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Austrian tariff of import duties upon the principal articles of British produce and manufactures : arranged in groups, in accordance with the classification of the objects contributed to the Vienna Universal Exhibiton of 1873; with alphabetical index, a comparative table of Austrian, English and French money, weights, and measures, the Anglo-Austrian treaty of commerce, the Austrian patent laws, and other official documents of importance ; Vienna Universal Exhibition, 1873 / prepared by Her Majesty's commissioners, for the guidance of British exhibitors
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establishes the right of the aggrieved party to insist on the stoppage of the further use of the pattern, and the further sale* of the goods in question. He can also demand that the implements and means exclusively or especially serviceable for producing an imitation be rendered useless for this purpose. Claims of the aggrieved party to compensation for damage sustained by the infringement of his pattern-right are to he estimated according to the Civil Law.

§ 13.

An imitation does not necessarily cease to he prohibited, because only the dimensions or the colours of the pattern have been changed.

' § 14.

If the infringement has been knowingly perpetrated, a fine of fl. 25-500 is to be inflicted on the delinquent in addition to the punishment that may apply in such cases as provided against by the Penal Code.

§ 15.

In case of a renewal of the offence, the punishment may be doubled. In case of a recent renewal of the offence, the punishment of a week to three months arrest will be inflicted on the delinquent in addition to the fine.

If the infringement of the pattern-right has been committed by a workman or employe of the aggrieved party, or otherwise by a breach of his confidence, this is to he taken into account in determining the punishment as a specially aggravating circumstance.

§ 16 .

If the fine should prove seriously detrimental to the circumstances, or pursuit of means of subsistence of the delinquent or his relations, or should prevent his payment of the compensation arising out of the criminal act, it is to be altered to one days arrest for each five guldens.

§ 17 .

The magistrate can also decree that the judgment be published.

§ 18 .

The fines go to the poor-box of the place where the offence was committed.

V .Jurisdiction and Procedure .

§ 19 .

The trial and decision as to infringements of the pattern-right, if they prove to be such in accordance with § 15, as well as the examination into and punishment of them, is the duty of the Political Administrative Jurisdictions of First Instance, in accordance with the existing regulations for the procedure and successive appeal in the case of trade encroachments and infringements.

The Political Jurisdiction also decides as to the invalidity of the deposit or loss of pattern-right.

When imitations do not cease to be infringe­ments.

Fines for infringement.

Penalties attached to renewed infringements.

Infringement by em­ployés, &c.

Imprisonment may be substituted for fines.

Publication of j udgment.

Feus how applied.

Jurisdiction and pro­cedure.