Excerpt from Progress in the Arts and Protection by Patent: With Some Information in Regard to the U. S Patent Office
The working force of the Patent Office numbers about 600 persons, graded from the Commissioner, at per year, to laborer, at $360.
The cash receipts of the office from fees and sale of copies, etc., amount to about for each working day. Expenses for all purposes, say per leaving a net revenue of about per year.
Applications for patents average at the present time nearly per month, grant of patents, about two thirds as many.
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