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APPENDIX.

PATENT OFFICE. A. —Receipts and Payments Account for the Year ended 31st December, 1940. Receipts. £ s. d. Payments. £ s. d. Patent fees .. .. . • •. • • 9,388 5 2 Salaries .. . . .. . . . . 4,700 13 4 Design fees .. .. . • . • • • 136 6 0 Fuel, light, power, and water .. .. .. 39 5 1 Trade-mark fees .. .. .. .. 2,662 9 8 Rent of offices .. .. .. .. 340 10 0 Sales of Acts, Journals &c.— £ s. d. Patent Office Journal .. .. .. .. 591 13 3 At the Government Printing Office .. 46 711 Postage, telegrams, and telephones .. .. 147 14 0 At the Patent Office .. .. 7 7 3 Printing and stationery, &c. .. .. .. 231 11 4 53 15 2 Refunds .. .. .. .. .. 24 5 0 Balance: Cash in Public Account .. .. 6,165 4 0 £12,240 16 0 £12,240 16 0 H. T. Atkinson, Commissioner of Patents. I hereby certify that the Statement of Receipts and Payments has been duly examined and compared with the relative books and documents submitted for audit, and correctly states the position as disclosed thereby. Copyright fees are not included. —Cyril Collins, Controller and Auditor-General.

B. —Table showing Receipts and Payments for each of the Last Ten Years.

C. —Particulars of Fees received from 1st January to 31st December, 1940, together with the Corresponding Figures for the Years 1938 and 1939.

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Year. Receipts. Payments. Surplus. j Year. Receipts. Payments. Surplus. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. ! £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. 1931 13,390 11 6 5,466 7 8 7,924 3 10 1936 j 13,276 1 4 5,221 19 1 8,054 2 3 1932 12,034 19 4 4,782 7 0 7,252 12 4 1937 13,407 3 7 5,623 9 1 7,783 14 6 1933 11,694 II 10 4,378 18 10 7,315 13 0 1938 j 14,754 2 8 6,790 8 3 7,963 14 5 1934 12,376 5 11 4,709 6 9 7,666 19 2 1939 ! 14,134 6 6 6,846 1 4 7,288 5 2 1935 12,868 19 4 4,476 13 3 8,392 6 1 1940 I 12,240 16 0 6,075 12 0 6,165 4 0

1938.* 1939.* 1940. Patents. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. Applications for patents with provisional specifications .. .. 677 0 6 705 10 0 648 16 6 Applications for patents with completo specifications .. .. 2,546 0 0 2,162 0 6 1,279 0 0 Complete specifications left after provisional specifications .. . . 436 0 0 383 10 0 308 0 0 Applications for extension of time .. .. .. .. 164 15 0 158 17 0 113 0 9 On giving notice of opposition .. .. .. .. .. 3 15 0 5 00 200 On hearing opposition On request for sealing letters patent .. .. .. .. 1,111 11 0 1,216 19 10 1,372 9 0 On request for duplicate deeds of letters patent On request for sealing letters patent after prescribed time .. .. 300 .. 30 0 On sealing letters patent after prescribed time .. .. .. 1500 Renewal fees paid before end of third year .. .. .. 2,597 2 3 2,703 0 0 2,793 0 0 Renewal fees paid before end of sixth year .. .. .. 2,848 0 0 2,898 0 0 2,514 7 9 Applications for restoration of lapsed patents .. .. .. 600 1800 14 00 On restoration of letters patent .. .. .. .. 127 10 0 83 10 0 18 0 0 On request to enter name of subsequent proprietor, &c., on register .. 61 7 0 69 12 0 79 5 0 On request to correct clerical errors .. .. .. .. 1 10 0 0 15 0 0 15 0 Certificates of Commissioner .. .. .. .. . . 31 7 0 34 10 6 22 6 9 Copies of specifications and drawings .. .. .. .. 44 19 1 100 9 7 126 3 8 Application for registration as patent agent Patent agents' fees .. .. .. • ■ • • • • 31 10 0 33 12 0 2 2 0 Patent agents' examination fees Searches .. .. .. .. • • •. • • 27 16 6 32 15 6 30 14 8 Amendment of letters patent .. .. .. .. 1100 600 500 Request to enter chango of name .. .. .. .. 150 150 Request to enter change of address .. .. .. .. 6120 050 34 80 Application for endorsement of letters patent " Licenses of Right " .. .. 2 0 0 Advertising in Journal, &c., under Supreme Court Rules Application for entry of order of Supreme Court in register Weekly lists .. .. .. •• .. •• •• 4 16 0 400 5 40 Miscellaneous.. .. .. •• • • 13 0 3 27 6 3 16 12 1 9,388 5 2 Tor a completo analysis of fees received in 1938 and 1939, see reports for those years respectively.