Attachment 2.4

HUGHES OPTION 2

A Fee Structure That Would Distribute the Surcharges Among All Fees
Collected by the Office

Assumption: Reduce Proposed Program Level

Applies a surcharge of 37.15 percent to the pre-November 5, 1990 patent
statutory fees and to all other patent and trademark fees to generate only
$95,000,000 in 1992.

Attachment 2.5

HUGHES OPTION 2A

A Fee Structure That Would Distribute the Surcharges Among All Fees
Collected by the Office

Assumption: Adjust Other Fees to Maintain Proposed Program Level

Applies a surcharge of 37.15 percent to the pre-November 5, 1990 patent
statutory fees and to all other patent and trademark fees to generate only
$95,000,000 in 1992.

*Note: This is dependent on workload.

Retains the PTO program request of $462,490,000 by applying an across-theboard adjustment to all other PTO fee amounts.

Non-statutory patent fee amounts are adjusted by 247.9 percent.

Attachment 2.6

HUGHES OPTION 3

A Fee Proposal That Would Assume the Continuation of the Present Small

Entity Subsidy

PTO proposal, except that small entity subsidy would be applied to all patent statutory fees.

$24 million surplus in 1992 is offset by $24 million deficit in 1993.

Refer to PTO's fiscal year 1992 budget, pages PTO 14 - PTO 19.