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Examination-paper for Candidates fob Registration as Patent Agents. 1. What is a patent right, and what factors are necessary to a valid patent? 2. What is a manufacture? 3. What is meant by " newness of manufacture " and " prior publication "1 4. Can a patent for a new use of a known contrivance be granted? 5. What is the meaning of " true and first inventor "1 6. What are the requisites of— (a.) A provisional specification, and (6.) A complete specification? 7. What is the object and effect of provisional protection? 8. State shortly the provisions under which reciprocal arrangements for the protection of inventions may be entered into by other colonies and foreign nations. 9. What are the rights of the Crown in regard to the use of a patent by an individual in New Zealand? 10. How can an extension of the term of a patent be obtained? 11. For what period and upon what grounds may the extension of the term be granted? 12. What atf the essentials of a trade mark, ami what are the remedies for ati infringement of a registered trade mark? 13. What is the general rule as to infringement of trade marks and trade names .' 14. Where A introduces into the market an article which, though previously known to exist, is new, as an article of commerce, ami has acquired tt reputation in the market by a name not merely descriptive of the article, can B legally sell a similar article in the same name? 15. What arc the rights of tin assignee of a registered trade mark? 16. Is it necessary to establish fraud in order to make a defendant liable for damages or to render an account of his profits in an action for infringement of a trade mark?

A.—Balance-sheet of Income and Expenditure for the Year ended 31st December, 1910. Income. £ s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Patent fees ... ... ... 5,159 10 6 Salaries ... ... ... 1,155 0 0 Design fees ... ... ... 25 1 0 Clerical assistance ... ... 231 9 10 Trade-mark fees ... ... 1,091 14 11 Copying specifications ... ... 11 18 7 Sale of Acts, Gazettes, Name Fees" to Patent Office Agents ... 109 10 0 Index, &c. ... ... 38 3 6 Binding printed specifications, &c, presented to Office by other countries* ... ... ... 39 2 6 Printing Patents Gazette" ... 807 19 6 Other printing and bindings . 167 7 6 Stationery ... ... ... 23 18 5 Stamps " ... ... ... 39 0 0 Books, patent laws, &c. ... 32 4 1 Telephone ... ... ... 8 0 0 Typewriter ... ... ... 10 0 0 Payments refunded ... ... 33 19 0 Balance for the year ... ... 3,645 0 6 £6,314 9 11 £6,314 9 11 " Printing and binding dime and figures supplied by Government Printing Office.