Important Update: USPTO Fee Changes Effective January 2025
Highlights
Patent fees will increase across most categories, including filing, maintenance, and excess claims, on Jan. 19, 2025
New surcharges will apply to continuations filed six or nine years after the earliest benefit date (EBD); PTAB petitions will experience increases across the board
Trademark fees also will see adjustment including a unified application fee that will replace the TEAS Plus/Standard system, as well as others. Additional surcharges will apply for missing information, custom descriptions, and lengthy filings.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is set to increase fees beginning Jan. 19, 2025, for patent-related fees and Jan. 18, 2025, for trademark-related fees as part of routine updates at the USPTO to maintain alignment with operational costs and resource requirements. Tables that summarize targeted fee increases for the most common types of filings with the USPTO are included below. A global 7.5 percent increase is being applied to all filings that do not have a targeted fee increase.
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