Commonwealth Patents.

Progress, Volume IV, Issue 8, 1 June 1909, Page 260

Commonwealth Patents.

(To the Editor Progress.) Sir, — As a constant reader of your valuable paper, I respectfully beg of you to allow me to suggest through the medium of your columns that rhe Commonwealth Patents Office be approached with a view to a reduction of the charge of eight guineas for provisional piotection on patents. It seems, if only on a basis of population, exorbitant. I know for a fact the sum mentioned deters many would-be patentees from proceeding with their inventions I could produce several simple things myself, but like many others I have

to let them lie dormant for want of funds to meet such excessive demands. This little hint may be the means of getting a reduction, and therefore assist impecunious inventors. Thinking you in anticipation. — I am, etc., R. C. Noedl.