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Patents and 
Designs Act, 1907. 
Upon the application of Mr. A. S. Manders, of 75, Chancery Lane, IV. C., 
made to the Board of Trade on the 23rd day of fanuary , 1908, the Board of 
Trade do hereby certify that the Rubber and Allied Trades Exhibition 
proposed to be held in the year 1908 at the Royal Horticultural Hall, 
Westminster , in the County of London, is an International Exhibition. 
Signed\ by order of the Board of Trade , this 27 th day of January, 1908, 
T. W. P. BLGMEFIELD, 
Assistant Secretary, Board of Trade, 
paft I. Section 45 (1). The exhibition of an invention at an industrial or 
Provisions' "as to i nterna donal exhibition, certified as such by the Board of Trade, or the 
Exhibitions. ° publication of any description of the invention during the period of the 
holding of the exhibition, or the use of the invention for the purpose of 
the exhibition in the place where the exhibition is held, or the use of the 
invention during the period of the holding of the exhibition by any person 
elsewhere, without the privity or consent of the inventor, shall not prejudice 
the right of the inventor to apply for and obtain a patent in respect of the 
invention or the validity of any patent granted on the application, provided 
that:— 
(a) The exhibitor, before exhibiting the invention, gives the comptroller 
the prescribed notice of his intention to do so ; and 
(b) The application for a patent is made before or \Vithin six months 
from the date of the opening of the exhibition. 
designs Section 59(1). The exhibition at an industrial or international exhibition. 
Provisions Es to certified as such by the Board of Trade, or the exhibition elsewhere during 
exhibitions, the period of the holding of the exhibition, without the privity or consent of 
the proprietor of a design, or of any article to which a design is applied, or 
the publication, during the holding of any such exhibition, of a description 
of a design, shall not prevent the design from being registered, or invalidate 
the registration thereof, provided that ; — 
(a) The exhibitor, before exhibiting the design or article, or publishing 
a description of the design, gives the comptroller the prescribed 
notice of his intention to do so ; and 
(b) The application for registration is made before or within six months 
from the date of the opening of the exhibition. 
