Kingdom specification and a certificate from the Comptroller General of the United Kingdom Patent Office giving full particulars of the issue of the patent.
Patents Registered
105. The number of patents registered during the year rose by 78 to 364, which is the highest yearly total ever recorded. The numbers registered during the past five years have been as follows:
1962-63
1963-64
1964-65
149
1965-66
176
1966-67
246
286
364
106. The numbers of patents registered according to the countries of domicile of the grantees, with the previous year's figures for com- parison, were:
United States of America
United Kingdom
West Germany
Japan
Switzerland
Hong Kong
New Zealand
Italy
France
Australia
Others
:
Total
1965-66
1966-67
131
140
38
79
36
29
11
28
30
25
9
21
10
4
8
4
6
2
5
21
13
286
364
As will be seen, the only change in the first six places is that Japan has replaced Switzerland in fourth place. A notable newcomer to the list is New Zealand with ten patents registered.
Fees
107. The year's revenue amounted to the record total of $25,743, $6,213 more than in the previous year. This increase was due mainly to the larger number of registrations effected during the year.
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