Earmark - Whittemore School of Business

Agency:		Department of Commerce
Bureau:		U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Account:		Salaries and expenses (13-1006)
Certifying Official:		Budget Officer
Contact Information:		http://WWW.DOC.GOV 202-482-4883

Whittemore School of Business

1 recipient will receive $990,000. This is a first-time earmark.

Year Enacted: 2005

Description: Funds used for a pilot project to create a three-state prototype system to demonstrate an improved system to file a security interest in an intangible asset under Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) Article 9. The web-based architecture would reside at the University of New Hampshire. The prototype system will include data from the USPTO and UCC Article 9 data from New Hampshire, Maine, and Massachusetts.

Beneficiary/Recipient	Amount ($K)	Program	Type	Address
University of New Hampshire	$990		Private Educational Institution	207 Thompson Hall University of New Hampshire Durham, NH

Citation

Source: Appropriations Report Language - Senate Full Committee

Reference: SR 108-344

Method: User entered excerpt

Citation Excerpt: Within the amount made available for USPTO, $990,000 is for a grant to the Whittemore School of Business for an intellectual property rights pilot project.

Citation Comment: Earmark incorporated by reference in the Appropriations Report Language - Conference, H. Rep 108-792, on page 785

Last Modified: 16-Apr-2007