The fact was we intended to have the US Patent and Trademark Office fee setting authority fully affect its total cost reimbursement for implementing the Americans Invents Act. Failure to do so begs the question of beyond December. Can we in fact continue with fee setting authority or should this committee in the following Congress set about making sure that we actually make them come to us, tell us what they're going to spend it on in the future and do an authorization of fees? That is the way it was when President George W. Bush proposed his fee changes in 2001 or 2002, in which this committee fully rejected that and sent them back to do their homework. (07:57–08:19)
CLAIM
Asserts that there is uncertainty about continuing USPTO's fee setting authority beyond December without Congressional oversight.
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