Electronic Patent Assignment System (EPAS)

Recording Assignments

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Documents and Forms

Document Name Document Type
Form PTO-1595 Electronic Patent Assignment System (EPAS) Form and Instruction
PTO-1595 Electronic Patent Assignment System (EPAS) USPTO-EPAS-sample1.pdf epas.uspto.gov Form and Instruction

Information Collection (IC) Details

IC Title:	Electronic Patent Assignment System (EPAS)	Agency IC Tracking Number:

Is this a Common Form? No		IC Status: New

Obligation to Respond: Required to Obtain or Retain Benefits

CFR Citation: 37 CFR 3

Information Collection Instruments:

Document Type	Form No.	Form Name	Instrument File	URL	Available Electronically?	Can Be Submitted Electronically?	Electronic Capability
Form and Instruction	PTO-1595	Electronic Patent Assignment System (EPAS)	USPTO-EPAS-sample1.pdf	http://epas.uspto.gov	Yes	Yes	Fillable Fileable Signable

Line of Business: Economic Development

Subfunction: Intellectual Property Protection

Privacy Act System of Records
Title:	FR Citation:

Number of Respondents: 203,969	Number of Respondents for Small Entity: 0

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

Percentage of Respondents Reporting Electronically: 100 %

	Approved	Change Due to Adjustment in Agency Estimate
Annual Number of Responses for this IC	203,969	203,969
Annual IC Time Burden (Hours)	101,985	101,985
Annual IC Cost Burden (Dollars)	13,276,309	13,276,309

Documents for IC

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Blank fields in records indicate information that was not collected or not collected electronically prior to July 2006.