Section 1
SECTION 1. Section four of Act Numbered Twenty-seven hundred and ninety-three, entitled "An Act to establish the manner of securing patents for inventions or discoveries, and for other purposes," is hereby amended to read as follows: "SEC. 4. If the manufacture of the patented articles takes place in the Philippines, there shall be no tax paid on the patents protecting the invention or discovery. "If the manufacture of the patented articles takes place entirely or largely in a foreign country or countries, there shall be paid upon the patents protecting the invention or discovery twenty pesos on the date of the issue of the same and, besides, a tax of twenty pesos per annum during the entire life of the patent, in addition to the fees established in section twenty-one. "The provisions of this section shall not be applicable to public officers and employees desiring to register a patent for an invention for the use of the Government, in which case the inventor shall state in his application that the Government of the Philippine Islands or any of its officers or employees may use said patent in the execution of work of the Government without any payment to the inventor, which condition shall be set forth on the letters patent."