The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-03-08
Management Of the Patent Once.
TO TIE KDIroR OF rHR HERALD.

Your Washington correspondent has got but q very
Email Aea In bis ear but the continual saazng which ss.s
Vi The examiners .orerly connected with tho Passns
Office MAKE around him, evidently mpresees him With ne
idea that there something very rotten In Denmark n
other words that the Patent Office and inventors az
going to destruction because the services few old fs
Examiners have been dispensed With By he Commas
soper.
Your correspondent, in Saturdays BxRALp, pays hes
and just tribute TO Commissioner Judge Masoa Hs
al that the writer says Of him Of his official CO.
duct; and tho present Commissioner conducting she
Office on the same principles precisely Judge Aasoa
managed during the latter part OF his administrator
except that Jucge Mason usually referred appeal
chief examiner instead OF three, a 10 the pracsa
adopted By Commissioner Holt Who cannot see that a
applicant for patent would better chance 70 hsyo
justice done him by an examination Of his case BY three
disipterestet persons than BY ones il judge
Mason made many Of these examinations himself
but 70 longer ago than last week he remarked In
cur ONCE that examination OF rejected cases had 80 IN
creased while be the Patent Once that was ia
possible for person decide Don al appee
cases hence be was obliged to call TO his aid assistance
Your correspondent lays stress upon certain sixty
patents which have been granted US, which
rejected by Commissioner Mason. There Ia no hing sa-
gular about this to person at all acquainted With tbs
duties Of patent solicitors but 10 the which the
writer Audes TO the matter your oaper conveys ths
THAI sixty patet have been issued for bone
1t by come hocus procus proceedings before the Appeal
Board; and moreover .bst they infringe prevsusfy
exiting patents Now Il true that any patent has
ever issued for benefit, and u is not any pa
tents have issued elects by the existing Appeal
Board which had been rejected By Commissioner MAssu
in persop although his signature Of course was attached
" all the official letters We that which he
had acec upon, aer being appealed 10 him. ever
our kpowiege referred 10 the prescott Appeal Board.
Many casss-probably many more than sxth-had beea
rejected BY the EamiDers, under Judge Mason, which
the time OF bis vacarg the ce had not been appealed
although he testify that not unusual for V
enter arguments for appeal IN dozen time and
the only these left bus
the Inability of Judge Nssor 10 attend TO them. Worn
out with fatigue Judge Mason eft the Office his
sor with quantity OF unfinished business be perform
ed, IN the appeal lire which Commissi,ner Holt has
deraken 70 clear of by appointing three examiners IN
stead OF one to ass-t him; and is not fact that
gives these appeal casee Dersoos attention In
gard 70 the sxy patents which your correspondent
pertinacouy sticks to- being arrangements Of existing
valuable patents, would like him TO point single
and II be will step into branch office, opposite the
Patent Office Ia Washington. will furnish him with
list OF oil the patents that have been granted clients
on appeal for the last four years spd then accompany
hm 70 the recordR Of the Patent Office TO the C,mmis
soDer Appeal Board and salts 1ed that he VIE
come away wiser man capable Of writing
recty matters pertaining To the Patent Office and
"ssty pa'ens over which be be much exer-
csed there hsye been patents issued improperly l<
the public know what they We will lend aid Ia
investigating the matter MUM CO.
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN OFFICE, March 0, e5s.