The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has implemented a Continuation Application Fee (CAF) for certain continuing applications filed more than six or nine years after their earliest benefit ...

Effective Jan. 19, 2025, the USPTO implemented a new fee framework for IDS submissions, charging up to $800 for applications that list more than 200 references. The change is aimed at curbing ...

Recent developments have significantly impacted the manner in which patent practitioners respond to final rejections issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The widely utilized After ...

The recent 2025 fee setting by the USPTO includes not only fee increases, but the introduction of new fees. One of these new fees is the so-called Information Disclosure Statement (IDS) size fees, ...

The USPTO’s latest patent fee increases are now in effect, impacting filing, examination, maintenance, and RCE costs. These changes require corporations and law firms to reassess their patent ...

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 ...

This chapter provides an in-depth understanding of the new trademark filing system and fee increases enacted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office on 18 January 2025. On 18 January 2025, ...

A plan to charge patent filers between 1 and 5 percent of the estimated value of their intellectual property or products could jack up company expenses, particularly in the tech sector. Countless ...

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News of the initiative was reported this week by the Wall Street Journal. The paper described the measure as one of the ways the Trump administration is looking to reduce budget deficits by increasing ...