Hawaii

“ No information will be given respecting the filing of any caveat or application for a patent without authority from the applicant, unless it shall be necessary to the proper conduct of business before the office. ”

“ The Commissioner of Patents shall be appointed by the Minister of Interior and shall examine and report on all applications for patents and shall receive for such services a fee of twenty dollars for each application examined and reported by him, which fee shall be paid by the applicant in advance. In addition to this fee the following fees shall be charged all applicants for patents, upon filing each original application for a patent, five dollars; and upon issuing a patent, five dollars; and five dollars shall be charged for the filing of a caveat. ”

“ When the nature of the case admits of drawings the applicant shall furnish them as set forth in Section 2. When the invention or discovery is of a composition of matter, the applicant shall furnish a specimen of ingredients and of the composition, sufficient in quantity for the purpose of experiment. In all cases which admit of representation by model, the applicant shall, if required, furnish a model of convenient size to exhibit advantageously the several parts of his invention. ”

“ Letters and figures of reference should be carefully formed, and large enough to be plainly distinguished. If the same part of the invention appears in more than one view of the drawing, it must always be represented by the same character; and the same character must never be used to designate different parts.
28—No agent's or attorney's stamp, or advertisement, or written address, will be permitted upon a drawing. ”

“ That from and after the date of the passage of this Act the author of any map, book, chart, musical composition, print, cut, engraving, photograph, painting, drawing or statue, or the author of any model, or design, intended to be perfected and completed as a work of the fine arts, or the heirs, executors or administrators of a deceased author thereof, may procure a certificate of copyright therefor in the manner hereinafter provided. ”

“ The size of a sheet on which a drawing is made should be exactly 10×15 inches, one inch from its edges a single marginal line to be drawn, leaving the "sight" 8×13 inches. Within this margin all work and signatures must be included, one of the smaller sides of the sheet is regarded as its top, and measuring downward from the marginal line a space of not less than 11⁄4 inches is to be left blank for the insertion of Title, Name, Number and Date. ”