Electronic Maintenance Fee Transactions

Rules for Patent Maintenance Fees

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Documents and Forms

Document Name Document Type
pra_maintFees-example.pdf ramps.uspto.gov/eram/patentMaintFees.do Other-Sample web form

Information Collection (IC) Details

IC Title:	Electronic Maintenance Fee Transactions	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 1.362 and 1.366 37 CFR 1.20(e)-(h)

Information Collection Instruments:

Document Type	Form No.	Form Name	Instrument File	URL	Available Electronically?	Can Be Submitted Electronically?	Electronic Capability
Other-Sample web form			pra_maintFees-example.pdf	https://ramps.uspto.gov/eram/patentMaintFees.do	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: 436,600	Number of Respondents for Small Entity: 93,889

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

Percentage of Respondents Reporting Electronically: 100 %

	Approved	Program Change Due to Agency Discretion	Previously Approved
Annual Number of Responses for this IC	436,600	11,100	425,500
Annual IC Time Burden (Hours)	2,426	62	2,364
Annual IC Cost Burden (Dollars)	1,332,344,500	1,332,344,500	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.