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n this book I have endeavoured to give a concise statementof the nature and effect of the alterations in, and additions to,the statute law of patents and designs, which were made bythe legislature during the last session of Parliament. I have not directly dealt with case law. About ninety-eightper cent, of the provisions of the repealed Acts and Bulesrelating to patents and designs are re-enacted. The case lawrelative to the re-embodied provisions is, as regards patents,fully treated in the recent edition of my larger book on PatentLaw and Practice, to which I have given references whereappropriate. So far as the new provisions are concernedthere is, of course, no case law at present. The time is,therefore, not opportune for a fresh edition of my formerwork. The tables in the Introduction will enable the reader, at aglance, to transpose the references in my " Patent Law andPractice" to the former Acts and Eules into terms of thepresent Act and Bules.
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