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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

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2 PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON

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registers of that office, of the Letters-Patent, and a certificate is delivered to the patentee, showing that the formalities have been fulfilled.

MAURITIUS AND DEPENDENCIES.

Ordinance No. 11 of 1835. Respecting Letters- Patent.

Enacted by the Governor of Mauritius and Depen- dencies, with the advice and consent of the

Council of Government thereof.

MAURITIUS.

Governor, No. 178, October 17, 1856.

Whereas applications have been made to Govern- Preamble. ment, from time to time, to obtain Letters-Patent for discoveries and inventions which may be of great public utility: it therefore becomes necessary, for the promotion of ingenuity, to determine the mode of obtaining the said Letters-Patent, and the rights and privileges which they will confer on those who may have obtained them,

His Excellency the Governor in Council has ordered and orders :-

I. The right to issue Letters-Patent, for a term which shall not exceed fourteen years, appertains to the Governor, upon application being made to him to that effect by such persons as may have invented or essentially improved any art or branch of industry in the Colony, or who may be the first to introduce and put in practice, in the Colony, any invention 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 1001. sterling,

The Governor may accord Letters-

Patent for a period which shall not exceed fourteen years.

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

Exclusive faculty to employ the

processes invented, and to sell the produce thereof.

MAURITIUS.

Governor, No. 178, October 17, 1856.

May prosecute counterfeiters and

obtain damages,

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

Counterfeiters to pay a fine.

A description must accompany the application for Letters-Patent.

May be annulled for the following

causes:

For omission or unfaithful descrip

tion.

For previous discovery.

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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.

2. To prosecute before the Court any persons 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.

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Counterfeiters shall, in addition, be condemned to pay a fine which shall not exceed 200ksterling.

IV. Every person who applies for Letters-Patent shall be bound to annex to his application, under seal, an exact and detailed description, signed by 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.

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.

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.