22 REPORT OF THE PATENT COMMITTEE 



" SEC. 4934. The foUowing shall be the rates for patent fees: 



"On filing each original application for a patent, except in design cases, 

 $20. 



"On issuing each original patent, except in design cases, $15. 



"In design cases. For three years and six months, $10; for seven years, 

 $15; for fourteen years, $30. 



"On every application for the reissue of a patent, $30. 



"On filing each disclaimer, $10. 



"On an appeal for the first time from the primary examiners to the ex- 

 aminers in chief, $10. 



"On every appeal from the examiners in chief to the commissioner, $20. 



"For copies of records made by the Patent Office, excluding printed copies, 

 10 cents per hundred words. 



" For each certification, 25 cents. 



" For recording every assignment, agreement, power of attorney, or other 

 paper under one patent, application, or invention, of three hundred words or 

 under, $1; of over three hundred and under one thousand words, $2; and for 

 each additional thousand words or fraction thereof, $1 ; and for each additional 

 patent, application, or invention included in one writing, 25 cents. 



"For copies of drawings, the reasonable cost of making them." 



SEC. 17. That sections forty-nine hundred and thirty-five and forty-nine 

 hundred and thirty-six of the Revised Statutes be amended to read as follows: 



"SEC. 4935. All patent fees shall be paid to the Commissioner of Patents, 

 who shall deposit the same in the Treasury of the United States in such manner 

 as the Secretary of the Treasury shall direct. " 



" SEC. 4936. The Commissioner of Patents is authorized to pay back any 

 sum or sums of money paid to him by any person by mistake or in excess of 

 the fee required by law. " 



"And be it further enacted that all unexpended appropriations made for 

 the benefit of the Patent Office and all allotments or apportionments of ap- 

 propriations made to the Interior Department and intended for the use of 

 the Patent Office, which shall be available at the time when this act takes 

 effect, shall become available at such time for expenditure on and by the 

 Patent and Trade-mark Office, and shall be treated the same as though said 

 office had been directly named in the laws making such appropriations. And 

 all estimates heretofore submitted to the Congress by the Secretary of the 

 Interior for appropriations for the Patent Office shall be acted upon as though 

 made by the Commissioner for the Patent and Trade-mark Office. " 



