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ation. field occupied by similar attempts.
 Every material device or operation in a mater ial process is disclosed eventually the compre- hensive records of the Patent Office. and every de- velopment thereof, before being protected by pat ent, must pass through the hands of the examining force of the office, to be critically scrutinzed. sub 1ected to amendment and rejected or accepted Vfr tually all the members of the examining force college graduates. most of whom hold degrees in noth Ia" ana science such combined education ana training being found to make for efficiency the discharge of their important duties.
 The assistant examiner, by whom applications for patents originally dealt with know tolerably familiar with the patents and literature in various languages covering sim both scientific and technical of the devices he is amining, and must be acquainted with related de- vices scattered throughout office. He able of course, to read drawings and must have detailed knowledge of the principles of, and de- csions in, patent law be able correspond intelligently and hold his controversy with the alertest attorneys many of whom the largest manufacturing interests in the
 The primary examiners are the immediate super iors of the assistant examiners. Each of them charge several classes O inventions and de- csion, if in favor of application, is final It is estimated that the adjudications of the primary aminers involves property rights reaching into hun dreds of millions annually. A single inventon-the Bessemer converter process-has been held by one authority to have doubled the wealth cf the world ~ iei to srg eorPs % .ne ogna consists of interference examiners trademark examiner classification examiner, a board of ex- an1ners-ln-chler' starr Of law examiners and a commissioner and assistant commissioners. The in reference examiners decide who is the earliest of several inventors having conflicting claims for the invention; the board is appellate tribunal.
 
 by lower tribunal while the commissioner has still appellate Jurisdiction. missioner final appeal lies the Court of Appeals District of Columbia.
 The work of the classification examiner and his assistants is probably the most involved in the office As before stated, more than million and quarter patents have been granted in this country. Probably upward of billion facts disclosed in these patents, each more or less concrete and all m associated in different combinations involving billion of less number of units. The effectiveness of of the examiner is wholly dependent character of this classification, consequently of scientific classification is evi- dent. office has wrestled with this problem for twenty years, at expense of than a half dollars, and hopes eventually com pIete workable scheme
 Beginnings Merit in the Civil Service. by Commissioner of Patents Fisher, in 1s6s of the the examining corps thus anticipating by many the general introduction of the system for government appointments. This is believed the first appearance this feature in the history of our civil The requirements of the position of such make 1t dangerous to the rights of inventors and manufacturers place n of the technical and legal admin fstration of untrained selected by haphazard appointmen through favoritisrn Thus. force of circumstances compelled the establishment and retention the Patent Office of the merit tenn long fin of its endorsement by public continent and general adoption through legis- 1ation
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