§ LORD CHARLES BERESFORD (Woolwich)To ask the President of the Board of Trade if he will lay upon the Table a comparative statement of the fees payable by an inventor in taking out a patent in Great Britain and Ireland and in the United States of America.
(Answered by Mr, Gerald Balfour.) The information desired by the noble Lord will be found at page 157 of the Appendices to the Report of the Committee appointed by the Board of Trade to inquire into the working of the Patent Acts, presented to Parliament in 1901 [Cd. 530].