[Gutenberg 22684] • Patent Laws of the Republic of Hawaii / and Rules of Practice in the Patent Office

Excerpt from Patent Laws of the Republic of Hawaii: An Act to Regulate the Issuing of Patents

Section 7. Any person who makes any new invention or discovery, and desires further time to mature the same, may on payment of the fees required by law, file in the Interior Department a caveat setting forth the design thereof and its distinguishing characteristics, and praying protection of his right until he shall have matured the invention. Such caveat shall be preserved in secrecy and shall be operative for the term of one year from the filing thereof.

Section 8. The Commissioner of Patents shall be ap pointed by the Minister of Interior and shall examine and report on all applications for patents and shall receive for such services a fee of twenty dollars for each application ex amined and reported by him, which fee shall be paid by the applicant in advance. In addition to this fee the following fees shall be charged all applicants for patents, upon filing each original application for a patent, five dollars; and upon issuing a patent, five dollars; and five dollars shall be charged for the filing of a caveat.

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