Section 4930. The commissioner may dispense with models of designs when the design can be sufficiently represented by drawings or photographs.

Duration of Patents for Designs

Section 4931. Patents for designs may be granted for the term of three years and six months, or for seven years, or for fourteen years, as the applicant may, in his application, elect.

Extension of Patents for Designs. Section 4932. Patentees of designs issued prior to the 2d day of March, 1861, shall be entitled to extension of their respective patent for the term of seven years in the same manner and under the same restrictions as are provided for the extension of patents for inventions or discoveries, issued prior to the 2d day of March, 1861.

Patents for Designs Subject to General Rules of Patent Law.

Section 4933. All the regulations and provisions which apply to obtaining or protecting patents for inventions or discoveries not inconsistent with the provisions of title, shall apply to patents for designs.

An Act to Amend the Law Relating to Patents, Trade-Marks, and Copyrights.

Section 1. (Unauthorized use of patented design - penalty and liability - suits.) That, hereafter, during the term of letters patent for a design, it shall be unlawful for any person other than the owner of said letters patent, without the license of such owner, to apply the design secured by such letters patent, or any colorable imitation thereof, to any article of manufacture for the purpose of sale, or to sell or expose for sale any article of manufacture to which such design or colorable imitation shall, without the license of the owner, have been applied, knowing that the same has been so applied. Any person violating the provisions, or either of them, of this section, shall be liable in the amount of $250; and in case the total profit made by him from the manufacture or sale, as aforesaid, of the article or articles to which the design or colorable imitation thereof has been applied, exceeds the sum of $250, he shall be further liable for the excess of such profit over and above the sum of $250. And the full amount of such liability may be recovered by the owner of the letters patent, to his own use, in any circuit court of the United States, or upon a bill in equity for an injunction to restrain such infringement.

Section 2. (Remedy by existing law.) That nothing in this act contained shall prevent, lessen, impeach, or avoid any remedy at law or in equity which any owner of letters patent for a design, aggrieved by the infringement of the same, might have had if this act had not been passed; but such owner shall not twice recover the profit made from the infringement.

Fees in Obtaining Patents, Etc.

Section 4934. The following shall be the rates for patent fees:

On filing each original application for a patent, except in design cases, $15.

On issuing each original patent, except in design cases, $20.

In design cases: For three years and six months, $10; for seven years, $15; for fourteen years, $30.

On filing each caveat, $10.

On every application for the re-issue of a patent, $30.

On filing each disclaimer, $10.

On every application for extension of a patent, $50.

On the granting of every extension of a patent, $50.

On an appeal for the first time from the primary examiners to the examiners-in-chief, $10.

On every appeal from the examiners-in-chief to the Commissioner, $20.

For certified copies of patents and other papers, including certified printed copies, 10 cents per hundred words.

For recording every assignment, agreement, power of attorney, or other paper, of 300 words or under, $1; of over 300 and under 1,000 words, $2; of over 1,000 words, $3.

For copies of drawings, the reasonable cost of making them.