[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 37, Volume 1]
[Revised as of July 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 37CFR1.22]

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              TITLE 37--PATENTS, TRADEMARKS, AND COPYRIGHTS
 
  CHAPTER I--UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE, DEPARTMENT OF 
                                COMMERCE
 
PART 1--RULES OF PRACTICE IN PATENT CASES--Table of Contents
 
                      Subpart A--General Provisions
 
Sec. 1.22  Fees payable in advance.

    (a) Patent and trademark fees and charges payable to the Patent and 
Trademark Office are required to be paid in advance, that is, at the 
time of requesting any action by the Office for which a fee or charge is 
payable with the exception that under Sec. 1.53 applications for patent 
may be assigned a filing date without payment of the basic filing fee.
    (b) All fees paid to the United States Patent and Trademark Office 
must be itemized in each individual application, patent, trademark 
registration file, or other proceeding in such a manner that it is clear 
for which purpose the fees are paid. The Office may return fees that are 
not itemized as required by this paragraph. The provisions of Sec. 
1.5(a) do not apply to the resubmission of fees returned pursuant to 
this paragraph.

(35 U.S.C. 6, Pub. L. 97-247)

[48 FR 2708, Jan. 20, 1983, as amended at 65 FR 54659, Sept. 8, 2000]