ALMANAC AND YEAR-BOOK FOR 1925. For the certificate.. $0.25 .50 a duplicate of a 50 For manuscript copies of records, for patented by him in a foreign country on an A reissue is granted when the original patent is inoperative or invalid by reason of a defective or insufficient specification, or by reason of the patentee claiming as his invention or discovery more than he had a right to claim as new, provided the error has arisen through accident or mistake. [For rules as to interferences, reconsideration of cases, appeals, hearings, motions, testimony. briefs and other technical or legal data, inventors are referred to the "Rules of Practice," which may be obtained free from the United States patent office.] Every patent shall issue within a period of three months from the date of the payment of A patent will not be antedated. the final fee. Every patent will contain a short title of the invention or discovery indicating its nature and object, and a grant to the patentee, his heirs and assigns, for the term of seventeen years, of the exclusive right to vend the invention or discovery throughout the United States and its territories. For 20-coupon orders For photo prints of drawings, for each Size 8x121⁄2 inches, per copy. For recording documents of 300 words Of over 300 and under 1,000 words.. For abstracts of title to patents or in- Each additional hour or fraction thereof Each additional 100 words or fraction For searching titles or records, one hour Each additional hour or fraction thereof less Each additional hour or fraction thereof For translation, for every 100 words or .10 .25 2.00 10.00 .10 25 .15 1.00 2.00 1.00 1.00 .50 .20 .10 .50 .50 1.00 1.00 .10 On filing each original application..... $20.00 .50 20.00 For Official Gazette, per year.......... 5.00 For 7 years.. 15.00 For 14 years... 30.00 PATENT OFFICE STATISTICS. On every application for reissue. 30.00 1910.. 63,293 35.930 Yr. Appli'tions. Issues. 1917.. 70.373 42,760 On filing each disclaimer... 10.00 1911.. 67,370 34,084 10.00 1912.. 70,976 37.731 1913.. 70.367 35.788 1914.. 70.404 41.850 On appeal from the primary examiner.. For uncertified copies of patent if in print- 20.00 1918.. 60,616 39.941 THE UNITED STATES. COPYRIGHT LAWS OF The act to amend and consolidate the acts respecting copyright, in force July 1. 1909. as amended by the acts approved Aug. 24. 1912: March 2, 1913, March 28, 1914, and Dec. 18, 1919, provides that any person entitled thereto, upon complying with the provisions of the law, shall have the exclusive right So far as it secures copyright controlling the (a) to print, reprint, publish, copy and vend the copyrighted work; (b) to translate the parts of instruments serving to reproduce meCopyrighted work or make any other version of chanically the musical work the law includes into effect; it does not include the works of a it if it be a literary work; to dramatize it if only compositions published after the act went it be at nondramatic work; to convert it into a Whenever the novel or other nondramatic work if it be a foreign author or composer unless the country drama; to arrange or adapt it if it be a musical of which he is a citizen or subject grants simowner of a musical copyright has used or perwork; to finish it if it be a model or design for ilar rights to American citizens. a work of art; (c) to deliver or authorize the mitted the use of the copyrighted work upon delivery of the copyrighted work if it be a lecture, sermon, address or similar production: the part of instruments serving to reproduce son may make a similar use of the work upon (d) to perform the copyrighted work publicly mechanically the musical work, any other perThe if it be a drama or, if it be a dramatic work the payment to the owner of a royalty of 2 and not reproduced in copies for sale, to vend the manuscript or any record thereof; to make cents on each such part manufactured. sition by or upon coin-operated machines shall or to procure the making of any transcription reproduction or rendition of a musical compoor record thereof by which it may in any not be deemed a public performance for profit manner be exhibited, performed or produced. unless a fee is charged for admission to the and to exhibit, perform or produce it in any manner whatsoever; (e) to perform the copy-place where the reproduction occurs. (j) Photographs. (k) Prints and pictorial illustrations. (1) Motion picture photo plays. (m) Motion pictures other than photo plays. These specifications do not, however, limit the subject matter of copyright as defined in the law nor does any error in classification invalidate the copyright protection secured. Copyright extends to the work of a foreign author or proprietor only in case he is domiciled in the United States at the time of the first publication of his work or if the country of which he is a citizen grants similar copyright protection to citizens of the United States. The existence of the reciprocal conditions aforesaid shall be determined by the president of the United States, by proclamations made from time to time. Provided, however, that all works made the subject of copyright first produced or published abroad after Aug. 1. 1914, and before the date of the president's proclamation of peace, of which the authors or proprietors are citizens or subjects of any foreign state or nation granting similar protection for works by citizens of the United States. shall be entitled to the protection conferred by the copyright laws of the United States from and after the accomplishment, before the expiration of fifteen months after the date of the president's proclamation of peace, of the conditions and formalities prescribed with respect to such works by the copyright laws of the United States. is by a foreign author and published in a foreign country one complete copy of the best edi. tion then published, which copies or copy, if the work be a book or periodical, shall have been produced in accordance with the manufacturing provisions of the act, or if such work be a contribution to a periodical for which contribution special registration is requested, one copy of the issue or issues containing such contribution. Failure to deposit the copies within a given time after notice from the register of copyrights makes the proprietor of the copyright liable to a fine of $100 and twice the retail price of the work, and the copyright be. comes void. The text of all books and periodicals specified in paragraphs (a) and (b) above, except the original text of a book of foreign origin in a language other than English, must in order to secure protection be printed from type set within the limits of the United States, either by hand, machinery or other process, and the printing of the text and the binding of the books must also be done within the United States. An affidavit of such manufacture is required. The notice of copyright required consists either of the word "copyright" or the abbreviation "copr.," accompanied by the name of the copyright proprietor, and if the work be a printed literary, musical or dramatic work, the notice must also include the year in which the copyright was secured by publication. In the Case, however. of copies of works specified in Faragraphs (f) to (k) inclusive (given above) the notice may consist of the letter C. inclosed within a circle, accompanied by the initials. monogram, mark or symbol of the copyright proprietor, provided his name appears elsewhere on the copies. In the case of a book or other printed publication the notice shall be applied on the title page or on the page immediately following, or if a periodical either upon the title page or upon the first page of text of each separate number or under the title heading: or if a musical work upon its title page or the first page of music. Where the copyright proprietor has sought to comply with the law with respect to notice, the omission of such notice by mistake from a particular copy or copies shall not invalidate the copyright or prevent recovery for infringement against any person who, after actual notice of the copyright, begins an undertaking to infringe it, but shall prevent the recovery of damages against an innocent infringer who has been misled by the omission of the notice. In the case of a book in English published abroad before publication in this country, the deposit in the copyright office within thirty days of one copy of the foreign edition, with a request for the reservation of the copyright, secures for the author or owner an ad interim copyright for thirty days after such deposit is made. Any person entitled thereto by the law may secure copyright for his work by publication thereof with the notice of copyright required by the act, and such notice shall be affixed to each copy published or offered for sale in the United States. Such person may obtain registration of his claim to copyright by complying with the provisions of the act, including the deposit of copies, whereupon the register of copyrights shall issue to him a certificate as provided for in the law. Copyright may also be had of the works of an author of which copies are not reproduced for sale by the deposit with claim of copyright of one complete copy, if it be a lecture or similar production, or a dramatic, musical or dramatico-musical composition; of a title and de-ite work upon which the copyright was origi scription, with one print taken from each scene or act, if the work be a motion-picture photo play of a photographic print if it be a photograph; of a title and description, with not less than two prints taken from different sections of a complete motion picture, if the work be a motion picture other than a photo play, or of a photograph or other identifying reproduction thereof if it be a work of art or a plastic work or drawing. The copyright secured by the act endures for twenty-eight years from the date of the first publication. In the case of any posthumous work, periodical, encyclopedic or other composnally secured by the proprietor thereof, or of any work copyrighted by a corporate body, or by an employer for whom such work is made for hire, the proprietor for such copyright shall be entitled to a renewal of the copyright in such work for the further term of twentyeight years when application for such renewal shall have been made within one year prior to the expiration of the original term. In the case of any other copyrighted work, inAfter copyright has been secured there must cluding a contribution by an individual aube deposited in the copyright office in Wash-thor to a periodical or to a cyclopedic or other ington, D. C.. two complete copies of the best composite work when such contribution has edition thereof then published, or if the work been separately copyrighted, the author of such work, if living, or the heirs, executors or next of kin, if the author be dead, shall be entitled to a renewal of the copyright for a further term of twenty-eight years. In default of such application for renewal the copyright in any work shall end at the expiration of twenty-eight years. If any person shall infringe the copyright in any work protected under the copyright laws of the United States, such person shall be liable; (a) To an injunction restraining such infringement. (b) To pay to the copyright proprietor such damages as the copyright proprietor may have suffered due to the infringement, as well as all the profits which the infringer shall have made from such infringement, and in proving profits the plaintiff shall be required to prove sales only and the defendant shall be required to prove every element of cost which he claims, or in lieu of actual damages or profits such damages as to the court shall appear to be just, and in assessing such damages the court may, in its discretion, allow the amounts as hereinafter stated (in numbered paragraphs), but in the case of a newspaper reproduction of a copyrighted photograph such damages shall not exceed the sum of $200 nor be less than $50, and in the case of the infringement of an undramatized or nondramatic work by means of motion pic tures, where the infringer shall show that he was not aware that he was infringing, and that such infringement could not have been reasonably foreseen, such damages shall not exceed $100; and in the case of an infringement of a copyrighted dramatic or dramatico-musical work by a maker of motion pictures and his agencies for the distribution thereof to exhibitors where such infringer shows that he was not aware that he was infringing copyrighted work and that such infringements could not have been reasonably foreseen, the entire sum of such damages recoverable by the copyright proprietor from such infringing maker and his agencies shall not exceed the sum of $5,000 nor be less than $250, and such damages shall in no other case exceed the sum of $250 and shall not be regarded as a penalty. The foregoing exceptions shall not deprive the copyright proprietor of any other remedy given him under this law. a 1. In the case of a painting, statue or sculpture. $10 for every infringing copy made or sold by or found in the possession of the infringer or his agents or employes. 2. In the case of any work enumerated in the list (given above) of works for which copyright may be asked, except a painting. statue or sculpture, $1 for every infringing copy. 3. In the case of a lecture, sermon or address, $50 for every infringing delivery. 4. In the case of dramatic or dramatico-musical or a choral or orchestral composition, $100 for the first and $50 for every subsequent infringing performance: in the case of other musical compositions, $10 for every infringing performance. (c) To deliver up on oath all articles alleged to infringe a copyright. (d) To deliver up on oath for destruction all the infringing copies or devices, as well as all plates, molds, matrices or other means for making such infringing copies, as the court may order. (e) Whenever the owner of a musical copyright has used or permitted the use of the copyrighted work upon the parts of musical instruments serving to reproduce mechanically the musical work, then in case of infringement by the unauthorized manufacture, use or sale of interchangeable parts, such as disks, rolls. bands or cylinders for use in mechanical music-producing machines, no criminal action shall be brought, but in a civil action an injunction may be granted upon such terms as the court may impose and the plaintiff shall be entitled to recover in lieu of profits and damages a royalty as provided in the act. Any person who shall willfully and for profit infringe any copyright, or willfully aid or abet such infringement, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment for not exceeding one year or by a fine of not less than $100 nor more than $1,000, or both, in the discretion of the court. It is provided, how. ever, that nothing in the act shall prevent the performance of religious or secular works, such as oratorios, cantatas, masses or octavo choruses by public schools, church choirs or vocal societies, provided the performance is for charitable or educational purposes and not for profit. Any person who shall fraudulently place a copyright notice upon any uncopyrighted article, or shall fraudulently remove or alter the notice upon any copyrighted article, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be subject to a fine of not less than $100 or more than $1,000. Any person who shall knowingly sell or issue any article bearing a notice of United States copyright which has not been copyrighted in this country, or who shall knowingly import any article bearing such notice. shall be liable to a fine of $100. During the existence of the American copy. right in any book the importation of any piratical copies thereof or of any copies not produced in accordance with the manufacturing provisions of the copyright law, or of any plates of the same not made from type set in this country, or any copies produced by lithographic or photo-engraving process not per formed within the United States, is prohibited. Except as to piratical copies this does not apply: (a) To works in raised characters for the blind; (b) To a foreign newspaper or magazine, although containing matter copyrighted in the United States printed or reprinted by authority of the copyright owner, unless such newspaper or magazine contains also copyright matter printed without such authorization; (c) To the authorized edition of a book in a foreign language of which only a translation into English has been copyrighted in this country: (d) To any book published abroad with the authorization of the author or copyright proprietor under the following circumstances: 1. When imported, not more than one copy at a time, for individual use and not for sale, but such privilege of importation shall not extend to a foreign reprint of a book by an American author copyrighted in the United States; 2. When imported by or for the use of the United States; 3. When imported for use and not for sale, not more than one copy of any such book in any one invoice, in good faith, by or for any society or institution incorporated for educa tional, literary, philosophical, scientific or re ligious purposes, or for the encouragement of the fine arts. or for any college, academy. school or seminary of learning, or for any state school, college, university or free public library in the United States; 4. When such books form parts of libraries or collections purchased en bloc for the use of societies, institutions or libraries, or form parts of the library or personal baggage be longing to persons or families arriving from foreign countries and are not intended for sale. No criminal actions shall be maintained under the copyright law unless the same be begun within three years after the cause of action arose. Copyright may be assigned, mortgaged or bequeathed by will. There shall be appointed by the librarian of congress a register of copyrights at a salary of $4.000 a year and an assistant register at $3,000 a year. These with their subordinate assistants shall perform all the duties relating to the registration of copyrights. The register of copyrights shall keep such record books in the copyright office as are required to carry out the provisions of the law, and whenever deposit has been made in the copyright office of a copy of any work under the provisions of the act he shall make entry thereof. In the case of each entry the person recorded as the claimant of the copyright shall be entitled to a certificate of registration under seal of the copyright office. The register of copyrights shall receive and the persons to whom the services designated are rendered shall pay the following fees: For the registration of any work subject to copyright. $1. which sum is to include a certificate of registration under seal: Provided, That in the case of photographs the fee shall be 50 cents where a certificate is not demanded. For every additional certificate of registration made. 50 cents. For recording and certifying any instrument of writing for the assignment of copyright or license, or for any copy of such certificate or license, duly certified, if not over 300 words in length, $1; if more than 300 and less than 1,000, $2; if more than 1.000 words in length. $1 additional for each 1.000 words or fraction thereof over 300 words. For re cording the notice of user or acquiescence specified in the act, 25 cents for each notice of not over fifty words and an additional 25 cents for each additional 100 words. For comparing any copy of an assignment with the record of such document in the copyright office and cer tifying the same under seal, $1. For recording the extension or renewal of copyright, 50 cents. For recording the transfer of the proprietorship of copyrighted articles, 10 cents for each title of a book or other article in addition to the fee for recording the instru ment of assignment. For any requested search of copyright office records, indexes or deposits, 50 cents for each full hour consumed in making such search. Only one registration at one fee shall be required in the case of several volumes of the same book deposited at the same time. For copyright blanks and additional information as to copyright regulations address the register of copyrights, library of congress. Washington, D. C. President-Frank B. Noyes, Washington, D. C. I nal: Frederick I. Thompson, Birmingham Second Vice-President-C. P. J. Mooney. Mem- Secretary and Counselor-Melville E. Stone, General Manager and Assistant Secretary- (Ala.) Age-Herald. Executive Committee-Frank B. Noyes, Wash- AMERICAN NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS President-S. E. Thomason, Chicago Tribune. (Va.) News-Leader. CURRAN HALL FIRE CALAMITY IN CHICAGO. Behr. The last named was a civilian. Friday evening, April 18, 1924, eight fire- | han, Thomas Kelley, Edward Kersting. Francis men and one civilian lost their lives in the X. Leavey, Sa nuel T. Warren and William burning of Curran hall, 1363 Blue Island avenue, Chicago. Eighteen other firemen were more or less severely injured. The fire spread with such rapidity that the structure, which was an old one and was occupied by a number of different firms. was clearly doomed to complete destruction and the firemen were preparing to cease their efforts when an plosion occurred. One of the walls collapsed. burying many of the firemen beneath the debris. The men killed were Capt. John J. Brennan, Lieut. Frank Frosch, Jeremiah Calla-jury at the inquest over the victims of the fire. ex Investigation showed that the fire was probably of incendiary origin and on April 21 charges of murder and arson were made against Leo Unell and Samuel Moore. They were partners in the Leather Sporting Goods and Novelty company on the second floor of Curran hall and held a fire insurance policy which had been raised a short time before the fire from $20,000 to $32.000. They were held for "murder by arson" by the coroner's ALMANAC AND YEAR-BOOK FOR 1925. re $10.00 Further information may be had by applying to commissioner of patents, Washington, D. C. 1918.. 1919.. TRADE-MARKS ISSUED. 4,061, 1921. 4.208 1922 .11.605 12.247 13.169 REGISTRATION OF TRADE-MARKS. Under the act of Feb. 20, 1905, as subse- Application for renewal quently amended, the owner of a trade-mark | Notice of opposition with foreign nations, or Appeals from examiners to commissioner 15.00 used in commerce For certified and uncertified copies of ceramong the several states, or with the Indian tificate and other papers and for recording tribes, provided such owner shall be domiciled transfers and other papers the fees are the (See "Applications within the United States or resides or is 10same as in patent cases. cated in any foreign country which affords for Patents" above.) similar privileges to the citizens of the United States, may obtain registration for such trademark by complying with the following quirements: First, by filing in the patent office an application therefor, addressed to the commissioner of patents, signed by the applicant, specifying his name, domicile, location and citizenship; the class of merchandise and the particular description of the goods com. prised in such class to which the trade-mark is appropriated; a statement of the mode in which the same is applied and affixed to the goods and the length of time during which the trade-mark has been used; a description of the trade-mark itself shall be included, if desired by the applicant or required by the commissioner, provided such description is of character to meet the approval of the commissioner. With this statement shall be filed a drawing of the trade-mark, signed by the applicant or his attorney, and such number of specimens of the trade-mark as actually used as may be required by the commissioner of patents. a The application must be accompanied by a written declaration, verified by the applicant or by a member of the firm or an officer of association applying, to the corporation or the effect that the applicant believes himself or the firm in whose behalf he makes the application to be the owner of the trademark sought to be registered and that no other person or concern, to the best of the applicant's knowledge, has the right to use such trade-mark in the United States, either in the identical form or in such near resemblance thereto as might be calculated to deceive. No mark by which the goods of the owner of the mark may be distinguished from other goods of the same class shall be refused registration on account of the nature of such mark unless it (a) Consists of or comprises immoral or scandalous matter. (b) Consists of or comprises the flag or coat of arms or other insignia of the United States or any simulation thereof, or of any state or municipality or of any foreign nation, or of any design or picture that has been or fraternal may hereafter be adopted by any society as its emblem, or of any name, distinguishing mark, character, emblem, colors, flag or banner adopted by any institution, organization, club or society which was incorporated in any state in the United States prior to the date of the adoption and use by the applicant: Provided. that the name, etc., was adopted and publicly used prior to the date of the adoption and use by the applicant. Trade-marks so similar to others as to cause confusion or mistakes shall not be registered, No mark which consists merely of a not written, impressed or woven in some particular manner or in association with the por trait of an individual, or merely in words or are descriptive of the goods devices which or merely a geowith which they are used graphical name or term, shall be registered. No portrait of a living individual may registered as a trade-mark except with his consent in writing. name 1920. .10.282 1923 PAUPERS IN ALMSHOUSES JAN. 1, 1923. [Federal census report.] State. Paupers. State. 745 South Carolina. Massachusetts.. 5,629 Ohio 3.128 Texas Paupers. 451 870 Georgia 872 234 Florida 207 Kentucky 1,457 889 Tennessee 1,477 1,162 Alabama 768 8,740 Mississippi 395 1,764 Arkansas 578 8.060 Louisiana 174 6,872 Oklahoma 250 1,073 No institutions maintained. Note-The foregoing statistics relate only to almshouse paupers and should not be used as comparisons between the states as to the Some stateextent of pauperism in general. because a policy of have few almshouses outdoor relief prevails. PAUPERS BY YEARS. PAUPERS BY COLOR OR RACE. |