G415 StART 90-Day Interview

StART 90-Day Follow-up Survey
Introduction

OMB Control No. 0651-0080
Expiration Date: XX/XX/XXXX

Hello,
My name is _____________, I'm with the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
You recently completed one of our agency's courses through the StART program. In
an effort to improve our training courses, I'd like to ask you a few questions regarding
your efforts to file a patent application and how the course impacted those efforts. It
should take no more than 20 minutes, and your responses will be kept confidential
and all data will be analyzed in aggregated form only.
If that's ok we will proceed with the survey.

A Federal agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, nor shall a person be subject to a penalty for
failure to comply with an information collection subject to the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, unless the
information collection has a valid OMB Control Number. The OMB Control Number for this information collection is 0651-0080. Public
burden for this survey is estimated to average 20 minutes per response, including the time for reviewing instructions, searching existing
data sources, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and completing and reviewing the information collection. Send comments
regarding this burden estimate or any other aspect of this information collection, including suggestions for reducing this burden to the
Office of the Chief Administrative Officer, United States Patent and Trademark Office, P.O. Box 1450, Alexandria, VA 22313-1450 or
email InformationCollection@uspto.gov.

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StART 90-Day Follow-up Survey
Course Evaluation

1. Which part of the training best enabled you to be successful in submitting a patent application?

2. Did the training have impact on your time, costs, or other area important to you?

3. Were there outside variables (not the training materials or the Pro Se Assistance Center) that supported
you, for instance, legal assistance from another agency, colleagues, peers, or other paid or unpaid support?

4. Overall, how useful has the StART course been to facilitate your work on a patent application?'
Not at all useful

Somewhat useful

Reasonably useful

Very useful

5. Is there anything else about your experience you would like to share?

Thank you for completing our survey. Your responses will help us to evaluate and, if necessary,
improve the course.

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