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1946 Comm'r Rep. 153 (1946)

handle is hein.intprop/corep0195 and id is 1 raw text is: (Reprint from the Annual Report of the Secretary of Commerce 1946) Patent Office APPLICATIONS Exceeding the number received by the Office in any 12 months since 1930, applications for patents filed in the fiscal year ended on June 30, 1946 totaled 88,905. Of these 10,800 were to cover designs and 165 for tle protection of new varieties of plants. In the same period there were filed 26,216 applications for the original registration and for the renewal of trade-marks previously registered. This was the largest number recorded in any year. By reason of the great volume of applications received by the Office and the lack of sufficient technical personnel and other difficulties, the grant of patents in the latest fiscal year was less than in any equivalent time for more than 40 years. The number issued was 27,597, including 43 for plants, 3,384 for designs, and 115 for reissues. PUBLIC REGISTER OF PATENTS The registration of patents available for license or purchase, in- stituted by direction of the Secretary of Commerce in May 1945, proved of widespread interest and usefulness. More than 11,000 patents were accorded registration in the first 12 months of its opera- tion. Two corporations owning large groups of patents have included all of them in the public register. One of these corporations announced its willingness to license each of its patents as well as those under which it had the right to convey sublicenses. Each week the Office informed some 2,000 manufacturers and in- dustrialists as to the registry of patents likely to be of usefulness to them. In addition, approximately 200 trade journals were advised of the registration of patents in which the industrial groups they rep- resent would be interested. The value of this service to industry and to the general public is manifest in the results of a survey with respect to the first 500 patents registered. This canvass disclosed that about 5 percent of these patents had been licensed or were being considered for licensing or outright purchase. The interest inspired by these activities of the Office is exemplified in the rapid rise in the number of patents registered. In June 1945, their total was less than 200. In the corresponding month of 1946, more than 500 requests for registration was filed. DEDICATED PATENTS In order to promote the use of patents whose owners have dedicated them to the public without compensation, a booklet for free distribu- tion was issued shortly before the close of the fiscal year. This listed 788631-47 Reproduction by Permission of Buffalo & Erie County Public Library Buffalo, NY

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