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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/17/2024 9:43 AM, Yaussi, Caitlin
E. via Patentpractice wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Good morning,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Has anyone heard if the USPTO will
increase their daily max of $24,999.99 per credit card in
view of the fee increases forthcoming?</span></p>
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<p>This is a very good question. My guess is that nobody at the
USPTO has given even a microsecond of thought to this effect upon
the customers of the USPTO.</p>
<p>A very long time ago, the USPTO outsourced the credit card
processing to some other part of the US government. IIRC it is
"pay.gov". Anyway, I believe the $25K limit is imposed by that
other part of the US government, and I believe that the USPTO does
not itself have any control over that limit.</p>
<p>Over these many years there have been quite a few specific
aspects of that payment system where the outsourcing decision has
been very harmful to applicants (customers). By now it would be
trivially easy (from a computer programming point of view) for the
USPTO to migrate the processing over to Stripe using a well
documented API. But I predict the USPTO will never lift a finger
to migrate away from the outsourced solution. <br>
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