---
kind: "section"
citation: "37 C.F.R. § 2.209"
title: "37"
number: "2.209"
heading: "Refunds."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/37/2.209"
---

# §2.209. Refunds.

- (a) The Director may refund any fee paid by mistake or in excess of that required. A change of purpose after the payment of a fee, such as when a party desires to withdraw a trademark application, appeal or other trademark filing for which a fee was paid, will not entitle a party to a refund of such fee. The Office will not refund amounts of twenty-five dollars or less unless a refund is specifically requested, and will not notify the payor of such amounts. If a party paying a fee or requesting a refund does not provide the banking information necessary for making refunds by electronic funds transfer (31 U.S.C. [3332](/usc/31/3332.md) and [31](/usc/31/31.md) CFR [part 208](/cfr/37/part208.md)), or instruct the Office that refunds are to be credited to a deposit account, the Director may require such information, or use the banking information on the payment instrument to make a refund. Any refund of a fee paid by credit card will be by a credit to the credit card account to which the fee was charged.
- (b) Any request for refund must be filed within two years from the date the fee was paid, except as otherwise provided in this paragraph. If the Office charges a deposit account by an amount other than an amount specifically indicated in an authorization ([§ 2.208(b)](/cfr/37/2.208.md?p=b)), any request for refund based upon such charge must be filed within two years from the date of the deposit account statement indicating such charge, and include a copy of that deposit account statement. The time periods set forth in this paragraph are not extendable.

## Notes

### Source

Source: 68 FR 48292, Aug. 13, 2003, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 15 U.S.C. 1113, 1123; 35 U.S.C. 2; sec. 10, Pub. L. 112-29, 125 Stat. 284; Pub. L. 116-260, 134 Stat. 1182, unless otherwise noted. Sec. 2.99 also issued under secs. 16, 17, 60 Stat. 434; 15 U.S.C. 1066, 1067.

### Source

Source: 30 FR 13193, Oct. 16, 1965, unless otherwise noted.