Provisional Application for Patent Cover Sheet

Initial Patent Applications

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Documents and Forms

Document Name Document Type
Form PTO/SB/16 Provisional Application for Patent Cover Sheet Form
sb16_inst.doc www.uspto.gov/ebc/portal/efs/sb16_inst.doc Instruction
PTO/SB/16 Provisional Application for Patent Cover Sheet sb0016.pdf www.uspto.gov/forms/sb0016.pdf Form

Information Collection (IC) Details

IC Title:	Provisional Application for Patent Cover Sheet	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 1.81 through 1.84 37 CFR 1.51 through 1.53 37 CFR 1.41 through 1.43 37 CFR 1.71 through 1.78 37 CFR 1.63 through 1.69 37 CFR 1.16 37 CFR 1.57 and 1.58 37 CFR 1.45 through 1.48

Information Collection Instruments:

Document Type	Form No.	Form Name	Instrument File	URL	Available Electronically?	Can Be Submitted Electronically?	Electronic Capability
Form	PTO/SB/16	Provisional Application for Patent Cover Sheet	sb0016.pdf	http://www.uspto.gov/forms/sb0016.pdf	Yes	Yes	Fillable Fileable Signable
Instruction			sb16_inst.doc	http://www.uspto.gov/ebc/portal/efs/sb16_inst.doc	Yes	Yes	Fillable Fileable Signable

Line of Business: Economic Development

Subfunction: Intellectual Property Protection

Privacy Act System of Records
Title: Patent Application Files	FR Citation: 78 FR 19243

Number of Respondents: 4,000	Number of Respondents for Small Entity: 1,000

Affected Public: Private Sector	Private Sector: Businesses or other for-profits

Percentage of Respondents Reporting Electronically: 0 %

	Approved	Previously Approved
Annual Number of Responses for this IC	4,000	4,000
Annual IC Time Burden (Hours)	72,000	72,000
Annual IC Cost Burden (Dollars)	681,830	681,830

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