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35 U.S.C. § 13 — Annual report to Congress
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The Director shall report to the Congress, not later than 180 days after the end of each fiscal year, the moneys received and expended by the Office, the purposes for which the moneys were spent, the quality and quantity of the work of the Office, the nature of training provided to examiners, the evaluation of the Commissioner of Patents and the Commissioner of Trademarks by the Secretary of Commerce, the compensation of the Commissioners, and other information relating to the Office.
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The Director shall report to the Congress, not later than 180 days after the end of each fiscal year, the moneys received and expended by the Office, the purposes for which the moneys were spent, the quality and quantity of the work of the Office, the nature of training provided to examiners, the evaluation of the Commissioner of Patents and the Commissioner of Trademarks by the Secretary of Commerce, the compensation of the Commissioners, and other information relating to the Office.
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**(a) Establishment.—** The United States Patent and Trademark Office is established as an agency of the United States, within the Department of Commerce. In carrying out its functions, the United States Patent and Trademark Office shall be subject to the policy direction of the Secretary of Commerce, but otherwise shall retain responsibility for decisions regarding the management and administration of its operations and shall exercise independent control of its budget allocations and expenditures, personnel decisions and processes, procurements, and other administrative and management functions in accordance with this title and applicable provisions of law. Those operations designed to grant and issue patents and those operations which are designed to facilitate the registration of trademarks shall be treated as separate operating units within the Office.
**(b) Offices.—** The United States Patent and Trademark Office shall maintain its principal office in the metropolitan Washington, D.C., area, for the service of process and papers and for the purpose of carrying out its functions. The United States Patent and Trademark Office shall be deemed, for purposes of venue in civil actions, to be a resident of the district in which its principal office is located, except where jurisdiction is otherwise provided by law. The United States Patent and Trademark Office may establish satellite offices in such other places in the United States as it considers necessary and appropriate in the conduct of its business.
**(c) Reference.—** For purposes of this title, the United States Patent and Trademark Office shall also be referred to as the “Office” and the “Patent and Trademark Office”.
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The Director may supply copies of specifications and drawings of patents and published applications for patents in printed or electronic form to public libraries in the United States which shall maintain such copies for the use of the public, at the rate for each year’s issue established for this purpose in section 41(d).
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**(a) General Fees.—** The Director shall charge the following fees:
(1) **Filing and basic national fees.—**
(A) On filing each application for an original patent, except for design, plant, or provisional applications, $330.
(B) On filing each application for an original design patent, $220.
(C) On filing each application for an original plant patent, $220.
(D) On filing each provisional application for an original patent, $220.
(E) On filing each application for the reissue of a patent, $330.
(F) The basic national fee for each international application filed under the treaty defined in section 351(a) entering the national stage under section 371, $330.
(G) In addition, excluding any sequence listing or computer program listing filed in an electronic medium as prescribed by the Director, for any application the specification and drawings of which exceed 100 sheets of paper (or equivalent as prescribed by the Director if filed in an electronic medium), $270 for each additional 50 sheets of paper (or equivalent as prescribed by the Director if filed in an electronic medium) or fraction thereof.
(2) **Excess claims fees.—**
(A) *In general.—* — In addition to the fee specified in paragraph (1)—
(i) on filing or on presentation at any other time, $220 for each claim in independent form in excess of 3;
(ii) on filing or on presentation at any other time, $52 for each claim (whether dependent or independent) in excess of 20; and
(iii) for each application containing a multiple dependent claim, $390.
(B) *Multiple dependent claims.—* — For the purpose of computing fees under subparagraph (A), a multiple dependent claim referred to in section 112 or any claim depending therefrom shall be considered as separate dependent claims in ac
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TITLE 35—PATENTS
§ 13
2002—Pub. L. 107–273, § 13206(b)(3)(B), amended direc-
tory language of Pub. L. 106–113, § 1000(a)(9) [title IV,
§ 4804(c)]. See 1999 Amendment note below.
Pub. L. 107–273, § 13206(b)(1)(B), made technical correc-
tion to directory language of Pub. L. 106–113, § 1000(a)(9)
[title IV, § 4732(a)(10)(A)]. See 1999 Amendment note
below.
Pub. L. 107–273, § 13205(2)(C), made technical correc-
tion to directory language of Pub. L. 106–113, § 1000(a)(9)
[title IV, § 4507(3)]. See 1999 Amendment note below.
1999—Pub. L. 106–113, § 1000(a)(9) [title IV, § 4804(c)], as
amended by Pub. L. 107–273, § 13206(b)(3)(B), which di-
rected amendment of section 12 of this title by sub-
stituting ‘‘copies of specifications and drawings of pat-
ents in printed or electronic form’’ for ‘‘printed copies
of specifications and drawings of patents’’, was exe-
cuted to this section, which was section 13 of this title,
to reflect the probable intent of Congress. This section
was subsequently renumbered section 12 of this title by
Pub. L. 106–113, § 1000(a)(9) [title IV, § 4717(1)]. See note
above and Effective Date of 1999 Amendment note
below.
Pub. L. 106–113, § 1000(a)(9) [title IV, § 4732(a)(10)(A)],
as amended by Pub. L. 107–273, § 13206(b)(1)(B), sub-
stituted ‘‘Director’’ for ‘‘Commissioner’’.
Pub. L. 106–113, § 1000(a)(9) [title IV, § 4717(1)], renum-
bered section 13 of this title as this section.
Pub. L. 106–113, § 1000(a)(9) [title IV, § 4507(3)], as
amended by Pub. L. 107–273, § 13205(2)(C), inserted ‘‘and
applications’’ after ‘‘patents’’ in section catchline and
‘‘and published applications for patents’’ after ‘‘pat-
ents’’ in text.
1982—Pub. L. 97–247 substituted ‘‘section 41(d)’’ for
‘‘section 41(a)9’’.
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