Recent discussions on the abolition of patents for inventions in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and the Netherlands : $b Evidence, speeches, and papers in its favour
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Recent discussions on the abolition of patents for inventions in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and the Netherlands : $b Evidence, speeches, and papers in its favour
Patents
12. The _Commissioners of Customs_ shall cause to be made, and
_publicly exposed at the several ports_ of the United Kingdom,
_and in Her Majesty’s possessions abroad, printed lists of all
works of fine art wherein Copyright shall be subsisting_, and
as to which the registered _proprietor_ for the time being of
such Copyright, _or his agent_, shall have given notice in
writing to the said Commissioners that such Copyright exists,
stating in such notice when such Copyright expires, and shall
have made and subscribed a declaration before the collector of
the Customs, or any justice of the peace, at some port or place
in the United Kingdom or in Her Majesty’s possessions abroad,
that the contents of such notice are true. The provisions
contained in the Acts now in force, or at any time to be in
force, regarding Her Majesty’s Customs, as to the application
to the courts and judges by any person aggrieved by the entry
of any book in the lists of books to be made and publicly
exposed by the said Commissioners under the said Acts, and
the expunging any such entry, shall apply to the entry of any
work of fine art in the lists thereof to be made by virtue of
this Act, in the same manner as if such provisions were herein
expressly enacted, with all necessary variations in relation to
such last-mentioned lists, &c.
13. _Every person who shall import_ or export, or cause to be
imported or exported, into or out of any part of the British
dominions, or shall _exchange_, publish, sell, let to hire,
_exhibit_, or _distribute_, or offer, or hawk, or carry
about, or keep for sale, hire, exhibition, or distribution,
any unlawful copy, repetition, or imitation of any work of
fine art, in which, or in the design whereof, there shall be
subsisting registered Copyright, shall be bound, on demand in
writing, delivered to him or left for him at his last known
dwelling-house or place of business, by or on behalf of the
registered proprietor for the time being of such Copyright,
to give to the person requiring the same, or his attorney
or agent, within forty-eight hours after such demand, _full
information in writing of the name and address of the person
from whom, and of the times when, he shall have imported,
purchased, or obtained_ such unlawful copy, repetition, or
imitation, also the number of such copies, repetitions, or
imitations which he has obtained, and also to produce to the
person requiring such information all invoices, books, and
other documents relating to the same; and it shall be lawful
for any justice of the peace, on information on oath of such
demand having been made, and of the refusal or neglect to
comply therewith, to summon before him the person guilty of
such refusal or neglect, and on being satisfied that such
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