January 2016 0651-0016 Change Worksheet

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Rules for Patent Maintenance Fees

January 2016 0651-0016 Change Worksheet

OMB: 0651-0016

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JUSTIFICATION FOR NONMATERIAL/NONSUBSTANTIVE CHANGE

Rules for Patent Maintenance Fees

OMB Control Number 0651-0016


Background


The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is submitting this request to update the current inventory of information collection 0651-0016: Rules for Patent Maintenance Fees. The fees in 0651-0016 had been moved into collection 0651-0072: America Invents Act Section 10 Patent Fee Adjustment (approved by OMB in January, 2013). This request is to return these fees to 0651-0016 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 0651-0016 and are to be removed from 0651-0072, pending its discontinuation:


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


Item

Responses

Cost

0016 Maintenance fee due at 3.5 years

174,072

$251,580,800.00

0016 Maintenance fee due at 7.5 years

105,048

$343,942,200.00

0016 Maintenance fee due at 11.6 years

76,619

$520,467,900.00

0016 Surcharge – 3.5 years – Late payment within 6 months

6,724

$793,000.00

0016 Surcharge – 7.5 years – Late payment within 6 months

4,444

$543,520.00

0016 Surcharge – 11.5 years – Late payment within 6 months

2,953

$361,040.00

0016 Surcharge after expiration – Late payment is unavoidable

12

$8,050.00

0016 Surcharge after expiration – Late payment is unintentional

1,738

$2,660,900.00

Total

371,610

$1,120,357,410.00


Summary of Changes


The addition of $1,120,357,410 in fees to collection 0651-0016 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

371,610

371,610

Fee

$0.00

$1,120,357,410.00

$1,120,357,410.00


Adding these fees to 0651-0016 (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 $1,120,357,410 in annual (non-hour) costs as a program change.


The 0651-0016 revised total burden is as follows:


  • 371,610 responses

  • $1,120,357,410.00 in annual (non-hour) fees



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