Faced with a fiscal year 2000 budget shortfall of more than $30 million -- and a high price tag for implementing landmark patent reform legislation -- U.S. Patent and Trademark Commissioner Q. Todd Dickinson called upon intellectual property groups to push for more funding for the agency. "Not all Congress did in the waning days of the first session was necessarily a positive development," the PTO chief told an audience of PTO staffers and officials and IP lawyers.
December 10, 1999 at 12:00 AM
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Faced with an FY 2000 budget shortfall of more than $30 million�-and a high price tag for implementing landmark patent reform legislation�-U.S. Patent and Trademark Commissioner Q. Todd Dickinson Dec. 6 called upon intellectual property groups to push for more funding for the agency.
Dickinson’s comments came during the PTO/Intellectual Property Owners Association’s annual conference on PTO law and practice in Washington, D.C.
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