Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-09-15
NEEDS LARGER FORCE
Annual Report Of the Com
missioner of Patents.
BIG INCREASE SHOWN
LARGE GROWTH OF BUSINESS IN
THE PAST TEN YEARS.
A New Division Necessary to Facilitate
the Work Of the Bureau-More
Office Room Desired.

The annual report of the commissioner
of patents for the fiscal year ending June
80 1903 has been submitted to the Secre-
tary of the Interior. Commissioner Aliens
report this year is remarkable for its brew
ity lucidity and completeness. In the five
typewriter pages that contain the report,
tables are given showing the growth OF the
office for the last ten years. with state
ment of the enormous increase of business
and the pressing needs of the bureau. The
report shows that the number of appltca-
tons for letters patent numbered 1919;
applications for design patents. SO1; appli-
cations for reissue patents, 1855; applica-
tons for registration of trademarks, 2,53o;
applica tons for registration of labels, 1,2oS;
applica tons for registration of prints, 362;
caveats, 1,7G7, making total of o6,o23 pa
pers received.
This increase in the business of the OF
flee renders necessary the eStaDnShineht
of new division to do the work, ana
am of the opinion that appropriation should
be made for the salary of a new chief OF
division and assistant at the coming Ses-
sion of Congress.
by the appropriation bill of April D,
1902 increase of thirty-fve examiners
and three clerks was made. 1t now seems
necessary to ask for additional clerical
force and in my opinion the services of
ten additional clerks of class one are re-
CURED.
Amendment to Revised Statutes.
"By act of Congress approved March 3,
1903, four sections Of the Revised Statutes
relating to the business of this office were
amended. The changes introduced by
amendment were, in effect, as follows:
Section 1887 was amended so as to give
effect to the international convention for
the protection of industrial property, This
amendment, furthermore, extended the
period within which an application for a
patent could be filed in this country after
an application abroad from seven months
to twelve months.
authority Of foreign officers administering
oaths to applicants for patents to be proved
by a certificate of a diplomatic or consular
officer of the United States.
Section 1895 was amended so as to per-
NIT foreign administrator Of a deceased
foreign inventor to file an application in
this country upon the authority of such
foreign administrator being proved by a
certificate of a diplomatic or consular Off
Ger of the United States
Section 1902 was amended as to per-
NIT foreigners we'll as citizens of this
country to file caveats
Scientific Library.
"In my report for the fiscal year ending
June 80 1902, l called attention to the ne
cessity for an increase in the sum provided
for the purchase of books for the scientific
library of this Office, stating that, in my
opinion, 1900 per annum could be expended
judiciously for this purpose and for the
transportation of publications of patents
| to foreign governments By the appropria-
| ton bill of February %. 1903, the appro-
| priation for this purpose was increased
| from $1,000 to 81 800. 1t seems to me not
! only desirable but necessary that the ap-
| preparation should be increased to the sum
| of $4,000. in order that this library may be
| kept up to the requirements of the office.
THE installation of new steel stacks for
| this library has progressed SO that it was
| nearly completed upon the Both of June of
| this year, resulting in a great improvement
| library.
| 1.-The steady increase in the business Of
| the office requir es more room than is avail
| able at the present time, and 1 am of the
| opinion that the quality of the work would
| be improved and economy accomplished in
Its transaction If the space allowed to the
| patent office were increased