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2. As regards applications for patents or trade-marks, no distinction will in the first place bo drawn between those made by such subjects and those made by other persons. All proceedings thereunder will be carried on as usual down to the time of acceptance, but in the case of applications by such subjects formal acceptance will not be issued. 3. Applicants who fail to conform to the provisions of the Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks Act, 1911, and the rules made thereunder, will run the risk of losing their rights, unless they are able to bring themselves under the provisions of Rule 8 of the rules set out above. Applications under Eule 8 (a) should be made and will be considered at such time as the applicant, patentee, or proprietor of a design or trade-mark, as the case may be, is in a position to do the said act or file the said document as aforesaid. Applications under Rule 8 (b) should be made before the date for the doing of any such act. 4. As regards opposition to the grant of patents and the registration of trade-marks, arising after the commencement of war, («) opposition by such subjects where the grant or registration opposed is one to a British citizen or alien friend will not be entertained; (b) in the case where the grant or registration opposed is a grant or registration to any such subject, the notice of opposition will be accepted, but all further proceedings will be suspended until the end of the war. 5. As regards inventions for which patents are applied for by the nominee or assignee of the inventor, or some pei'son deriving the invention from such actual inventor, these will be treated in the same manner as if made directly by the inventor.

License permitting Payment of certain Fees in respect of Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks. LIVERPOOL, Governor. Wiimhras by a Royal Proclamation relating to trading with the enemy, dated the ninth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen,' and published in the New Zealand Gazette. of the fifteenth day of the same month, it was declared that the persons therein referred to were prohibited from doing certain acts therein mentioned : And whereas it was further declared by the said Proclamation that nothing therein should be taken to prohibit anything that should be expressly permitted by license given by a Secretary of State or the Board of Trade : And whereas' by a Royal Proclamation dated the eighth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the twelfth day of the same month, it was provided that the power to grant such license as aforesaid may be exercised in any British possession by the Governor thereof : Now, therefore, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance of the power conferred by the said Proclamation of the eighth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen, and of all other powers enabling me in that behalf, do hereby give and grant license to all persons resident, carrying on business, or being in New Zealand— To pay any fees necessary for obtaining the grant or renewal of patents, or for obtaining registration of designs or trade-marks, or the renewal of such registration, in an enemy country; And also to pay on behalf of an enemy any fees payable in New Zealand on application for or renewal of the grant of a patent, or on application for the registration of designs or trade-marks, or the renewal of such registration. Given under the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this seventeenth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen. A. L. HEKDMAN, Minister of Justice.

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