Changes

The USPTO's funding process through congressional appropriations left the Office subject to "fee diversions," when Congress took a process of taking excess funds accumulated by the USPTO but not requested in the annual budget and appropriated appropriating them to the general Treasury fund. This practice of fee diversion helped other sectors of All fees collected by the federal government cover additional expenses without exceeding appropriation limits. The USPTO reacted must be credited to this practice the Patent and Trademark Office Appropriations Account, from which the USPTO may take money that has been appropriated by closely estimating expected revenue Congress and matching this estimate with its annual appropriations proposal for Congresssee all excess funds appropriated elsewhere.