Patent Laws of the Republic of Hawaii / and Rules of Practice in the Patent Office

PATENT LAWS
OF THE
REPUBLIC OF HAWAII.
ACTS NOW IN FORCE.
TO REGULATE THE ISSUING OF PATENTS.
Be it Enacted by the King and the Legislative Assembly of the Hawaiian Islands, in the Legislature of the Kingdom Assembled:
Section 1. All patents shall be issued in the name of His Majesty the King, under the Seal of the Interior Department, and shall be signed by the Minister of Interior and countersigned by the Commissioner of Patents, and they shall be recorded together with the specifications in the office of the Interior Department in books kept for the purpose.
Section 5. The applicant shall make oath that he believes himself to be the original and first inventor or discoverer of the art, machine, manufacture, composition or improvement for which he solicits a patent, and that, he does not know or believe that the same was ever before known or used, and shall state of what country he is a citizen.
Section 7. Any person who makes any new invention or discovery, and desires further time to mature the same, may on payment of the fees required by law, file in the Interior Department a caveat setting forth the design thereof and its distinguishing characteristics, and praying protection of his right until he shall have matured the invention. Such caveat shall be preserved in secrecy and shall be operative for the term of one year from the filing thereof.
Section 8. The Commissioner of Patents shall be appointed by the Minister of Interior and shall examine and report on all applications for patents and shall receive for such services a fee of twenty dollars for each application examined and reported by him, which fee shall be paid by the applicant in advance. In addition to this fee the following fees shall be charged all applicants for patents, upon filing each original application for a patent, five dollars; and upon issuing a patent, five dollars; and five dollars shall be charged for the filing of a caveat .
Section 9. This Act shall take effect and become a law from and after its publication, and An Act to amend Section 255 and 256 of the Civil Code, and add a new Section to the Civil Code to be numbered Section 256a, approved the twenty-second day of June, A. D. 1868, is hereby repealed.