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![handle is hein.intprop/corep0186 and id is 1 raw text is: [Reprinted from the Annual Report of the Secretary of Commerce, 1937]
PATENT OFFICE
All but one of the major activities of the Patent Office recorded
substantial increases in 1937, compared with the preceding fiscal year,
which, in turn, marked notable gains over the same relative periods
of 1934 and 1935. The receipts of the Office during 1937 were $4,565,-
501.69, the largest in its history. Expenditures were heavier by
$45,810 than in the previous 12 months, but notwithstanding there
was a surplus of $73,228.22. The excess of receipts over expenditures
during the last 4 years has averaged $152,207.56 despite a deficit of
$78,364.52 in 1936. In the 11 years beginning 1923, annual deficits
ranged from $85,535.71 to $827,342.81.
Steady growth in the volume of business continued throughout the
year. Increases were shown in the total of applications filed for pat-
ents, including reissues and designs, and for registration of trade-
marks, prints, and labels. There were more numerous recordings of
deeds of assignment; greater sale of printed copies of patents and
photostats of, manuscripts, and an increase in correspondence with the
Office.
Applications for patents (including reissues and designs) and for
registration of trade-marks, prints, and labels aggregated 89,980,
an increase of 4,878, or about 51/ percent, over the total filed in 1936,
when the greatest number since 1932 was received. Wider use of
design patents following the establishment of the Design Division as
a separate unit in 1934 is again attested. The number of appli-
cations for design patents in 1937 was 6,617, contrasted with 3,789
in 1934, an ificrease of 74.63 percent.
Printed copies of patents sold in 1937 numbered 3,816,878, the
largest total in 6 years. There were supplied to foreign govern-
ments 1,154,419 copies, and to public libraries in various cities of
the United States 744,339 copies. The miscellaneous correspondence
of the Office increased from a total of 431,181 letters in 1936 to
443692 in 1937. In addition 40,346 letters, as against 34,845 in the
previous year, were returned with information useful to the writers.
In the light of history this considerable and continuous growth
in the activities of the Office indicates a corresponding improve-
ment in the industry and general business of the country. Concur-
rently with the increase in new business and in large part as a con-
sequence of that enhancement, the number of patents granted in
1937 was 39,412, a decline of 566 compared with the total for 1936.
This decrease was the principal departure from the upward trend.
In the same period, however, there were registered 11,329 trade-
marks, the largest total in any year since 1932. An aggregate of
16,032 applications for registration of trade-marks was filed during
the last fiscal year. That was slightly less than the number re-
ceived in 1934, but, with that exception, surpassed the total for any
year since 1932.
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