Electronic Maintenance Fee Transactions

USPTO - Patent Maintenance Fees

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Patent Maintenance Fees
Please enter both a patent number and its corresponding application number to do the
following:
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Click on ‘Retrieve Fees to Pay’ to pay a maintenance fee.
Click on 'Get Bibliographic Data' to obtain patent bibliographic data.
Click on ‘View Payment Windows’ to determine when maintenance fees are due.
Select the applicable year (4, 8 or 12) from the drop-down list box next to ‘Payment
Window’ and click 'View Statement' to print a statement showing receipt of a maintenance
fee payment.

Patent Number (exclude special characters; e.g. commas):
Application Number (must be 8 numeric digits - see NOTE below):
Retrieve Fees to Pay
Get Bibliographic Data
View Payment Windows
View Statement

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The Privacy Act of 1974 - as it relates to Maintenance Fees
The Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 - as it relates to Maintenance Fees
Terms of Use:
The USPTO databases are intended for use by the general public. Due to limitations of
equipment and bandwidth, they are not intended to be a source for bulk downloads of USPTO
data. Individuals, companies, IP addresses, or blocks of IP addresses who, in effect, deny
service to the general public by generating unusually high numbers (10,000 or more, roughly
equivalent to viewing 1,000 patents) of daily database accesses (searches, pages, or hits),
whether generated manually or in an automated fashion, may be denied access to these
servers without notice.
For information about which patents are subject to maintenance fees and the time of payment
for maintenance fees, please refer to Chapter 2500, Maintenance Fees, of the Manual of
Patent Examining Procedure.
NOTE: The application number consists of a 2-digit series code PLUS the 6-digit serial
number; e.g. if your series code is ‘08’ and your serial number is ‘123456’, the complete
application number will be entered as ‘08123456.’ Do not use commas, slashes or other nonnumeric characters.
In order to find the series code that is based upon the application filing date, use the following
table:
Application Filing Date
From
To
Series Code
01/01/93
12/31/97
08
01/01/98
12/03/01
09

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12/02/04
12/07/07
12/18/10

12/01/04
12/06/07
12/17/10
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Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
OMB No. 0651-0016 (Exp. 5/31/2015)
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office; U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, no persons are required to respond to a
collection of information unless it displays a valid OMB control number.
This collection of information is required by 37 CFR 1.366. This information is used by
the public to submit (and by the USPTO to process) payment of patent maintenance
fees. Confidentiality is governed by 35 U.S.C. § 122 and 37 CFR 1.14. This collection is
estimated to take 20 seconds to complete, including gathering, preparing, and
submitting the maintenance fee payment. Time will vary depending on the individual
case. Any comments on the amount of time you require to complete this form and/or
suggestions for reducing this burden should be sent to the Chief Information Officer,
USPTO, P.O. Box 1450, Alexandria, VA 22313-1450.

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