The Business Guide, Or, Safe Methods of Business (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 Excerpt: ...naturalized citizens. Address all communications to "Department of State, Passport Division, Washington, D. C." A passport should always be carried upon the person--never in a trunk or valise. PATENTS. 1. Definition.--As here used the word Patent is defined to mean the granting by the United States to inventors for a limited time the use of their own inventions. The instrument by which this privilege is confirmed to the inventor is called the "Letters Patent" and is issued in the name of the United States ZOO EVERYTHING VENTURED, NOTHING HAD. of America under the seal of the Patent office and is signed by the Secretary of the Interior, and countersigned by the Commissioner of Patents. a. For What Granted.--Patents are granted for any new and useful machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereon not known and used by others in this country and not patented or described in any printed publication in this or any foreign country before its invention and discovery here, and not in public use or on sale for more than two years prior to the application for a patent. Every civilized country in the world has taken out patents in the United States. 3. Foreign Patent Not a Bar.--A person is not debarred from receiving a patent for his inventions or discoveries by reason of its first having been patented in a foreign country unless the same has been introduced into public use in the United States for more than two years prior to the application therein. 4. Duration of Patent.--A patent is good for seventeen years, but now cannot be extended except by act of Congress. Inventions previously patented in a foreign country must expire at the same time that the foreign patent expires, but in no case shall they be...