BRITISH PATENTS ACT.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 398, 6 January 1909, Page 7

BRITISH PATENTS ACT.

' ■ frt- , , . . f " GERMAN RESENTMENT. ■ 1 (ill TEMOIIM'JI—rBB33 ASSOCIATION—COPTSIOM'.) ' Berlin,- January 4. The German newspapcrs' ajo incenscd at ■ the ■■passing ofttte Actj« and threaten retaliation.. -«J3o?tip.if&\\ :• CAPITAL CROSSING THE CHANNEL.. Interest iii', the new. Bri'tislf- ■■Patgnt ; -"ittw« • which jpoviaes that-fore'igii;'patents held .in' •„ the ■ United Kingdom, must ,befif<Sorked" Ao' \ a reasonable.;, extent. In/ that-, country, bepame. . very acute r the of, tho Act;,'-' August 23, p.pprohclicd, and' tno Tvratlv >• -.of .the Germans does ,not ; 'seom't<Hb'ave';been i". appeased by .the negotiations .which.. Were un- ?. dorstood to havo sMb?c<ini?ntly taken place.' Of . 3932; foreign patonts granted; jhY'Pndanfcitv, ... 1907, 1272 were German., . Oommordal bodies in Gormanyhave searched eagerly for some means . ;of _ minimising tho effect of thejatr without I. being!compelled :to' erect.fact(sries\in England., The 'iDaily Mail's" correipbhdent strong feeling exists in .favour-.of-, retaliatory . 1 legislation. ''Many firms-announce'lhat they >■; ..will simply abandon, the -English 'market, and i. others will.exploit their patents through Eng.. lish' firms acting as their' agents. ' Those who intend building factories in England would-be >, far more numerous but for tho prevalent 'tfgtuv ness' in tho money, market;: , "The following firms have definitely arrange.!; to establish Works near .Liverpool:—The'fioclister Barbwerke, Elberfelder Parbenfabnk,-EXberfcld; ;the.;Badischo Anilin und and - the' Aktien-Gesellschaft fur Anilinfabrika:tion, Treptow-Berlin.'-; ; '' v \ "My Dusseldorf correspondent mentions' thaV many'-Gorman, owners-of English patents "are" .counting upon circumventing "the new .law, and its time-hmit;,by allowing..theii;/old'.patents to ; expire and handing, in new patents'or the' same'' . articles, with 6liglft improvements;, which willt then,- undor Section 27 of^h?Jnew! -siitUpefeJ: mit the artiole to be manufactured for a'period ■of four year's, on "foreign 'eoil:'. '",1' "My Mannheim correspondent; re'ports''''.tliat the'.- Well-known' Dailme'r j motor-car. -.Works ;in Stuttgart will,- if necessary;- enlarge' its' present' works-in England so as to constitute a fullfledged v The' Deutsche Waffen und Munitions Fabriken,•Berlin,• i makers; i of the' famous Mauser rifle and sthall-'arms; 'are negotiating for the manufacture of ■ their! Wares in England. : ' ' • .. • .... . " "Ah . amusing aspect' of the affair -has ; 'be6n the activity of British estate and land agents in seeking io interest Germans jn their proBerne's'.". A. veritable flood 'of persuasive "land literature has descended: from England." >' Two proposals have been made in Germany— (1) to put into force similar measures against 1 English, patents in virtue of the German Patont' Law,; which. admits of retaliatory : measures,- (2) to open negotiations witfc ttie' : British''' Government: with a view-to removing; as soon-, , as .possible compulsory manufacture: .of .- patented," articles by placing - the. inhabitants of-. hoth ' countries on an equal , footing on the lines':of thri agreement, reached between Germany and .Switzerland.. . . ~- •; . .