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1942 Comm'r Rep. 93 (1942)

handle is hein.intprop/corep0191 and id is 1 raw text is: [Reprinted from the Annual Report of the Secretary of Oommere Patent Office RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES Substantial decreases in the number of applications for patents and trade-marks and concurrent reductions in the totals of such grants and registrations resulted in a considerable decline in the earnings of the Patent Office in the fiscal year ended June 30, 1942. Net receipts for the 12 months were $3,917,833.69, or $471,113.90 less than in the equivalent period of 1940-41. Expenditures in the fiscal year 1942 were $4,726,304.28, or $808,470.59 in excess of income. Again in 1942, as in the preceding year, the number of applications filed by foreigners diminished notably. Other conditions attributable to the war curtailed the filing of applications by American citizens and in turn lessened the number of patents issued. Applications for patents in 1942, including those for. plants and designs, numbered 53,551, as against 65,356 in 1941. In the 12 months closing with June 30, 1942, there were 12,103 applications for the registration of trade-marks, compared with 14,302 in the preceding year. Applica- tions for design patents numbered 5,568 in 1942, contrasted with 8,462 in 1941. Including those covering designs, plants, and reissues, the total of patents granted in 1942 numbered 45,926. This was 2,523 fewer than in 1941. Prints and labels were formerly registered by the Patent Office, but this function was transferred in 1940 to the Copyright Office. In 1942, for the first time since 1800, even in periods of war, the Patent Office was removed from Washington. B Executive order the transfer from Washington to Richmond, Va., tegan on January 31 and was completed on February 21, 1942. Of the total of 1,428 employees, 1,088 were allocated to Richmond. All of the examining divisions except that concerned with trade-marks, and the major part of the equipment and records, including the files pertaining to pending applications, are now in the Richmond branch. At the end of the fiscal year, 133 former employees of the Patent Office were serving in the armed forces. The number of employees transferred from the Office to war activities was 79. PATENT OFFICE WAR DIVISION The Commissioner of Patents was authorized by an act of Congress (Public, No. 700) approved July 1, 1940, to order an invention revealed in an application for patent to be kept secret and to withhold the grant of a patent whenever disclosure of the invention might be detrimental to the-public safety or defense. Public, No. 700 was amended by Public, No. 239, Seventy-seventh Congress, approved 514992-43 93 Reproduction by Permission of Buffalo & Erie County Public Library Buffalo, NY

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