LETTER FROM THE COMMISSIONER OF PATENTS
transmitting his annual report for the year 1862
February 5, 1863 -- Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed.
UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE
January 30, 1863
Sir:
The Commissioner of Patents, by the 14th section of the act of March 3, 1837, is required to lay before Congress a detailed statement of the expenditures and payments by him made from said (patent) fund, a list of all the patents which have been granted during the preceding year, designated under proper heads, the subjects of such patents, and furnishing an alphabetical list of the patentees, with their places of residence, a list of all patents which shall have become public property during the same period, together with such other information of the state and condition of the Patent Office as may be useful to Congress or to the public.
In conformity with these requirements of law, I submit the following:
No 1
Number of applications during the year 1862 5038
Number of patents granted, including designs and reissues 3521
Number of caveats filed 824
Number of applications for extension of patents 41
Number of patents extended 22
Number of patents expired 31st December 1862 648
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Of the patents granted, there were:
To citizens of the United States 3438
To subjects of Great Britain 39
To subjects of the French Empire 33
To subjects of other foreign governments 11
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Total 3521
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No 2
Statement of money received during the year, viz:
On applications for patents, reissues, etc. $153,818.00
For copies and for recording assignments 11,081.50
Appropriation, July 16, 1862, to refund expenses
of printing patents 50,855.49
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Total 215,754.99
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No 3
Statement of expenditures from the patent fund
Salaries $77,404.93
Contingent expenses 55,057.98
Temporary clerks 44,462.48
Withdrawals 5,140.00
Refunding money paid by mistake 570.00
Judges in appeal cases 175.00
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Total 182,810.39
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No 4
Statement of the condition of the patent fund
Amount to the credit of the patent fund
January 1, 1862 $5,416.55
Amount paid in during the year 215,754.99
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Total 221,171.54
Deduct expenditures during the same period 182,810.39
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Leaving in the treasury January 1, 1863,
the sum of 38,361.15
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No. 5.
Table exhibiting the business of the office for twenty-six years
ending December 31, 1862
Years Applications Caveats Patents Cash Cash
Filed Filed Issued Received Received
1837 435 $29,289.08 $33,506.98
1838 520 42,123.54 37,402.10
1839 425 37,260.00 34,543.51
1840 765 228 473 38,056.51 39,020.67
1841 847 312 495 40,413.01 52,666.87
1842 761 391 517 36,505.68 31,241.48
1843 819 315 531 35,315.81 30,766.96
1844 1,045 380 502 42,509.26 36,244.73
1845 1,246 452 502 51,076.14 39,395.65
1846 1,272 448 619 50,264.16 46,158.71
1847 1,531 553 572 63,111.19 41,878.35
1848 1,628 607 660 67,576.69 58,905.84
1849 1,955 595 1,070 80,752.78 77,716.44
1850 2,193 602 995 86,927.05 80,100.95
1851 2,258 760 869 95,738.61 86,916.93
1852 2,639 996 1,020 112,656.34 95,916.91
1853 2,673 901 958 121,527.45 132,869.83
1854 3,324 868 1,902 163,789.84 167,146.32
1855 4,435 906 2,024 216,459.35 179,540.33
1856 4,960 1,024 2,502 192,588.02 199,931.02
1857 4,771 1,010 2,910 196,132.01 211,582.09
1858 5,364 943 3,710 203,716.16 193,193.74
1859 6,225 1,097 4,538 245,942.15 210,278.41
1860 7,653 1,084 4,819 256,352.59 252.820.80
1861 4,643 700 3,340 137,354.44 221,491.91
1862 5,038 824 ----- 215,754.99 182,810.39
By the act of Congress of March 2, 1861, the Commissioner of Patents was authorized to print ten copies of the descriptions and of the drawings of the patents issued by the office. After a trial of eight months the work was discontinued on account of the expense, and the section of the law authorizing the printing was subsequently repealed. During the past year I have ordered correct and well digested abstracts of the patents to be prepared by an experienced examiner in the office, with the claims and reduced copies of the drawings attached, which accompany this report. The publication of the same will supply a great want now felt by the inventors of the country. The reports of 1859 and 1860 were issued in a style which reflected credit upon the office, and were of great value to all interested in the improvements in the arts and manufactures. The usual appropriation for the preparation of the report of 1861 would enable the office to complete the series for which there are daily demands.
I take the liberty of inviting the attention of Congress to the other matters treated of in my report for 1862, to which I have nothing to add at present.
D.P. HOLLOWAY
Commissioner
Hon. Galusha A. Grow
Speaker of the House of Representatives