N° 37 PARK ROW. NEW YORK NEW YORK SAMEDI 22 FÉVRIER 1873. Matières : (articles illustrés sont marqués d'un astérisque.) Le rapport annuel du commissaire des brevets de congrès pour 1872 vient d'être envoyé dans d'où il semble que les affaires de l'Office des brevets sont en bon ordre et l'état florissant. 3090 mises en garde ont été déposées l'année dernière être tions pour les brevets ont été faites dont 13590 ont été accordées. Une légère augmentation du nombre de brevets délivrés s'affiche et une d2pli dans le nombre de demandes dont le commissaire explique dans une curieuse façon. L
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NO. 37 PARK ROW. NEW YORK NEW YORK SATURDAY FEBRUARY 22 1873. Contents : (Illustrated articles are marked with an asterisk.) The annual report of the Commissioner of Patents to Con gress for 1872 has just been sent in from which it appears that the affairs of the Patent Office are in good order and flourishing condition. 3090 caveats were filed last year be tions for patents were made of which 13590 were granted. A slight increase in the number of patents granted is shown and a considerable d2crease in the number of applications made which the Commissioner explains in a curious way. The decrease of applications and increase of the number of patents cations giving to inventors manufacturers and attorneys re liable information as to what inventions are already patented thereby securing better applications but fewer in number. Now if this is s if the effect of the office publications has duce the number of applications and yet to increase the number of patents granted may we not expect similar results in greater rati a few years hence when the aforesaid pub lications are more extensively circulated ? Let us look at the mains only the same :—Number of applications made in 1871 19472 ; in 1872 18246 ; decrease 1226. Number of patents granted in 1871 13033; number granted in 1872 13590; increase 557Allowing the same ratio each year for the next five years we should have the following results for the year 1878 :—Number of applications made 12160 and num ber of applications granted 16375. Evidently it will not do to carry forward the Commissioner's deductions. A much more probable explanation for the discrepancies in the figures for 1871 and 1872 would be this : In 1871 the Office was overcrowded with business and de lays ensued and the examiners doubtless rejected many cases for the first time which on revision in 1872 they de cided to allow. The falling off of 1226 applications in 1872 is probably due to the discouraging effects upon inventors of the official delays d
