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any applicant or prospective applicant, or other person having immediate or prospective business before the Office. The reasons for any such suspension or exclusion shall be duly recorded. The United States District Court for the District of Columbia, under such conditions and upon such proceedings as it by its rules determines, may review the action of the Commissioner upon the petition of the person so refused recognition or so suspended or excluded. § 33. Unauthorized representation a s practitioner Whoever, not being recognized to practice before the Patent Office, holds himself out or permits himself to be held out as so recognized, or as being qualified to prepare or prosecute applications for patent, shall be fined not more than $1,000 for each offense. CHAPTER 4—PATENT F E E S Sec. 41. Patent fees. 42. Payment of patent fees; return of excess amounts.

§ 41. P a t e n t fees ( a) The Commissioner shall charge the following fees: 1. On filing each application for an original patent, except in design cases, {(530, and $1 for each claim in excess of twenty. 2. On issuing each original patent, except in design cases, $30, and $1 for each claim in excess of twenty. 3. In design cases: For three years and six months, $10; for seven years, $15; for fourteen years, $30. 4. On every application for the reissue of a patent, $30 and $1 for each claim in excess of twenty over and above the number of claims of the original patent. 5. On tiling each disclaimer, $10. 6. On an appeal for the first time from the examiner to the Board of Appeals, $25. 7. On filing each petition for the revival of an abandoned application for a patent or for the delayed payment of the fee for issuing each patent, $10. 8. For certificate of correction of applicant's mistake under section 255 of this title, $10. 9. For uncertified printed copies of specifications and drawings of patents (except design patents), 25 cents per copy; for design patents, 10 cents per copy; special rate for libraries specified in section 13 of this title, $50 for patents issued in one year. 10. For recording every assignment, agreement, or other paper not exceeding six pages, $3; for each additional two pages or less, $ 1; for each additional patent or application included in one writing, where more than one is so included, 50 cents additional. 11. For each certificate, $1. (b) The Commissioner may establish charges for copies of records, publications, or services furnished by the Patent Office, not specified above. § 42. Payment of p a t e n t fees; r e t u r n of excess a m o u n t s All patent fees shall be paid to the Commissioner who shall deposit the same in the Treasury of the United States in such manner as the Secretary of the Treasury directs, and the Commissioner may refund any sum paid by mistake or in excess of the fee required by law.

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