More USPTO Funding Politics

On September 10, 2004, the leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee wrote a letter to leaders of the Senate Appropriations Committee urging them toward agreement on HR 1561 to increase funding for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office:

"We would like to work with you to find language that achieves our goal of ending fee diversion but also preserves the jurisdiction and prerogatives of the Appropriations Committee and the budget process to determinine the PTO's annual appropriation."