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Patent office, means the patent office referred to in section 74. [The PatentsAct, 1970, s. 2(r)]...
Letters-patent, or letters overt
Letters-patent, or letters overt [fr. liter' patentes, Lat.], writings of the sovereign, sealed with the Great Seal of England, whereby a person or public company is enabled to do acts or enjoy privileges which he or it could not do or enjoy without such authority. They are so called because they are open with the seal affixed and ready to be shown for confirmation of the authority thereby given. Peers are sometimes created by letters-patent, and letters-patent of precedence were granted to barristers. By letters-patent aliens are made denizens, and especially new inventions are protected; hence the incorporeal chattel of patent-right.A 'patent-right' is a privilege granted by the Crown to the first inventor of any new contrivance in manufactures, that he alone shall be entitled, during a limited period, to make Articles according to his own invention--Statute of Monopolies, 21 Jac. 1, c. 3.To be the subject of a patent-right an article must be material and capable of manufacture, an i...
file wrapper
file wrapper : a written record in a patent office of the application and negotiations for a patent preceding the issuance of the patent see also file wrapper estoppel at estoppel ...
Esquire
Esquire [fr. escuyer, Fr.; scutum, Lat.; Gk., hide of which shields were made and afterwards covered], he who attended a knight in time of war, and carried his shield; whence he was called escuyer, in French, and scutifer or armiger, i.e., armour-bearer, in Latin. No estate, however large, conferred this rank upon its owner.Esquires may be divided into five classes:(I) The younger sons of peers and their eldest sons in perpetual succession.(II) The eldest sons of knights and their eldest sons in like successiorr.(III) The chiefs of ancient families are esquires by prescription.(IV) Esquires by creation or office. Such are the heralds and serjeants-at-arms, and some others, who are constituted esquires by receiving a collar of S.S. Judges and other offices of state, justices of the peace, and the higher naval and military officers are designated esquires in their patents and commissions. Doctors in the several faculties, and barristers-at-law, are also esquires. None of these offices co...
Examiner
One who examines tries or inspects one who interrogates an officer or person charged with the duty of making an examination as an examiner of students for a degree an examiner in chancery in the patent office etc...
Comptroller
Comptroller, one who observes and examines the accounts of collectors of public money; an officer of the royal household; also the Comptroller-general of patents, designs, and trade-marks, who has the immediate control of the Patent Office under the superintendence and direction of the Board of Trade. See the (English) Patents and Designs Acts, 1907 to 1932. The 1907 Act sets out (ss. 73-76) the powers and duties of the Comptroller....
Interferant
One of the contestants in interference before the Patent Office...
Controller
Controller [fr. Controle, Fr., the copy of a roll of accounts], an overseer or officer appointed to examine and verify the accounts of other officers, also Controller under Patents Act, 1911.Means the Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks referred to in s. 73. [Patents Act, 1970 (39 of 1970), s. 2 (1) (b)]Means the Controller of Certifying Authorities appointed under sub-s. (l) of s. 17. [Information Technology Act, 2000 (21 of 2000), s. 2 (1) (m)]Means the Controller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks referred to in s. 3. [Designs Act, 2000 (16 of 2000), s. 2 (b)]Means the person appointed by the State Government to give effect to the provisions of this Act and includes every Additional, Deputy or Assistant Controller who may be authorised by the Controller under sub-s. (3) of s. 5 to exercise any power under this Act. [Dangerous Machines (Regulation) Act, 1983 (35 of 1983), s. 3 (b)]...
Attorney-General
Attorney-General, a great officer of state appointed by letters-patent, and the legal representative of the Crown in the Supreme Court. He is also ex-officio head of the bar for the time being. He exhibits informations, prosecutes for the Crown in criminal matters and in revenue causes, and used to grant fiats for writs of error until they were abolished by s. 20 of the (English) Criminal Appeal Act, 1907, His fiat or consent is required before certain proceedings or prosecutions can be commenced (see, e.g., (English) Public Bodies Corrupt Practices Act, 1889, and Prevention of Corruption Act, 1906). In many cases also (see e.g., (English) Lunacy Act, 1890, s. 325; (English) Public Health Act, 1936, s. 298; (English) Public Health (Officers) Act, 1884; (English) Public Health (Members and Officers) Act, 1885; Official Secrets Act, 1911, s. 8), his consent is necessary before penalties can be recovered. His fiat is necessary for certain appeals to the House of Lords. See (English) Appel...
Patentee
Patentee, means the person for the time being entered on the register as the grantee or proprietor of the patent. [Patents Act, 1970 (39 of 1970), s. 2(p)]One who has a patent. The offices of patentee and deputy patentee of the Subp'na office were abolished by 15 & 16 Vict. c. 87, s. 27....
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