558 SCIENCE PROGRESS 



protection which is technically known as " provisional pro- 

 tection," with its beneficial consequences, and (2) to extend the 

 scope of patent protection from " new manufactures " to every 

 invention of any new and useful art founded upon scientific 

 discovery. The amendments, moreover, are of such a character 

 that, with no disturbance of current practice, all the elaborate 

 machinery which has been erected to effectuate the patent 

 system would be applicable. 



New provisions to be read with the Patents, etc., Act, 1907 : 



I. (1) If application for a patent in respect of an invention 

 accompanied by a complete specification is made by the reader 

 of a paper before a learned society within a period of two (or 

 five) years from the reading of the paper, the reading of the 

 paper shall, on request being made by the applicant to the 

 Comptroller, be deemed to be an application for provisional 

 protection of the invention, and the paper so read shall be 

 deemed to be the provisional specification accompanying such 

 application and the application shall bear date accordingly : 



Provided that — 



(a) the learned society shall, for the purposes of this 



section, have been certified as such by the Board of 

 Trade ; 



(b) the paper read before the learned society has been 



printed and published within a year from the reading 

 of such paper ; and 



(c) the application, which is accompanied by the complete 



specification, shall also be accompanied by a copy of 

 the paper or papers or extracts therefrom as read. 



(2) The application shall be subject to examination and 

 investigation in like manner as though it had not been made 

 under the provisions of this section. 



(3) The times within which all proceedings in connection 

 with the application must be made shall be extended by a 

 period equal to that between the reading of the paper and the 

 lodging of the application, and, save as aforesaid, all proceedings 

 shall be taken within the time and in the manner prescribed 

 by the Patents and Designs Acts, 1907, or by rules made 

 thereunder. 



II. (1) The meaning of the word "invention," shall include, 

 in addition to its content as defined in Section 93, any new and 

 useful art founded on scientific discovery. 



(2) A patent granted for any new and useful art founded on 

 scientific discovery shall not be held to be invalid by reason 

 only that the new and useful art is not a manufacture within 

 the meaning of Section 6 of the Statute of Monopolies. 



