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USPTO News: Annual Fee Announced for Registered Practitioners

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

By Christopher P. Singer -- In a Notice published in the Federal Register (73 Fed. Reg. 67750) on Monday, November 17, 2008, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced a new rule that would institute an annual fee for all registered practitioners. The fee will be required for practitioners to maintain active status to practice before the Office. As other commentators have mentioned, and as the Notice informs, the rule change is based on a prior Notice published on December 12, 2003 which discussed proposed amendments to 37 C.F.R. § 11 that include an annual practitioner fee (see, e.g., Patently-O,...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on November 20, 2008 (boomark / email).