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E.—Total Number of Applications for Patents, and Registration of Designs and Trade Marks, recorded for the Years 1890 to 1905 inclusive.

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

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Year. Patents. Designs. . Trade-marks. Total. 1890 616 5 160 781 1891 589 i 225 818 1892 606 10 290 906 1893 625 1 325 951 .-•>■ ."*F.'>756 15 347 1,118 1894 1896 816 14 954 1,084 1896 992 27 279 1,298 1897 1,093 18 361 1.46T 1898 1,021 10 348 1,374 1899 992 12 328 1,332 1900 1,009 15 348 1,372 1901 1,114 18 379 1,511 1902 1,481 28 412 1,871 . 1903 1,604 26 447 2,077 1904 1,483 24 2,099 1905 1,601 54 607 2,262

a 3 Number of Applications with which Complete Specifications lodged. Number of Appli- , N , u: cations with which *£P,£ Provisional Speoifica- o ■« tions lodged. J *g£ mber of sations for Complete jations subitly lodged. Number of Applications abandoned, lapsed, or refused. Num Patents iber of 9 sealed. j. Total Number of ApplioaI tions. 1890 1891, 1892; 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897! 1898' 1899 1900 1901 1902 J 1903 1904 1905 ; i N.Z. Foreign. 242 207 187 207 202 191 198 178 278 166 229 201 299 275 217 303 199 305 182 297 160 321 199 353 163 357 205 368 200 321 215 355 N.Z. i Foreign. N.Z. 107 60 27 126 69 29 160 - 53 40 197 52 51 251 61 69 307 79 75 318 100 68 444 129 87 419 98 i 102 382 : 131 84 441 87 97 459 103 119 767 144 274 859 172 238 754 208 198 827 204 * Foreign. 17 25 16 24 16 34 33 41 29 55 36 28 65 54 74 ! N.Z. Foreign. 202 ! 50 I 191 I 50 237 ] 43 262 30 352 51 403 ! 51 439 ! 75 481 : 95 447 ' 70 409 I 82 ; 452 59 . 458 j 76 i 690 i 86 801 i 116 * * N.Z. 147 122 125 133 173 133 185 181 172 155 149 200 240 263 * Foreign. 217 226 201 200 176 229 293 336 332 346 349 380 415 424 * j i i. ■ 616 589 j 606 625 756 816 992 |l,093 1,02.1 992 : l,009 1,114 1,431 1,604 j l,483 1,601 * 3sarily incomplete, as the tim( appiicE itions ha: a 3 not yet * These figures are neoei expired. ;he time for proceeding further with th