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1933 Comm'r Rep. 155 (1933)

handle is hein.intprop/corep0182 and id is 1 raw text is: [Reprinted from the Annual Report of the Secretary of Commerce, 19331 PATENT OFFICE The year 1929, notable for its unprecedented business and com- mercial activity, witnessed the filing of a record-breaking number of patent applications. In the 12 months ended June 30, 1930, an ag- gregate of 91,430 patent applications and the staggering total of 117,790 applications of all forms were filed. The succeeding years have been featured by a recession in business and industry and this has been accompanied by a corresponding decrease in patent and other applications, culminating in the year just closed in the filing of 59,408 patent applications and a total of 79,822 for all applications. The Patent Office has not witnessed such a low ebb in new business since 1908 when only 58,527 patent applications were filed. DOWNWARD TREND, HALTED In spite of a marked decrease in the volume of new work pre- sented to the office, the number of patents actually issued was com- paratively large, namely, 50,766. This total is the highest in the history of the Patent Office with the single exception of that reached in the preceding year, when 52,572 - patents were granted. The issued patents attained this high level as the result of the increase in personnel, examining and clerical, in 1932 which, owing to the decline in new work, could devote more time to winding up old cases. There is evidence that the decline which began several years ago has ceased, the last 6 months of the fiscal year showing a slight up- ward trend. It should be noted also that the issuance of patents and registration of trade marks have undergone little decrease compared with 1932, and none at all in comparison with 1929, the last year be- fore the industrial recession. Patents on plants and designs were more numerous in 1933 than in 1932. In the case of design patents the increase was from 2,728 in 1932 to 2,934 in 1933. The decrease in the volume of business in 1932 did not find a com- parative reflection in the annual receipts, which totaled $4,423,563.18, a decrease of approximately $141,000 from those of the fiscal year ended June 1931, which so far as receipts are concerned, was the banner year enjoyed by the Patent Office. The high total of re- ceipts in 1932, notwithstanding a substantial recession in the volume of new business, may be attributed, first, to the increase in the filing fee and the final fee from $25 to $30, which rates were in force for a complete fiscal year for the first time, and secondly, to the large number of patents actually issued. On June 30, 49,050 patent applications were awaiting action as compared with 76,723 on the same date of the preceding year, a re- duction of 27,673 (36 percent). The reduction in the number of ap- plications awaiting official action has greatly reduced the time during 28276-33 155 Reproduction by Permission of Buffalo & Erie County Public Library Buffalo, NY

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