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Show PATENT OFFICE HAS F HI A RUSH. , f . J I SMoro patents than over before are ? J i j being issued by the patent office in 11 rtj Washington, and an authority says the l " j jl increase is not due to the war or to I II gl any remarkable increase in the num- f 11 H ber of inventive geniuses, although f 'ij the latter are by no means falling off, L ILj but simply because hustle has been in- f. jljjj stalled where procrastination used to nil reign. The patent office is no longer ; Jt the dried and dreary place reeking llnl with ancient dreams and antique busi- &; I IjJ ness methods that once upon a time it liii! ras nec r' any mre !; I h 11 New life, hope and Industry have l:- IIJI been introduced. Intelligent activity ;' jj has supplanted lax methods and pro- ' ' P i voking delays. Almost twice as much IIII work has been done in this bureau un- Jl l der this administration as under any li previous administration. Twenty lHI thousand more patents were issued to M American inventors during the past li three years than in the preceding jijj three years. There have not been lllll more inventions, but the office has IIII been catching up -with back applica- IHll tions. HI During the first half of this year, Jill 22.S01 patents were issued. For the IllJ first halt of 1915 there were 21,774 is- Hi I sued with a total of 43,207 for the III!! year I915, The Scst number of III! patents ever issued in any one year be- IBM fore was 36,574 in 1909. ID 1 1 s nn |