Chapter 14. Providing for the free importation of articles intended for foreign buildings and exhibits at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, and for the protection of foreign exhibitors
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CHAP. 14.— An Act Providing for the free importation of articles intended for foreign buildings and exhibits at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, and for the protection of foreign exhibitors. September 18, 1913.[[H. R. 7595](/us/bill/63/hr/7595).][[Public, No. 14](/us/pl/63/14).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Panama-Pacific Exposition.Articles for exhibition, etc., may be admitted free.Vol. 36, p. 1454.
That all articles that shall be imported from foreign countries for the purposes of exhibition, and articles and material imported solely for use in constructing, installing, and maintaining foreign buildings and exhibits at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition upon which there shall be a tariff or customs duty shall be admitted free of the payment of duty, customs fees, or charges, under such regulations as the Secretary of Sales permitted.the Treasury shall prescribe; but it shall be lawful at any time during the exposition to sell for delivery at the discretion of the exposition company any goods or property imported for and actually on exhibition in the. exposition buddings or grounds, subject to such regulations for the security of the revenue and for the collection of import *Proviso*.Duty on articles sold, etc.duties as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe: *Provided*, That all such articles when sold or withdrawn for consumption or use in the United States shall be subject to the duty, if any, imposed upon such articles by the revenue laws in force at the date of withdrawal; and on such articles as shall have suffered diminution or deterioration from incidental handling and necessary exposure the duty, if paid, shall be assessed according to the appraised value at the time of withdrawal for consumption or use, and the penalties prescribed by law shall be enforced against any person guilty of illegal sale, use, or withdrawal.
Sec. 2. Copyrights and patents.Branch offices at Exposition authorized.*Post*, p. 668.That the Librarian of Congress and the Commissioner of Patents are hereby authorized and directed to establish a branch office under the direction of the Register of Copyrights and the Commissioner of Patents at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, in suitable quarters to be furnished free of charge by the Panama-Pacific International Exposition Company, said office to be established not later than July first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, Certificate of proprietorship of imported articles to be issued.and maintained until the close of said exposition; and the proprietor of any certificate of registration, copyright, trade-mark, or patent issued by any foreign Government protecting any pattern, model, design, copyright, trade-mark, or manufactured article imported for exhibition and exhibited at said Panama-Pacific International Exposition may, upon presentation of satisfactory proof of such proprietorship, obtain without charge a certificate from said branch office, which Registry to be kept.shall be legal evidence of such proprietorship; and said branch office shall keep a register of all certificates of registration, trade-mark, or patent, and a register of all certificates of copyright issued, which shall be open to public inspection.
Deposit at close of Exposition.At the close of said Panama-Pacific International Exposition the register of certificates of registration, trade-mark, or patent shall be 113deposited in the United States Patent Office at Washington, District of Columbia, and the register of certificates of copyright shall be deposited in the Copyright Office of the Library of Congress at Wasliington, District of Columbia. Sec. 3. That it shall be unlawful for any person without authority Infringement on articles protected unlawful.of the proprietor thereof to copy, imitate, reproduce, or republish any pattern, model, design, trade-mark, copyright, or manufactured article protected by the laws of any foreign country by registration, copyright, patent, or otherwise, which shall be imported for exhibition at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, and there exhibited; and any person who shall infringe the rights protected under this Act shall be liable—Liabilities for.
(a)To an injunction restraining such infringement;Injunction.
(b)To pay to the proprietor such damages as the proprietor may Pecuniary damages.have suffered due to the infringement, as well as all the profits which the infringer may have made from such infringement, and in proving profits the plaintiff shall be required to prove sales only and the defendant shall be required to prove every element of cost which he claims, or in lieu of actual damages and profits such damages as to the court shall appear to be just;
(c)To deliver up on oath, to be impounded during the pendency Delivery of articles alleged to infringe.of the action, upon such terms and conditions as the court may prescribe, all articles alleged to infringe the rights herein protected;
(d)To deliver up on oath for destruction all the infringing articles, Destruction of in-fringing articles.as well as all means and devices for making such infringing articles. Sec. 4. That any person who willfully and for profit shall infringe Punishment.any right protected under this Act, or who shall knowingly and will-y aid or abet such infringement, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment for not exceeding one year or by a fine of not less than $100 nor more than $1,000, or both, in the discretion of the court. Sec. 5. That sections twenty-five, twenty-six, twenty-seven, thirty-four, Civil copyright actions.Vol. 35, pp. 1081–1081.thirty-five, thirty-six, tliirtyseven, thirty-eight, thirty-nine, and forty of the copyright Act approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and nine, are liereby made applicable to civil actions authorized to be brought under the provisions of this Act. Sec. 6. That the rights protected under the provisions of this Act Term of protection.shall begin on the date of the arrival of the pattern, model, design, copyrighted article, trade-mark, or manufactured article so imported for exhibition within the grounds of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition at San Francisco, and shall continue for a period of three years from the date of the closing of said exposition. Approved, September 18, 1913.