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![handle is hein.intprop/corep0185 and id is 1 raw text is: [Reprinted from the Annual Report of the Secretary of Commerce, 1936]
PATENT OFFICE
VOLUMIE OF BUSINESS
Improvement in industrial conditions throughout the country con-
tinued to be reflected in the activities of the Patent Office in 1936,
as also in each of the preceding 2 years. Most significant of these
indexes of progress toward economic recovery were a satisfactory flow
of pecuniary receipts; a gain in the number of applications for
mechanical patents, including reissues, and for designs, trade marks,
prints, and labels; more numerous recording of deeds of assignment;
larger purchases of printed copies of patents and photoprints of manw
uscript records, etc., and an increase in general correspondence with
the Office.
The number of applications for patents, reissues, designs, trade
marks, and prints and labels in the fiscal year was 85,102, the largest
total in any like period since 1932. The aggregate of design patents
issued in 1935-36 was the greatest in the history of the Office. This
fact is noteworthy as indicating the growing use of this form of
protection by manufacturers and merchandisers. The establishment
of the Design Division as a separate unit more than 2 years ago has
greatly expedited the consideration of applications and provided
industry with a service to which it is having increasingly larger
recourse. Copies of patents sold during the year were 3,540,545.
This exceeded the number sold in any year since 1932. In all,
939,061 photostatic and 53,761 photographic copies were furnished
by the Office, the largest number in several years. A total of 431,181
letters representing the miscellaneous correspondence of the Office
was received. In addition, 84,845 letters were returned with
information.
The number of applications for mechanical inventions filed during
the year was 59,809. This was 401 more than the tital received in
any year since 1932. Applications for design patents numbered
6,12T, which was 1,058 more than in 1935, 2,316 more than in 1934,
and the largest number ever filed in any year. Compared with 1935,
there was an increase in the number of applications for registration
of trade marks. There were 15,840 such applicaions in 1936, against
15,617 in the previous year.
RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES
For the first time in 3 years the expenditures of the Office exceeded
its receipts. The deficit was $78,364.52, and this notwithstanding
that the receipts were $103,224.50 larger in 1936 than in 1935. In
January 1935 the reallocation of 269 junior examiners who had served
from 3 to 6 years without any increase in compensation necessitated
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