[E-trademarks] What happens when the USPTO fails to collect filing fees?

Wed Oct 15 00:41:58 UTC 2025

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On Tue, Oct 14, 2025 at 4:33 PM Janice Housey <jhousey at litmuslaw.com> wrote:

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> It looks like you are using the WRONG form-- i.e., a Request to Make
> Special instead of a Petition to Make Special.
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> *To:* Lindsey Corbin <lindsey at delegate.legal>
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> *Subject:* Re: [E-trademarks] What happens when the USPTO fails to
> collect filing fees?
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> Thank you, Lindsey!
> I appreciate your input
> It's a Petition
> to hasten
> a recently filed
> application
> based on ongoing
> infringement . . .
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> On Tue, Oct 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM Lindsey Corbin <lindsey at delegate.legal>
> wrote:
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> There is no fee if it’s a request to make special due to an inadvertently
> canceled registration.
>
> If it’s a petition, then it’s $250 and you’ll probably get a phone call or
> email from the PTO to request payment.
>
> Lindsey
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> On Tue, Oct 14, 2025 at 3:28 PM Lara Pearson via E-trademarks <
> e-trademarks at oppedahl-lists.com> wrote:
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> A strange thing happened to me the other day
> about which I am curious what you have to say
> I filed a Petition to Make Special but couldn't pay
> cause the filing fee had simply gone away
> the screen for the fee actually did appear
> but the amt was $0.00 which makes me fear
> that even though I have a filing receipt
> my filing will be considered incomplete
> I took a screencap of the form
> but how do I get my filing to conform?
> Any suggestions are welcome now
> as the point of the Petition was to speed things up, not slow them down
> thank you for helping set me straight
> while the USPTO's been quite challenging as of late
>
> [image: image.png]
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