Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-18
new PATENT OFFICE
Commissioner Moore Urgently
Asks for Suitable Structure.
INVENTORS ENTITLED TO 1T
Big Revenues Paid by Them to Gov
eminent Justify Consideration.
BUSINESS KEEPS ON GROWING
Surplus Over Expenditures of $685.
888.74 Turned Into Treasury
Last Year.
BUSINESS KEEPS ON GROWING

construction of a new and suitable
| building for the use of the patent office is
| recommended in the annual report of Ed
| ward b. Moore, commissioner of patents,
! Just made public
He says It could he built out of the sur
! plus of receipts over expenditures in the
office since its establishment. He thinks
adequate building is due to the in
vcntors. out of whose pockets practically
! all this surplus has been paid.
! The report shows among other things
/ that there were received in the last fiscal
! year 5SI27 applications for mechanical
patents. 1901 applications for designs 2oi
applications for reissues. 2,O36 caveats.
| There We're 34.902 patents granted in
Guiding reissues and designs. The num-
Der of patents that expired was 24,21o.
There were filed 1857 applications for
Wthe registration of trade marks $40 APP
rications for labels and $3.50 applications
for the registration of prints. OF these
there were registered 6,135 trade marks.
t;sti labels and 20 prints.
The total receipS of the patent office
were $ISI4, 1SoIJ. The total eXpendl-
lures were 81 Cos ,292O1. The net sur
plus of receipts over eXpenditures-the
amount turned into the Treasury-was
$50 SIS. "a
| The trade marks registered are less this
year by 1868 than the previous year.
There have been more patents granted
| this year by 1.Ju4.
| In 1903 10 1913 trade marks were regis
tered under the new law; in 1907 lbs
and in 1905 g. 13J, which latter number
| will probably be about the normal num-
Der hereafter issued.
New Building for Patents.
"The net surplus of all years OF re-
ceipts over expenditures which have been
covered into the Treasury up to June 80.
1905. says Commissioner Moore, "shows
a grand total of $6972. O103S. Nearly this
| whole sum las been paid by the inventors
of the country. InasmuCh as they have
paid the total expenses for the main
tenance of the patent office 1t is but falr
| to say they are entitled to have d suitable
| building provided in which their business
can be transacted in a prompt and efh-
cient manner.
The cost of this building and ground
could be entirely paid for out of TINS sur
plus. | most earnestly urge that Con-
gress be asked to make provision for an
adequate building for the use of the
United States patent office.
Permit me to say. in connection with
this recommendation, that the patent
offices of Great Britain and Germany
have outgroWn their former building &C
| commodatiOns. Each of those countries
has erected new buildings. which are
vastly superior in every respect to the
one that now houses the United States
patent office.
"A bill was introduced in the Senate at
the last session of Congress providing for
new building for the patent office. l
most strongly urge that Congress be
asked at the forthcoming session to pass
that bill or d similar one. for the reason
that before the time a proper building
could be erected and ready for occu-
pancy it will be badly needed.
| The models which have been stored
| for some years in the Union building
on G street have been moved from that
building, packed in boxes and Temporal
rily stored until they can be moved
finally to the new National Museum
building, where, it is provided in the
legislative. executive and judicial appro
priation act, which became effective July
/, 1908. that the models should there
after be kept.