Petition for the delayed payment of the fee for maintaining a patent in force, delay greater than one year (Fee schedule 1560/2560/3560)
USPTO fee schedule item: Petition for the delayed payment of the fee for maintaining a patent in force, delay greater than one year — category: Patent maintenance fees.
- Task
- Look up fees
- Patent or trademark
- patent
- Legacy system
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- Current entry point
- Fee schedule page www.uspto.gov/learning-and-resources/fees-and-payment/uspto-fee-schedule, fee code 1560/2560/3560 (verified 2026-09-29)
- Legacy system and where it moved
- No site-wide statement on the page (verified 2026-09-29)
- Fee
- Fee 3,000.00 / Small entity 1,200.00 / Micro entity 600.00 (verified 2026-09-29)
- What you need (account or API key)
- Payment via a deposit account or a USPTO.gov account, per the page (No table-wide statement, verified 2026-09-29)
- Source
- USPTO fee schedule (patent and trademark fee tables)(retrieved 2026-10-06)
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Related entry points
- Petition for the delayed payment of the fee for maintaining a patent in force, delay less than or equal to one year (Fee schedule 1558/2558/3558)
- Petition for revival of an abandoned application for a patent, for the delayed payment of the fee for issuing each patent, or for the delayed response by the patent owner in any reexamination proceeding, delay greater than one year (Fee schedule 1468/2468/3468)
- Petition for the delayed submission of a priority or benefit claim, delay greater than one year (Fee schedule 1469/2469/3469)
- Petition for revival of an abandoned application for a patent, for the delayed payment of the fee for issuing each patent, or for the delayed response by the patent owner in any reexamination proceeding, delay less than or equal to one year (Fee schedule 1453/2453/3453)
- Petition to excuse applicant's failure to act within prescribed time limits in an international design application, delay greater than one year (Fee schedule 1785/2785/3785)
- Petition for the delayed submission of a priority or benefit claim, delay less than or equal to one year (Fee schedule 1454/2454/3454)
- Petition to excuse applicant's failure to act within prescribed time limits in an international design application, delay less than or equal to one year (Fee schedule 1784/2784/3784)
- Surcharge - 3.5 year - late payment within six months (Fee schedule 1554/2554/3554)
- Surcharge - 7.5 year - late payment within six months (Fee schedule 1555/2555/3555)
- Surcharge - 11.5 year - late payment within six months (Fee schedule 1556/2556/3556)
- For maintaining an original or any reissue patent, due at 3.5 years (Fee schedule 1551/2551/3551)
- For maintaining an original or any reissue patent, due at 7.5 years (Fee schedule 1552/2552/3552)
- For maintaining an original or any reissue patent, due at 11.5 years (Fee schedule 1553/2553/3553)
- Filing an application or presentation of benefit claim more than six years after earliest benefit date (Fee schedule 1055/2055/3055)
- Filing an application or presentation of benefit claim more than nine years after earliest benefit date (Fee schedule 1056/2056/3056)
- Submission of sequence listings of more than 800MB (Fee schedule 1092/2092/3092)