Show las COST or A PAT ENT secretary teller will not in his annual recommend a reduction in the cost of obtaining a patent he la persuaded to ins course it is said aiom the fact that the patent laws arc now alie most liberal of any country in the world in england it costs 1000 to obtain a fourteen year patent in germany over in russia about and jn CanadA about while heie it cots but 35 for a seventeen ear patent it is not thought by commissioner of patent marble that a reduction in allm would maternally ma increase tho number of patents taken out or stimulate invention as the small fee is jiow within tho reach of all lie thought that the large revenue now derived from this egurce has no aru ment in favor anle tan je that tho bics bt ai heavily upon inventor 1 |