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SUPPLEMENT TO THE AUSTRIAN PATENT LAWS.

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Notification of the Imperial and Royal Ministry of Commerce, dated November the 14th, 1871, and published in the Vienna Gazette of the 22nd of November 1871, in respect of the proof to be furnished of the use of Patents within the Empire.

In order to prevent the abuse of Austrian Patents which foreigners often commit by not exercising their privilege within the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, as pro­vided by the Laws on Patents, and merely introducing into the Austro-Hungarian States patented articles produced abroad, a certain time is allowed to the foreign applicant for patents to exercise his privilege within the Empire and to furnish the necessary oroofs thereon, at the expiration of which time, if he has not done so, the Patent, in accordance with § 29, 2a. of the Patent Law of August the 15th, 1852, will be declared void on account of its not having been used.

As it, however, frequently occurs that these periods are entirely ignored by the owners of the patents or their authorised representatives, it is herewith decreed for general information that in future in all cases where neither the proof is furnished within the period appointed that the patent was worked at the proper time within the Empire, nor a sufficiently established application for extension of time handed in, the notification that the patent in question has become void on account of its not having been availed of will at once be issued with the concur­rence of the Royal Hungarian Ministry for Agriculture, Industry, and Commerce, in conformity with § 29, 2a. of the Patent Law of 15th August, 1852, and without giving any further notice respecting it.

The same steps will be taken, although the proofs of the timely use of the patent may have been given within the delay specified, should it transpire from the inquiries made that the article of the patent in question has not been pro­duced within the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, but has only been imported from abroad.

The Imperial Royal Ministry

Vienna, 14th November, 1871. of Commerce.