# Setting and Adjusting Patent Fees During Fiscal Year 2017
> **US Patent and Trademark Office** · Final rule. · Published 2017-11-14 · Effective 2018-01-16 · 82 FR 52780
## Document
- **Document number:** 2017-24390
- **Category:** bis-export-control
- **Sub-agency:** US Patent and Trademark Office
- **Federal Register citation:** 82 FR 52780
- **CFR reference:** 37 CFR 1
- **Publication date:** 2017-11-14
- **Effective date:** 2018-01-16
- **Commerce docket:** Docket No. PTO-P-2015-0056
## Abstract

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (Office or USPTO) sets or adjusts patent fees as authorized by the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (Act or AIA). The USPTO operates like a business in that external and internal factors affect the demand for patent products and services. The fee adjustments are needed to provide the Office with a sufficient amount of aggregate revenue to recover its aggregate cost of patent operations (based on current projections), while maintaining momentum towards achieving strategic goals.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2017/11/14/2017-24390/setting-and-adjusting-patent-fees-during-fiscal-year-2017)
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