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Patent Agents. It is regretted having to report the deaths of Mr. J. F. Lillicrap and Mr. R. McLintock, two members of the profession who were in practice before the Office for forty-one years and twenty-seven years respectively. The number of Patent Agents on the register as at 31st December, 1937, was 17. Conclusion. The appendix hereto contains the following tables, lists, &c., viz. :— A. Receipts and Payments Account for the Year ended 31st December, 1937. B. Table showing Receipts and Payments for each of the Last Ten Years. G. Particulars of Fees received from Ist January to 31st December, 1937, together with the Corresponding Figures for the years 1935 and 1936. D. Total Number of Applications for Patents and for Registration of Designs and Trademarks recorded for the years 1913 to 1937 (inclusive). E. Number of Provisional and Complete Specifications received, &c. F. Number of Applications for Patents from Persons residing in New Zealand or Dependencies, &c., and in other Countries in each of the Years 1936 and 1937, together with the Average for the Years 1931-35 (inclusive). G. Number of Applications for Patents for the Different Classes of Inventions in each of the Years 1936 and 1937, together with the Average for the Years 1931-35 (inclusive). H. Total Number of Applications for Patents, Letters Patent sealed, and Letters Patent in force for Full Term under the Different Patents Acts, up to 31st December, 1937 (inclusive). I. Number of Applications for Registration of Designs in each of the Fifteen Classes in each of the Years 1935, 1936, and 1937. J. Number of Applications for Registration of Trade-marks from Persons residing in New Zealand or Dependencies, &c., and in other Countries in each of the Years 1936 and 1937, together with the Average for the Years 1931-35 (inclusive). K. Number of Applications to register Trade-marks in the Fifty Different Classes in each of the Years 1936 and 1937, together with the Average for the Years 1931-35 (inclusive). H. T. Atkinson, Commissioner of Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks. The Patent Office, Wellington, 15th June, 1938.

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