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SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

Attorney-General. It is not possible to state precisely what documents would be required to enable an inventor or British patentee to make a proper application for a Patent right in this Colony, because all Patent rights are given, not by the Legislature, but by the Governor.

In practice, in the case of an inventor, he has been required to give evidence of the originality of his invention, and, if a British patentee, he has been required to produce an exemplification of the British Letters-Patent. Such evidence being given, the Patent right has been hitherto uniformly secured.

There are no official fees, and the expenses of a private Act are, I believe, from 201, to 251.

SOUTH AUSTRALIA,

Governor, No. 121, October 30, 1856.

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

The Advocate-General.-There is no Ordinance in this country respecting Patents, no office for registration, no table of fees, no preventive means whatever against infringement, and but little, if any, need of them, at present.

The Imperial law prior to 1829 (the foundation of the Colony) is, of course, binding without the ceremony of adoption.

An inventor landing here with a Patent, and complaining of an infringement, must seek redress from the equity side of the Civil Court by the law as it stood in 1829.

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In any of novelty, utility, and originality, lies on the patentee. All that essentially makes it valued is

every case the burden of proof, both

done by him at his own cost.

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

Governor, No. 23, January 28, 1857.

NEW ZEALAND.

Governor, No. 116, November 17, 1856.

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NEW ZEALAND.

There are no local laws in New Zealand on the subject of Patents.

There are no official fees or expenses required to be paid in any case.

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

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