[Patentpractice] USPTO daily credit card limit

[Carl Oppedahl]

On 12/17/2024 9:43 AM, Yaussi, Caitlin E. via Patentpractice wrote:
>
> Good morning,
>
> 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?
>
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.

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.

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.


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