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![handle is hein.intprop/corep0004 and id is 1 raw text is: 28th CoNGnEss, [SENATE.] [ 75 ]
2d Session.
REPORT
THE COMMISSIONER OF PATENTS,
The operations of the Patent Office during the year 1844.
JANUARY 29, 1845.
]1/ead, and ordered that a motion that it be printed], and that 5, 000 additional copies be furnished
for the use of the Senate, be referred to thel Commiittee on Printing.
JANUARY 30, 1845.
Ordered to be printed, and that 20,000 additional copies (omitting the lists of pate~nts) be farished;
19i5o0 of which for the ue of the Senate, and 500 fbr the use of the Commissioner of Patents.
PATENT OFFrcE, Janutiry, 28, 1845.
The Commissioner of Patents has the honor to submit his annual report
for the year ending with the close of 1844.,
Five hundred and two patents have been issued daring the year 1844,
including seven reissues, twelve designs, and fivre additional improvements
to former patents, of which classified and alphabetical lists are annexed,
marked N and 0.
During the same period, five hundred and thirty-nine patents have ex-
pir.ed, as per list.marked P.
The applications for patents during the year past amount to one thousand
and forty-five, and the number of caveats flied was three hundred and
eighty.
The receipts of the office for the year 1844 amoulnt to forty-one thousand
tgwo hundred and twenty dollars and six cents, from which are to be de-
ducted, repaid on applications withdrawn, as per statement marked A, ten
thousand and forty dollars.,
The ordinary expenses of the Patent. Office for the past year have been
-,wenty-four thousand two hundred and twenty-eight dollars and four cents;
:o which add, for library and agriculture, two thousand and seventy six
,flollars and forty-nine cents, leaves a nett balance of six thousand one hun-
,!red and sixty-four dollars and seventy-three cents, to be credited to the
patent fund, as per statement marked B.
' For the restoration of models, records, and drawings, under; the actof
d March, 1837, the sum of two:thousand eight hundred and twenty-:tW@
oiiars and sixty-six cents, as per statement marked C.
-The whole number of patents issued by the United States, up-to January,,
p845, is fourteen thousand and twenty-four. Although 'the number of
patents granted the past year is..notso great as that of the, year pre-
Sious, it will be seen that there is an excess of applicatiosto the amount
f two hundred and twenty-six.
The increase of models ronders daily the transaction of business mora
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