The old regulations are applicable to applications mailed before the day this Decree comes into force. Whereas, the provisions of Sec. 7 of Art. 12 of the law of 1913 are also applicable, at the time of the next assignment or renewal, to marks having been registered by virtue of the old regulations, the reminder regarding the naming of a Hungarian representative shall also be inserted in the notification mentioned in Sec. 11 of Decree No. 25,552 of 1890. (See par. 3 of Art. 11 of the Instructions of April 19, 1890, No. 15,377, relating to the keeping of the register for marks.) 6. This decree comes into force on the day of its publication. Muster-und Zeichenwesen, August, 1913.) Portugal. (From Patent Patents. General Regulatory Rules (Decree No. 269) of March 16, 1913. (Translation.) General Regulatory Rules, Concerning the Manner of Preparing the Applications, Which Make an Integral Part of the Decree No. 269 of This Date.* A. PATENTS OF INVENTION. (Extract from the Regulation of March 16, 1905.) Art. 1. The application for the grant of a patent of invention shall be made on paper, stamped with the fee of 10 centavos, drawn up in the Portuguese language, and indicating: (a) the name of the inventor or of the owner of the invention and his nationality, profession and residence; (b) a sentence or the title which contains the object of the invention; (d) the country where the first application for patent of invention has been deposited, and the date on which this deposit was made, if the application pretends to claim the right of priority. Sec. 1. This application should be accompanied by the following documents: 1. The specifications, in duplicate, written in Portuguese, and drawn up correctly, as short as possible, of the object of the invention. The specifications shall end with the claims of what is considered new by the inventor, and these shall be textually identical with those mentioned in the application. In the specifications no reference should be made to weights or measures that are not those of the legal system of weights and measures in intercalating explanatory figures. The specifications shall be legibly written, by hand cr by machine, lithographed or printed with black and indelible ink. The specifications should be made on sheets of paper strong and white of format 33 centimeters in length by 22 centimeters in width, with a margin of 4 centimeters at the left side, and a space in white of 4 centimeters at the top of each sheet. Along the bottom of this margin should be mentioned the name of the inventor and the sentence or title that contains the object of the invention. If there be several sheets, these should form a booklet, provided that no difficulty for the reader result from its mode of binding. All the sheets of the specifications should be sealed with a revenue stamp of * See 12 P. & T. M. Rev., 202, especially “note,” p. 206. Ed. the fee of 10 centavos, pasted at the top and to the right of each sheet and duly cancelled with the signature of the applicant and the date. The last sheet of the specifications shall be dated and signed by the applicant 2. The drawings, in duplicate, that may be necessary for the perfect knowledge of the specifications. The drawings shall be made on sheets of 33 centimeters in length by 21 or 42 centimeters in width. The two copies shall be identical and of the same dimensions. One of them shall be on strong paper, white and smooth, with lines perfectly black, without coloring or shading, in a manner to be clearly reproduced, in reduced size, by photography; it shall be presented without folding or creases unfavorable for photographic reproduction. The other copy shall be made as the first, or on transparent tracing linen, and may be folded. Each sheet of drawings shall be surrounded by a plain black line, located 2 centimeters from the edge of the paper. It is permitted to present the drawings on more than one sheet. The size of the figures shall be sufficiently large in order that a photographic reproduction, made with a two-thirds linear reduction, may permit that knowledge of the details be taken easily. The number of figures shall not exceed that of the real necessities and the loss of space is to be avoided as much as possible. The different figures shall be separated by ample spaces for any one to be detached from the others, and numbered, according to their positions, consecutively, and independently of the number of sheets. The figures, the letters, the numbers or whatever reference characters, shall be in a way that they may be read in the direction of the length of the paper. The different parts of the figures shall only have to have marks of reference when, for the understanding of the invention, it may be necessary that the specifications make reference to the reproduction of the part of which it is a question. These marks of reference shall be of a simple and legible type, and executed with black ink. On the sheets of drawings wording or explanatory mention is not permitted. When the scale is drawn, it shall be designated, and not indicated in writing. Each sheet of drawings shall have the name of the inventor, the total number of sheets, the serial number of each sheet, and the signature of the inventor or of his agent. It shall be stamped with the revenue stamp of the fee of 10 centavos, pasted at the top and right of each sheet, and duly cancelled with the signature of the applicant and the date. All these indications shall be executed outside of the figures, and as far as possible in the upper and lower margins of each sheet. 3. Payment of the Tax. (See Decree of June 30, 1911. Ed. The present regulation refeis only to Arts. I, 2 and 3 and Table of this decree, published in 12 P. & T. M. Rev., 103.) 4. Concerning power of attorney, duly acknowledged or legalized, in favor of whoever applies for the patent, when this latter is not the inventor himself or a patent and trade-mark agent. Sec. 2. The documents, to which Nos. 1 and 2 of this Article refer, shall be executed with the particular seal of the applicant, on the outside the name of the inventor and the sentence or title, that denotes the object of the invention, having to be mentioned. Art 2. On request of the inventor or of his attorney, there is to be given to him a certificate of deposit of the application for patent. Only Section. It is permitted to the inventor, or to his attorney, to sign the deposit book of applications for patents of invention in the space corresponding to the registration of the deposit of his application. Art. 4. Patents of invention may be requested by an individual, by more than one, or by a society, the applicant and the inventor or owner of the patent being always understood, until proof to the contrary. Only section. When the patent be requested in the name of a society, the presentation of documents, proving the signer or signers to be qualified to apply in the name of this society, is not necessary. Art. 5. The printed copies of patents, when emanating from the foreign Offices or Bureaus of Industrial property, shall be considered authentic, without special seals, certification, or declarations being necessary for them, if this presentation be made by an administrative act. Only section. The Bureau of Industrial Property may, however, require an authentic translation of these patents into the Portuguese or French language. Art. 6. In the same application more than one patent cannot be applied for, nor a single patent for more than one invention or discovery. Art. 7. The means, processes or methods for securing industrial results are patentable and, they can, as such, be claimed; these results, however, are not patentable. Only section. A material produced from industry shall not be considered an industrial result, but an advantage realized by means of an invention, such as a saving of time, or money (cost) or an improvement obtained in the quality of the product, or any other utility. Art. 8. In claims of invention shall be mentioned: (a) whether the invention be for a new product or process, the elements that characterize this product or process; (b) whether the invention be for modifications or alterations in a known product or process, the points in which the invention is distinguished from identical products or from products intended to obtain the same industrial product or result, Art. 9. Whoever has regularly deposited in any of the States of the Union for the Protection of Industrial Property application for patent of invention shall enjoy, in the grant of patent in Portugal and under reservation of the rights of third parties, the right of priority, if he presents his application at the Bureau of Industrial Property within a period of twelve months, counted from the date of the presentation of the first application in that State. Only section. The period from which priority commences to count shall be inscribed in the title of the patent, on request of the interested party, if this latter declares on the occasion of applying for a patent which State of the Union in which the first deposit of the application is effected and what is the date of that deposit. Art. 10. When the request for grant of patent be for inventions or discoveries that have been shown at national or international expositions, official or officially recognized, the interested party shall have to present, besides the documents mentioned in Art. 1, a document in proof of his allegation, and to justify the fact that the application was presented within a period of twelve months, counted from the date of the official opening of the exposition. Only section. The right of priority which belongs to him by this fact shall be entered, by annotation, in the corresponding title. Art. 11. The application for addition of alterations or modifications in the object of a patent of invention in force shall contain the indications and satisfy the conditions of Art. 1, and be accompanied by the same documents and by the title of the original patent. Sec. 1. The right to the said alterations or modifications shall last the whole period that the patent is in force. title. Sec. 2. This privilege shall be endorsed, by annotation, in the respective Sec. 3. payment of the tax of 3$22 (see Decree of June 30, 1911; for translation see 12 P. & T. M. Rev., 103. Ed.). Art. 12. Patents of invention shall be granted for a period of fifteen years, counted from the date of the title of the patent, and the concession remains in force in so far as it be not annulled, and the respective taxes be paid. Art. 13. It is permitted to the inventor to pay the tax corresponding to the whole term of the grant, or for any number of years, or even annually, until the expiry of the term of the grant. Sec. 1. The payment of the taxes shall be made according to the form prescribed in Art. 2 of the Decree of June 30, 1911 (see 12 P. & T. M. Rev., 103. Ed.). Sec. 2. The application, in which the endorsement of the payment of the taxes is requested, shall be presented at the Bureau of Industrial Property within the period in which the grant is in force. Sec. 3. After the last day of the period indicated in the preceding paragraph, the payment of taxes is permitted by the addition of 25 per cent, for the first period of thirty days, and of 50 per cent for the second period of thirty days. Sec. 4. At the end of the term of sixty days, if the application, in which is requested the annotation of the payment of the taxes, has not been presented at the Bureau of Industrial Property, the grant becomes annulled. Art. 14. The transfer or cession of a patent of invention, total or partial, shall be endorsed, by annotation, in the original title. Only section. The application, in which is requested the endorsement of a transfer or cession of a patent, shall be accompanied by the title of the original patent, in addition to the documents required in Art. 4 of the letter of the law of May 21, 1896 (these documents are those in proof of the cession or transfer and of the payment of the tax when made. The tax is 3$22. (See Decree of June 30, 1911, 12 P. & T. M. Rev., 103. Ed.) Art. 24. The presentation of the application that is not made by its owner shall be accompanied by a power of attorney.. Sec. 1. Patent and trade-mark agents are excused from presenting a power of attorney when it is not a matter that involves relinquishment of rights. The Bureau of Industrial Property may, however, require of them that they justify their qualities of agent. Sec. 2. Powers of attorney shall be legalized in the following form: (a) The power of attorney of individuals, resident in the main land, adjacent islands, or in the colonies, shall have the signature acknowledged by a notary of the locality, and of this latter acknowledged by a notary of Lisbon; (b) For individuals resident abroad the signature shall be acknowledged by the Portuguese consular agent, and the signature of this latter legalized in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Sec. 3. Documents from a foreign Office empowered with the service of industrial property, regarding acts of its competency, shall not require being legalized, when the presentation is made for an administrative act. The Bureau of Industrial Property may, however, require an authentic translation of these documents into the Portuguese or French language. (From Diário do Governo, Jan. 10, 1914.) Certain notes and table referred to are omitted for lack of space. Ed. Italy. Patents. Official Instructions. Effective Feb. 7, 1914. (Translation.) INSTRUCTIONS FOR OBTAINING CERTIFICATES FOR PATENTS, INDUSTRIAL, OF COMPLETION, AND OF PROLONGATION. I. APPLICATIONS. 1o. APPLICATIONS FOR CERTIFICATES OF INDUSTRIAL PATENTS. Application. Whoever wishes to obtain a certificate of industrial patent shall present or have presented at the Office of Intellectual Property (Ministry of Agriculture) or at a Prefecture or Sub Prefecture of the Kingdom, which shall enter minutes of the presentation, the corresponding application on filigreed, stamped paper of L. 1.20, or on white paper of like form provided with stamp of equal value cancelled either by the office of extraordinary taxes with its stamp or by the applicant writing across it the date in full. The application shall be signed by him that requests the patent or by his special agent and shall contain: (a) The name, in full, the surname (underlined), the country and the domicile of the applicant or of his agent, if there be one, and, if a matter of society or corportation, its exact denomination in the original language, written in Latin char acters. The applicant or the agent, when there is such, shall have residence or domicile in the city where the application is presented. (b) The title of the invention or discovery, drawn up in a way that it show briefly, but with succinctness, the character and scope. It shall also be declared whether the patent is requested for manufacturing and selling exclusively the new object, or for adopting the discovery exclusively in one or several industries, that shall be specified. (c) The indication of the term that it is intended to assign to the patent within the limits prescribed by the law (this from one to fifteen years). (d) The list of documents presented in support of the same application. (e) The indication of the patent previously secured abroad, the importation of which into Italy is requested, or of the patent previously requested or obtained under the terms fixed by the International Conventions for the reservation of the rights of priority, when it is intended to claim such rights. However, several certificates cannot be requested with the same application, nor a single certificate for several inventions or discoveries. To be Filed with Application. 1. Specification. To the application shall be united: 1o. The description of the invention or discovery in three identical copies on |