PATENTS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CVI, Issue 12587, 23 August 1901, Page 5

PATENTS.

THE REGISTRAR'S ANNUAL REPORT. [From Otjr Correspondent.] WELLLINGTON, August .21 The twelfth annual report of the Registrar of Patents is as follows: —The total number of patents applied for was 1009, an increase of seventeen over the previous year. There was no marked increase in any particular class of invention, but the largest number of applications were made for (inventions under the following headings, viz. : Boilers, etc., 29 (including 14 spark arrester's); building, 33; dredging, etc., 51 (including 28 for dredges and parts therof); engines, etc., 46 (including 12 electric motors); illuminating, 46 (including 17 electric illuminating applianoes); minerals, 105 (including 52 for saving and extracting gold); railways, 37 (including 11 coupling and draught appliances) j and road vehicles 55 (including 27 relating *to cycles). There were also five applications in respect of linotype machines. As usual the large majority of the applications came from inventors resident in New Zealand, of whom there were 616. The United Kingdom came next with 120, the United States 88, Victoria 70 and New South Wales 52. There were ten women inventors, all in New Zealand. There were thirteen applications under the International Convention, by' which a right of priority is secured in those countries which are parties to the Convention. M ;change 'has been made in fhe method of sending out the English specifications supplied to this office, through the kindness of .the ComptrollerGeneral of Patents, London. These have hitherto been retained at the publishers until several volumes were collected,, when they were bound and sent out, considerable time thus elapsing, in. some cases two. years, between the date of the publishing of a specification and of its receipt in the colony. The specifications are now sent out every month in small lots, and as soon as received are available for inspection. When a sufficient number of volumes- have come to hand they can be bound in the colony equally as well as the work has been done in London, and at rather less cost.