Used to be you had to pay a $40 fee to record an assignment at the USPTO. Adding a second property to the recordation cost $40 if you were recording a patent assignment but cost $25 if you were recording a trademark assignment.
I never understood why that second or third property cost one price for trademarks and a different price for patents.
Almost two years ago the USPTO cut the fee for recording a patent assignment to zero. This was welcome news. When that price cut happened, I recall wondering why this fee did not drop to zero for trademark assignments.
Today I got my chance. I am the vice-chair of AIPLA’s Patent Cooperation Treaty Issues committee, so I was present at a meeting of committee chairs, vice-chairs, and board members. Mary Boney Denison, the Commissioner for Trademarks, was a special guest. When she finished her prepared remarks, she asked if anybody had any questions. So I raised my hand and asked why it is that we have to pay money to record a trademark assignment when we don’t need to pay money to record a patent assignment. Continue reading “Why it costs money to record a trademark assignment at USPTO?”
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as that Softcard, the non-Apple digital wallet, had bitten the dust, and that Google had rather carefully not actually purchased Softcard but instead merely purchased its IP (mostly, its pending patent applications). This left Google Wallet as the successor app for Android phones. Google Wallet was decidedly clunky in several ways. Industry observers stood around waiting for Google’s next step, whatever it might turn out to be. Now we can see Google’s next step. It is Android Pay. 
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