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LEFT PATENT 139 PATEENOSTER country he is a citizen and where he resides. In every original application the applicant must distinctly state under oath that the invention has not been patented or described in any printed pub- lication in any country before his inven- tion or discovery thereof or more than two years prior to his application. If any application for patent has been filed in any foreign country by the applicant in the United States, or by his legal rep- resentatives or assigns, prior to his application in the United States, he shall state the country or countries in which such application has been filed, giving the date of such application, and shall also state that no application has been filed in any other country or countries than those mentioned; that to the best of his knowledge and belief the invention had not been in public use or on sale in the United States, for more than two years prior to his application. On the filing of such application and the payment of the fees required by law, if, on examination, it appears that the applicant is justly entitled to a patent under the law, and that the same is sufficiently useful and important, the Commissioner will issue a patent there- for. Every patent or any interest therein shall be assignable in law by an instrument in writing; and the patentee or his_ assigns or legal representatives may, in like manner, grant and convey an exclusive right under his patent to the whole or any specified part of the United States. Reissues. — A reissue is granted to the original patentee, his legal representa- tives or the assignees of the entire in- terest when, by reason of a defective or insufficient specification, or by reason of the patentee claiming as his invention or discovery more than he had a right to claim as new, the original patent is in- operative or invalid, provided the error has arisen from inadvertence, accident, or mistake,^ without any fraudulent or deceptive intention. Reissue applica- tions must be made and the specifications sworn to by the inventors if they be living. Fees. — Fees paid in advance are as follows: On filing each original applica- tion for a patent, except in design cases, $15. On issuing each original patent, except in design cases, $20. In design cases, for three years and six months $10; for seven years $15, for 14 years $30. On every application for the re- issue of a patent $30. On filing each dis- claimer $10. Following are the figures for patents granted and applied for at the Patent Office in 1920. Granted — Patents on mechanical inventions 37,316 Granted — Reissue patents 227 Granted — Design patents 2,102 Registered — Trade-marks 6,984 Registered — Labels 622 Registered — Prints 158 Total 47,409 Number of applications filed for — Inventions 81,948 Designs 4,110 Reissues 322 Trade-marks 14,710 Labels 1,280 Prints 570 Total 102,940 PATEB, WALTER, an English au- thor; born in London, England, Aug. 4, 1839, and educated at King's School, Canterbury, and at Queen's College, Ox- ford, taking a classical second class in 1862. He was elected to an open fellow- ship at Brasenose; traveled in Italy, France, and Germany, and, both by his subtle critical insight and the exquisite finish of his style, earned his rank among the best prose writers of his time. His books are "Studies in the History of the Renaissance" (1873), a series of essays on art and letters, on such men as Leonardo, Botticelli, Joachim du Bellay, and others; "Marius the Epicurean: his Sensations and Ideas" (1885), an imag- inary biography of a young man brought up in Roman paganism, who passes through varied spiritual experience, meets Marcus Aurelius himself, and at last, shortly before his unexpected death, makes acquaintance with the mysterious new Eastern religion; "Imaginary Por- traits" (1887); "Appreciations" (1889), a volume of admirable criticism on Charles Lamb, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Rossetti, Sir Thomas Brovme, Blake, and on style itself. He died July 30, 1894. PATERNO, a town of Sicily, in the province of Catania. It is on the south- ern slope of Mount Etna. On an emi- nence overlooking the city is an ancient Norman castle and chapel. The town has a trade in mineral waters, wine, oil, and hemp. Pop. (1911) 20,923. PATERNOSTER, the Lord's Prayer, from the first two words of the Latin version; every 10th large bead in the rosary used by the Roman Catholics in their devotions. At this they repeat the Lord's Prayer, and at the intervening