Changes To Permit Payment of Patent and Trademark Office Fees by Credit Card
The Patent and Trademark Office (Office) is proposing to amend the rules of practice to provide for the payment of any patent or trademark fee by credit card. The Office previously limited payment by credit card to the fees required for information products or for an electronic submission with or in a trademark application. The Office is proposing to accept payment of any patent fee, trademark fee, or information product fee by credit card.
- Task
- Read the news
- Patent or trademark
- both
- Legacy system
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- Current entry point
- www.federalregister.gov/documents/1999/11/03/99-28731/changes-to-permit-payment-of-patent-and-trademark-office-fees-by-credit-card (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
- 1999-11-03
- Document type
- Proposed Rule
- Source
- USPTO documents published in the Federal Register (Federal Register API)(retrieved 2026-10-06)
Everything in the same category
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Related entry points
- Changes to Permit Payment of Patent and Trademark Fees by Credit Card
- Elimination of Credit Cards as Payment for Replenishing Deposit Accounts
- Electronic Submission of a Sequence Listing, a Large Table, or a Computer Program Listing Appendix in Patent Applications
- Changes To Facilitate Applicant's Authorization of Access to Unpublished U.S. Patent Applications by Foreign Intellectual Property Offices
- Revival of Abandoned Applications, Reinstatement of Abandoned Applications and Cancelled or Expired Registrations, and Petitions to the Director
- Changes to Implement Priority Document Exchange Between Intellectual Property Offices
- Changes To Facilitate Applicant's Authorization of Access to Unpublished U.S. Patent Applications by Foreign Intellectual Property Offices
- Changes To Implement the Supplemental Examination Provisions of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act and To Revise Reexamination Fees
- Date of Receipt of Electronic Submissions of Patent Correspondence
- Changes Implementing Nucleotide and/or Amino Acid Sequence Listings
- Changes To Implement the Prioritized Examination Track (Track I) of the Enhanced Examination Timing Control Procedures Under the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act
- Changes in Requirements for Collective Trademarks and Service Marks, Collective Membership Marks, and Certification Marks
- Changes To Permit Delayed Submission of Certain Requirements for Prioritized Examination
- Revival of Abandoned Applications, Reinstatement of Abandoned Applications and Cancelled or Expired Registrations, and Petitions to the Director
- Provisions for Persons Granted Limited Recognition To Prosecute Patent Applications and Other Miscellaneous Matters
- Changes in Rules Regarding Filing Trademark Correspondence by Express Mail or Under a Certificate of Mailing or Transmission