Rules for Patent Maintenance Fees

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Documents and Forms

Document Name Document Type
Form PTO/SB/66 Rules for Patent Maintenance Fees Form
PTO/SB/66 Petition to Accept Unintentionally Delayed Payment of Ma sb0066.pdf www.uspto.gov/web/forms/sb0066.pdf Form
PTO/SB/66 Petition to Accept Unintentionally Delayed Payment of Ma Petition_SB_66_edit2.pdf Form
PTO/SB/45 Maintenance Fee Transmittal Form sb0045_fill.pdf www.uspto.gov/web/forms/sb0045_fill.pdf Form
PTO/SB/47 Fee Address Indication Form sb0047-fill.pdf www.uspto.gov/web/forms/sb0047-fill.pdf Form
PTO/SB/65 Petition to Accept Unavoidably Delayed Payment of Mainte sb0065.pdf www.uspto.gov/web/forms/sb0065.pdf Form

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IC Title:	Rules for Patent Maintenance Fees	Agency IC Tracking Number:

Is this a Common Form? No		IC Status: Modified

Obligation to Respond: Required to Obtain or Retain Benefits

CFR Citation: 37 CFR 1.20(e)-(i) 37 CFR 1.362-1.387

Information Collection Instruments:

Document Type	Form No.	Form Name	Instrument File	URL	Available Electronically?	Can Be Submitted Electronically?	Electronic Capability
Form	PTO/SB/66	Petition to Accept Unintentionally Delayed Payment of Maintenance Fee in an Expired Patent (37 CFR 1.378(c))	sb0066.pdf	http://www.uspto.gov/web/forms/sb0066.pdf	Yes	No	Printable Only
Form	PTO/SB/66	Petition to Accept Unintentionally Delayed Payment of Maintenance Fee in an Expired Patent (37 CFR 1.378(c))	Petition_SB_66_edit2.pdf		Yes	Yes	Fillable Fileable Signable
Form	PTO/SB/45	Maintenance Fee Transmittal Form	sb0045_fill.pdf	http://www.uspto.gov/web/forms/sb0045_fill.pdf	Yes	No	Fillable Printable
Form	PTO/SB/47	Fee Address Indication Form	sb0047-fill.pdf	http://www.uspto.gov/web/forms/sb0047-fill.pdf	Yes	No	Fillable Printable
Form	PTO/SB/65	Petition to Accept Unavoidably Delayed Payment of Maintenance Fee in an Expired Patent (37 CFR 1.378(b))	sb0065.pdf	http://www.uspto.gov/web/forms/sb0065.pdf	Yes	No	Printable Only

Line of Business: Economic Development

Subfunction: Intellectual Property Protection

Privacy Act System of Records
Title:	FR Citation:

Number of Respondents: 374,706	Number of Respondents for Small Entity: 69,506

Affected Public: Private Sector	Private Sector: Businesses or other for-profits, Not-for-profit institutions

Percentage of Respondents Reporting Electronically: 14 %

	Approved	Change Due to Adjustment in Agency Estimate	Previously Approved
Annual Number of Responses for this IC	374,706	0	374,706
Annual IC Time Burden (Hours)	30,362	0	30,362
Annual IC Cost Burden (Dollars)	436,487,524	1,524	436,486,000

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