[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 909 Introduced in House (IH)]







108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 909

 To amend title 35, United States Code, to direct the Director of the 
  Patent and Trademark Office to adjust fees charged by the Office so 
that the fees collected in any fiscal year will equal, to the greatest 
  extent practicable, the amount appropriated to the Office for that 
                              fiscal year.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 25, 2003

 Mr. Rohrabacher introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
                     the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title 35, United States Code, to direct the Director of the 
  Patent and Trademark Office to adjust fees charged by the Office so 
that the fees collected in any fiscal year will equal, to the greatest 
  extent practicable, the amount appropriated to the Office for that 
                              fiscal year.

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

SECTION 1. PATENT FEES.

    (a) Adjustment of Patent Fees.--Section 42 of title 35, United 
States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new 
subsection:
    ``(f) Notwithstanding the fees prescribed under subsections (a), 
(b), and (d) of section 41, and notwithstanding section 41(f) of this 
title and section 31 of the Trademark Act of 1946, the Director shall 
adjust the fees charged by the Office in each fiscal year so that the 
amount of fees collected by the Office in that fiscal year will equal, 
to the greatest extent practicable, the amount of funds appropriated to 
the Office for that fiscal year.''.
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