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 THIBT‘Y—SIX'I`H CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 88. 1861. 249 act, and all applications for the extension of patents, shall be Bled at least FM °¤*°¤¤i°¤· ninety days before the expiration thereof; and notice of the day set for w1§:¤g°;,b;£;d' the hearing of the case shall be published, as now required by law, for at published. least sixty days. Sec. 13. And be it further enacted, That in all cases where an article is made or rended by any person under the protection of lettezspatent, it shall be the duty of such person to give sufficient notice to the public that _ Nvfdce QM M- said article is so patented, either by fixing thereon the word patented, to· Eg: "¥v§;t°°t°d’ gather with the day and year the patent was granted ; or when, from the gl ` character of the article patented, that may be impractieable, by enveloping one or more of the said articles, and afiixing a label to the package or otherwise attaching thereto a label on which the notice, with the date, is printed; on Failure of which, in any suit for the infringement of letterspatent by the party failing so to mark the article the right to which is infringed upon, no damage shall be recovered by the plaintiff; except on proof that the defendant was duly notified of the infringement, and coutinued after such notice to make or vend the article patented. And the A°* °*`1842» ¢h· sixth section of the act entitled “An act in addition to an act to promote 263’§ 6’”Pm°d' the progress of the useful arts,” and so forth, approved the twenty-ninth v°l· '· P· 544* day of August, eighteen hundred and forty-two, be, and the same is hereby, repealed. Seo. 14. And be it further enacted, That the Commissioner of Patents Ten copies or be, and he is hereby, authorized to print, or in his discretion to cause to d¤§¤¤’iI>*i<>¤S 8*** be printed, ten copies of the description and claims of all patents which g;;Y})S0;$i§?;§’§j may hereafter be granted, and ben copies of the drawings of the same, Commissioner. ' when drawings shall accompany the patents : Provided, The cost of print- cegi°*g;°“ *° “‘ ing the text of said descriptions and claims shall not exceed, exclusive of C£Rei)€8léd’ 1862, stationery, the sum of two cents per hundred words for each of said - 182.§4-PM. copies, and the cost of the drawing shall not exceed fifty cents per copy; P' 58;*] one copy of the above number shall be printed on parchment to be aiiixed to the letters·patent; the work shall be under the direction and subject to the approval of the Commissioner of Patents, and the expense of the HMV *0 b¤ wid said copies shall be paid for out of the patent fund. Sec. 15. Andbe it further enacted, That printed copies of the letters Contents of patent of the United States, with the seal of the Patent Office affixed };f;’”1;1l:i*§“f» 51 thereto, and certified and signed by the Commissioner of Patents, shall c,.;de,m_ sg be legal evidence of the contents of said letters-patent in all cases. Sec. 16. And be it _)%·¢}zer enacted, That all patents hereafter granted f P¤*¤¤*:e;>1 ¤¤¤ shall remain in force for the term of seventeen years from the date of ;;;,,°Y°° issue; and all extension of such patents is hereby prohibited. And not to be Sm. 17. And be 12 further enacted, That all acts and parts of acts °x*Ifc’;‘;:1d· of im heretofore passed, which are inconsistent with the provisions of this act, cqgigigfgnf P,-0. be, and the same are hereby repealed. “¤*°¤¤· Approved, March 2, 1861. von. xu. Pun.-32