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Exhibitors can apply for a “regular patent, or protection of Trade Mark or Design, before the 31st December 1873.
,No appeal against the Director General's refusal allowed.
Double Registers of applications and Certificates issued will be kept.
Certificates of Protection will be published in Austrian and Hungarian official Gazettes. Registers open for inspection to every one. Secrecy will be observed, if desired.
of an official appointed for that purpose by the Hungarian Ministry, and will secure to the applicant, from the date stated therein of the installation of the respective objects into the Exhibition—or if the application should have been made after that date, from the day of making the application (which is also to be stated in the Certificate of Protection)—until the 81st December 1873 inclusive, the same rights and privileges which a Patent, obtained in the regular course, or a duly obtained Registration for the protection of a Trade Mark, Design, or Model, would grant him. The Exhibitor is reserved the right to apply to the appointed authorities* before the day of expiration of the “ Certificate of Protection,” for a Patent, or the protection of the Trade Mark, Design, or Model for the same object or objects, according to the provisions of the laws mentioned in Article I.
Article III.
No appeal or complaint will be admitted against the refusal of such “ Certificate of Protection.” -
In case the legality of any “ Certificate of Protection ” should be disputed, the decision will rest, according to the Laws on Patents, with the competent authorities.
N Article IV.
A double Register will be kept by the Director General of the Universal Exhibition for entering the applications for ‘‘ Certificates of Protection ” and the Certificates issued, of which, after the close of the Exhibition, one with the aforesaid applications and a copy of the specifications attached to them, as also of the Trade Marks, Designs, and Models, will be lodged with the Imperial and Royal Ministry of Commerce; and the other, with copies of the applications and their appendices, with the Royal Hungarian Ministry for Agriculture, Industry, and Commerce.
Article V.
The “ Certificates of Protection ” issued will be published in the Austrian and Hungarian “ Official Gazettes.”
The inspection of the Register of “ Certificates of Protection ” is open to every one, but the specifications, plans, models, «fee. will be kept secret, if it be so desired in the application.
Article VI.
The Minister of Commerce is charged with the execution of this Law.
(Signed) Ehanz Joseph, m.p. (Countersigned) Atjeesperg, m.p. Banhans, m.p.
Godollo, 13th November 1872.