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USPTO News: PTO Seeks Comments Regarding Maintenance Fees Notice

By Donald Zuhn, Kevin Noonan, Chris Singer, Sherri Oslick, and Jason Derry

By Christopher P. Singer -- In a Notice published in the Federal Register (73 Fed. Reg. 47534) on Thursday, October 30, 2008, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published its burden and cost analysis for proposed continuing information collection relating to maintenance fee submissions, and requested comments to the proposed collection.The Office breaks its analysis down into terms of costs associated with "burden hours" (correlating to attorney billable hours) and costs associated with PTO-related fees and surcharges. The PTO estimates the total number of burden hours to be 33,426 hours per year, which incorporates a split of time for tasks...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on November 01, 2008 (boomark / email).