To amend title 35, United States Code, to allow the Director of the Patent and Trademark Office to waive statutory provisions governing patents and trademarks in certain emergencies.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4742.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 4742, A bill to amend title 35, United States Code, to allow the Director of the Patent and Trademark Office to waive statutory provisions governing patents and trademarks in certain emergencies” on March 27, 2006. CBO’s description reads “<p>Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on the Judiciary on March 15, 2006</p>”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, March 27, 2006 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/17689

  CBO publication date

  March 27, 2006

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4742, 109th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/109/hr/4742

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 27, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  d2782bc0b8477dcafcb38ba4a45fe9c92f15dd7806f939717320558e2b6eef4a

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 4742, A bill to amend title 35, United States Code, to allow the Director of the Patent and Trademark Office to waive statutory provisions governing patents and trademarks in certain emergencies” on March 27, 2006. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on the Judiciary on March 15, 2006”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, March 27, 2006 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/17689

  CBO publication date

  March 27, 2006

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4742, 109th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/109/hr/4742

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 27, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  d2782bc0b8477dcafcb38ba4a45fe9c92f15dd7806f939717320558e2b6eef4a

• PORKER links to the estimate and does not repeat its dollar figures. Each estimate is for the version of the bill its description names; the bill may have changed since.

• Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 109-408 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Judiciary Committee on April 6, 2006.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported April 6, 2006 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/109/HRPT/408

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4742, 109th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/109/hr/4742

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 27, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  d2782bc0b8477dcafcb38ba4a45fe9c92f15dd7806f939717320558e2b6eef4a

  A committee report is the committee’s own explanation of the bill. PORKER lists it and links to it; reading it is up to you.

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