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Director Kappos Testifies before House Subcommittee Regarding USPTO Budget

By Donald Zuhn, Kevin Noonan, Chris Singer, Sherri Oslick, and Jason Derry

By Sarah Fendrick -- On March 25, 2010, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director David Kappos appeared before the House Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Sciences, and Related Agencies for the Committee on Appropriations to seek funds for FY 2011 to enable USPTO operations and to fund a variety of Office initiatives and programs. The current budget proposed by the President requests $2.322 billion for the USPTO and projects USPTO fee collections will generate $2.098 billion in FY 2011. According Director Kappos (at left), the deficit of $224 million would be covered by an interim patent fee increase. Further proposals included...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on April 01, 2010 (boomark / email).