You must establish micro entity status prior to paying, or at the time of paying, a fee in the micro entity amount. To establish micro entity status on the gross income basis, the applicant or patentee should file form SB/15A in the application or patent. To establish micro entity status on the institution of higher education basis, the applicant or patentee should file form SB/15B in the application or patent. These forms, along with all other USPTO patent-related forms can be found on our Patents Forms page.

After micro entity status has been established in an application or patent, it will remain in effect until it is changed. However, the applicant or patentee must re-evaluate whether or not the application or patent still qualifies for micro entity status each and every time a fee is paid to the USPTO in that application or patent. This is particularly important if the application or patent qualified under the gross income basis, because (1) the income limit changes every year (usually in September or October) and (2) the gross income of any applicant, inventor or other person with an ownership interest in the patent or application will likely change from year to year. For more information concerning the income limit, see section 2.3 Maximum qualifying gross income.


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If the applicant or patentee determines that the application or patent still qualifies for micro entity status, then the fee may be paid in the micro entity amount. There is no need to re-file the micro entity certification form every time a payment is made.

If status as a micro entity is established in good faith in an application or patent, and fees as a micro entity are paid in good faith in the application or patent, and it is later discovered that such micro entity status either was established in error, or that the Office was not notified of a loss of entitlement to micro entity status through error, the error will be excused upon compliance with the separate submission and itemization requirements of 37 CFR 1.29(k)(1) and the deficiency payment requirement of 37 CFR 1.29(k)(2).

To qualify for micro entity status on the gross income basis under 37 CFR 1.29(a)-(c) in a particular patent application or patent, a micro entity certification must be completed with sufficient application identifying information (i.e., must identify the application to which it pertains) and authorized signature(s). For new application filings that have not been previously assigned a patent application number, the first named inventor and the title of the invention must be provided at the top of the certification form(s) in the spaces provided to sufficiently identify the application. See MPEP section 509.04(II) for more information.

Once a person has reached the filing limit, no future-filed application naming that person as an inventor or applicant can qualify for micro entity status under the gross income basis, even if the future-filed application is of a type that is not itself counted toward the limit. For example, assume inventor A has reached the filing limit by filing five design applications, and now wants to file a provisional application. Although provisional applications do not count toward the application filing limit, that fact does not matter here because inventor A already reached that limit by filing the design applications. Thus, inventor A cannot be entitled to micro entity status on the gross income basis in the provisional application.

For purposes of establishing micro entity status under the gross income basis, the application filing limit as set forth in 37 CFR 1.29(a)(2) includes: (i) previously filed U.S. nonprovisional applications (e.g., utility, design, plant, continuation, and divisional applications), (ii) previously filed U.S. reissue applications, (iii) previously filed U.S. national stage applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT), and (iv) previously filed international design applications under the Hague agreement that designate the U.S.

It does not matter how long ago the previous applications were filed or whether the previously filed applications are pending, patented, or abandoned; they are still included when counting to determine whether the application filing limit has been reached. It also does not matter whether the previous applications asserted entitlement to micro entity status; they are still included even if they did not claim any discounts (i.e., paid the undiscounted fee amounts).

If the gross income limit is no longer met, then a notification of loss of entitlement to micro entity status must be filed in the application to remove micro entity status. For more information about loss of entitlement to micro entity status, see section 1.3.

To qualify for micro entity status in a patent application or patent on the institution of higher education basis under 37 CFR 1.29(d), a micro entity certification must be completed with sufficient application identifying information (i.e., must identify the application to which it pertains) and authorized signature(s). For new application filings that have not been previously assigned a patent application number, the first named inventor and the title of the invention must be provided at the top of the certification form(s) in the spaces provided to sufficiently identify the application. See MPEP section 509.04(II) for more information.

See MPEP section 509.04(b) for more information on the Institution of Higher Education Basis for Micro Entity Status, and MPEP sections 509.02-509.04 for more information on small and micro entities.

Although it has been suggested that many in the general population are dehydrated to the extent that mood and cognition are disrupted, there has been little research investigating mild levels of dehydration. When dehydration reduces body mass by more than 2%, it has been consistently reported that mood is influenced, fatigue is greater, and alertness is lower. In contrast, the effects on cognition have been less consistent. Only a few studies have looked at females and these studies made little attempt to consider hormones that influence kidney functioning. In particular, there has been virtually no attempt to look at changes in hydration status in the range that occurs in individuals with a sedentary lifestyle in a temperate climate. There is a consequent need to study individuals who have lost up to 1% of body mass due to dehydration. While 4 intervention trials have found that the cognition of children improved in response to water consumption, the effects of water consumption on cognition in older adults, another high-risk group, have been largely ignored.

My question: If a contractor is awarded a GSA MAS contract (for example, something under FSS "OOCORP") when the contractor is a small business, but then grows to exceed the size standard for a particular NAICS, can the contractor continue to compete for small business set-aside work or BPAs issued under that FSS within that particular NAICS until its GSA contract expires? In other words, if a small business set-aside BPA is competed under GSA FSS 00CORP, can a firm that does not meet the size standard compete as prime contractor if the contractor's GSA contract was awarded when the contractor was still a small business for that NAICS?

If the contractor is a small business when they submit their proposal for the ID/IQ MAS contract, and subsequently grows outside of the size standard for the contract, the contractor retains its small business standard for that contract for the life of the contract EXCEPT for long term (greater than 5 year), contracts per 13 CFR 121.404(a)(1)(I). Two exceptions for that statement is 1. If the Delivery Order/Task Order KO requests that all competitors recertify their small business status in the solicitation for the order, then competitors size is determined at the time they submit their quote/proposal for that order per 13 CFR 121.404(a)(2)(g); and 2. In long term contracts, all small business participants in the contractor pool must recertify their status no more than 120 days prior to the end of the 5th year and any subsequent options per 13 CFR 121.404(a)(3).

A BPA is not a contract so a company that becomes a large business right after the BPA is established would not be a small business because each BPA award is an independent contract/purchase order. If the BPA is from a 5 year or less contract where the contractor is considered a small business, then the BPA awards would only be to a SB until that contract ended or the KO required the contractor to recertify its SB status. It can get complicated when KO's decide they are the SB goal keeper, instead of just letting the regulations do their job.

For an ID/IQ contract, each delivery/task order award would be a SB award if the contractor was a small business at the time it submitted its proposal with pricing unless the business lost its small business status between that time and the award IF the KO required a recertification at the time of award.

A business that met the small size standard at either the submission of proposal with cost or time of award (if the KO required recertification), would be a small business for the contract PoP up to 5 years even if it became a large business the day after award, including ID/IQ contract DO/TOs. That is UNLESS the DO/TO Contracting Officer decided to demand that the contractor recertify its SB status for the DO/TOs. Which would not make any sense unless the KO wanted to take that right away from the contract holder.

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In the same way, when we chase status as a way to deal with feelings of insecurity, it gives power to those feelings in our lives. The more we focus on climbing the status ladder, the more attuned we become to social rejection and comparisons with others. This takes our focus away from what we truly want in life and instead turns our work into an ego-driven quest for recognition and validation. 2351a5e196

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