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LAW

For the Protection of Patterns and Models for Industrial Products.

I.— General Provisions,

§ 1 .

By patterns and models is understood in this law every pattern referring to the shape of an industrial product suitable for application to such.

What is said in the following about patterns applies with equal force to models.

§ 2 .

Whoever has originally continued a pattern, either himself or by means of another person for his own account, is exclusively entitled to the use of it for industrial products for the time, and subject to the stipulations, enacted in this law.

He can also transfer this right, either entirely or in part, to others.

lie can never acquire the exclusive right (§ 10 d.) decreed in this law of patterns which any one has unlawfully secured for himself, whether it be at home or abroad.

§ 3 .

An exclusive right to patterns which only consist in imitations of independent works of art is not recognised.

§ 4 .

The exclusive right of use lasts for three years from the date of the registration of the pattern, and without distinction of it.

II .—Deposit of the Patterns.

§ 5 .

Whoever wishes to secure for himself the exclusive right to the use of a pattern must deposit it at the office of the Chamber of Commerce and Trade in whose district he lives, or in which his establishment about to use the pattern is situate, before he introduces a product made in accordance with it.

The applicant is at liberty to hand in the pattern open, or in a sealed cover.

The functionary of the Chamber of Commerce, whose duty it is, enters the pattern or packet in the register of patterns under its current number.

A record is made of the deposit, which has to contain the name or the firm, and residence of the depositor, the day and hour of deposit, and the register number referring to it, and it must also be signed by the applicant.

The open pattern or sealed packet deposited is properly connected with the record by means of a tape fastened with a seal, and the number of the register is written on it, and officially signed.

The record is kept in the archives, and an official certificate, containing the same particulars, made out for the applicant.

If the applicant has handed in the pattern open and in duplicate, the above particulars are to be noted on the duplicate itself, and officially signed, and this is to be delivered to the applicant in lieu of the above-mentioned certificate.

What constitutes a pattern.

Right of ownership to a pattern.

Deposit of patterns.