MORE PATENTS SOUGHT

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 755, 30 August 1929, Page 10

MORE PATENTS SOUGHT

REGISTRAR REVIEWS YEAR INCREASE IN APPLICATIONS (The SUN’S Parliamentary Reporter) PARLIAMENT BLDGS., Today. Increased business on the whole during the year ended March 31, 1929, is shown in the annual report of the Registrar of Patents, presented to Parliament today. A total of 3,434 applications fdf grants of letters-patent and for registration of designs and trade-marks was received during the year. A slight increase is shown in patent and design applications, while a decrease has occurred in the applications for registration of trade marks, 124 less being received than in 1927. The number of applications for patents received from countries beyond New Zealand shows a satisfactory increase, 1,040 being received during the year as compared with S7l in 1927. This figure is also 190 in excess of the average number of applications from oterseas for the years 1922 to 19°7 tinelusive). Applications for patents by appliresident in New Zealand totalled The total revenue of the office for the year in respect to patents, designs and trade marks was £13,302 10s lid’ thf/for i " c , r T ease °£ £660 8s 5d over that for 1927, and the highest yet received for any one year except 1925 "I 1 ® 11 ., receipts from all sources was slight]) in excess of that for 1928 The surplus of receipts over payments for the jear amounted to £7,931 Ss Id an increase of £676 12 s 8d over the surplus for the previous year. Expendi*ur.e ’ " hlch h as been carefully conwh 1 ’ total,ecl *3,371 2s lOd, a figure which compares favourably with those of former years. The total surplus of receipts over expenditure since the anuary, 1890, la now JilaOJ: 29 19 3 Jd.