13 CFR 121.802
§ 121.802 What size standards are applicable to reduced patent fees programs?
United States · 13 CFR — Business Credit and Assistance · Status: effective
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- 13 CFR 121.802, § 121.802 What size standards are applicable to reduced patent fees programs?, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/52383
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A concern eligible for reduced patent fees is one:
(a) Whose number of employees, including affiliates, does not exceed 500 persons; and
(b) Which has not assigned, granted, conveyed, or licensed (and is under no obligation to do so) any rights in the invention to any person who made it and could not be classified as an independent inventor, or to any concern which would not qualify as a non-profit organization or a small business concern under this section.
Legislative history
This is a federal regulation, adopted through agency rulemaking under the Administrative Procedure Act — not enacted by a recorded vote of Congress.