Inventing for Boys

by A. Frederick Collins

Patent Office Fees.—The following schedule of fees for patents and prices for the various publications of the patent office are taken from the Rules of Practice. These fees are required to be paid in advance. All orders and moneys for the following fees should be sent to the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C.; except for The Official Gazette which should be sent to the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C.

RULES OF PRACTICE IN THE U. S. PATENT OFFICE

Free on Request.

On filing each original application for a patent, except in design cases	$15.00
On issuing each original patent, except in design cases	20.00
In design cases:
For 3 years and 6 months	10.00
For 7 years	15.00
For 14 years	30.00
On every application for the reissue of a patent	30.00
On filing each disclaimer	10.00
On an appeal for the first time from the primaryexaminer to the examiners in chief	10.00
On every appeal from the examiners in chief to theCommissioner	20.00
For certified copies of patents if in print:
For specification and drawing, per copy	.05
For the certificate	.25
For the grant	.50
For certifying to a duplicate of a model	.50
For manuscript copies of records, for every 100 wordsor fraction thereof	.10
If certified, for the certificate additional	.25
For 20-coupon orders, each coupon good for one copyof a printed specification and drawing, and receivablein payment for photographic prints	1.00
For 100 coupons in stub book	5.00
For uncertified copies of the specifications and accompanyingdrawings of patents, if in print, each	.05
For the drawings, if in print	.05
For copies of drawings not in print, the reasonablecost of making them.
For photo prints of drawings, for each sheet of drawings:
Size 10 by 15 inches, per copy	.25
Size 8 by 12½ inches, per copy	.15
For recording every assignment, agreement, power of attorney, or other paper, of 300 words or under	1.00
Of over 300 and under 1,000 words	2.00
For each additional 1,000 words or fraction thereof	1.00
For abstracts of title to patents or inventions:
For the search, one hour or less, and certificate	1.00
Each additional hour or fraction thereof	.50
For each brief from the digest of assignments, of 200 words or less	.20
Each additional 100 words or fraction thereof	.10
For searching titles or records, one hour or less	.50
Each additional hour or fraction thereof	.50
For assistance to attorneys in the examination of publications in the Scientific Library, one hour or less	1.00
Each additional hour or fraction thereof	1.00
For copies of matter in any foreign language, forevery 100 words or a fraction thereof	.10
For translation, for every 100 words or fraction thereof	.50
The Official Gazette:
Annual subscriptions	5.00
For postage upon foreign subscriptions, exceptthose from Canada and Mexico, $5 ormore as required. Moneys received fromforeign subscribers in excess of the subscriptionprice of $5 will be deposited tothe credit of the subscriber and applied topostage upon the subscription as incurred.

Trade Marks.—A trade mark is any kind of a mark, sign, name or picture, or a combination of these, by which a manufacturer, or a dealer can mark the goods he makes or sells so that a consumer can always know that the brand he is buying is genuine.

A registered trade mark gives the owner the sole right to use it and any one else who uses or imitates it can be restrained from its further use by injunction and sued for damages. After you have decided on the trade mark you want to use to show that the product is of your manufacture you should file an application to register the trade mark just as you would for a patent.

Fig. 127. A REGISTERED TRADE MARK

There are some kinds of words which you cannot have registered as a trade mark and you may have other words in mind which have already been registered in the patent office; nor can you register a trade mark unless you have sold your goods outside of your own State. Patent attorneys do not as a rule charge for a search of the trade mark records where an application for registration is filed through them.

The patent office fee for registering a trade mark is $10; a patent attorney generally charges $15 for preparing the specification and $5 additional for making the drawing which makes a total cost of $30 for a trade mark. A registered trade mark remains in force for 20 years and it may be renewed for another 20 years.