Request for Participation in the Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) Pilot Program Between the EPO and the USPTO

Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) Program

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Documents and Forms

Document Name Document Type
Form PTO/SB/20EP Request for Participation in the Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) Pilot Program Between the EPO and the USPTO Form
PTO/SB/20EP Request for Participation in the Patent Prosecution High sb0020ep_fill.pdf www.uspto.gov/forms/sb0020ep_fill.pdf Form

Information Collection (IC) Details

IC Title:	Request for Participation in the Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) Pilot Program Between the EPO and the USPTO	Agency IC Tracking Number:

Is this a Common Form? No		IC Status: Unchanged

Obligation to Respond: Required to Obtain or Retain Benefits

CFR Citation: 37 CFR 1.55, 1.102(a)

Information Collection Instruments:

Document Type	Form No.	Form Name	Instrument File	URL	Available Electronically?	Can Be Submitted Electronically?	Electronic Capability
Form	PTO/SB/20EP	Request for Participation in the Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) Pilot Program Between the EPO and the USPTO	sb0020ep_fill.pdf	http://www.uspto.gov/forms/sb0020ep_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: 150	Number of Respondents for Small Entity: 10

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

Percentage of Respondents Reporting Electronically: 100 %

	Approved	Previously Approved
Annual Number of Responses for this IC	150	150
Annual IC Time Burden (Hours)	300	300
Annual IC Cost Burden (Dollars)	0	0

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