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PUBLIC LAW 5 9 3 - J U L Y 19, 1952

Public Law 593 July 19, 1952 [H.R. 7794]

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^"^ ACT rjiQ revise and codify the laws relating to patents and the Patent Office, and to enact into law title 35 of the United States Code entitled "Patents".

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the code!^* ^^' "•^' United States of America in Congress assembledy That title 35 of the eifacf mlnt"imo United States Code, entitled "Patents", is revised, codified, and enacted law. ^ ° into law, and may be cited, "Title 35, United States Code, section—", as follows:

TITLE 35—PATENTS PAET

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I. PATENT OFFICE II. PATENTABILITY OP INVENTIONS AND GRANT OF PATENTS III. PATENTS AND PROTECTION OF PATENT RIGHTS

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ESTABLISHMENT, OFFICERS, FUNCTIONS PROCEEDINGS IN THE PATENT OFFICE PRACTICE BEFORE THE PATENT OFFICE PATENT FEES

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CHAPTER 1—ESTABLISHMENT, OFFICERS, FUNCTIONS Sec.

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Officers and employees. Restrictions on officers and employees as to interest in patents. Bond of Commissioner and other officers. Duties of Commissioner. Board of Appeals. Library. •-, ' Classification of patents. ,. • Certified copies of records. Publications. Exchange of copies of patents with foreign countries. Copies of patents for public libraries. Annual report to Congress.

§ 1. Establishment The Patent Office shall continue as an office in the Department of Commerce, where records, books, drawings, specifications, and other papers and things pertaining to patents and to trade-mark registrations shall be kept and preserved, except as otherwise provided by law. § 2. Seal The Patent Office shall have a seal with which lettere patent, certificates of trade-mark registrations, and papers issued from the Office shall be authenticated. § 3. Officers and employees A Commissioner of Patents, one first assistant commissioner, two assistant commissioners, and nine examiners-in-chief, shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. The assistant commissioners shall perform the duties pertaining to the office of commissioner assigned to them by the Commissioner. The first assistant commissioner, or, in the event of a vacancy in that office, the assistant commissioner senior in date of appointment, shall fill the office of Commissioner during a vacancy in that office until a Commissioner is appointed and takes office. The

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