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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON

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in the Colony, or who may be the first to introduce

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and put in practice, in the Colony, any invention Governor, No. 115, Jan. 28, 1853. or improvement discovered elsewhere.

Every means of adding a new degree of perfec- tion to any manufacture whatever, shall be taken to be an invention.

II. The patentee shall be bound to pay a duty, to be fixed according to the duration of the Letters- Patent, and to the importance of the invention or improvement, which shall be determined by the Governor, but which shall not in any case exceed the sum of 1007. sterling.

Patentees to pay a duty to be fixed by the Governor, but not to exceed 1007. sterling.

III. Letters-Patent shall give to the proprietors. The rights of patentees defined. thereof, and to their executors, administrators, and assigns, the faculty-

1. To manufacture, prepare, and sell, exclusively throughout the Colony, during the period fixed for the duration of the Letters-Patent, the objects men- tioned therein, or to cause them to be manufactured, prepared, or sold by other persons whom they may authorise to that effect; and to employ exclusively, either by themselves or by persons whom they may have authorised, the processes and means described

in the said Letters-Patent.

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scal, an exact and detailed description, signed by

Governor, No. 115, Jan. 28, 1853. the applicant, of the object or secret for which the Letters-Patent are sought; the same to be accom- panied with the necessary drawings and plans. This description shall be published after the expiration of the period of duration of the Letters-Patent, and also in cases where the Letters-Patent shall have been annulled.

May be annulled for the following

causes.

For omission, or unfaithful de-

#cription.

For previous discovery.

Exclusive faculty to employ the processes invented, and to sell the produce thereof.

For non-exercise of privilege.

obtain damages.

2. To prosecute before the Courts any persons May prosecute counterfeiters, and who may infringe on the exclusive privileges which shall have been accorded to them, in order to obtain such damages as may be awarded, independently of the suppression and confiscation to their profit of the machines, utensils, materials and objects, of whatever description they may be, employed in the manufacture, according to the new process or inven- tion for which Letters-Patent shall have been delivered.

A provisional seizure of those objects, and of all those which shall have been manufactured or pre- pared according to the inventions and means indi- cated in the Letters-Patent, may be made upon an order, to that effect, of the President of the Court of First Instance.

Provisional seizure of the objects manufactured, or used in the manufacture, may be made.

Counterfeiters, shall, in addition, be condemned Counterfeiters to pay a fine.

to pay a fine which shall not exceed 2001. sterling.

IV. Every person who applies for Letters-Patent A description must accompany the shall be bound to annex to his application, under application for Letters-Patent.

If Patent should be obtained for the same object in a foreign country.

If invention should appear to be

dangerous.

Promulgation.

V. Letters-Patent may be annulled and with- drawn by Government for the following causes :-

1. When the patentee shall have designedly omitted to mention a part of his secret in the description annexed to his application, or shall have described it in an unfaithful manner.

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2. If it be ascertained that the object for which Letters-Patent shall have been obtained has been described, previously to the issue thereof, in any work that has been printed or published.

3. When the patentee shall not have made use thereof for the space of two years, to be reckoned from the date of his Letters-Patent; unless forcible reasons shall have prevented him, which are to be appreciated by the Governor.

4. If the patentee, having obtained Letters-Patent in the Colony, should obtain others, for the same object, in a foreign country.

5. If the invention, for which Letters-Patent may have been issued, shall appear by its nature and application dangerous to the surety of the Colony or of the inhabitants thereof.

VI. The present Ordinance shall have effect from the date of its publication.

Passed in Council, at Port Louis, Mauritius, this 13th day of June, 1835.

D. W. RICKETTS,

Secretary to the Council.

Published by order of his Excellency the Go-

GEO. F. DICK, Colonial Secretary.

vernor.

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