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THOSE who are interested in the industrial applications of science will find much that is worthy of their attention in the recently published report of the Comptroller-General of the Patent Office for the year 1925. The report consists entirely of statistics, so that, in the absence of any official commentary, an attempt to analyse some of the figures and to compare them with those given elsewhere may perhaps be of value, for the relation between invention and industrial prosperity is an intimate one. Further, it is of interest to assess the quality of the services rendered to the State by the Patent Office, not only because this is essentially a scientific department, but also because it has been felt for some time past that the Patents Acts cannot be left where they are: and the question whether the desired improvements are practicable is one which depends in great measure on the degree of efficiency with which the existing system is being administered.
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Patent Office Statistics. Nature 118, 428–429 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/118428a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/118428a0