[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2632 Engrossed in House (EH)]

103d CONGRESS

  1st Session

                               H. R. 2632

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                                 AN ACT

To authorize appropriations for the Patent and Trademark Office in the 
              Department of Commerce for fiscal year 1994.






103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2632

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 AN ACT


 
To authorize appropriations for the Patent and Trademark Office in the 
              Department of Commerce for fiscal year 1994.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Patent and Trademark Office 
Authorization Act of 1993''.

SEC. 2. AUTHORIZATION OF AMOUNTS AVAILABLE TO THE PATENT AND TRADEMARK 
              OFFICE.

    (a) Authorization of Appropriations.--There is authorized to be 
appropriated to the Patent and Trademark Office for salaries and 
necessary expenses the sum of $103,000,000 for fiscal year 1994, to be 
derived from deposits in the Patent and Trademark Office Fee Surcharge 
Fund established under section 10101 of the Omnibus Budget 
Reconciliation Act of 1990 (35 U.S.C. note).
    (b) Fees.--There are also authorized to be made available to the 
Patent and Trademark Office for fiscal year 1994, to the extent 
provided in advance in appropriation Acts, such sums as are equal to 
the amount collected during such fiscal year from fees under title 35, 
United States Code, and the Trademark Act of 1946 (15 U.S.C. 1051 and 
following).

SEC. 3. AMOUNTS AUTHORIZED TO BE CARRIED OVER.

    Amounts appropriated or made available pursuant to this Act may 
remain available until expended.

SEC. 4. ADJUSTMENT OF TRADEMARK FEES.

    Effective on the date of the enactment of this Act, the fee under 
section 31(a) of the Trademark Act of 1946 (15 U.S.C. 1113(a)) for 
filing an application for the registration of a trademark shall be 
$245. Any adjustment of such fee under the second sentence of such 
section may not be effective before October 1, 1994.

            Passed the House of Representatives October 12, 1993.

            Attest:






                                                                 Clerk.