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1921 Part 1 Comm'r Rep. 1 (1921)

handle is hein.intprop/corep0165 and id is 1 raw text is: DISTRIBUTED BY THE American Patent Law Association Copy of the Report of the COMMISSIONER OF PATENTS DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE, Washington, D. C., September 8, 1921. SIR: I have the honor to submit herewith the following report of the business of the United States Patent Office for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1921: The Patent Office is in a deplorable condition. In July, 1919, the then Commissioner, Newton, testifying be- fore the House Committee on Patents, said: I have been connected with the Patent Office since 1891, and I am sure that the Office was never in so poor a condition as it is now. From that time, July, 1919, to June 30, 1921, the Patent Office suffered a loss of 163 examiners. These men who were scien- tifically trained and also members of the bar have been replaced by inexperienced men, fresh from college, without any knowledge of patent law or any legal training. Moreover, the men who re- signed were familiar, through years of experience, with the parti- cular art with which they were engaged, and it takes years to train new men to take their places. During the time that the Patent Office has been losing the 163 men aforesaid, the number of applications received in this Office has increased by leaps and bounds. In the year preceding former Commissioner Newton's testimony the Patent Office received 62,755 applications for patent; in the fiscal year just closed it received 84,248 applications, an increase of 34 per cent. Trade- mark applications jumped from 8,561 to 15,884, or an increase of 85.5 per cent. The loss of 163 legally and scientifically trained examiners out of a force of 437 would make it impossible to keep up the work even if there had been no increase, but since, during the period referred to, the patent work has increased 34 per cent and the trade-mark work 85.5 per cent, the situation has become hopeless. This is graphically shown by the fact that when Commissioner Newton testified in July, 1919, there were 18,000 patent applica- tions awaiting action, whereas when the new administration began in March, 1921, there were 42,000 applications awaiting action, and at the close of the fiscal year 1921 there were 49,000 applications awaiting examination. Reproduction by Permission of Buffalo & Erie County Public Library Buffalo, NY

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