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Prussia grants patents for five, six and eight years, to residents only, 

 for either newly imported or newly invented improvements, and for 

 the benefit of either residents or foreigners, no examination as to 

 novelty precedes the grant. The government charge is from $2.50 

 to ^5 the gi-ant of the patent must be announced in the newspapers 

 in six weeks, and' six months is allowed to put the invention into ac- 

 tive use. Infringers are punished for the first offence by injunction 

 and payment of costs, and for a repetition of infringement, by for- 

 feiture to the patentee of the wrongfully made article, and liability in 

 an action for all damages sustained by the patentee. 



Russia grants patents to any applicant, of importations, for from one 

 to six years, and of inventions, for three, five and ten years, at a gov- 

 ernment fee of about $25 a year for the former, and $50 a year for 

 the latter, no examination as to novelty is made prior to the grant. 



Saxony grant patents only for neAV and original inventions, and only 

 to residents, but may be for a foreign invention, the inventor nomina- 

 ting the resident to whom the patent shall be issued. The term of 

 the patent is reserved to be fixed in each case by the government ; 

 the fee ranges from $5 to f 50 ; and the invention must be put into 

 active use within one year. 



Bavaria grants patents, both of invention and importation, to any 

 applicant for from two to fifteen years, at a government fee amounting 

 to about $10 a year j and the invention patented must go into use in' 

 two years after the grant, or the patent will be forfeited. 



Wurtemburg grants patents for foreign as well as home inventions, 

 for ten years at an annual tax, and may be for importation or inven- 

 tion; disuse of the article patented for two years forfeits the patent. 

 Infringement is punished by forfeiture of the article made without 

 right, and damages to the patentee ; no examination of the novelty 

 of the invention is made prior to the grant. 



Sardinia grants patents to any applicant, and both of invention and 

 importation ; the term and tax to be fixed by the government in each 

 particular case. Proof has to be furnished to the government every 



