{"id":7165,"date":"2013-04-22T13:03:42","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T13:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipo.org\/?p=7165"},"modified":"2013-04-22T13:03:42","modified_gmt":"2013-04-22T13:03:42","slug":"uspto-cutting-spending-on-hiring-travel-training-and-information-technology-through-sept-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipo.org\/index.php\/uspto-cutting-spending-on-hiring-travel-training-and-information-technology-through-sept-30\/","title":{"rendered":"USPTO CUTTING SPENDING ON HIRING, TRAVEL, TRAINING AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY THROUGH SEPT. 30"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday Acting USPTO Director TERESA REA sent a memorandum to all USPTO employees confirming that the agency faces significant spending reductions for the rest of fiscal year 2013, which ends September 30. \u00a0Rea said the USPTO is taking immediate measures to limit all expenditures, including but not restricted to most hiring, travel, training, and IT modernization projects. \u00a0She said the spending cuts are necessary because of \u201csequestration\u201d and because fee collections are running lower than expected. \u00a0It has been difficult to gauge fee collections because of the spike in collections that occurred just before key AIA provisions took effect in March. \u00a0IPO will publish more information on sequestration as it becomes available. \u00a0IPO believes strongly that the USPTO, a user fee-supported agency, should have access to 100 percent of its fees. \u00a0Executive Director HERB WAMSLEY said, \u201cSequestration of user fees paid by IPO members and others to obtain USPTO services is terrible public policy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday Acting USPTO Director TERESA REA sent a memorandum  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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