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Patent office fees and lawyers dominate 19th century patents
The article notes the patent system’s financial flow with 52 hands handling an application, an $18 examination fee, and a $20 patent issue fee. Lawyers’ charges start at 25 and rise with case work as about 4,000 applications yearly. It argues lawyers aid claim breadth and prior-art analysis, while inventors may file directly in simple cases. It also reports New York City consumes 2,283 eggs per minute and a large egg industry with 20 million annual owner earnings, plus a 350 acre Manasquan plant planned for 200,000 hens and 30 million eggs in year one.
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Tormeys
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E. V. Smalley
Century
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New York City
Moody
Manasquan
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N. Y. Herald