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Second requirement relating to the above.

Conditions under which an exclusive patent nmy be granted.

When a patent is not granted.

It is desirable, when describing the article, to refer also to the data of his Certificate of Admission ; it will likewise be useful, in cases where the article in question is already within the Exhibition buildings, or on its way thither, at the time of handing in the application, to state the already known or probable day of its entry.

Partners in collective Exhibitions are to specify the article for which they desire to obtain protection on their own behalf, by means of accurate data admitting of no doubt whatever.

III. —Second Requirement in granting Certificates of

Protection.

The Certificate of Protection can only be granted for such “ Articles as are “ suitable for obtaining a Protection of Patents, Marks, or Patterns,” in conformity with the provisions of the Law of August the 15th, 1852 (Reichsgesetzblatt, No. 184), and of the two Laws of 7th December 1858 (Reichsgesetzblatt, Nos. 230 and 237). For the convenience of the Applicants for Protection, an exact reprint of the paragraphs of the Laws in question is subjoined :—

II Ia. — Extract from the Patent Law of August the 15 th, 1852 ( Reichsgesetzblatt ,

No. 184):—

“ § 1 .

“ An exclusive patent may be granted for each new discovery, invention, or “ improvement, with the exceptions contained in the following §§ 2, 3, 4, and 5, “ which has for its object—

“ a. A new industrial produce, or “ h. A new means of production, or “ c. A new method of production.

“ The patent may be applied for by an Austrian subject, or by a foreigner, so “ long as it does not pertain to those mentioned in the following paragraphs (2-5) “ as being unpatentable.

“ By discovery, however, is understood every disclosure of an industrial mode “ of procedure, which, though used in former times, has since become entirely “ obsolete, or of one altogether unknown in the country.

“ By invention is understood every representation of a new article with new “ means, or of a new article with means already known, or of a known article “ with other than the already applied means for the same article.

“ Every additional appliance, arrangement, or mode of procedure to an already “ known or patented article, by means of which a more favourable result or a “ greater economy is to be obtained in the purpose of the article, or in the manner “ of its production, is regarded as an improvement or alteration.

ie Any discovery, invention, or improvement is considered to be new, if it is “ neither known by means of a printed publication, nor in operation in the country “ up to the time of the patent being applied for.

“ § 2 .

“ A patent is not granted for preparations of provisions, drinks, and medicines, “ nor for discoveries, inventions, or improvements, the practice of which is for-