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USPTO News: USPTO Announces Proposed Additional Fee Increases for PCT Applications Filed with US/RO

By Donald Zuhn, Kevin Noonan, Chris Singer, Sherri Oslick, and Jason Derry

By Christopher P. Singer -- As we reported on Tuesday, the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) has published an amended fee schedule for application filings that is due to take effect on July 1, 2008. In a Federal Register Notice that was published on Wednesday, June 18, 2008, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office will announce its intention to amend 37 C.F.R. § 1.445(a)(1)-(3) to increase the application transmittal fee (to $415 from $300) and the search fee (to $2,225 from $1,800). The fee associated with a supplemental search would also increase to $2,225 from $1,800. These proposed fee increases follow...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on June 19, 2008 (boomark / email).