PATENTS

Where no specific reference is made to patents or to the Official Gazette, the rules herein given apply to both classes of work. The term "patents" includes plant patents, trade-marks, designs, and reissues.

Patents.

ABBREVIATIONS

Follow copy, except in headings, in which the names of States are abbreviated. Fractions in assignments, etc., should be spelled. "Saint" should be abbreviated "St." in names of cities in the United States; sections of cities should be printed "N. W.", "E. C.", etc.

Follow copy in the use of the word "Figure" or "Fig." when followed by a numeral where reference is had to figures of the drawings.

Use "etc." in headings, but follow copy (&c. or etc.) elsewhere.

Spell out "&" wherever it appears in copy, except in the names of firms and corporations and in the signatures to trade-marks, where copy should be followed.

Official Gazette.

States.―Abbreviate (according to rule 61) the names of States except in treaties, conventions, etc., with foreign countries; laws; acts of Congress; extracts; and quoted matter, where copy should be followed. (See list of abbreviations on p. 88.)

Months. Follow copy in treaties, conventions, etc., with foreign countries; laws; acts of Congress; extracts; and quoted matter. Spell out in everything else, except in the index, published trade-marks, and patent suits. For the day of the month, following the name, use figures only. Where preceding the name of the month, use 1st, 2d, 3d, etc., as "the 1st of January", ""the 2d day of January", etc.

Street, avenue, road, etc.-Follow copy in treaties, conventions, etc., with foreign countries; laws; acts of Congress; extracts; and quoted matter, but spell out in everything else.

Citations.-Copy should generally be followed, but abbreviate section, chapter, page, etc. Etc. and &c.-Follow copy in treaties, conventions, etc., with foreign countries; laws; acts of Congress; extracts; and quoted matter. Use "etc." in everything

else.

CAPITALIZATION

Capitalize "Letters Patent" whether standing alone or followed by a numeral. Capitalize "Patent", "Trade-Mark", "Design", "Reissue", "Certificate", "Serial", "Sheet", "Plate", "Diagram", "Case", and "Division", where followed by a numeral, in any one of the following forms: "Patent No. 680, 180", "my Patent No. 680,180", "Patent 680,180", "Trade-Mark No. 140,500", "Design No. 10,500", "Reissue No. 14,500", "reissued Patent No. 14,500", "Reissue Patent No. 14,900", "Certificate No. 130,500", "Serial No. 1", "Sheet 1", "Example 1", "Plate 1", "Diagram 1", "Case A", "Equation 1", "Formula 1", and "Division A." Lower-case "patent statutes", "registration No. 130,500", and "trade-mark registration No. 130,500", but "Reg. No. 13,175."

Proper nouns used as adjectives should generally be capitalized. There are a few exceptions to this rule. (Refer to list of words in common use in patents.) Capitalize legends which are placed upon devices, drawings, blank forms, etc., for purposes of caution, direction, explanation, etc., as, "The semaphore bears upon its face the word Safety"; "As shown in Fig. 2, at the point marked Upper"; "The first column is headed Amt., the second Year"; "The figures are entered in the Rec'd column." Where more than one word is used, capitalize only the first word. Lower-case "danger position", "on position", etc.

Capitalize the principal words in trade-mark phrases, as sists of the words Golden Rod Butter, distinctively displayed."

"My trade-mark conCapitalize the word "Figure" spelled or abbreviated, if followed by a numeral, where reference is had to figures of the drawings.

Capitalize the following where reference is had to a geographical subdivision of a foreign country and where used in connection with the name thereof:

Capitalize the scientific names of plants and animals where reference is had to the genus, order, or family, but always lower-case the species, as crispus (species), Chondrus (genus), Chondrus crispus (genus and species), Aĺgæ (order). Where reference is had to an individual member of an order, lower-case, as an alga (or the algae) of the genus Chondrus.

Capitalize the principal words of titles of books, magazines, and other publications, as the British Pharmacopoeia, Bulletin of the American Pharmaceutical Association, Chemical Reactions and Equations, etc.; but capitalize only the first word and proper nouns of titles of articles in books, magazines, and other publications, as, Brown, Delicacy of British Pharmacopoeia test for arsenic, Journal of Pharmacy.

Capitalize the first word of titles of inventions where preceded by the word "entitled", as, The invention shown in my Patent No. 530,410, entitled "Variable-speed-transmission gearing" also capitalize the first word of titles of invention in text when referring to title in previous patent in connection with date and serial number.

Where part of an incorporated name, capitalize the word "city", as Kansas City, Oklahoma City, Jersey City, etc.; but lower-case New York city, etc.

Where abbreviations consist of single letters, capitalize the same, but not abbreviations of weights and measures, which should be lower-cased. Examples: H. P. for horsepower; R. P. M. for revolutions per minute; E. M. F. (plural E. M. F.'s) for electromotive force; NEA; C. for centigrade (but lower-case cent., etc.), should be capitalized, while lb. for pound; ft. for foot; c. c. or cc. for cubic centimeter; gm. for gram; cwt. for hundredweight; k. w. or kw. for kilowatt; mm. or m. m. for millimeter; c. g. s. for centimeter gram second; etc., should be lowercased.

All names of corporations and firms should be printed in caps and lowercase in head and all caps in signature. Names of individuals comprising lowercased "de", "von", etc., should be printed in lower-case in head and small caps in signature. "Dr.", "Jr.", etc., should be printed in caps and small caps in signature; "née" and "geboren" should be printed in small caps in signature.

Official Gazette only.

Capitalize full titles of all courts, as United States Supreme Court, Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, United States Circuit Court of Appeals, Second District, etc.; but lower-case court of appeals, circuit court of appeals, etc.

Capitalize the word "court" where reference is had to the United States Supreme Court, but lower-case elsewhere.

Capitalize the word "office" where reference is had to the Patent Office, but lower-case elsewhere.

Capitalize the titles of officials of the Patent Office.

Capitalize full titles of acts, as Trade-Mark Act, Spooner Act, etc.; but lowercase the word "act" where standing alone, "or act of 1905."

Capitalize principal words in description of goods in published trade-marks and in trade-mark phrases.

Capitalize Patent No. 1,780,310, but lower case British patent, No. 1,780,310, and Smith patent, No. 1,780,310.

Patents.

COMPOUNDS

Where two words are made of terms that are usually closed up, copy should be followed even though one word in heading; but prefixes should be closed up with the words to which they belong, unless connected thereto by a hyphen,

when copy should be followed. Examples: Horse shoe, rail road, fire arm, grind stone, anti-friction, electro-magnet, sub-station, ferro-manganese, etc., follow copy; but close up anti friction, electro magnet, sub station, ferro manganese, etc., if they appear as two words in copy.

Official Gazette.

Follow copy in titles in labels and prints, quoted matter, laws, treaties, etc.; but compound in accordance with Webster's New International Dictionary in everything else.

Patents.

FIGURES

Follow copy, except in assignments in headings, where figures should be spelled. Change "Figure one", "Fig. two", etc., in the text to "Figure 1", "Fig. 2", etc. Follow roman numerals.

Official Gazette (decisions and miscellaneous notices only).

Follow copy in treaties, conventions, etc., with foreign countries; laws; acts of Congress; extracts; and quoted matter. Spell out figures under 10 in everything else, except figures at the beginning of paragraphs, tabular matter, enumerations, figures of reference, etc. Only a general rule can be given. Much must be left to the judgment of the copy editor.

GOTHIC

All letters and figures relating to shape should be in gothic, except I, which should be in clarendon. Where copy has tee shape, change to T shape; eye beam, change to I beam, but eye bolt; ell, change to L; in the form of an A; the A frame; the Y; in the shape of an 8. Do not quote gothic, as "A" frame. If quotes are in copy, omit them. Golf tee should be spelled, as it does not indicate shape. No gothic in heads.

ITALIC AND ROMAN

Italic must be used in the Latin names of plants and animals where reference is had to the species (as tuberosa) or to the genus followed by the species (as Asclepias tuberosa); but roman should be used where reference is had to the genus alone (as Asclepias) or to the order (as Asclepiadacea). Also italicize the names of vessels and titles of cases in citations, as Smith et al. v. Brown; the Brown Case (180 O. G. 306); but Brown case, without citation, should be set in roman. Roman should be used in the Latin names of medicines, diseases, anatomical terms, chemicals and dyestuffs, geological and mineralogical terms, Latin words and phrases generally, and in titles of books, magazines, and other publications. Where italic (to indicate emphasis) appears in copy for decisions for the Gazette, the same should be followed; but in patents only such words should be set in italic as have been marked by the copy editor, except that Latin names of plants and animals should be set in italic in accordance with the above rule, even if not so marked in copy.

MISCELLANEOUS

Notice if patent is a "division", a “continuation", a "refile", a "no fee", a "No Drawing", or has "foreign application", and make head read accordingly. All new matter supplied in the head must be queried.

In patents and designs when jacket calls for "1 sheet of drawings", make "drawing" singular throughout patent. When jacket calls for more than 1 sheet of drawings, make it "drawings" throughout patent, but follow expression "1 sheet of drawings." Where amendments do not conform to above rules, correct with a query. The word "drawing" should always be singular in

trade-marks.

In formulas and equations close up all symbols, also reference letters unless separated by commas.

Care must be taken to see that claims are properly numbered. Where reference is made in a claim to the number of a preceding claim, see that the proper number is used when claims have been renumbered.