Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1867-03-07
TIE WORK AT THEPATENrO prfcE puRINa
~ THE PAST YEAR =

TaE WORK AT Ti TIEEEpI ssT DoRINa
I. Hon Thomas G, Theaker, Oemmiss,oner of
Patents. has just made has report to Secretary
Browning, showing the busin ess of the Patent
Once during the year 1865. 1859 applications
tor patents were nled; $3.50 patents were is
sued. QncludinG Reissues aud designs;1 ara
caveats were nied 81 applications for extern
sions of patents; SO patents were extended. and
1,Os2 patents . pired.- OF the parents granted
e.2io were TO citizens OF the United States: 1g7
TO subjects OF Il reat Britain; Is to subiects NJ
the French Empire. and IS TO suo iects OF otaer
foreign goSernfnenn. 0h application for ma
tents. reissues, &c, Si6u. ~ Were rece, we'd;
Tor copies ana recording assignments, a.,
S3a,e67 Is: king total OF Sl9j.se5 90 The
expenditures for salaries (incIuding $40, tOs 4.
aa n,s .,sa pay as per act Of June IS, 1885,
SOS coo GO; for temporary clerks, SlI533t -6, for
Withdrawals, S5iU; refunding money paid by
MISTAKE, S.2i; fees to Judges in appeal cases,
$2is 75-totA, 1901 724 Is Baian ce 10 the credit
OF the Patent Uffice fund on January 4 I-6i
s13O.ls4.7s: amount of receipts during the wear.
S495, 1855. 3S-totai S625, S5O.l6 Expenditures
during the year 1863, s36l'72i2s; leaving to the
credit of the fund On January /. 1867, S26i.
125.sS. Surplus of receipts over expenses du
ring the year, Sl33, GAL 10. The q a mber of an
phcahons for patents during the year 1865
exceeded thai of 1865 nearly 50 per cent aud
that OF 1864 more than 100 per cent The num-
her of patents issued exceeded that of 1855
nearly 50 per cent, while that of 1865 ex-
The Commissioner says:-ssif the business
OF The Office continues to increase as now ana
as II has tor several months past. it is not un.
reasonable to suppose that the u um Der of an.
plications during the present year will amount
to nearly IL not quite twenty thousand. This
very great increase of the business of the office
renders IT absolutely necessary that the cIer-
zeal ana examining fierce be orrespondinglv
augmented, and this cannot be done without
providing more room than we now have as
every room we have Is filled far beyond its
utmost reasonable capacity. The examiners
nave suffered great Convenience, and the
public interests great detrlment, from the ne
cessity that has existed for several wears past
OF cOnducting the examination OF sc yeral classes
OF subjects IN the same room--for instance
steam engines and all cognate subjects under
one principal examiner, with his several as
sistants, and hyraulics, pneuma les and wear
ing apparel under another, with his seyeraI
assistants, are all crowded in to one room The
Inconvenience named arises to q great extent
from the limitation as to space, but in a far
greater degree from the iverse character of the
inventions under examination, the exposure to
the many applicants OF in ventions that should
De Kept private, the discussions in the hearing
OF both the principal examiners, their Sc yersi
assistants, and OF the various attorneys and
applicants, of matters which should be kno wn
only TO the parties in interst, often dou btless
10 the prejudice OF Justice. and always to the
embarrassment or the business Of hose net en-.
Gagged In the particular case In controversy
The Commissioner also speaks Of the want of
room for the draughtsmen. library, and all
DINER branches Of the office, caused by the great
increase OF the business OF the office.