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The Notice of Allowance
If the examiner decides to grant a patent for your invention, the USPTO sends you a document called a Notice of Allowance. The Notice indicates the examiner's intention to issue a patent. It is officially known as a Notice of Allowance and Fee(s) Due (Form PTOL-85) and contains a Part B, which sets out the issue fee and any required publication fee that you must pay before any patent will issue.
Once you receive the notice, you must sign Part B and return it to them with the necessary fees and any final drawings—if you submitted draft drawings with your application—or requested paperwork. By law, you must return these within three months of the date they mailed you the Notice, and this period cannot be extended. If you fail to meet the deadline, your entire application will be abandoned.
After you return Part B and pay the fees, they will send you a notification that contains your patent's number and expected issue date. On the patent's issue date, they will mail your patent grant. According to their website, the patent grant comes bound in an attractive cover with a gold seal and red ribbon.
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