---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 8116"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "8116"
heading: "Authorization of appropriations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/8116"
units:
  - "Chapter 107 — Protection of Intellectual Property Rights"
  - "Subchapter I — Coordination and Strategic Planning of Federal Effort Against Counterfeiting and Infringement"
---

# §8116. Authorization of appropriations

- (a) **1 In general—** There are authorized to be appropriated for each fiscal year such sums as may be necessary to carry out this subchapter.

## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. No subsec. (b) has been enacted.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 110–403, title III, § 306, Oct. 13, 2008, 122 Stat. 4270.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This subchapter, referred to in subsec. (a), was in the original “this title”, meaning title III of Pub. L. 110–403, Oct. 13, 2008, 122 Stat. 4264, which is classified principally to this subchapter. For complete classification of title III to the Code, see Tables.