Posts Tagged: pto budget
TPAC Discussions Focus on Office Funding, Government Shutdown & Trademark Legislation
The Trademark Public Advisory Committee (TPAC) held its first quarterly meeting of 2019 on January 25... Despite the projection that without a long term solution to the government shutdown …
Without Solution to Shutdown, PTO Patent Operations Funded until Mid-February
In a statement issued late Thursday afternoon, the United States Patent and Trademark Office announced that without a solution to the government shutdown the Office will soon …
Trump nominates financial services inventor Margaret Weichert to serve as OMB’s deputy director of management
Margaret Weichert, Trump’s selection for deputy director of management at the OMB, is an inventor who has received “14 successful U.S. patents,” an indication that someone …
Is Trump being bamboozled by Obama holdovers on patent policy?
The USPTO’s Obama holdovers Michelle Lee and Tony Scardino are simply co-opting the exact language used in Obama's budgets for fiscal years 2015 to 2017 into Trump’s 2018 …
USPTO gets $3.6 billion in President’s FY 2018 budget, avoids fee diversion
Under President Trump's FY 2018 budget the USPTO will receive $3,586,193,000 from fees collected and to be available until expended. This appropriation would result in $0 being provided to the …
USPTO diverting fees internally to subsidize PTAB trials
In prepared remarks Director Lee said the Office must significantly raise Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) fees in order for the PTAB to be self-sustaining on …
Trump FY 2018 budget cuts $1.5 billion from Commerce, how much will come from the USPTO?
With a proposed budget of $7.8 billion and $1 billion in cuts to identify, questions arise about where those cuts will come. Is the USPTO budget safe?Will the …
USPTO diverts funds to Commerce Department as user fee increases are prepared
In a shocking revelation, Frank Murphy, Acting Chief Financial Officer, explained that the USPTO has been and will continue to make payments to the Department of Commerce …
Kasich, Patents and the Middle Class
What Kasich doesn’t explain, however, is how he achieved a balanced budget. As part of the Kasich-Clinton deal the budget of the United States Patent and …
House Bill Seeks to End Diversion of Fees from the USPTO
The Innovation Protection Act, one of the lesser known patent bills percolating in Congress over the past few years, would provide a source of permanent funding for …
USPTO budget increases for FY 2016 despite reduced fee estimates
This latest budget increases the amount of money that will be available to the United States Patent and Trademark Office, although the amount specifically appropriated is less …
Congressional Testimony: Lee on USPTO Patent Operations
Lee will tell Congress that the USPTO is on pace during FY 2014 to receive nearly 600,000 patent applications, which represents an increase of more than 5% as compared to …
Reflections on 2013 and Some Thoughts on the Year Ahead
2013 turned out to be a very big year for IP, and especially patents, and the year took a course that few would have predicted this time last …
Sequestration Politics Places USPTO Satellite Offices on Hold
With sequestration finally cutting the Republicans don't seem to be in any rush whatsoever, so the Patent Office which really should be exempt is caught in the …
17 Members of Congress Push to Exclude USPTO from Sequester
On June 24, 2013, 17 Members of Congress wrote a letter to Congressman Frank Wolf (R-VA) and Congressman Chaka Fattah (D-PA), who are respectively the Chairman and the Ranking Member …
