21. Department of Commerce · Notable · Needs Congress
Make USPTO a performance-based organization under OMB
Printed page 664 21. Department of Commerce
“The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) should be made into a performance-based organization under the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)”
What has happened
- Not started
Nothing found. No executive order, Federal Register document, Commerce order or enacted law makes USPTO a performance-based organization under OMB, and no bill to that effect was introduced in the 119th Congress. Congress would have to act: USPTO's structure is set by 35 U.S.C. 1-2.
No action found yet. This entry is the starting point, not a finding.
Research log
What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence
Research notes
Negative search: Federal Register full text since 2025-01-20 for "performance-based organization"
and for "Patent and Trademark Office" restricted to presidential documents; a jq title pass over
bills.ndjson for Patent and Trademark Office and for performance-based organization (0 hits each);
and the whole USPTO active Unified Agenda on reginfo.gov (agencyCd 0600, DOC/PTO — eleven RINs, all
fee, practice and FOIA rules).
The trail on this page is #1814 (Merge USPTO and NIST into a U.S. Office of Patents, Trademarks, and
Standards, major, not started) and #1810; neither found any Commerce reorganization instrument
either. USPTO did get a confirmed Director in the window — John Squires, confirmed 2025-09-18 — but
an appointment is not the structural change this Quote asks for.
- Action
- other
- Object
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
- ID
- 1813