Petitions to Make Special under Accelerated Examination Program (EFS-Web only)

Patent Petitions Related to Application and Reexamination Processing Fees

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Documents and Forms

Document Name Document Type
Form PTO/SB/28 Petitions to Make Special under Accelerated Examination Program (EFS-Web only) Form and Instruction
PTO/SB/28 Petition to Make Special Under Accelerated Examination P sb0028_fill.pdf www.uspto.gov/web/forms/sb0028_fill.pdf Form and Instruction

Information Collection (IC) Details

IC Title:	Petitions to Make Special under Accelerated Examination Program (EFS-Web only)	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 1.102

Information Collection Instruments:

Document Type	Form No.	Form Name	Instrument File	URL	Available Electronically?	Can Be Submitted Electronically?	Electronic Capability
Form and Instruction	PTO/SB/28	Petition to Make Special Under Accelerated Examination Program	sb0028_fill.pdf	http://www.uspto.gov/web/forms/sb0028_fill.pdf	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: 450	Number of Respondents for Small Entity: 137

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	Previously Approved
Annual Number of Responses for this IC	450	-100	550
Annual IC Time Burden (Hours)	5,400	-1,200	6,600
Annual IC Cost Burden (Dollars)	0	0	0

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.