Petition to Review Refusal to Accept Payment of Maintenance Fee Prior to Expiration of Patent (37 CFR 1.377)

Rules for Patent Maintenance Fees

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IC Title:	Petition to Review Refusal to Accept Payment of Maintenance Fee Prior to Expiration of Patent (37 CFR 1.377)	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 1.377, 1.17(g)

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Line of Business: Economic Development

Subfunction: Intellectual Property Protection

Privacy Act System of Records
Title: COMMERCE/PAT-TM-7 Patent Application Files	FR Citation: 78 FR 19243

Number of Respondents: 1	Number of Respondents for Small Entity: 0

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

Percentage of Respondents Reporting Electronically: 99 %

	Approved	Program Change Due to Agency Discretion	Previously Approved
Annual Number of Responses for this IC	1	0	1
Annual IC Time Burden (Hours)	4	0	4
Annual IC Cost Burden (Dollars)	386	24	362

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