January 2016 0651-0031 Change Worksheet

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January 2016 0651-0031 Change Worksheet

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JUSTIFICATION FOR NONMATERIAL/NONSUBSTANTIVE CHANGE

Patent Processing (Updating)

OMB Control Number 0651-0031


Background


The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is submitting this request to update the current inventory of information collection 0651-0031: Patent Processing (Updating). The fees in 0651-0031 had been moved into collection 0651-0072: America Invents Act Section 10 Patent Fee Adjustment (approved by OMB in January, 2013). The request is to return these fees to 0651-0031 from 0651-0072 to provide appropriate accounting of the fees with the discontinuation of 0651-0072.


This request is only to return the affected fees to the annual (non-hour) cost burden. The table below details the fees that have been moved to 0651-0031 and are to be removed from 0651-0072, pending its discontinuation:


Fees for Respondents – Annual (Non-hour) Cost Burden


Title

Responses

Cost

0036 Request for publication of SIR – Prior to examiner’s action

3

$0.00

0036 Request for publication of SIR – After examiner’s action

1

$0.00

00XX Correct inventorship after first office action on the merits

250

$128,573.00

Total

254

$128,573.00


Summary of Changes


The addition of $128,573 in fees to collection 0651-0031 is to account for these fees following the discontinuation of collection 0651-0072.


Changes in Burden


Burden Type

Currently Approved

Proposed Change

New Estimate

Responses

0

254

254

Fee

$0.00

$128,573.00

$128,573.00


Adding these fees to 0651-0031 (that are currently accounted for in the discontinuing 0651-0072) will increase the annual (non-hour) cost estimates originally reported for the renewal.


Consequently, this collection takes a net burden increase of $128,573 in annual (non-hour) costs as a program change.


The 0651-0031 revised total burden is as follows:


  • 254 responses

  • $128,573 in annual (non-hour) fees



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