Electronic Maintenance Fee Transactions

Rules for Patent Maintenance Fees

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Documents and Forms

Document Name Document Type
patent-eMaintFees-sample.pdf ramps.uspto.gov/eram/patentMaintFees.do Other-Sample web form

Information Collection (IC) Details

IC Title:	Electronic Maintenance Fee Transactions	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 1.362 and 1.366 37 CFR 1.20(e)-(h)

Information Collection Instruments:

Document Type	Form No.	Form Name	Instrument File	URL	Available Electronically?	Can Be Submitted Electronically?	Electronic Capability
Other-Sample web form			patent-eMaintFees-sample.pdf	https://ramps.uspto.gov/eram/patentMaintFees.do	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: 136,003	Number of Respondents for Small Entity: 29,855

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

Percentage of Respondents Reporting Electronically: 100 %

	Approved	Program Change Due to Agency Discretion	Change Due to Adjustment in Agency Estimate
Annual Number of Responses for this IC	136,003	0	136,003
Annual IC Time Burden (Hours)	816	0	816
Annual IC Cost Burden (Dollars)	243,643,012	18,338,546	225,304,466

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.