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 that where an application is fair upon its face, the Office cannot refuse to perform the “ministerial duty” of registration “imposed upon [it] by the law.” Bouve v. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., supra, 74 U.S.App.D.C. 271, 122 F.2d at 56.

Defendants will therefore be ordered to register plaintiffs’ claims for renewal describing plaintiffs as “proprietor of copyright in a composite work made for hire” upon payment of the single statutory fee in effect as of the time the respective renewal applications were filed.

Settle judgment order on notice.

David M. Curry, First Asst. U. S. Atty., Pittsburgh, Pa., for plaintiff.

Richard H. Martin, Pittsburgh, Pa., for defendant.

MARSH, District Judge.

The defendant, Jack H. Pincus, M.D., has been named in an indictment charging him with one count of conspiracy in violation of