Code of Federal Regulations Title 37. Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights § 37.102.31 Fees

(a) No fees shall be charged or collected for the following:  Search for and retrieval of the records;  review of the records;  copying at the initiative of USPTO without a request from the individual;  transportation of records and personnel;  and first-class postage.

(b) It is the policy of USPTO to provide an individual with one copy of each record corrected or amended pursuant to his or her request without charge as evidence of the correction or amendment.

(c) As required by the United States Office of Personnel Management in its published regulations implementing the Act, USPTO will charge no fee for a single copy of a personnel record covered by that agency's Government-wide published notice of systems of records.