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United States Patent and Trademark Office Performance and Accountability Report Fiscal Year 2004 Management Discussion and Analysis |
Statement of Budgetary ResourcesThe following table displays the USPTO's total budgetary resources available for spending over the past four years, with the related percentage change. The resources available for spending do not include amounts that were not available for spending through September 30, 2004, but will become available for spending on October 1, 2004 once apportioned by the OMB.
As evident from the above table, total budgetary resources available for spending have been increasing in terms of dollars, but the rate of increase has been steadily declining. The declining trend in available budgetary resources has resulted in:
As defined earlier, temporarily unavailable fee collections occur when the USPTO is not appropriated the authority to spend all fees collected during a given year. In fiscal year 2004, the USPTO was appropriated $1,222.5 million for fees collected during fiscal year 2004. During fiscal year 2004, the USPTO collected $1,321.0 million, leaving $98.5 million that was not available for spending. During fiscal years 1999, 2000, and 2002, $75.6 million in fees were considered permanently rescinded. In fiscal year 2004, the OMB addressed the classification of rescissions and clarified that rescissions are considered reductions in budgetary resources and can be either permanent or temporary. Due to the clarification regarding rescissions and reductions, fee resources previously rescinded permanently were restored to the USPTO and recorded as a reduction and as temporarily unavailable fee collections. While the USPTO began the fiscal year with an unobligated balance of $3.5 million, $1.4 million of this carryover amount was rescinded and resulted in a temporarily unavailable reduction of budgetary resources. Considering the $341.0 million in temporarily unavailable fee collections at the beginning of fiscal year 2004, the $98.5 million not available for spending in fiscal year 2004 and the two reductions, the total temporarily unavailable fee collections at the end of fiscal year 2004 are $516.5 million. The table below illustrates amounts that Congress has appropriated to the USPTO over the past four fiscal years, as well as the cumulative restricted fee collections.
In addition to these annual restrictions, certain USPTO collections of $233.5 million were withheld and deposited in a special fund receipt account at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. These funds continue to be shown as revenue withheld in the USPTO's Balance Sheet. The table on the following page shows the resources required to meet future financial responsibilities compared to the unavailable fee collections requiring appropriation authority. Liabilities not covered by budgetary resources are related to unearned fee collections and are measures of the commitments to customers for orders taken.
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