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37 CFR 42.203: Post-grant review fee

Taken from the Ninth Edition of the MPEP, Revision 10.2019, Last Revised in June 2020

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Part 42: Trial Practice Before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board
Subpart C - Post-Grant Review
General (part C)

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42.203    Post-grant review fee.

  • (a) A post-grant review fee set forth in § 42.15(b) must accompany the petition.
  • (b) No filing date will be accorded to the petition until full payment is received.
[Applicability Note: Subpart C (Post-Grant Review) generally applies to patents issuing from applications subject to first-inventor-to-file provisions of the AIA. In addition, the Chief Administrative Patent Judge may, in the interests-of-justice, order an interference commenced before September 16, 2012 to be dismissed without prejudice to the filing of a petition for post-grant review. See § 42.200(d) and the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, Public Law 112-29, sec. 6(f)(3)(A).]
[Added, 77 FR 48680, Aug. 14, 2012, effective Sept. 16, 2012]