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Patent Office Library. This library contains the following publications, viz. : — United Kingdom. The full text of the specifications and complete drawings of inventions patented from the year 1617 up to the 23rd February, 1905. Classified abridgments of inventions to 1900. Illustrated Official Journal, containing lists of recent applications, abridgments of inventions for which patents have been lately granted, patents void, &c, to March, 1905. Index of Applicants. Subject-matter Index. Commissioner of Patents Journal, &c.( a ). Trade Marks Journal to January, 1905. Canada. Patent Office Becord (containing illustrated abridgments of inventions, &c.) to November, 1904( b ). Australia. The Official Journal of Patents of the Australian Commonwealth (containing lists of applications for letters patent, abridgments of complete specifications accepted, &c). The Gazettes of the various States (containing lists of applications for registration of trade marks, &c). Specifications, drawings, abridgments, and indexes of Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland, and South Australia( c ). United States. The Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office (containing illustrated abridgments of specifications, &c.) to April, 1905( d ). Mexico. The Official Gazette of the Patent and Trade Mark Office. General. La Propriete Industrielle (the official organ of the International Bureau of the Union for the Protection of Industrial Property). Patent laws of the world. Patent and Trade Mark Beview. Text-books and handbooks on patents and trade marks. Miscellaneous publications. Illustrated catalogues, price-lists of machinery, &c. Books and Documents open to Inspection. The following documents and books are open to public inspection at the Patent Office :— Patents. (Fee for each search or inspection, not exceeding one hour, Is.) 1. The files relating to all applications for letters patent in respect of which complete specifications have been accepted, 2. Classified copies of specifications and drawings, with index and key( c ). 3. Begister of Applications for Letters Patent. 4. Begister of Patents. 5. Begister of Subsequent Proprietors of Letters Patent( £ ). 6. Index of Patentees( B ). 7. Index of Proprietors of Letters Patent granted prior to 1890( h ). 8. Index of Specifications('). Designs. (Search fee, Is. each quarter of an hour.) 1. Begister of Designs, with Index of Names of Proprietors. t 2. Classified Bepresentations of Designs in respect of which Copyright has expired. 3. Index of Designs. Trade Marks. (Search fee, Is. each quarter of an hour.) 1. The files relating to all applications for registration of trade marks. 2. Begister of Applications for Begistration of Trade Marks. 3. Begister of Trade Marks. 4. Index of Applicants for Begistration of Trade Marks('). 5. Index of Trade Marks. 6. Classified Bepresentations of Trade Marks, with indexes. Miscellaneous. Begister of Patent Agents.

( a ) Discontinued. ( b ) These may also be seen at the Public Libraries, Auckland and Ohristchuroh. (°) In arrear. Not now being printed. ( d ) May also be seen at the Public Library, Christchurch. ( c ) Key is in card index. (') This Register contains only names of subsequent proprietors of letters patent granted prior to Ist January, 1890; since that date they appear in Register af Patents. (c) Includes all names of applicants, &c, and consists of four volumes to 4th November, 1903, and card index since that date. A separate caid index is kept for current quarter. ('") The names of proprietors of subsequent letters patent appear in the Index of Patentees. (') Contains classified abridgments of specifications from 1861, with extraotsfrom drawings from July, 1904. (i) Names of applicants for registration and proprietors of trade marks are indexed at the beginning of the Registers up to 31st December, 1889; in separate volume up to sth September, 1904 ; and since the latter date are in the card index.

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