On the recordJune 22, 2011
I thank the gentleman. The only concluding point I want to make is the funds that are held in the escrow account, if the Congress subsequently decides because of budgetary problems they have a better use for those funds, they want to be used for something else, to pay down something else, there's nothing that precludes the Congress from reallocating those funds. The patent community, the inventor community, still has to come hat in hand to the Appropriations Committee and say, Please give us the money you put in escrow. There's no need to set up this account if we simply take this step in the underlying bill which would end diversion once and for all.
