Patents - November 5, 1887

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MESSRS. MUNN & CO., in connection with the publication of the SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, continue to examine improvements, and to act as Solicitors of Patents for Inventors. in this ffbe of business they have had forty-one years' experience, and now have unequaied faculties for the preparation of Patent Drawings, Specifications, and the groseentiox* of Applications for Patents in the united tates, Canada, and Foreign Countries. Messrs Munn & Co. also attend to the preparation of Caveats, Copyrights for Books, Labels, Reissues. Assignments, and Reports on Infringements of Patents. AH business intrusted to them is done with special care and promptness, on very reasonable terms A pamphlet sent free of charge, on application, containing full information about Patents and how to procure them; directions concerning Labels, Copyrights, Designs, Patents, Appeals, Reissues, Infringements, Assignments, Rejected Cases, Hints on the Sale of Patent, etc. We also send, free of charge, a Synopsis of Foreign Patent Laws, showing the cost and method of securing patents in all the principal countries of the world. HITJNN & CO., Solicitors of Patents, 361 Broadway, New York. BRANCH 0FFICE8.-N0. 622 and 624 F Street, Pa* etfle Building, near Tth Street, Washington, D. C.

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