Penalty for false small entity assertion (Fee schedule 9301)
USPTO fee schedule item: Penalty for false small entity assertion — category: Patent penalty fines.
- 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 9301 (verified 2026-09-29)
- Legacy system and where it moved
- No site-wide statement on the page (verified 2026-09-29)
- Fee
- Fee Variable – not less than three times the amount an entity failed to pay under false assert… (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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- Petitions to the Chief Administrative Patent Judge under 37 CFR 41.3 (Fee schedule 1405/2405/3405)
- Request to make a settlement agreement available and other requests filed in a patent trial proceeding (Fee schedule 1411/2411/3411)
- 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)
- Filing an application for patent term adjustment (Fee schedule 1455/2455/3455)
- Application for extension of term of patent (see 37 CFR 1.740) (Fee schedule 1457/2457/3457)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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 the delayed payment of the fee for maintaining a patent in force, delay greater than one year (Fee schedule 1560/2560/3560)
- Processing fee for correcting inventorship in a patent (Fee schedule 1816/2816/3816)
- Each reexamination independent claim in excess of three and also in excess of the number of such claims in the patent under reexamination (Fee schedule 1821/2821/3821)