OUTSIDE PROTECTION OF NEW ZEALAND PATENTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 12860, 8 May 1905, Page 6

OUTSIDE PROTECTION OF NEW ZEALAND PATENTS.

TO THIS EDITOR. Sir, The explanation of Messrs. B&ldwiD and Raymond in this morning's Herald, about the vahu 1 of protection to New Zealand patentees in the Australian Commonwealth, is very satisfactory. The same rules holds good in the United States of America, for although an inventor is supposed to be protected for, say, 12 months from the date of an application in New Zealand, an American inventor lodges an application for a similar thing in America, say, three, months later than the New Zealand application, and when the American completes his application, he gets his patent months before the New Zealand one is applied for. The only thing that the American Patent Office can then do is to grant a second patent for the same invention, as I believe that the American office never cancels a patent onct granted. Very probably Canadian so-called pro« tection is much in the same style. Meantime, thanks to Messrs. Baldwin and Rayward for the. in format about the Commonwealth.—l am. etc.. \V. Gkesxsuieldb