Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1900 — BIG INCREASE IN PATENTS. [ARTICLE]

BIG INCREASE IN PATENTS.

Five Thousand Increase in Applications Over Preceding Year. The report of Commissioner of Patents Duell for the fiscal year ended June 30 last shows a total of 20,540 patents granted, including reissues and designs. There were 1,000 trade marks, 082 labels and 03 prints registered. Patents that expired numbered 10,088. Allowed applications forfeited for non-payment of the final fees were 4,052. Of the total of 39,815 applications received 2,203 were for designs, 00 for reissues, 1,759 for caveats, 2,105 for trade marks, 872 for labels and 127 for prints. The total receipts of the patent office were |1,358;228; total expenditures, fl,247,828; surplus turned into treasury, $110,401. On July 1 thirty out of the thirty-six examiners hnd their new work within one month from the date of filing and three of the remaining six overran that time by only one dny. The amended work in nearly all of the divisions was acted on within fifteen days after filing. Applications awaiting action by the patent office numbered 3,504, which is between 500 and 000 more than on July 1, 1899. Tile number of applications for patents, etc., received during the fiscal year just closed was 5,000 greater than during the preceding year, and the number of amendments acted upon wns also correspondingly greater. The work of the clerical divisions also has been kept op to date. Emil Markenburg, an aeronaut, fall from a height of 500 feet at Santa Ana, Cal., and was killed.