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Regulations and ordi­nances to which patents are subjected.

Custody of specifications.

Privileges of patentees.

Limitation of said pri­vileges.

Improvement or alter­ation of a patented article.

§ 19.

The grant of a patent in no wise relieves the patentee from the legal ordinances and regulations which exist, or are issued, for the benefit of the public health, security, or morality, or in the interest of the State. Consequently, the use of such patent is subject to all such ordinances and regulations conformably to which it may only take place in a restricted form, or not at all, according as it is restricted or altogether forbidden by them, unless the patent can be made to prove an exception thereto.

§ 20 .

The enclosed specifications appertaining to the patents, together with the Appendices (§ 16) are handed over to the Central Archives for Patents for custody and further use, as to which Section V. of this law contains further directions.

Section III.

Of the Advantages and Powers appertaining to Exclusive Patents.

§ 2 . 1 .

An exclusive patent secures to, and protects the patentee in, the sole use of his discovery, invention, or improvement as set forth in the specification he has submitted, for the number of years for which his patent is made out.

§ 22 .

The patentee is entitled to erect all those workshops, and to engage all kinds of assistants for them necessary to the complete use of his patented article to the greatest extent desired; therefore he can erect everywhere throughout the empire establishments and depots for the manufacture and sale of the patented article, and authorise others to carry out his discovery, invention, or improvement under the protection of his patent; he can admit any partners he likes, and increase the use of the patented article to any extent, dispose of his patent himself, entail it, sell it, farm it out, or otherwise dispose of it at his pleasure, and also take out a patent for the same article abroad.

These rights are, however, strictly confined to the precise object of the patented discovery, invention, or improvement, and may not, therefore, be extended to cognate objects, nor be exercised in contravention to the existing laws or other prerogatives.

§ 23.

If the patent refers to an improvement or alteration of a patented article, it remains exclusively confined to the individual improvement or alteration itself, and does not give the patentee of the improvement or alteration any right to the remaining portions of an already patented article, or already known mode of pro­cedure. Whereas, on the other hand, the patentee to whose patented article the patented improvement or alteration made by another has reference, has no right to use the latter, unless he comes to some agreement with the other concerning it.