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USPTO Solicits Public Comment on Information Collection

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

By Sarah Fendrick -- As part of its effort to reduce paperwork, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is seeking public comment on its current continuing information collection systems. The first information collection system includes information collected to pay fees for issued patents, to request corrections of errors in issued patents, and to submit applications for reissue patents. The USPTO estimates that under this collection system 217,184 responses are submitted each year at a cost of $284,296,310. The estimated cost includes the time required to prepare the information, the postage costs, and the fees assessed by the USPTO. The second...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on February 16, 2010 (boomark / email).