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1947 Comm'r Rep. 167 (1947)

handle is hein.intprop/corep0196 and id is 1 raw text is: (Reprint from the Annml Report of the Secretary of Commerce 1947) Patent Office Reorganization of the Patent Office, begun in 1945, was advanced within the past year. As reorganized, the Patent Office comprises the Office of the Commissioner of Patents, which includes the Board of Appeals and the Office of the Solicitor, and three major operating components. These are the Patent Examining Operation, the Trade- Mark Examining Operation, and the Executive Office. Each is as- signed a major function of the Patent Office activities under the direc- tion of a single administrator who reports to, and is responsible to, the Commissioner. The Patent Examining Operation, under the direction of an Execu- tive Primary Examiner, comprises the Classification Group, five Patent Examining Groups, and the Patent Interference Division. The Clas- sification Group is headed by the Supervisory Classification Examiner and is composed of an Administrative Branch and five Examining Divisions. Each Patent Examining Group is under the direction of a Supervisory Patent Examiner in charge of a plurality of examining divisions determined on the basis of the arts assigned. The Patent interference Division, in which the Board of Interference Examiners predominates, is included within this organization area for adminis- trative purposes only. A comparable pattern of organization and operating relationships in the Trade-Mark Examining Operation is under the direction of an executive examiner. Administrative and judicative functions in trade- mark practice in the Office were divorced by vesting the operating responsibilities in the executive examiner and reserving to the Office of the Commissioner the responsibility for adjudicating appeals in trade-mark cases. The executive office encompasses the auxiliary patent services and the general administrative or business functions of the Patent Office. Organized on the basis of specializations recognized in such activities, it consists of five divisions-Administrative Services, Patent Services, Financial, Personnel, and Administrative Management and Budget- the heads of which report direct to the executive officer. PERSONNEL The employment program for the year was aimed at augmenting the patent examining staff by 524 positions and the other services by 85 positions to attain a personnel level Of 2,000 employees. At the end of the year 1,826 positions were filled, an increase of 366 positions over the previous year; 203 positions remained vacant. The employment 777189--47 167 Reproduction by Permission of Buffalo & Erie County Public Library Buffalo, NY

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