To authorize the Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office to use funds made available under the Trademark Act of 1946 for patent operations in order to avoid furloughs and reductions-in-force, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3114.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 3114, An act to authorize the Director of the US Patent and Trademark Office to use funds made available under the Trademark Act of 1946 for patent operations in order to avoid furloughs and reductions-in-force” on August 13, 2009. CBO’s description reads “<p>Cost estimate for the bill as cleared by the Congress on July 16, 2009, and signed by the President on August 7, 2009</p>”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, August 13, 2009 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/41208

  CBO publication date

  August 13, 2009

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3114, 111th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/111/hr/3114

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 26, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  42f5752387445e8fcb990094dee9480cb808a133423ddb1b12e852bcbe379a64

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 3114, An act to authorize the Director of the US Patent and Trademark Office to use funds made available under the Trademark Act of 1946 for patent operations in order to avoid furloughs and reductions-in-force” on August 13, 2009. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as cleared by the Congress on July 16, 2009, and signed by the President on August 7, 2009”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, August 13, 2009 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/41208

  CBO publication date

  August 13, 2009

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3114, 111th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/111/hr/3114

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 26, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  42f5752387445e8fcb990094dee9480cb808a133423ddb1b12e852bcbe379a64

• 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.

Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a committee report (as of April 7, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 3114, last updated April 7, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 26, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.