Cash Payment Method Will No Longer Be Accepted
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) will no longer accept cash, including coins, as payment for products and services for which fees are required.
- Task
- Read the news
- Patent or trademark
- both
- Legacy system
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- Current entry point
- www.federalregister.gov/documents/2017/10/03/2017-21194/cash-payment-method-will-no-longer-be-accepted (permanent link in the Federal Register, verified 2026-09-30)
- Legacy system and where it moved
- No legacy system name mention in title or summary )
- Fee
- Fee mentioned in title or summary (Confirmed in the document text)
- What you need (account or API key)
- No account or key mention in title or summary )
- Published
- 2017-10-03
- Document type
- Notice
- Source
- USPTO documents published in the Federal Register (Federal Register API)(retrieved 2026-10-06)
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Related entry points
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- Patents for Humanity Program
- Changes To Implement the Prioritized Examination Track (Track I) of the Enhanced Examination Timing Control Procedures Under the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act
- Increase of the Annual Limit on Accepted Requests for Track I Prioritized Examination
- Modification of COVID-19 Prioritized Examination Pilot Program
- 2021 Increase of the Annual Limit on Accepted Requests for Track One Prioritized Examination
- 2025 Increase of the Annual Limit on Accepted Requests for Prioritized Examination
- Expansion and Extension of the Climate Change Mitigation Pilot Program
- Proposed Information Collection; Payment of Patent and Trademark Office Fees by Credit Card
- Patent and Trademark Financial Transactions (Formerly Payment of Patent and Trademark Office Fees by Credit Card)
- Request for Comments on Proposed Change To Missing Parts Practice
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