The Patent Office.
(BY TELEGRAPH.) (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) Wellington, June 30. The Registrar's third annual report on patents, designs, and trade marks contains the following interesting particulars. During 1890 there were applications for SSO patents, 4 designs, and 225 trade marks, being a total of 818 against 781 the previous year. Of applications for patents 313 were from residents of New Zealand, 88 from the United Kingdom, 69 from Victoria, 60 from New South Wales, 25 from the United States, 9 from South Australia, 8 from Queensland, 7 from Canada, 5 from Germany, 2 from France, and one each from Tasmania, Switzerland, British Columbia, Austria, Portugal, and Norway. The amount received in fees for the year was L 1759 3s Cd. The salaries and expenses were L 391 lis 3d, showing a profit of L 1367 12s 3d. Suggestions are made in the report for the expending of profits of the office for the benefit of the public. Comparison is made with patent offices in other colonies, showing that New Zealand is the most economically managed. A clause in the report warns merchants and others that they arc liable to heavy penalties for representing articles as patent which are not so.
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Oamaru Mail, Volume XVII, Issue 5316, 2 July 1892, Page 4
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202The Patent Office. Oamaru Mail, Volume XVII, Issue 5316, 2 July 1892, Page 4
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