Patent Office Is Kept Busy
(Neto Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, January 6. The flow of patent applications to the New Zealand Patent Office is increasing by nearly 300 a year.
Patent application; received to March 31 totalled 3447, an increase of 255 on the previous year’s total. Of the total, 932 applications were for inventions by New Zealanders. The number of applications from New Zealanders has increased by nearly 90 a year over the last three years. To look through all these applications the office needs highly qualified examiners. Their qualifications must enable them to talk to inventors in their own language, which is often complex.
The Patent Office believes that it is one of the few places where a science or engineering graduate can keep on extending his knowledge as he works.
The office says he would be constantly coming into contact with the latest methods and techniques from overseas as well as from New Zealand. The office finds that most applications come from New Zealand inventors. Second on the list are British inventors, then Americans and Australians.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 30952, 7 January 1966, Page 3
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