# USPTO Patents

**Agency:** Commerce  
**Account:** Salaries and Expenses  
**Source document:** U.S. Patent and Trademark Office · p. 16  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/budget/commerce/uspto-patents  

> **Trust:** parsed from the agency Congressional Justification. Approximate, **not summable**, verify at the cited page.

## Funding ($M)

| Fiscal year | Basis | Amount |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FY2026 | enacted | 4,181.4 |
| FY2027 | request | 4,302.5 |

## Commerce discretionary budget authority (OMB PBDB — authoritative)

FY2027 $7.00B, FY2026 $11.90B. This is the agency total, not a sum of the parsed lines.


## What this funds

Funds the Patent Program, the patent examining function and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, which examine applications and issue timely, durable patents to protect intellectual property and promote innovation.


**Where it sits:** Civilian / Non-Defense › Commerce › U.S. Patent and Trademark Office › Salaries and Expenses › USPTO Patents


*HitchAI is an independent intelligence service, not affiliated with the U.S. government. Civilian line dollars are parsed from agency Congressional Justifications and are approximate.*