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: Unchanged

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

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Number of Respondents: 20	Number of Respondents for Small Entity: 5

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

Percentage of Respondents Reporting Electronically: 95 %

	Approved	Previously Approved
Annual Number of Responses for this IC	20	20
Annual IC Time Burden (Hours)	80	80
Annual IC Cost Burden (Dollars)	1	1

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