Information Disclosure Statements that do not require the fee set forth in 37 CFR 1.17(p)

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Documents and Forms

Document Name Document Type
Form PTO/SB/08a Information Disclosure Statements that do not require the fee set forth in 37 CFR 1.17(p) Form and Instruction
PTO/SB/08a Information Disclosure Statement by Applicant sb0008a IDS.pdf http:/www.uspto.gov/web/forms/sb0008a.pdf Form and Instruction
PTO/SB/0008b Information Disclosure Statement by Applicant sb0008b IDS.pdf www.uspto.gov/web/forms/sb0008b.pdf Form and Instruction

Information Collection (IC) Details

IC Title:	Information Disclosure Statements that do not require the fee set forth in 37 CFR 1.17(p)	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 1.97 37 CFR 1.98 37 CFR 1.56

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/08a	Information Disclosure Statement by Applicant	sb0008a IDS.pdf	http:/www.uspto.gov/web/forms/sb0008a.pdf	Yes	Yes	Fillable Fileable Signable
Form and Instruction	PTO/SB/0008b	Information Disclosure Statement by Applicant	sb0008b IDS.pdf	http://www.uspto.gov/web/forms/sb0008b.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: 37,328	Number of Respondents for Small Entity: 9,705

Affected Public: Individuals or Households

Percentage of Respondents Reporting Electronically: 0 %

	Approved	Previously Approved
Annual Number of Responses for this IC	37,328	37,328
Annual IC Time Burden (Hours)	74,656	74,656
Annual IC Cost Burden (Dollars)	48,526	48,526

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.