Worcester daily spy., 1851-10-01

we cheeruly comply With the request Of the writer by
giving place in our columns Ii is probable that
who are Nc convesmt with the mnutie of the Patent Of
fce have Just conception of the amount annually expen
ded by inventors in unsuccessful attempts the
profits OF their ingenuity. Nmety-seven thousand dollars
is quite too much TO be abslraced in years. addition
TO large amount omental labor from that useful
weahy class, who deal in patenabe inventions.
The attention of Inventors is asked fO the
following info NATION and sugge stiOns;
consider Inventors useful and valuable class of
citizens whose labos generally benefit the public more than
themselves The fee required upon application Tor
patent thirty dollars, and the inventor required
nsh model or specimen of his invention win duplicate
drawings, ana description such as would enable per
son skilled in the to wh pertans TO
make and use it, The usual charge making drawings
and preparing the description and other papers, is thirty
dollars which includes any explanations required at the
Patent Office during The progress OF he case If the in.
ventOn requires several figures showing different views of
the machine thing for which patent is desired and
long description the expense of preparing the papers
poporonaly increased; but in the pese of
procuring patent sixty dollars, exclusive the model
which may be cheap but should be neatly made and
not more than one foot square If the patent
is sent to the applicant free of postage. If the application
is rejected the applicant is referred inventions as
IN The opinion OF the Examiner prevent the granting e-
efs patenj ana Le applicant may then relinquish his
clam to the ln0d4whdraw his application, receive
back twenty of The thirty dollars paid the Office and
suffer loss OF forty dollars, exclusive of the time and
money expended in perecting his invention and procuring
model if he is dissatisfied with he rejection of his an
picaon, lie can appeal from the decision
10 the Chief Justice of The Circuit Court in the District nj
Columbia, file i'll Equity in that Court in ther casa
iitw cost from $50 10 $lO0 Only about twohths of the
applications for patents granted 4O9 applications hay-
! ing been rejected in le49 and l.U3o in 1850
Now, allowing the expense of each application to have
been sixty dollars, (any OF them doubtless much
more and deductng the twenty dollars returned on The
application being withdrawn and The amount OF money
spent by inventors in the last two years. exclusive of The
cost OF models and other incidental expenses is the enor
nous sum OF nnety-seven thousand eight bundled and
eighty dollars which lost TO class people that can i'll
afford TO lose it, and OF which much the greater part might
have been saved if they had pursued course which viii
now endeayOr to point
Let each inventor, after completing his invention make
rough drawing or sketch of with pencil ink write
description OF It's use AID operation, and enclosing five dol
lars, send it to competent agent for procuring nat
ents IN the City OF Washington u. e. The az gent will then
examine it, and compare with The inventions alreauy in
The Patent Office, and he find that thele is little or no
probability OF patent being obtained, If applied for he
will advise the inventor accordingly. In this Wav thrt,
ve dollars, al least OF the forty above mentioned might
IN general be saved which, for the 2447 inventors whose
applications rejected in 49 80 wonld amount to
! upwards of eighty thousand dollars
H. on the other hand, the invention is found be pat
entabe there is still no loss by this COURSE for the aaen
will count the dollars paid for a preliminary exanua
on part OF the $50 charged for preparing The naei
and drawings Many inventors consult some one living
near them, who visits the Patent Office perhaps two ,r
three times has visited few times IN his life
to the probability of their obtaining patent; hui when
it is known that from fifteen twenty patents are issued
weekly it will be at once that the opinion of one not
actually visiting the Office compare the invention in
question with those already deposited, be much
value. Even if stranger should the patel Of
making he
hardly expect to do it efiecuay among so many lhuu-
sands of models, drawings descriptions without he
assistance OF some one familiar the nts OF the Of
nee, and III the practice OF making such
the course oil my experience irequeuIlv onud one
patented and several rejected models pon
cisey the same principles with one sent ia me with in
sIr ctons to procure patent lii such cases return The
money forwarded, excepting the fee of IS for making The
examination and ad wise the applicant that his invention is
not pat5nabe, holding the model subject 10 his order
Again, inventors make invention and seld TO the
Commissioners Of Patents directions how to proceed in
procur ng PATENT aud as the officers employe in the
Patent Office me prohibited from giving any opinion i'm re-
gard to the probability of any inventions unt the appca
ton is made for patent n due form, lee of 80
ie commissioner SENDS iheh Circular and although il
contains Information and instructions many inventors com
ia that they have been med such ulars and they
prepare ther own drawings and descriptions, employ
some one Tor that purpose their eahb0rhood 10 do
So without showing whether The SAME thing already in
the faten Office not and the person hev enuoy has
perhaps very tte il any knowledge of the Patent laws
or experience III preparing papers procure patets Ac
cordng TO my observation, such applications are amos
certain to be rejected, for inventions have Hultped II
such an extent that is hardly possible or any person tC
make specification claim that will not he reeceJ ~
require amendment, II he does not know what invention,
aready exist in The Patent Office ana attorneys who have
hau long Aperiehce N making drawings specifications
often hnd ii very difficult get patents after InHkng
thorough examination of the models, drawings and rec
ords III the Patet Office Hence 1t will be perceived III
there very little chance for those procure patents who
do not previously make proper exanmatm nf The con
tents OF the Patent Office and ascertain wherein The new
invention differs from those which have preceded M So AZ
KNOW what Is new and what is oldwhat claim ant
| what to omit ~ ~
ana lurther when an inventors resides in Woeh
hgon ne may make verbal eX anallos during the exam
aon OF the invention, and point out the imnroyempnI
ana represent the advantages over the revnns m
Neuuhs or tue same purpose, and il the application iS re-
ecteu ne receives immediate notice. ana can eyamne ii,
hodeis, drawings, anu specifications the inventions re-
lerred to, at once and the objections of rho
nersi mat e requisite explanations and any necessar,
alterations in the ecifcaun claim and have ,be m
attended 10 at once, while is fresh before the Examiner
But when the agent OF the inventor is nor in
he case Is lar otherwise, ana the inventor loses The dvou
eaee o explanations that might be made during the pro
gfess oil the examination BESIDES il some time beor
he gets theleer Cf rejection and then has no the mod
els drawings and specifca of Inventions referre
10 at hand to compare with the invention of his client bu
ne may send and get copies OF the drawings by having IN
expense o making the same, aud OF the spt cca os b.
paying ten cents for every 100 words; but the
y tese copies attended with delay; and when he vet
" them ne mas not the advantage models nor of x
e pluhhg then personally to The examiner. lie NAV writ
out the explanations and difference between h,
70 cen invention and those referred TO in the rejection an
send II to the Patent Oice in the meantime the Exam
her nus turned MS at entOn TO other applications and
much time has elapsed that he has almost or que forgot
- Ten the case anu having examined and decided il once
may iee reluctant about examining it agau so tbs tb in
Vetof suffers by the delay and loses of m
verbal explanations and examinations which might bsv
Deen made BY his agent in person, while the invention WA
&c resh before ne mhd oil tue Examiner. Besides coul
eier 10 numerous inventors who have empoyed aoents
distance from Washington and who having had their mn
plcations rejected, paid their agent t9r coin
washington or employed an agent mere, or have cop
themselves and employed ali agent after Iley cot here
amend or prepare papers before thew o5tained ~ al
: patent; when if they had employed Competent agen,
the vicinity OF The Patent Oc, they would not have bee
IS expense above mentioned.
lhaye examined the papers OF numerous annica,;or
which were rejected because they were not nron.rv r,
sehed ana winch would, without doubt, have been sue
cessul in obtaining paient, had competent agent in m
u vicinity oil the Patent Office been employed
= JONATHAN DENNIS JR
. h''orney ior inventors, d Agent for procuring