1995 U.S. Code
Title 44 - PUBLIC PRINTING AND DOCUMENTS
CHAPTER 13 - PARTICULAR REPORTS AND DOCUMENTS
Sec. 1338 - Patent Office: limitations and conditions concerning printing and lithographing

Printing for the Patent Office making use of lithography or photo-lithography, together with the plates, shall be contracted for and performed under the direction of the Commissioner of Patents, under limitations and conditions prescribed by the Joint Committee on Printing, and other printing for the Patent Office shall be done by the Public Printer under limitations and conditions prescribed by the Joint Committee on Printing. The entire work may be done at the Government Printing Office when in the judgment of the Joint Committee on Printing it is to the interest of the Government.

(Pub. L. 90–620, Oct. 22, 1968, 82 Stat. 1272.)

Based on 44 U.S. Code, 1964 ed., §284 (Jan. 12, 1895, ch. 23, §73, 28 Stat. 620).

“Patent Office” and “Commissioner of Patents” redesignated “Patent and Trademark Office” and “Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks”, respectively, by section 3 of Pub. L. 93–596, Jan. 2, 1975, 88 Stat. 1949, set out as a note under section 1 of Title 35, Patents.

Executive and judiciary printing and binding, restrictions on use of illustrations, see section 1104 of this title.

Government printing, binding, and blank-book work to be done at Government Printing Office, see section 501 of this title.