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details and staff levels with respect to major ac-
tivities; and 
(B) detail the operating plan of the Office, 
including specific expense and staff needs, for 
the current fiscal year. 
(f) AUDIT.—The Director shall, on an annual basis, 
provide for an independent audit of the financial state-
ments of the Office. Such audit shall be conducted in ac-
cordance with generally acceptable accounting procedures. 
(g) BUDGET.—The Fund shall prepare and submit 
each year to the President a business-type budget in a 
manner, and before a date, as the President prescribes by 
regulation for the budget program. 
SEC. 23. SATELLITE OFFICES. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—Subject to available re-
sources, the Director shall, by not later than the date that 
is 3 years after the date of the enactment of this Act es-
tablish 3 or more satellite offices in the United States to 
carry out the responsibilities of the Patent and Trademark 
Office. 
(b) PURPOSE.—The purpose of the satellite offices 
established under subsection (a) are to— 
(1) increase outreach activities to better connect 
patent filers and innovators with the Patent and 
Trademark Office; 
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(2) enhance patent examiner retention; 
(3) improve recruitment of patent examiners; 
and 
(4) decrease the number of patent applications 
waiting for examination and improve the quality of 
patent examination. 
(c) REQUIRED CONSIDERATIONS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—In selecting the location of 
each satellite office to be established under sub-
section (a), the Director— 
(A) shall ensure geographic diversity 
among the offices, including by ensuring that 
such offices are established in different States 
and regions throughout the Nation; 
(B) may rely upon any previous evalua-
tions by the Patent and Trademark Office of 
potential locales for satellite offices, including 
any evaluations prepared as part of the Office’s 
Nationwide Workforce Program that resulted in 
the 2010 selection of Detroit, Michigan, as the 
first ever satellite office of the Office. 
(2) OPEN
SELECTION
PROCESS.—Nothing in 
paragraph (1) shall constrain the Patent and Trade-
mark Office to only consider its evaluations in se-
lecting the Detroit, Michigan, satellite office. 
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(d) REPORT TO CONGRESS.—Not later than the end 
of the first 3 fiscal years that begin after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Director shall submit a report 
to Congress on— 
(1) the rationale of the Director in selecting the 
location of any satellite office required under sub-
section (a); 
(2) the progress of the Director in establishing 
all such satellite offices; and 
(3) whether the operation of existing satellite 
offices is achieving the purposes required under sub-
section (b). 
SEC. 24. PATENT OMBUDSMAN PROGRAM FOR SMALL BUSI-
NESS CONCERNS. 
Subject to available resources, the Director may es-
tablish in the Office a Patent Ombudsman Program. The 
duties of the Program’s staff shall include providing sup-
port and services relating to patent filings to small busi-
ness concerns. 
SEC. 25. PRIORITY EXAMINATION FOR TECHNOLOGIES IM-
PORTANT TO AMERICAN COMPETITIVENESS. 
Section 2(b)(2) of title 35, United States Code, is 
amended— 
(1) in subparagraph (E), by striking ‘‘and’’ 
after the semicolon; 
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(2) in subparagraph (F), by inserting ‘‘and’’ 
after the semicolon; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(G) may, subject to any conditions pre-
scribed by the Director and at the request of 
the patent applicant, provide for prioritization 
of examination of applications for products, 
processes, or technologies that are important to 
the national economy or national competitive-
ness without recovering the aggregate extra cost 
of 
providing 
such 
prioritization, 
notwith-
standing section 41 or any other provision of 
law;’’. 
SEC. 26. DESIGNATION OF DETROIT SATELLITE OFFICE. 
(a) DESIGNATION.—The satellite office of the United 
States Patent and Trademark Office to be located in De-
troit, Michigan, shall be known and designated as the 
‘‘Elijah J. McCoy United States Patent and Trademark 
Office’’. 
(b) REFERENCES.—Any reference in a law, map, reg-
ulation, document, paper, or other record of the United 
States to the satellite office of the United States Patent 
and Trademark Office to be located in Detroit, Michigan, 
referred to in subsection (a) shall be deemed to be a ref-
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erence to the ‘‘Elijah J. McCoy United States Patent and 
Trademark Office’’. 
SEC. 27. EFFECTIVE DATE. 
Except as otherwise provided in this Act, the provi-
sions of this Act shall take effect 1 year after the date 
of the enactment of this Act and shall apply to any patent 
issued on or after that effective date. 
SEC. 28. BUDGETARY EFFECTS. 
The budgetary effects of this Act, for the purpose of 
complying with the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010, 
shall be determined by reference to the latest statement 
titled ‘‘Budgetary Effects of PAYGO Legislation’’ for this 
Act, submitted for printing in the Congressional Record 
by the Chairman of the House Budget Committee, pro-
vided that such statement has been submitted prior to the 
vote on passage. 
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