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Recommendation
174. The librarian, scientific library, should provide technical information
to patent and trademark examiners and to scientists and engineers
of U.S. industry and Government. He should supervise the
operations of the library through an assistant librarian and four
branches: general reference, technical processes, patent reference,
and technical journal branches. (Functions and a chart are ex-
pressed on report, p. 96.)---

Assistant Commissioner

175. The Assistant Commissioner should provide policy direction in matters concerning trademarks, designs, and administration. Reporting directly to him should be the Director of trademark examining group, the Director of design group, the Director of administration group, and the Chairman of Trademark Trial and Appeal Board__.

176. The Director, trademark examining group, should have, with respect to trademark matters, functions similar to those of a patent examining group Director, and have similar assistants. Division chiefs

should have functions similar, except for subject matter, to the
Patent Examining Division Chiefs and Assistant Chiefs. (A chart
of the trademark examining group is expressed on report, p. 97.)--
177. The existing two Designs Divisions should be combined into one
design group. The Director, assisted by an appropriate number of
subordinate supervisors, should be responsible for many of the
administrative functions peculiar to other group directors_
178. (1) The Director, administration group, should be responsible for the
development of the budget, the practice of sound personnel
policies, the conduct of management analysis, administration
of general services, and the conduct of public relations. He
should carry out his responsibilities through the following
Divisions: Budget and Finance, Personnel, Management
Analysis, General Services, and Public Information _ _

(2) The stenographic and clerical pool should be detached from the
General Services Division and broken down into smaller units
to be assigned to the examining groups..
(3) The Docket Branch should be detached from the General Services
Division and broken down into two units to be assigned to the
organizations they now serve; i.e., the Board of Patent Inter-
ferences and the Office of the Solicitor____

(4) The scientific library should be detached from the General Serv-
ices Division and placed in the information retrieval complex
under the control of the Assistant Commissioner for Research
and Development__.

(5) A Public Information Division should be added to the adminis-
tration group, instead of being an entity reporting directly to
the Commissioner__

179. The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board should continue to operate as
prescribed by law but receive any policy direction required from
the Assistant Commissioner.

PART I. CONDUCT OF THE MANAGEMENT SURVEY

As full-time assistants I have had Mr. Joseph U. Damico, on detail from the Standards Division of the U.S. Civil Service Commission, and Mr. Harvey E. Kauffman, retired Patent Office Group VII supervisor. Mr. Damico has served as my on-the-spot coordinator and as such has convened task forces, developed their assignments, guided and reviewed their work prior to presenting material to me. Kauffman has served as a consultant to the management survey staff in legal and technical areas with particular emphasis on grouping related arts.

Mr.

Once certain areas of Patent Office operations were identified as requiring special attention, task forces consisting largely of Patent Office employees were convened. These persons were selected by Mr. Damico and myself in consultation with you, Assistant Commissioner Fay, Mr. Sam Kingsley, personnel officer; Mr. William Ingram, wage and classification officer; and Mr. Kauffman, our consultant. Following is a list of persons who served in various capacities during the management survey:

TASK FORCE ON KEEPING THE EXAMINER CURRENT IN HIS ART

TASK FORCE FOR EXAMINING CLERICAL PROCEDURES INVOLVED IN THE PATENT EXAMINING PROCESS

Work on the survey has included studying the literature pertaining to Patent Office policy, practice and procedures, including prior surveys of the Patent Office, interviewing employees (both supervisory and nonsupervisory), interviewing private patent attorneys, interviewing heads of Patent Office employee groups, interviewing patent attorneys in other Government agencies, discussing various aspects of the Patent Office with Commerce Department officials, and with officials of the Bureau of the Budget and the Civil Service Commission, studying (on the spot) the operations of the German Patent Office, and discussing foreign patent office operation with visiting patent officials from Canada, Great Britain, France, the Netherlands, Germany, Australia, Sweden, Norway, and Japan. The literature studied and some of the persons contacted are cited in attachment 2.