1. By causing to be recorded in the Patent Office the name, residence
and place of business of persons desiring the trademark.

2. The class of merchandise and description of the same.

3. A description of the trademark itself with facsimiles.

4. The length of time that the said mark has already been used.

5. By payment of the required fee--$6 for labels and $25 for trademarks.

6. By complying with such regulations as may be prescribed by the
Commissioner of Patents.

7. A lawful trademark must consist of some arbitrary word (not the name
of a person or place), indicating or not the use or nature of the thing
to which it is applied; of some designating symbol, or of both said word
and symbol.

HOW TO OBTAIN A PATENT.

Patents are issued in the name of the United States, and under the seal
of the Patent Office. A patent is a grant by the Government to the
inventor, his heirs or assigns, for a limited period, of the exclusive
right to make, use or sell any new and useful art, machine, manufacture
or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, or
any new, original and ornamental design for any article of manufacture.

Every patent contains a grant to the patentee, his heirs or assigns, for
the term of seventeen years, of the exclusive right to make, use and
vend the invention or discovery throughout the United States and the
Territories, referring to the specification for the particulars thereof.

If it appears that the inventor, at the time of making his application,
believed himself to be the first inventor or discoverer, a patent will
not be refused on account of the invention or discovery, or any part
thereof, having been known or used in any foreign country before his
invention or discovery thereof, if it had not been before patented or
described in any printed publication.

Joint inventors are entitled to a joint patent; neither can claim one
separately. Independent inventors of distinct and independent
improvements in the same machine cannot obtain a joint patent for their
separate inventions; nor does the fact that one furnishes the capital
and another makes the invention entitle them to make application as
joint inventors; but in such case they may become joint patentees.

Application for a patent must be made in writing to the Commissioner of
Patents, from whom blanks and printed instructions can be obtained by
mail.

REISSUES.--A reissue is granted to the original pat