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Patent Office Statistics

The receipts of the Patent Office during the fiscal year 1890-91 were $1,302,795, and expenditures, $1,145,503. Receipts over expenditures, $157,292. The following is a statement of the business of the office for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1891; Number of applications for patents... cluding reissues and designs... 25,307 Number of trade marks registered 1,744 Number of patents granted, in- 1,146 Number of labels registered.... 289 Number of applications for reissue patents.

III Total. 27,340 Number of applications for registration of trade marks.. 1,855 Number of applications for registration of labels. 808 Number of caveats filed. 2,333 Number of patents withheld for non-payment of final fees.

Number of patents expired... 3,514 12,383 Total.. 45,949 Tho total number of applications filed at the Patent Office in fifty-five years, 1837-91, was 786,199; number of caveats filed, 93,498; number of patents issued, 503,125. Receipts, $26,652,379; expenditures, $21,499,613. Net surplus, $5,152,766.