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USPTO News: USPTO Announces Revisions to Patent Fees

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. 47534) on Thursday, August 14, 2008, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced that certain patent fee amounts are being adjusted to reflect fluctuations in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for financial year 2009. The effective date for the new fee schedule is October 2, 2008. The USPTO spends a good deal of ink demonstrating the methodology used to calculate the fees as well as discussing the statutory authority that allows for Office-based fee adjustments. Much of the discussion is spent on analyzing the...

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