Abstract
IN CONSIDERING the advisability of taking out patents on their inventions in foreign countries, American chemical inventors should remember that practically all foreign countries, unlike the United States, tax patents on a gradually ascending scale and require the patented invention to be worked within the foreign country. Some foreign countries even tax their patents before they are issued; that is, the period of taxation begins from the date of filing an application for a patent. The working requirements for patents in the principal foreign countries and the cost of obtaining such patents may be briefly outlined as follows: CANADA. The Canadian act has always contained a clause requiring that patented articles be manufactured in Canada. This law was somewhat modified in 1923, 1928, and again in 1935. Every patentee is under obligation to supply the reasonable requirements of the public and, if he fails, anyone may petition the commissioner to order the patentee to meet ...
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