PATENT QUESTIONS
A SY'STEM OF CONFERENCES.
AN lAIPERIAL OFFICE.
(Special to Press Association.) LONDON, August 19, The Imperial Conference agreed that representatives from Tbe Patents Offices of the Dominions shall meet in London to consider the practicability of instituting a system that will bo valid throughout the Empire. A memorandum now available shows that under the existing system, separate rights are required for each Dominion. Two proposals were submitted, the first suggesting the abolition of the Dominion, Patents Offices and the creation or an Imperial Patents Office similar to that of AVashington; the second, the retention of the local offices along with the establishment of a Central Empire Office where ’ locally-grant-ed patents would be recorded, such patents to have pri ma facie validity throughout the Empire. Any inventor obtaining a patent at a branch office would have the right to have a search made for novelty, such search being recorded on the patent. The conference will probably be held early next year. *
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10985, 22 August 1921, Page 5
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