Micro Entity - Response to Notice of Payment Deficiency & Show Cause Order - Options II & III

• Court: United States Patent and Trademark Office
• Legal Form Number: SB/143
• Section: United States Patent and Trademark Office

Doc Code: MES.LOSS.SCO

Document Description: Micro Loss Response to Show Cause Order

PTO/SB/143 (08-25)

Response to Notice of Payment Deficiency & Show Cause Order – Options II & III

(This form is only to be used to respond under Options II and III to the micro entity version of the Notice of Paym ent Deficiency & Show Cause Order)

(page 1 of 3)

Application or Patent No.:

First Named Inventor:

Filing Date:

Title of Invention:

Notification of Loss of Micro Entity Status

Applicant or patentee hereby notifies the Office that micro entity status is no longer appropriate in this application or patent. Applicant or

patentee asserts

that:

Applicant/patentee is entitled to small entity status for this application or patent. See 37 CFR 1.27.

OR

Applicant/patentee will pay undiscounted fees in this application or patent.

This form must be signed (see bottom of page 2). If you owe a fee deficiency, you must also complete the following “Fee Defic

iency

Payment” section and enclose payment for the full amount of the deficiency.

Fee Deficiency Payment

(please complete this section if you are correcting prior payments that were erroneously made in the micro entity amount)

The certification was erroneous but in good faith. A good faith explanation and itemization of the total deficiency owed is

provided along with payment of the total deficiency.

The certification was erroneous and a good faith explanation is not being provided. A

n itemization of the to tal deficiency owed

is provided along with payment of the total deficiency.

As required by 37 CFR 1.29(k)(1), you MUST ITEMIZE the fee deficiency.

Failure to itemize and

pay the total deficiency will result in

abandonment of the application

or expiration of the patent. Please use the chart below to itemize the amounts for the above-

identified

application or patent. If you need more space to list the fees, please submit multiple forms. See below*.

Fee Description or Type

Current Fee Amount

Amount Previously Paid

Date Previously Paid

Deficiency Owed

Total Deficiency Owed (sum of all entries in “Deficiency Owed” column)

 The “current fee amount” refers to the small entity or undiscounted rate (whichever is applicable) listed on the fee schedule as c

urrently in force at the

time this paper is submitted and the deficiency is paid in full. The USPTO fee schedule is available at

www.uspto.gov/Fees

. For more information about

submitting fee deficiencies, see MPEP 509.04(f). The MPEP is available at

www.uspto.gov/MPEP.