human: What fees are required upon filing a Request for Prioritized Examination in a request for continued examination (RCE)? What happens if one of the required fees is not present upon filing?
assistant: Consult the current fee schedule available at http://www.uspto.gov/about/offices/cfo/finance/fees.jsp for the correct fee amounts. The fees required to be paid upon filing for Prioritized Examination for requests for continued examination are:
i. If not previously paid, the applicable publication fee as set forth in 37 CFR 1.18(d). However, since this fee is currently set to $0, no publication fee is due at this time for a request for prioritized examination for continued examination (RCE). The prioritized examination rule still contains the publication fee as a requirement in the event that changes to the publication fee are made in the future.
ii. Prioritized examination processing fee, as set forth in 37 CFR 1.17(i)(1).
iii. Prioritized examination fee set forth in 37 CFR 1.17(c) ($4000.00, or $2000.00 for small entities, or $1000.00 for micro entities).
If any fee is unpaid at the time of filing of the request for prioritized examination, the request for prioritized examination will be dismissed. However, if an explicit authorization to charge any additional required fees has been provided in the papers accompanying the request, the fees will be charged in accordance with the authorization, and the request will not be dismissed for nonpayment of fees.