Proposed Amendment to HR 1561.
Date: February 10, 2004.
Re: Diversion of USPTO fees.
Submitted to the House Rules Committee by Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R-WI).
Source: Office of Rep. Sensenbrenner.


AMENDMENT TO H.R. 1561, AS REPORTED
OFFERED BY M. _____

Strike section 5 and insert the following:

SEC. 5. PATENT AND TRADEMARK FUNDING.

Section 42(c) of title 35, United States Code, is amended—

In section 6(a), strike ‘‘Except as’’ and all that follows through the end of the sentence an insert ‘‘Except as otherwise provided in this Act and this section, this Act and the amendments made by this Act shall take effect on October 1, 2004.’’.

Page 19, line 6, strike ‘‘Subsection’’ and insert ‘‘(a) AMENDMENT.—Subsection’’.

Page 19, add the following after line 8: