Search fee - regardless of whether there is a corresponding application (see 35 U.S.C. 361(d) and PCT Rule 16) (Fee schedule 1602/2602/3602)
USPTO fee schedule item: Search fee - regardless of whether there is a corresponding application (see 35 U.S.C. 361(d) and PCT Rule 16) — category: PCT fees - international stage.
- 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 1602/2602/3602 (verified 2026-09-29)
- Legacy system and where it moved
- No site-wide statement on the page (verified 2026-09-29)
- Fee
- Fee 2,400.00 / Small entity 960.00 / Micro entity 480.00 (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)
Everything in the same category
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Related entry points
- Late furnishing fee for providing a sequence listing in response to an invitation under PCT rule 13ter (Fee schedule 1627/2627/3627)
- Transmitting application to Intl. Bureau to act as receiving office (Fee schedule 1621/2621/3621)
- Petition for the extension of the twelve-month (six-month for designs) period for filing a subsequent application (Fee schedule 1628/2628/3628)
- Transmittal fee (Fee schedule 1601/2601/3601)
- Supplemental search fee when required, per additional invention (Fee schedule 1604/2604/3604)
- Preliminary examination fee - U.S. was the ISA (Fee schedule 1605/2605/3605)
- Preliminary examination fee - U.S. was not the ISA (Fee schedule 1606/2606/3606)
- Supplemental examination fee per additional invention (Fee schedule 1607/2607/3607)
- Late payment fee (Fee schedule 1619/2619/3619)
- Non-electronic filing fee (additional fee for applications filed in paper) (Fee schedule 1690/2690/3690)
- National stage application size fee - for each additional 50 sheets that exceeds 100 sheets (Fee schedule 1681/2681/3681)
- Hague international design application - transmittal fee (Fee schedule 1781/2781/3781)
- International design application fees payable to WIPO (Fee schedule 1782)
- Petition to convert an international design application to a design application under 35 U.S.C. chapter 16 (Fee schedule 1783/2783/3783)
- 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)
- 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)