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Revision as of 18:40, 3 December 2015
, 18:40, 3 December 2015→Funding
==Funding==
The USPTO receives its operating funds through application fees, although the office must publish annal reports to Congress on its expected level of revenue and expenditure. From there, Congress appropriates a certain level of funding that the USPTO may keep form its fee collection in order to run the office. Essentially, the USPTO must request permission to keep and use the money it receives from the application fees. No additional appropriation through Congress is usually approved. The net appropriation for the past three years has been $0.
For FY 2016, the office requested $3.2 billion of allowed expenditure from its fee collections, which with funds from other income and the Operating reserve balance, is expected to fund the necessary operating budget of $3.5 billion.[http://www.uspto.gov/sites/default/files/documents/fy16pbr.pdf]
