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Setting and Adjusting Patent Fees (Us Patent and Trademark Office Regulation) (Pto) (2018 Edition) The Law Library

The Law Library presents the complete text of the Setting and Adjusting Patent Fees (US Patent and Trademark Office Regulation) (PTO) (2018 Edition).

Updated as of May 29, 2018



The United States Patent and Trademark Office (Office or USPTO) sets or adjusts patent fees in this rulemaking as authorized by the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (Act or AIA). The fees will provide the Office with a sufficient amount of aggregate revenue to recover its aggregate cost of patent operations, while helping the Office implement a sustainable funding model, reduce the current patent application backlog, decrease patent application pendency, improve patent quality, and upgrade the Office's patent business information technology (IT) capability and infrastructure. The fees also will further key policy considerations. The Office also reduces fees for micro entities under section 10(b) of the Act by 75 percent in this rulemaking and extends the existing fee discount of 50 percent for small entities to additional fees in this rulemaking.



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