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 55 STAT.] 77TH CONG., 1ST SESS.-CHS. 392, 393-AUG. 21, 1941 except that, as to their duties as such clerks, the commanding officer at the base, post, or reservation at which they are stationed shall require them to be governed by the Postal Laws and Regulations of the United States. Whenever necessity arises therefor any assistant mail clerk may be required by such commanding officer to perform the duties of mail clerk. Compensation for services shall be paid by the Compensation. War Department in addition to that paid them in the grade to which they are assigned, such sum in the case of mail clerks not to exceed $500 per annum, and in the case of assistant mail clerks not to exceed $300 per annum, as may be determined and allowed by the War Department. Approved, August 21, 1941. [CHAPTER 393] AN ACT August 21, 1941 To amend the Act relating to preventing the publication of inventions in the [H. R. 4784] national interest, and for other purposes. [Public Law 239] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Act of Publication of in- Congress approved July 1, 1940 (Public, Numbered 700, Seventy- v Prevention of, in sixth Congress, third session, ch. 501), be amended by adding the 'nasTa'tterest. following sections: 35. S .C. §42 and "SEC. 3 . No person shall file or cause or authorize to be filed in any Application for foreign country an application for patent or for the registration of patenste reuabrade- a utility model, industrial design, or model in respect of any inven- ment. tion made in the United States, except when authorized in each case by a license obtained from the Commissioner of Patents under such rules and regulations as he shall prescribe. "SEC. 4 . Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 4886 and 4887 ,ffect of nonfom- of the Revised Statutes (35 U. S . C., secs. 31 and 32), any person and the successors, assigns, or legal representatives of any such person shall be debarred from receiving a United States patent for an inven- tion if such person, or such successors, assigns, or legal representatives shall, without procuring the authorization prescribed in section 3 hereof, have made or consented to or assisted another's making appli- cation in a foreign country for a patent or for the registration of a utility model, industrial design, or model in respect of such invention where authorization for such application is required by tile provisions of section 3, and any such United Stltes patent actually issued to any such person, successors, assigns, or legal representatives so debarred or becoming debarred shall be invalid. "SEC. 5 . Whoever, during the period or periods of time an inven- Penalties. tion has been ordered to be kept secret and the grant of a patent thereon withheld pursuant to the Act approved July 1, 1940 (Public, Numbered 700, Seventy-sixth Congress, third session ch. 501), shall, 354 Sta.: 42 and with knowledge of such order and without due authorization, will- note. fully publish or disclose or authorize or cause to be published or dis- closed such invention, or any material information with respect thereto, or whoever, in violation of the provisions of section 3 hereof, shall file or cause or authorize to be filed in any foreign country an application for patent or for the registration of a utility model, indus- trial design, or model in respect of any invention made in the United States, shall, upon conviction, be fined not more than $10,000 or impris- oned for not more than two years, or both. "SEO. 6 . If any provision of this Act or of any section thereof or pablity of pr o - the application of such provision to any person or circumstances shall be held invalid, the remainder of the Act and of such section and application of such provision to persons or circumstances other than those as to which it is held invalid shall not be affected thereby. 27T941'- 42 -PT . I 42

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