MPEP 2500 – Maintenance Fees

This page consolidates and annotates enforceable requirements under MPEP 2500 — Maintenance Fees, including statutory authority, regulatory rules, examiner guidance, and practice notes. It is provided as guidance, with links to the ground truth sources. This is information only, it is not legal advice.

Metric	Value	Share of total
Rules extracted	326	0.9%
Citations to Authorities	MPEP448 USC79 CFR695 PCT0	1.0%
Avg citations per rule	3.75
Topics covered	50 primary + 75 secondary	5.1%

Pages in this chapter

Page
MPEP § 2501 — Introduction1 rules
MPEP § 2504 — Patents Subject to Maintenance Fees59 rules
MPEP § 2506 — Times for Submitting Maintenance Fee Payments18 rules
MPEP § 2510 — Submission of Maintenance Fee Payments and Documents16 rules
MPEP § 2515 — Information Required for Submission of Maintenance Fee Payment37 rules
MPEP § 2520 — Maintenance Fee Amounts10 rules
MPEP § 2522 — Methods of Payment28 rules
MPEP § 2530 — Special Acceptance of Maintenance Fee Payments Containing Informalities9 rules
MPEP § 2531 — Payment Late or Insufficient6 rules
MPEP § 2532 — Duplicate Payments7 rules
MPEP § 2540 — Fee Address for Maintenance Fee Purposes21 rules
MPEP § 2542 — Change of Correspondence Address8 rules
MPEP § 2550 — Entity Status Discounts37 rules
MPEP § 2560 — Revocation of Power of Attorney and Withdrawal of Attorney2 rules
MPEP § 2570 — Maintenance Fee Payment Status Requests4 rules
MPEP § 2575 — Notices5 rules
MPEP § 2580 — Review of Decision Refusing to Accept and Record Payment of a Maintenance Fee Filed Prior to Expiration of Patent19 rules
MPEP § 2590 — Acceptance of Delayed Payment of Maintenance Fee in Expired Patent to Reinstate Patent35 rules
MPEP § 2591 — Intervening Rights in Reinstated Patents2 rules
MPEP § 2595 — Forms2 rules