PATENTS AND :: 
DESIGNS ACT, 1907. 
Upon the application of Mr. A. S. Manders, of 75, Chancery Lane , 
London, made to the Board of Trade on the 21 st day of January, 1910, 
the Board of Trade do hereby certify that the International Rubber 
and Allied Trades Exhibition proposed to be held in the year 1911 in 
London, is an INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION. 
Signed, by order of the Board of Trade, this 27 th day of January, 
1910. 
GEO. J. STANLEY, 
Assistant Secretary, Board of Trade. 
PART I. Section 45 (t). The exhibition of an invention at an 
PATENTS. industrial or international exhibition, certified as such by the 
Provisions as Board of Trade, or the publication of any description of the 
to exhibitions. invention during the period of the holding of the exhibition, 
or the use of the invention for the purpose of the exhibition in 
the p!ace where the exhibition is held, or the use of the 
invention during the period of the hold ng 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 
ib) The application for a patent is made before or within six months 
from the date of the opening of the exhibition. 
PART II. 
DESIGNS. 
Provisions as 
to exhibitions. 
description of 
invalidate the 
Sectiou 59 (1). The exhibition at an industrial or inter¬ 
national exhibition, certified as such by the Board of Trade, 
or the exhibition elsewhere during 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 
a design, shall not prevent the design from being registered, or 
registration thereof, provided that 
(а) 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 
(б) The application for registration is made before or within six months 
from the date of the opening of the exhibition. 
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