Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-03-02
THE PATENT OFFICE REPORT
Over 10000 Privileges on lnven.
tons Granted.
In Proportion to Population Connecticut
Received More Patents Than Any
other state In the Union
Foreign Grants

Washington, Feb. a3.-Commissioner
of Patents Sohn $. Seymour has sub
mitted n report for the year ending De-
cember 81, 1894.
During 1894 there were received &c.
PSI applications for patents, 1,357 APP
plications for designs, o5 application
for reissues, 2,2s6 caveats, 2,053 appl.
cations for registration of trademarks
and 81 applications for labels. There
were 20, SOB patents granted, including
designs; GA patents reissued, and 500
trademarks registered. The number OF
which expired was ~, SEQ. The mum.
Der of patents which were, by opera.
ton of law forfeited for nonpayment
Of iinal fee vas 3,s12. The total en-
penditures were 81. 100, O47. II. The re-
2eipts over expenditures were $751;
800. 40, and the total balance TO the
credit of the patent office in the treas
airy of the United States amounts to
=. 1863, 1855 ]
In proportion TO population more pat.
rnts were issued to citizens Of Connec'
ticut than TO those of any other state,
)He To every g93 inhabitants and next
in order in proportion to- population
comes Massachusetts, with one To every
1885 inhabitants, and the District o:
lolumbia, New Jersey, Montana,
Rhode Island, New York and Colorado
follow in the order named. The few
est patents in proportion to number %
inhabitants were issued TO citizens OF
South Carolina, Mississippi. North Car
Dina, Arkansas and Georgia, following
in that order.
As to foreign countries, more were
granted 10 subjects of England than TO
any other, $50: to those of Germany,
So: Canada, 293: France. 1876: some &c
subjects of Austria-llungary Belgium,
China, Cuba, Denmark, Finland, lia-
wall. India, Ireland, Italy. Mexico,
Netherlands, New South Wales, New
Zealand. Norway, Queensland, RUSSIA,
Scotland, Servia, South Australia.
Spain, sweden, Switzerland. Nenczr
ella and Victoria, and n one each tG
citizens respectively of British Guinea,
Natal, New Providence, New Peru and
Porto Rico.
The report say an average OF Ill
original cases and l,6i3 amended cases
we're received each week. None of the
thirty-three examining divisions in the
office was in arrears more than one
month. so that application for patents
properly signed, soas TO be Immediate
ly available for adjudication might ba
received and granted within a month.
After referring at some length to va
rious practices by which applications
without merit were kept for years be-
fore the bureau and recommending
remedy against this practice. the com.
missioner says: II respectfully reiter-
rate my former recommendation that
The working force Of the patent Office
be increased and that the %appropria.
ton be increased by SG4, 900, in order
that the work of classification which
now falls TO the present examining
corps may be assigned to the increased
force. Perfect classification is the in.
1lspersable condition upon which reas.
onably accurate examinations upon the
question of novelty may be made.
IF it were possible to make this &c.
curate examination upon the question,
Of novelty, very much litigation con-
eerning patents would be avoided"