Nov. 18.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2997

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(a).
5. Index of Trade Marks.
6. Classified Representations of Trade Marks, with indexes.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Register of Patent Agents.

FORMS AND PUBLICATIONS.

The following forms, &c., may be had on application at the Patent Office, Wellington, or at any of the local Patent Offices named below:—

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(b).
Pamphlet containing Act and Regulations (price 1s.).

(a) 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 in card index.

(b) May also be obtained at any local Patent Office or money-order office.

Books, Documents, &c., open to Inspection at Local Patent Offices, Auckland, Christchurch, and Dunedin.

BOOKS, documents, &c., open to inspection, and forms, &c., procurable, at the local Patent Offices at Auckland, Christchurch, and Dunedin.

BOOKS, ETC., OPEN TO INSPECTION.

Complete specifications and drawings of inventions. (Note.—One set of the specifications and drawings is sent, on acceptance, to Auckland, Christchurch, and Dunedin in succession, remaining fourteen days at each place, as advertised in the Gazette. Search fee, 1s. per hour.)

Classified abridgments of inventions from 1st January, 1908, to 31st March, 1909. (Search fee, 1s.)

Weekly lists of applications for patents up to and including those filed on Friday may be seen on the following Monday. (Search fee, 1s.)

Name Index—Patents, 1861–1889. (Search fee, 1s.)

Annual Reports, containing alphabetical lists of applicants and subject-matter indexes since 1890.

Patents Supplement to the New Zealand Gazette.

Patents, Designs, and Trade Marks Act and Rules.

Acts and Rules of other countries.

Australian Official Journal of Patents.

FORMS, ETC., OBTAINABLE.

The following forms, &c., may be obtained on application:—

Applications 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 designs and trade marks.
Act and Regulations. (Price, 1s. 6d.)

NOTE.—The classified abridgments of the specifications and drawings of the United Kingdom may be seen in the Public Library of each of the above three principal towns. Other publications will be placed on file as soon as they are available.

Office for Registration of Copyright.

THE office for the registration of proprietorship of copyright in Fine Arts and Dramatic Works has been transferred to the Patent Office, Magistrate’s Court Building, corner of Lambton Quay and Ballance Street, Wellington.

Specifications of Inventions Open to Inspection.

COMPLETE specifications and drawings of inventions may be seen on acceptance at the Patent Office, Wellington, and are also available for inspection for a fortnight at the local Patent Offices at Auckland, Christchurch, and Dunedin.

Lists giving names of applicants and titles of inventions may be obtained for posting in factories, libraries, technical schools, or other places where they are likely to be seen by persons interested, on application to the Registrar of Patents, Wellington.

Official Publications.

THE following publications may be obtained from the Government Printer, Wellington:—

Printed specifications to the end of the year 1879. (Some of these are now out of print.)

Annual lists of letters patent and letters of registration applied for, and particulars of applications lapsed, and patents lapsed, from 1880 to 1893 inclusive. (The lists for the last four of these years are contained in the Annual Reports of the Registrar.)

Annual reports of the Registrar, containing alphabetical indexes of applicants for letters patent and of subject-matter of inventions patented from 1894 to 1908 inclusive.

The Patents Supplement to Gazette (containing notifications, applications for letters patent, abridged descriptions and drawings of inventions, &c.), published fortnightly.

Name Index of Patents, &c., 1861–1890. (Price, 1s.)

Local Patent Offices.

LOCAL Patent Offices for the reception of applications, supply of forms, &c., have been established at the following places:—

Auckland—Supreme Court. (G. S. Clark, agent.)
Whangarei—Courthouse. (W. J. Reeve, agent.)
Thames—Courthouse. (J. Jordan, agent.)
Waihi—Courthouse. (J. McIndoe, agent.)
Hamilton—Courthouse. (H. J. Dixon, agent.)
Gisborne—Courthouse. (G. J. A. Johnstone, agent.)
New Plymouth—Courthouse. (J. Terry, agent.)
Napier—Courthouse. (A. Trimble, agent.)
Wanganui—Courthouse. (C. A. Barton, agent.)
Taihape—Courthouse. (W. Baker, agent.)
Palmerston North—Courthouse. (C. J. Hewlett, agent.)
Masterton—Courthouse. (M. Foley, agent.)
Nelson—Courthouse. (E. C. Kelling, agent.)
Blenheim—Courthouse. (F. W. Hart, agent.)
Westport—Courthouse. (O. E. Bowling, agent.)
Greymouth—Courthouse. (B. Harper, agent.)
Hokitika—Courthouse. (J. N. Nalder, agent.)
Christchurch—Supreme Court. (W. W. Samson, agent.)
Ashburton—Courthouse. (J. Fitzgerald, agent.)
Timaru—Courthouse. (T. W. Tayler, agent.)
Oamaru—Courthouse. (A. A. Mair, agent.)
Dunedin—Supreme Court. (T. E. Roberts, agent.)
Clyde—Courthouse. (F. T. D. Jeffery, agent.)
Gore—Courthouse. (G. H. Lang, agent.)
Queenstown—Courthouse. (A. J. Thompson, agent.)
Invercargill—Courthouse. (J. R. Colyer, agent.)

Annual Report and Index.

THE Annual Report of the Registrar of Patents, Designs, and Trade Marks has now been published, and may be obtained from the GOVERNMENT PRINTER.

PRICE, 1s. 3d.

30th November to be a Holiday in Celebration of St. Andrew’s Day.

Office of the Minister of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 5th November, 1909.

THE Government offices throughout New Zealand will be closed on Tuesday, 30th instant, in celebration of St. Andrew’s Day.

D. BUDDO,
Minister of Internal Affairs.