37 CFR 1.363 — Fee address for maintenance fee purposes
Ninth Edition, Revision 01.2024
- (a) All notices, receipts, refunds, and other
communications relating to payment or refund of maintenance fees
will be directed to the correspondence address used during
prosecution of the application as indicated in §
1.33(a)
unless:
- (1) A fee address for purposes of payment of maintenance fees is set forth when submitting the issue fee, or
- (2) A change in the correspondence address for all purposes is filed after payment of the issue fee, or
- (3) A fee address or a change in the “fee address” is filed for purposes of receiving notices, receipts and other correspondence relating to the payment of maintenance fees after the payment of the issue fee, in which instance, the latest such address will be used.
- (b) An assignment of a patent application or patent does not result in a change of the “correspondence address” or “fee address” for maintenance fee purposes.
- (c) A fee address must be an address associated with a Customer Number.
[49 FR 34725, Aug. 31, 1984, added effective Nov. 1, 1984; para. (c) added, 69 FR 29865, May 26, 2004, effective June 25, 2004]
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- 2515 Information Required for Submission of Maintenance Fee Payment
- 2540 Fee Address for Maintenance Fee Purposes
- 2575 Notices
- 403 Correspondence — With Whom Held; Customer Number Practice
- 403.01(a) Correspondence in Applications Filed On or After September 16, 2012
- 403.01(b) Correspondence in Applications Filed Before September 16, 2012
- 37 CFR 1.32 Power of attorney
- 37 CFR 1.32 (pre-AIA) Power of attorney
- 37 CFR 1.33 Correspondence respecting patent applications, reexamination proceedings, and other proceedings