Show AT THE THC patent some peculiarities which crop out in applicants ApPlIcant a it has for many years ears been the custom of the patent office to give an applicant an in interval terral of two years between the filing of an application and final action upon it if at the end of two years nothing was done about it the claim was u upon pon as abandoned and wap wao thrown out recently a new ruling was made limiting the time to six months it might have been published d in many of the newspapers it certainly was in some but it did not become generally understood der stood throughout hour the country in consequence of this state of things a great many inventors have without notice otice ii found their claims thrown out of the patent office and are thus compelled to make a new application in order t sustain sad clarus claims avalle wh ile it is nece necessary ary to have a tim limit and while ignorance of the law excuses no man it would be nor no more mom than justice to the inventor to print upon every letter acknowledging the filing of a claim and upon all forms relating to ace on applications and claims the statement that the six months limit had been made ud and that cases not considered within that time would be barred irom further action within the last few months several persons who have been in the babi arabit t of taking out patents paten lq and who axe are tolerably familiar with patent office business have had bad claims thrown out Ie because cause they did not happen to be aware of this new ruling they made their applice applications aticus supposing that the two year limit existed and now find themselves res compelled to make another application or throw up their case altogether this is not only unjust but unreasonable cad and extort extortionate i onate it looks lit ake c art an utter disregard of interest acdan and an arbitrary inclination to take advantage of his bis ignorance As a rule patentees are people of extremely small m means eams and the filing of 4 second application with fees eto etc is no trifling fing item to them the attention of the patent office as m well ell as the congressional committee on patents tents is is to be called to this and efforts patents Fa orts are to be made to have the clause containing the six mouths months limit printed t on every form that is used in c correspondence spon dence between beaw een the patent pUen office ceana and the applicant y N Y ledger |