ACT APPROVED FEBRUARY ACT APPROVED MARCH 2, 1927. 7, 1927. An Act amending the statutes of the United States as to procedure in the Patent Office and in the courts with regard to the granting of letters patent for inventions and with regard to interfering patents. An Act to amend section 4900 of the United States Revised Statutes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Umted States of America in Congress assembled, That section 4900 of the Revised Statutes of the United States shall be amended to read as follows: “Tt shall be the duty of all patentees and their assigns and legal representatives, and of all persons making or vending any patented article for or under them, to give sufficient notice to the public that the same is patented; either by fixing thereon the word ‘patent,’ together with the number of the patent, or when, from the character of the article, this can not be done, by fixing to it, or to the package wherein one or more of them Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 4894 of the Revised Statutes of the United States be amended by striking out the words ‘‘one year’’ wherever they appear and substituting therefor the words ‘‘six months.”’ Sec. 2. is inclosed, a label containing the like notice: Pro- vided, however, That with respect to any patent issued prior to April 1, 1927, it shall be sufficient to give such notice in the form following, viz: ‘Patented,’ together with the day and year the patent was granted; and in any suit for infringement by the party failing so to mark, no damages shall be recovered by the plaintiff, except on proof that the defendant was duly notified of the infringement and continued, after such notice, to make, use, or vend the article so patented.’’ ACT An Act to amend APPROVED section 476 and FEBRUARY 14, 1927. section 4934 of the Revised Statutes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 476 of the Revised Statutes be amended to read as follows: | ‘‘Src. 476. There shall be in the Patent Office a Commissioner of Patents, one first assistant commissioner, one assistant commissioner, and six examiners in chief, who shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. The first assistant commissioner and the assistant commissioner shall perform such duties pertaining to his office of commissioner as may be assigned to them, respectively, from time to time by the Commissioner of Patents. All other officers, clerks, and employees authorized by law for the office shall be appointed by the Secretary of Commerce upon the nomination of the Commissioner of Patents, in accordance with existing law.’’ Sec. 2. That section 4934 of the Revised Statutes be amended to read as follows: Src. 4934. The following shall be the rates for patent fees: ‘On filing each original application for a patent, except in design eases, $20, and $1 for each claim in excess of twenty. ‘On issuing each original patent, except in design cases, $20, and $1 for each claim in excess of twenty. ‘‘In design cases: For three years and six months, $10; for seven years, $15; for fourteen years, $30. ‘On every application for the reissue of a patent, $30. ‘(On filing each disclaimer, $10. ‘‘On an appeal for the first time from the primary examiners to = the examiners in chief, $10. ‘“On every appeal from the examiners in chief to the commissioner, $20. ‘Hor uncertified printed copies of specifications and drawings of patents, 10 cents per copy: Provided, That the Commissioner of Patents the United States with such copies as wapply public Librari + Provided Purther, ‘That-the Commisan’ per $50 for d, sioner of Patents may exchange copies of United States patents for those of foreign countries. ‘‘For copies of records made by the Patent Office, excluding printed copies, 10 cents per hundred words. ‘‘For each certificate, 25 cents. ‘‘Ror recording every assignment, agreement, power of attorney, or other paper of three hundred words or under, $1; of over three hundred and under one thousand words, $2; and for each additional thousand words or fraction thereof, $1; for each additional patent or application included. or involved in one writing, where more than = > e Bs ES a ee BSD A Oe i angiPOs That section 4897 of the Revised Statutes of the United States be amended by striking out the words ‘‘two years’’ wherever they appear and substituting therefor the words ‘‘one year,’’ and by striking out the words ‘‘And upon the hearing of renewed applications preferred under this section, abandonment shall be considered as a question of fact.’’ Sec. 3. That section 482 of the Revised Statutes of the United States be amended to read as follows: ‘‘Src. 482. The examiners in chief shall be persons of competent legal knowledge and scientific ability. The Commissioner of Patents, the first assistant commissioner, the assistant commissioner, and the examiners in chief shall constitute a board of appeals, whose duty it shall be, on written petition of the appellant, to review and determine upon the validity of the adverse decisions of examiners upon applications for patents and for reissues of patents and in interference cases. Each appeal shall be heard by at least three members of the board of appeals, the members hearing such appeal to be designated by the commissioner. The board of appeals shall have sole power to grant rehearings.’’ Sec. 4. That section 4904 of the Revised Statutes of the United States be amended by striking out from the last sentence thereof the words ‘‘or of the board of examiners in chief, as the case may be.”’ Sec. 5. That section 4909 of the Revised Statutes of the United States be amended by striking out the words ‘‘board of examiners in chief’’ and substituting therefor the words ‘‘board of appeals.’’ Sec. 6. That section 4910 of the Revised Statutes of the United States be, and the same is hereby, repealed. Sec. 7. That section 9 of the Act of February 9, 1893, entitled ‘‘An Act to establish a court of appeals for the District of Columbia, and for other purposes’’ (Twenty-seventh Statutes at Large, page 434), be, and the same is hereby, repealed. Sec. 8. That section 4911 of the Revised Statutes of the United States be amended to read as follows: “Sec. 4911. If any applicant is dissatisfied with the decision of the board of appeals, he may appeal to the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, in which case he waives his right to proceed under section 4915 of the Revised Statutes. If any party to an interference is dissatisfied with the decision of the board of appeals, he may appeal to the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, provided that such appeal shall be dismissed if any adverse party to such interference shall, within twenty days after the appellant shall have filed notice of appeal according to section 4912 of the Revised Statutes, file notice with the Commissioner of Patents that he elects to have all further proceedings conducted as provided in section 4915 of the Revised Statutes. Thereupon the appellant shall have thirty days thereafter within which to file a bill in equity under said section 4915, in default of which the decisions appealed from shall govern the further proceedings in the case. If the appellant shall file such bill within said thirty days and shall file due proof thereof with the Commissioner of Patents, the issue of a patent to the party awarded priority by said board of appeals shall be withheld pending the final determination of said proceeding under said section 4915.’ Sec. 9. That section 4912 of the Revised Statutes of the United «tates,be amended by striking out the words ‘ ‘Supreme Court of the ‘ District of Columbia’’ and substituting thertror the words ‘‘Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia.’’ Sec. 10. That section 4913 of the Revised Statutes of the United States be amended by striking out the words ‘‘ And at the request of any party interested, or of the court, the commissioner and the examiners may be examined under oath in explanation of the principles of the thing for which a patent is demanded.”’ Sec. 11. That section 4915 of the Revised Statutes of the United States be amended to read as follows: “‘Sec. 4915. Whenever a patent on application is refused by the Commissioner of Patents, the applicant, unless appeal has been taken