{"id":105,"date":"2016-10-21T14:05:19","date_gmt":"2016-10-21T18:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trademarks.harnessip.com\/?p=105"},"modified":"2016-10-21T14:05:19","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T18:05:19","slug":"we-are-changing-fees-to-better-serve-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trademarks.harnessip.com\/?p=105","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;We are changing fees to better serve you.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/trademarks.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/HTSM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-107\" src=\"https:\/\/trademarks.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/HTSM.jpg\" alt=\"htsm\" width=\"210\" height=\"170\" \/><\/a>The USPTO has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uspto.gov\/trademark\/fees-payment-information\/trademark-fee-changes?utm_campaign=subscriptioncenter&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_name=&amp;utm_source=govdelivery&amp;utm_term=\">announced<\/a>\u00a0a number of fee increases to &#8220;<em><strong>better serve<\/strong><\/em>&#8221; its trademark constituency. \u00a0The majority of the fee increases punish those Luddites among us who still make paper filings. \u00a0The fees for paper filings are increasing between 60% and 200%. \u00a0However the fee increases\u00a0also impact e-filers, with increases ranging from 23% and 100%, and the introduction of new fees for requesting an extension of time to file a Notice of Opposition.<\/p>\n<p>On the positive side, in addition to 37 fee increases and four new fees to better serve us, the USPTO is lowering the fee to electronically file a request for extension of time to file a Statement of Use from $150 to $125. \u00a0Why it costs $125 to get an extension, and still only $100 to examine an actual Statement of Use filing, seems less &#8220;to better align fees with full costs, &#8221; and more like charging what the market will bear.<\/p>\n<p>As you pay higher fees for your trademark filings, take comfort in the fact that you are being better served.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The USPTO has announced\u00a0a number of fee increases to &#8220;better serve&#8221; its trademark constituency. \u00a0The majority of the fee increases punish those Luddites among us who still make paper filings. \u00a0The fees for paper filings are increasing between 60% and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/trademarks.harnessip.com\/?p=105\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uspto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trademarks.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trademarks.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trademarks.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trademarks.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trademarks.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/trademarks.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109,"href":"https:\/\/trademarks.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions\/109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trademarks.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trademarks.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trademarks.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}