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“ bidden from public motives in regard to health, morality, or security, or the “ general interest of the State, according to the legal enactments.
“ § 5.
<f An exclusive patent is not granted for a scientific principle, or a purely st scientific proposition, not even where the principle or proposition is capable of fe immediate application to industrial objects; but every new application of such “ principle or proposition, by means of which a new industrial produce, a new “ means, or a new method of production is brought about, is patentable.”
2. Extract from the Law for the Protection of Trade Marks of December the 7 th, 1858. ( Reichsgesetzblatt , No. 230).
“ § 1.
<f By marks are understood in this law the special tokens which serve to dis- “ tinguish between the products and goods of one manufacturer and those of “ another, destined for commerce (emblems, ciphers, vignettes, and such like).
“ § 3.
ss c No exclusive right can be obtained’ for marks, which consist of such tokens “ as are generally in use in the case of certain descriptions of goods in commercial “ intercourse, nor for those which merely consist of letters, words, or figures, nor “ for state or provincial armorial bearings.”
3. Extract from the Law for the Protection of Patterns and Models for Industrial Products of December the 7th, 1858. ( Reichsgesetzblatt , No. 237.)
“ § 1 .
“ By patterns and models is understood in this law every prototype referring C( to the form of an industrial produce, and suitable to the application thereunto.
Whatever is said in the following about patterns applies with equal force to “ models.”
“ § 3.
cc An exclusive right to patterns which only consist in imitations of inde- cc pendent works of art is not recognised.
_Time for handing in Petitions.
The petitions are to be handed in commencing from the 12th of January 1873, beino- the day on which the law of November the 13th, 18^2, takes effect. _ The latest date for handing in a petition vanes, according whether the article m question arrives within the Exhibition buildings « before the opening of the Exhibition, or whether it is allowed to be taken inside, subsequently, as an
^InThe first case «the day preceding the opening of the Exhibition is the latest” on which the petition will be received; in the second case, the petition must be handed in “ at the latest prior to the article arriving within the building.”
Trade marks.
Patterns and models.
Exclusive right to patterns.
When petitions should be lodged.