Progress In The Arts And Protection By Patent

Excerpt from Progress in the Arts and Protection by Patent: With Some Information in Regard to the U. S Patent Office The working force of the Patent Office numbers about 600 persons, graded from the Commissioner, at $4,500 per year, to laborer, at $360. The cash receipts of the office, from fees and sale of copies, etc., amount to about $4,000 for each working day. Expenses for all purposes, say $3,300 per diem, leaving a net revenue of about $200,000 per year. Applications for patents average at the present time nearly 3,000 per month; grant of patents, about two-thirds as many. About one-third of the whole number of employees are engaged in the work of examining new applications. With the clerks in charge of the records, copyists, proofreaders, etc., the inventive public have little intercourse. The examiners are brought into direct correspondence with every applicant for patent, or with the representative of the inventor. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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