Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1895-02-21
PATENTS.
The Commissioner Submits His Re-
port for the Year 1894.
INTERESTING FACTS GIVEN.
More Patents Issued to CltlHonS Of MassA-
ChuSstts Than to Those of ANY Other
statO-What the Commits.
slOner Recommends.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 20--The commits
sioner of patents, John s. Seymour, has
submitted his report for the year ended
December 81. 1894 During 1904 there
were received 36,9S7 applications for
patents, 1857 applications for designs,
05 applications for reissues, 2,2s6
caveats, 9,O53 applications for trade
marks, and 371 applications for
labels. There were 9O,sOS patents
granted, including designs, "a
patents reissued, and 1906 trade
marks registered. The number which
expired was 1890 The number of
patents which were. by operation of
law, forfeited for non-payment of the
final fee, was 3,Sl2 The total expendi-
lures were 81, 1OO,O4I13. The receipts
over expenditures were SS7, 3O9. 46, and
the total balance to the credit of the
patent Office in the TREASURY of the
United States amounts to $4,000, 1875. 81.
In proportion to population more
patents were issued to citizens of Con-
necticut than to those of any other
state-one to every 99S inhabitants.
Next in order came Massachusetts, with
one to every 1895 inhabitants, and the
District of Columbia with one to every
1877 inhabitants. New Jersey, Mon
tana, Rhode Island, New York
and Colorado followed in the order
named. The fewest patents in proper
ton to the number of inhabitants were
issued to citizens in South Carolina,
Mississippi, North Carolina, Arkansas
and Georgia, following in that order.
AS to foreign countries more were
granted to subjects of England than
to any other, $50; Germany, $50; Can
ada, 903; France, 1876; some to subjects
of Austro-Hungary, Belgium, China,
Cuba, Denmark, Finland, Hawaii, In-
dia, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Neither
lands, New South Wales, New Zea-
land Norway, Queensland, Russia,
Scotland, Servia, South Australia,
Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Venezu-
ella and Victoria, and one each to citi-
zens respectively of British Guinea,
Chilli, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala,
Natal, New Providence, New Peru and
Porto Rico.
The report says that an average of
I'll original cases and 1913 amended
cases were received each week. None
of the thirty-three examining divisions
in the office was in arrears more than
one month so that an application for a
patent properly filed SO as to be imme-
diately available for adjudication
might be received and granted within
q month.
After referring at some length to
various pratices by which applications
without merit were kept for years be-
fore the bureau and recommending a
remedy for this practice, the commits
sioner says: II respectfully reiterate
my former recommendation that the
working force of the patent Office be
increased by s64, 600 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 indispens-
able condition upon which reasonably
accurate examinations upon the ques-
tioI of novelty may be made. If it
were possible to make this accurate ex-
animation upon the question of novelty
very much litigation concerning pat
ents would be avoided"