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1935 Comm'r Rep. 175 (1935)

handle is hein.intprop/corep0184 and id is 1 raw text is: [Reprinted from the Annual Report of the Secretary of Commerce, 19351 PATENT OFFICE VOLUME OF BUSINESS It is natural and inevitable that by reason of its constant ano. intimate relation with industry the Patent Office should be a sensitive and trustworthy barometer of business. That it is such is verified by the experiences of the last 90 years. Almost every economic dis- turbance in the United States during this period has left in the Patent Office a record of its presence and disappearance. Thus, for example, the effects of the .panics of 1857, 1869, 1873, and 1893 are chronicled in the statistics of the Office. The same is true of the depression just now passing. A few figures may be cited to reveal its trend. In 1929 and 1930, when our national prosperity had reached its peak, the number of applications for patents and trade marks filed in the Office during the fiscal year ended June 80, 1930, was 117,790. Then followed the financial and industrial dis- locations which have continued down to the present. Forthwith the business of this Office reflected these conditions. In the fiscal year 1933 the total of applications received was only 79,822, a shrinkage of 32 percent in the interval between June 30, 1930, and the close of the fiscal year 1933. During the fiscal year 1934 the/ decline was halted. The volume of new business was approximately equal to that of the preceding year. With faith in this barometer which for nearly a century has so unfailingly recorded the coming and going of many financial and industrial storms, there can now be read its signs betokening the approach of fair weather. Except for the receipt of final fees, vir- tually all the activities of the Office show increases compared with the previous year. A greater number of applications were filed; more letters were received; more printed copies were sold; a larger number of deeds of asignment were recorded; and there were more demands for certified copies and photostats. A grand total of 81,248 applications was filed in 1934-35, compared with 79,690 in the preceding year. The increase was 1,558, or nearly 2 percent. New applications for patent filed with -fees numbered 56,832, exceeding by 737 the total of 56,095 received in 1933-34. There was a slight decrease in the number of applications for trad marks; that is, a drop from 16,317 in the preceding 12 months to 15,617 this year. This recession, however, is accounted for by a ces- sation in the activity surrounding prohibition repeal and is more than offset by a heavy increase-nearly 25 percent-in the filing of applications for design patents. In the fiscal year 1934 there were 3,811 such applications. In this fiscal year there were 5,069. In the autumn of 1933 there was created the Design Division as a separate unit of the Office. It had previously been integrated With 39033 -36 175 Reproduction by Permission of Buffalo & Erie County Public Library Buffalo, NY

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