United States Patent Law

Excerpt from The United States Patent Law: Instructions How to Obtain Letters Patent 1st. The obtaining of letters patent for new and useful inventions and discoveries, for Designs and for Trade Marks. 2d. The surrender of defective letters patent and applying for a reissue of the same upon amended specifications. 3d. The prosecuting of interferences before the Patent Office at Washington, between inventors claiming the same invention. 4th. Applying for the extension of letters patent that are about expiring. 5th. Renewing rejected applications. 6th. Making new applications in cases where the patent has been allowed, and the final fee has not been paid before the expiration of six months from the date of the allowance. 7th. Making and prosecuting appeals from the primary examiners to the examiners-in-chief; from the examiners-in-chief to the Commissioner of Patents, and from the Commissioner of Patents to the Supreme Court. 8th. Furnishing inventors and others with all the information from the records of the Patent Office in Washington, and from other sources, that they may require to determine whether inventions for which patents are desired are new and patentable. 9th. Making examinations to determine whether patents already obtained are valid and safe. 10th. Preparing assignments and transfers of patents, licenses, etc., and procuring them to be duly recorded in the Patent Office at Washington. 11th. Transacting any other business at the Patent Office at Washington for inventors. 12th. Examining patents and giving opinions as to their validity and soundness. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.