Examiner’s Amendment. If all remaining issues can be handled through a telephone or email conversation with the applicant or the applicant’s qualified U.S. attorney, and a deposit account is used to pay the fee or an authorization to charge the fee to a credit card is permitted to be submitted by fax, the fee may be collected by examiner’s amendment. However, a fee cannot be charged to a deposit account by examiner’s amendment unless the record contains a written authorization, signed by someone who is authorized to charge fees to the account. If there is no written authorization in the record, the applicant may submit the authorization by email. See TMEP §405.03 regarding deposit accounts.

Combined Examiner’s Amendment and Priority Action. If all of the issues except payment of the insufficient information fee or free-form text ID fee are resolved by a telephone or email conversation with the applicant or the applicant’s U.S. attorney, the examining attorney may issue a combined examiner’s amendment and priority action (TMEP §708.05) to enter the amendment(s) and require payment of the additional fee.