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

by Hawaii

TO PROVIDE FOR THE REGISTRATION OF PRINTS, LABELS AND TRADE MARKS.

Be it Enacted by the King and the Legislature of the Hawaiian Kingdom:

Section 1. Any person or firm or any corporation desiring to secure the exclusive use of any print, label or trade mark intended to be attached or applied to any goods or manufactured articles, or to bottles, boxes or packages containing such goods or manufactured articles to indicate the name of the manufacturer, the contents of the packages, the quality of the goods or directions for use, may obtain a certificate of the registration of such print, label or trade mark in the manner hereinafter provided.

Section 2. Before anyone shall receive a certificate of the registration of a print, label or trade mark, he shall file in the office of the Minister of the Interior an application for the registration of such print, label or trade mark with a declaration verified by the oath of the applicant; or if the application be made by a firm or a corporation, by the oath of a member of such firm, or an officer of such corporation, that he is or they are the sole or original proprietor or proprietors, or the assign or assigns of such proprietor or proprietors of the goods or manufactured articles for which such print, label or trade mark is to be used, and describing such goods and manufactured articles, and the manner in which such print, label or trade mark is to be used. Said[p. 16] application shall be accompanied by two [^[B]] exact copies of such print, label or trade mark.

Section 3. Upon filing such application, the applicant or applicants shall pay to the Minister of the Interior a fee of five dollars.

Section 4. Upon receiving such application so accompanied, and the payment of such fee, the Minister of the Interior shall cause the said print, label or trade mark to be recorded in a book to be kept for that purpose, and shall issue to the applicant or applicants a certificate of registration under the seal of the Department of the Interior; and such certificate of registration shall secure to the applicant or applicants the exclusive use of the said print, label or trade mark throughout the Hawaiian Islands for the term of twenty years from the date thereof.

Section 5. This Act shall take effect from and after the date of its approval.

Approved this twenty-third day of June, A. D. 1888.

KALAKAUA REX.

By the King: