USPTO Presses Congress For Authority To Set Fees

By Jessica Dye (March 26, 2010, 4:33 PM EDT) -- Facing a $224 million gap between projected user fees and its fiscal year 2011 budget goal of $2.3 billion, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is pushing Congress for the authority to set its own patent fee levels in order to better align fees with the cost of agency services....

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