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1948 Comm'r Rep. 185 (1948)

handle is hein.intprop/corep0197 and id is 1 raw text is: Patent Office PATENT EXAMINING OPERATION GENERAL PROGRESS AND CONDITION OF WORK On September 10, 1947, Lawrence C. Kingsland assumed office as Commissioner of Patents to succeed Casper W. Ooms who resigned to resume private patent law practice. During the fiscal year, the Patent Office improvement program was actively carried forward with exten- sive effort devoted to developing means for substantially reducing the excessive backlog of patent applications. The patent examining oper- ation was strengthened by the addition of nearly 100 examiners; means to facilitate the examining processes were put in operation; and certain procedural modifications were inaugurated to expedite actions and increase the productivity of the examining corps. With more com- prehensive changes in view, a management consultant firm was engaged to survey the patent examining operations, including classification, for the purpose of recommending further improvements in organization, procedures, personnel and training and to develop a manual of office practice. In June 30, 1948, 244,365 patent applications were pending in the Office. Of these, 156,514, including 8,330 design patent applications, were awaiting action by the examiners, 3,356 were involved in appeals and interference proceedings and the remaining 84,495 were tinder re- jection pending response by applicants. This inventory was 28,267 cases greater than last year, with the examiners' backlog increased by 8293 applications as compared with an increase of 32,353 the preceding year. During the year, 80,708 new applications and 145,470 amend- ments of applications were received. Application disposals resulting from examining operations during the year came 17 percent nearer to balancing receipts than in the pre- ceding year with the annual disposals anounting to 62.2 percent of the n umb.er of applications received. Improvement was noted in each successive quarter, and although receipts in the last quarter exceeded the quarterly average for the year, disposals reached the peak of ap- proximately 73 percent of receipts. PATENT CLASSIFICATION Revision of classes 171, Electricity, Generation, and 172, Electricity, Motive Power, which classes constitute the generic classification for electricity, and class 250, Radiant Energy, progressed continuously. As a result, two new classes (323, Electricity, Voltage Magnitude and Phase Control Systems comprising 129 subclasses and 343, Communi- 823294-49 Reproduction by Permission of Buffalo & Erie County Public Library Buffalo, NY

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