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1938 Comm'r Rep. 169 (1938)

handle is hein.intprop/corep0187 and id is 1 raw text is: [Reprinted from the Annual Report of the Secretary of Commerce, 1938 PATENT OFFICE -In the course of the last 12 months the American patent system has been the subject of more widespread interest and iixquiry than it has evoked in two generations. The President, in his message to Congress on January 3, 1938, made reference to it and recommended congressional action with respect to certain wealmesses and abuses charged to it. A score of bills contemplating various vital changes in the statutes affecting patents were before the Seventy-fifth Congress. Notable among these legislative proposals were a bill (H. R. 9259) for the compulsory licensing of patents; a measure (H. R. 8508) prohibiting the patenting of labor-saving machines, and another (S. 475) look- ing to the establishnent of a single court of appeals of national juris- diction and final authority in the determination of questions arising out of patent grants. After conducting a series of hearings on the bill (S. 475) contemplating the creation of such a court the Patents Committee of the Senate unanimously recommended its enactment. An objection to its consideration by the Senate prevented further action by the Seventy-fifth Congress. In the latter days of its third session that Congress constituted a Temporary National Economic Committee empowered and directed to investigate, among other mat- ters, the effect of existing * * * patent and other Government policies upon competition, price levels, unemployment,, profits, and consumption. At this writing the Committee is prosecuting its inquiry into the relation of patents to the economic problems it was authorized to study. The Commissioner of Patents and his associates have put them- selves at the disposal of the Committee and are, prepared to furnish facts and recommendations with regard to improvements in the present statutes. The special Patent Office Advisory Committee, ap- pointed by the Secretary of Commerce in July 1933, in collaboration with the Commissioner and his associates, is continuing its studies of some of the problems with which the Economic Committee is con- cerned, and at the same time is pursuing its work for the betterment of the system as a whole, including the intramural procedure gov- erning the prosecution and issue of applications. A further refer- ence to the Advisory Committee's work will be found later in this report. The number of applications for patents (including designs) and for the registration of trade-marks, prints, and labels filed in the fiscal year was 92,018, exceeding by 2,038 the total received in 1937. 117985-30 169 Reproduction by Permission of Buffalo & Erie County Public Library Buffalo, NY

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