Do any of you clever people know about patent protection as announced in the London Gazette?
An example is 2 Oct 1874. It's headed 'Patent Law Amendment Act 1854, Office of the Commissioner of Patents for Invention. Notice is hereby given that provisional protection has been allowed - ' and has several pages of names and brief details of their inventions. Some then have an additional sentence - 'a communication to him from abroad from Fred Bloggs of New York, USA' for example - it's this I don't understand.
Does it mean the patent is provisionally granted but someone from abroad has something similar? Are they supposed to get in touch with Fred Bloggs? All the 'communications' seem to be from abroad.
An example is 2 Oct 1874. It's headed 'Patent Law Amendment Act 1854, Office of the Commissioner of Patents for Invention. Notice is hereby given that provisional protection has been allowed - ' and has several pages of names and brief details of their inventions. Some then have an additional sentence - 'a communication to him from abroad from Fred Bloggs of New York, USA' for example - it's this I don't understand.
Does it mean the patent is provisionally granted but someone from abroad has something similar? Are they supposed to get in touch with Fred Bloggs? All the 'communications' seem to be from abroad.