| Show FASTER THAN EVER But business iness been rushing at a livelier rate anywhere than it has been right here in the bureau of patents it is not due to the war or to any remarkable increase in the number of inventive geniuses although the latter are by no means falling off but simply because hustle has been installed where procrastination used to reign the patent office is no longer the dried and dreary place reeking with ancient dreams and antique business methods that once upon a time it wab goed for not gny any more new life hope and industry have been introduced under the direction of secretary lane this service being a branch of the interior department intelligent ati aty has supplanted lax meth arid and provo provoking king dela delays ys almost twice as much work has been done in this bureau under this administration as under any previous administration twenty thousand more patents were issued to american inventors during the past three years than in the preceding three years there have not been moie but the office has up with back applications during the first half of this year pa patents were issued F for or the first hall there were 21 issued with a total of for the year 1915 the highest number of patents ever issued in in any one year before was in 1909 there has been house cleaning all through the office patent clairs claims that were musty with years and many with poor excuses for lingering have been forced to issue or abandonment |
