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Appendix A Selected Fees Charged by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and Other U.S. Agencies for Intellectual Property as of January 1, 2014

The tables below include fees charged by government agencies for patents, copyrights, trademarks, and plant variety protection certificates. These tables are not complete lists of the fees charged by these agencies, but rather lists of fees selected as those most likely to be of immediate interest to individuals and their employers or to those providing financial support to individuals in securing these various forms of intellectual property protection. For a complete list of patent and trademark fees, the reader is advised to consult the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) website at http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/qs/ope/fee010114.htm, for copyright fees, the Copyright Office website at http://www.copyright.gov/docs/fees.html, and for plant variety protection certificate fees, the USDA website at http://www.ams.usda.gov/AMSv1.0/ams.fetchTemplateData.do?template=TemplateR&page=PlantVarietyProtectionOfficeItemizedFees&description=Itemized%20Fee%20List. Better yet, consult a patent attorney or other appropriate intellectual property practitioner, since fees for certain submissions to these agencies and at certain stages throughout their procedures have multiple components that are not readily apparent, even from a comprehensive list. One should also be cautioned that these fees change frequently, which is another reason for ...