The evening times., 1896-05-04
TWENTY-FIVE SMART MEN
Each Has Obtained More Than 100
Patents in 25 Years.
Interesting Report of Commissioned
of Patents-The Districts Invent
Ors Take High Rank.

Commissioner of Patents John s. Sey-
mour transmitted 70 Congress today re-
port OF the operations OF the Patent Office
for the calendar year S35. During the year
there were 80, 40 applications for patents
and 2i 1898 patents granted. The number
of patents which expired was l2.345. The
receipts OF the office We're 81 ,2i5, 2i6; the
expenditures were 81 ,0Si, 1876.
In every year since ] S61 there has been
surplus over all expenditures, the total bal
ance IN the Treasury to the credit of the
Patent office being $4,529,S ISL.
or the patents issued I9,9i9 were to
citizens of the United States and 2,oi9 to
citizens of foreign countries.
In proportion 10 population more patents
were issued TO citiZens OF Connecticut than
TO those of any other state. and next in
order in proportion TO population, from
the District OF Columbia, Massa chusetts,
Rhode Island, New Jersey. New York, Mon
tana and Colorado. The States to whose
citizens Iewcst patents were granted in
proportion To the number OF inhabitants are
Mississippi South Carolina, North Carolina
Alabama, Georgia aud Arkansas
AS to foreign countries, Ga patents were
granted to residents OF England, laIger
humber tban 10 residents ol any other ior-
cign country. to those of Germany, ooS;
OF the DOMINION OF Canada, oO2. OF i rance,
2U2; of Scotland, so: OF Austria-Hungary,
46; OF s witzerland, AZ: ni weden, 81; OF
huSSld, 80. Va v Vt'iid. VI -hSAiIOs (,
OF New South Wales, II; OF Belgium,
Is; OF the Netherlands, l6; or Denmark, II;
OF Italy, IL; nf Norway. IL; or ireland, 10,
of South Australia, 10; or New Zealand.
9: OF Hawaii, 81. of India, 8: of Cuba, !;
of the South African Republic. 4; OF the
Argentine Republic, 3; OF Spain, 3; Of Ver-
czuela, 3; OF Algeria, 2; of Brazil 2; OF Chile,
>; and one each Ia citizens respectively of
Bermuda, British Guiana. Cape Colony,
Ecuador, Finland. Greece, Guatemala MIC
ara.,Ia, Peru, Porto Rico, San Salvador,
Tasmania, and Turkey.
The commissioner recommended the
enactment into law OF the bin prepared by
the patent committee of The American Bar
Association, which has already been in
troduced III the House. limiting the time
within which an application may he made
in this country. by either tie foreign in
vcntor or any other. to two years after the
matter has been patented or described in
any printed publication in this or any
foreign country. and reducing the period
within which applications shall be CON-
plcted and prepared for examination from
two years to SIX n,2nths. The latter pro
vision. the commissioner says, must GER
taialy reduce the possibilities of inten-
tional delay in the prosecution of applica-
tons fer patents.
During the past twenty-five years the
office has granted 10 each of TWENTY-FIVE
inventors more than 100 patents. Thomas
A Edison heads the list with I'll, Ehhu
Thomson coming next with 394: Francis
II. Richards with 343: Edward Weston.
with 274; Charles E. Scribner. with 24S;
Charles j. Vantlcpoole, with 244: Ran
doiph NJ Hunter. with 22S, and George
Westinghouse, with 211.