On Tuesday, November 14th, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published a press release to announce that it had issued a final rule to set or adjust certain patent fees as the agency is authorized ...

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On 26 March 2024 the USPTO issued a proposal in the Federal Register concerning changes to trademark application filings and fee adjustments in trademark cases for 2025. The USPTO is requesting ...

The USPTO has proposed to reduce fees for trademark filings that are done electronically. Deborah Cohn, Commissioner for Trademarks at the Office, explained during the UPSTO Users session yesterday ...

“Although DOCX fees are currently set to go into effect next January, multiple extensions to that deadline as well as the indefinite extension to the PDF filing option indicate that this issue and ...

If the Office's proposed fees for supplemental patent examination and reexamination are any indication, getting patents reviewed through the new USPTO procedures rather than settling or ending up in ...