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E.—Number of Provisional and Complete Specifications received, &c., under Act of 1889.

F.—Total Number of Applications for Patents, and Registration of Designs and Trade Marks, recorded for the Years 1890 to 1900 inclusive.

G.—Number of Applications for Patents from Persons residing in New Zealand and other Colonies and Countries in each of the Years 1898, 1899, and 1900.

Note.—A few applications were received from joint applicants resident in different countries; the ng» res wil l> therefore total more than the actual number of applications received.

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Number c. cations w: {* Complete cations of Appli- Number ith which cations w: 3 Specifi- Provisional lodged. tions li ith which £££!£* Specifica- s £™£, nber of , T . tZle-e' "3K Complete , ations sub- *) tly lodged. rel r of Applitbandoned, Num' sed, or Patents iused. Total ,er of Nu ™ ber seaIed ' Applications. 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 N.Z. 242 187 202 198 278 229 299 217 199 182 160 Foreign. 207 207 191 178 166 201 275 303 305 297 321 N.Z. 107 126 160 197 251 307 318 444 419 382 441 Foreign. 60 69 53 52 61 79 100 129 98 131 87 N.Z. 27 29 40 51 69 75 68 87 102 84 * Foreign. 17 25 16 24 16 34 33 41 29 55 N.Z. 202 191 237 262 352 403 439 481 447 Foreign. 50 50 43 30 51 51 75 95 70 N.Z. 147 122 125 133 177 133 185 181 172 Foreign. 217 226 201 200 176 229 293 336 332 616 589 606 625 756 816 992 !l,093 1,021 992 jl,009 * i fhese figuri ss are necessarily incomplete, as ;he tinn for proc& ling furtl ier with th' applici .tions hai not yet expirei a.

Year. Patents. Designs. Trade-marks. Total. 1890 616 5 160 781 1891 589 4 225 818 1892 606 10 290 906 1893 625 1 325 951 1894 756 15 347 1,118 1895 816 14 254 1,084 1896 992 27 279 1,298 1897 1,093 13 361 1,467 1898 1,021 10 343 1,374 1899 \ 328 992 12 1,332 1900 1,009 15 348 1,372

1898. 1899. 1900. 1898. 1899. 1900. New Zealand Austria Belgium Canada Cape of Good Hope Denmark France Germany Holland Hungary India Italy New South Wales Nicaragua 616 1 5 3 1 5 11 9 563 4 3 7 10 5 15 3 2 1 602 "9 7 9 5 Norway Queensland Russia South African Republic .. South Australia Sweden Switzerland Tasmania United Kingdom United States Uruguay Victoria Western Australia 7 "_8 2 5 131 58 1 85 5 8 2 3 8 2 99 109 1 17 1 11 4 3 6 120 88 ;*) 5 '.8 1 1 52 .8 9 65 1