Lanterna Rally

Author: United States Department Of Th Interior

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-01-09

Total Pages: 802

ISBN-13: 9780428544829

Excerpt from Report of the Secretary of the Interior, Vol. 3 of 5: Being Part of the Message and Documents Communicated to the Two Houses of Congress at the Beginning of the Second Session of the Fifty-First Congress It should be added that by no method can the Patent Office always satisfy itself whether a foreign patent has been obtained or not. An application, for instance, may be pending in the British patent office six months and may become a patent two days in advance of the date of the American grant to the same inventor for the same invention. In such a case the American patent should, according to the provisions of the statute referred to, expire at the end of fourteen years from the date of the foreign application, that being the date on which the foreign patent would expire. But this Office can have no legal evidence that such a patent has been granted, nor can it ordinarily Obtain any infor mation, hearsay or otherwise, upon the subject. Indeed, the foreign patent may be granted after the American patent has been printed and before its signature, and even in that case the American grant is limited by the duration of the foreign term. 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.