INVENTION REGISTRATION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21982, 17 June 1933, Page 17

INVENTION REGISTRATION

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —A few months ago I completed an invention and applied to the local registration office for some information about registration. I received a few schedule forms that must have been obsolete, as the information was somewhat misleading in two particulars. One of these stated that the registration fee is 15s. The other informed me that I could purchase a pamphlet tor 6d, giving fuller information. I 'applied for one of these, but was told I would require to write to Wellington for it. This I did only to discover -that the price is 9d and that the registration fee is £2 instead of _ 15s. Then I wrote to an agent in Wellington, asking him how much it would take to put a simple but useful invention through the Regisration Office. , The answer I received was that the cost would be between £8 and £lO. I wrote back saying that as I was only a working man not fully employed, the risk was too much, because the information stated that the commissioner had the option of either accepting or rejecting the application, and the fee is not returnable if the application should be rejected, but the applicant, by paying an extra £l, had the privilege of appealing to the High Commissioner. I think, Sir, that you and your readers will admit these conditions are very prohibitive. Another condition is that the applicant “ humbly prays that the commissioner will grant the application.” My purpose in writing you, Sir, is to inform the building trade specially and the general public, whom it may concern, that I am prepared to disclose the secret of my invention and give a demonstration of it at a public meeting, the only condition being is that I get the credit of it. —I am, etc., James Braid. 19 Stafford avenue, June 16.