Chapter VII: Section 3: That a new section to said Act, as amended by the Act

entitled "An Act to amend an Act to regulate the issuing of Patents," approved June 23rd, 1888, be added, to be called Section 15.

"SECTION 15. Whenever any patent is inoperative or invalid, by reason of a defective or insufficient specification, or by reason of the patentee claiming as his own invention or discovery more than he had a right to claim as new, if the error has arisen by inadvertance, accident or mistake, and without any fraudulent or deceptive intention, the Minister of the Interior shall, on the surrender of such patent and the payment of the same fees required by law upon the issue of an original or first patent, cause a new patent for the same invention, and in accordance with the corrected specification, to be issued to the patentee, or, in the case of his death, or of an assignment of the whole or any undivided part of the original patent, then to his executors, administrators, or assigns, for the unexpired part of the term of the original patent. Such surrender shall take effect upon the issue of the amended patent. The Minister of the Interior may, in his discretion, upon demand of the applicant, and upon payment of the same or first fee required to be paid on the issuing of a patent, cause several patents to be issued for distinct and separate parts of the thing patented. The specifications and claim in every such case shall be subject to revision and restriction in the same manner as original applications are. Every patent so re-issued, together with the corrected specification, shall have the same effect and operation in law, on the trial of all actions for causes thereafter arising, as if the same had been originally filed in such corrected form; but no new matter shall be introduced into the specification, nor in case of a machine patent shall the model or drawings be amended, except each by the other, but when there is neither model nor drawing, amendments may be made upon proof satisfactory to the Minister of the Interior, that such new matter or amendment was a part of the original invention, and was omitted from the specification by inadvertance, accident, or mistake, as aforesaid. Upon the filing of any such application for a re-issue with the Minister of the Interior, the same examination shall be had as is provided by Section 6 of the "Act to Regulate the issuing of Patents," approved August 29th, 1884."

SECTION 4. That a new Section to said Act, as amended by the Act entitled "An Act to amend an Act to regulate the issuing of Patents," approved June 23rd, 1888, be added, to be called Section 16.

"SECTION 16. Patents may be granted and issued and re-issued to the assignee of the inventor or discoverer, but the assignment must first be filed in the office of the Minister of the Interior. And in all cases of an application by an assignee for the issue of a patent, the application shall be made, and the specification signed as provided by law by the inventor or discoverer. And in all cases of an application for a re-issue of any patent, the application must be made, and the corrected specification signed by the inventor or discoverer, if he is living."

SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect from the date of its approval.

Approved this 12th day of May, A. D. 1896.

SANFORD B. DOLE,
President of the Republic of Hawaii.

AN ACT

TO PROVIDE FOR THE REGISTRATION OF COPYRIGHTS.

_Be it Enacted by the King and the Legislature of the
Hawaiian Kingdom_:

SECTION 1. 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.