Show PATENT OffiCE SNOWED UNDER Big V Volume of Business Cripples Department I IW W WASHINGTON ASHINGTON Au AUR- AUR 27 The United States patent office is 15 crippled Its small and constantly changing staff start is burled buried under the biggest volume volume volume vol vol- ume of ot business in tho the history of ot tho the department Cases that formerly got ot action withIn with with- in thirty days s now watt wait six or seven months before they ate are touched The r result Industrial development I is being seriously hampered Present inefficiency In tho the patent of of- of flee fice can cnn be tra traced ed to three causes ot-I ot One One Large Large number of ot resignations among clerks and examiners Two Two Inability Inability to get men to fill the places of ot those who resign because of ot strict requirements and low pay Three Unprecedented Three Unprecedented increase of ot applications for tor patents Business of ot tho the patent office In thelast the thelast last six months has been the heaviest In an any half halt year of ot Its history Applications atlon for patents amounted to There V were ro applications in the same samo period perlo in 1918 in 1919 and in 1920 Applications for tor trade trado marks since I January 1 1 of ot t this l year have havo mounted I to There Thero were er applications in the tho same period In n 1918 ti n In 1919 and 7 O In 1920 t |