the Government or Governments of any foreign State or States for mutual protection of inventions, designs, and trade-marks, or any of them, then any person who has applied for protection for any invention, design, or trade-mark in any such State shall be entitled to a patent for his invention, or to registration of his design or trade-mark (as the case may be) under this Act, in priority to other applicants; and such patent or registration shall have the same date as the date of the application in such foreign State. Provided that this application is made, in the case of a patent, within seven months, and, in the case of a design or trade-mark, within four months, from his applying for protection in the foreign State with which the arrangement is in force. Provided that nothing in this section contained shall entitle the patentee or proprietor of the design or trade-mark to recover damages for infringements happening prior to the date of the actual acceptance of his complete specification, or the actual registration of his design or trade-mark, in this country, as the case may be. (2.) The publication in the United Kingdom or the Isle of Man during the respective periods aforesaid of any description of the invention, or the use therein during such periods of the invention, or the exhibition or use therein during such periods of the design, or the publication therein during such periods of a description or representation of the design, or the use therein during such periods of the trade-mark, shall not invalidate the patent which may be granted for the invention, or the registration of the design or trade-mark. (3.) The application for the grant of a patent, or the registration of a design, or the registration of a trade-mark, under this section must be made in the same manner as an ordinary application under this Act; provided that, in the case of trade-marks, any trade-mark the registration of which has been duly applied for in the country of origin may be registered under this Act. (4.) The provisions of this section shall apply only in the case of those foreign states with respect to which Her Majesty shall from time to time by Order in Council declare them to be applicable, and so long only in the case of each state as the Order in Council shall continue in force with respect to that State:

(a) Discontinued.
(b) These may also be seen at the Public Libraries, Auckland and Christchurch.
(c) In arrear. Not now being printed.
(d) Key is in card index.
(e) This Register contains only names of subsequent proprietors of letters patent granted prior to 1st January, 1890; since that date they appear in Register of Patents.
(f) Includes all names of applicants, &c., and consists of four volumes to 4th November, 1903, and card index since that date. A separate card index is kept for current quarter.
(g) The names of proprietors of subsequent letters patent appear in the Index of Patentees.
(h) Contains classified abridgments of specifications from 1861, with extracts from drawings from July, 1904.
(i) Names of applicants for registration and proprietors of trade marks are indexed at the beginning of the Registers up to 31st December, 1889; in separate volume up to 5th September, 1904; and since the latter date are in card index.
(j) May also be obtained at any local Patent Office or money-order office.