Information Collection

Information Disclosure Statements that require the fee set forth in 37 CFR 1.17(p)

IC 4717 under ICR 202312-0651-001 · OMB 0651-0031.

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Documents and Forms

Document Name Document Type
Form PTO/SB/08a Information Disclosure Statements that require the fee set forth in 37 CFR 1.17(p) Form and Instruction
PTO/SB/08a Information Disclosure Statement by Applicant PTOSB08a.pdf http:/www.uspto.gov/web/forms/sb0008a.pdf Form and Instruction
PTO/SB/0008b Information Disclosure Statement by Applicant PTOsb0008b.pdf www.uspto.gov/web/forms/sb0008b.pdf Form and Instruction

Information Collection (IC) Details

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IC Title:	Information Disclosure Statements that require the fee set forth in 37 CFR 1.17(p)	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 1.56 37 CFR 1.97 37 CFR 1.98

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	PTOSB08a.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	PTOsb0008b.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: Patent Application Files	FR Citation: 78 FR 19243

Number of Respondents: 694,000	Number of Respondents for Small Entity: 158,648

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

Percentage of Respondents Reporting Electronically: 99 %

	Requested	Change Due to Adjustment in Agency Estimate	Previously Approved
Annual Number of Responses for this IC	694,000	69,176	624,824
Annual IC Time Burden (Hours)	138,800	-1,110,848	1,249,648
Annual IC Cost Burden (Dollars)	24,826,053	-6,488,419	31,314,472

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Blank fields in records indicate information that was not collected or not collected electronically prior to July 2006.