A statement is also appended, showing the amount of fees received, applications and caveats filed, during each month of the year, marked F. A. Statement of receipts for patents, caveats, additional improvements, re. cording assignments, &c., and for copies. Amount received for patents, caveats, re-issues, and additional improvements.... Amount received for recording assignments, &c., and for copies... Total..... ..$89,022 00 6,716 61 95,738 68 B. Statement of expenditures and payments made from the Patent Fund by the Commissioner of Patents, from January 1, 1851, to January 1, 1952, Cuner the acts of 1852, under the acts of Congress making provision for the expenses of the Patent Office, viz: Salary paid agricultural clerk ($500 due for 1850). $2,500 00 Salary paid assistant, Mr. Fogg. 222 15 Amount paid for copying report... 501 69 Amount paid for seeds, stationery, &c......... 1,714 01 4,937 85 86,916 94 In the above sum of $86,916 94, which shows an increased expenditure for the year 1851 over that of 1850 and former years, is embracedThe salaries of two principal and two assistant examiners, authorized at the last session of Congress, at the rate of $8,000 per annum for nine months... The excess of expenditure for the agricultural desk over last year. .$6,0.0 00 1,078 49 Besides these extraordinary expenditures, the withdrawals of applications have been unusually large, exceeding the amount of those of last year-which was greater than any preceding year-the sum of... ..$2,601 01 9,679 50 This sum of $9,679 50 deducted from the whole expenditure, $86,916 93, and the ordinary expenses of the office for the year 1851 is shown to be only $77,237 43-$2,863 52 less as compared with the expenses of last year. C. Statement of receipts and expenditures of the Patent Office for the year 1851. Amount received from all sources. Amount of expenditures of all kinds. Amount carried to credit of Patent fund for 1851...... D. Patent Fund, January 1, 1851 Amount of fund January 1, 1851.... Amount carried to Patent fund for 1851... Amount remaining in the treasury to the credit of the E. $15,331 27 8,221 68 24,152 95 Statement of applications on hand January 1, 1851, and number received during the year and acted upon. Number of cases on examiners' desks January 1, 1851.. .... 169 .2,258 Number of patents issued during the year.. Number of cases before the office during the year. .2,427 Number of applications remaining unexamined. 869 Number of rejections and suspensions. .1,403 Months. F. Statement showing amount of fees received and number of applications and caveats filed during each month of the year 1851. Table exhibiting the business of the office for the last eleven years, and the necessity of an increase of permanent clerical force. The foregoing statistics exhibit a very large increase of business in this office for the last eleven years; and by reference to the table it will be seen that the increase for 1851 is in full proportion with former years. This accumulation of business has been provided for from time. to time by Congress, in authorizing necessary additions to the examining force. This force for the present is deemed sufficient. But there are still departments of the business and labor of the office which have increased in a corresponding ratio with the examinations, and no provision made by Congress to relieve them. Hence the suggestions in rela tion to an increase of clerical force, in the preceding pages. Total patents. Designs. State. No. Table showing the number of patents issued to citizens of different States during the year 1851. State. Patents, reissues, designs and additional improvements are all included in this table, F. Statement showing amount of fees received and number of applications and caveats filed during each month of the year 1851. Table exhibiting the business of the office for the last eleven years, and the necessity of an increase of permanent clerical force. The foregoing statistics exhibit a very large increase of business in this office for the last eleven years; and by reference to the table it will be seen that the increase for 1851 is in full proportion with former years. This accumulation of business has been provided for from time to time by Congress, in authorizing necessary additions to the examining force. This force for the present is deemed sufficient. But there are still departments of the business and labor of the office which have increased in a corresponding ratio with the examinations, and no provision made by Congress to relieve them. Hence the suggestions in rela tion to an increase of clerical force, in the preceding pages. |