Request for Expedited Examination of a Design Application

Patent Processing

Documents and Forms

Document Name Document Type
Form PTO/SB/27 Request for Expedited Examination of a Design Application Form and Instruction
PTO/SB/27 Request for Expedited Examination of a Design Applicatio PTOSB27.pdf Form and Instruction

Information Collection (IC) Details

IC Title:	Request for Expedited Examination of a Design Application	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 1.155

Information Collection Instruments:

Document Type	Form No.	Form Name	Instrument File	URL	Available Electronically?	Can Be Submitted Electronically?	Electronic Capability
Form and Instruction	PTO/SB/27	Request for Expedited Examination of a Design Application (37 CFR 1.155)	PTOSB27.pdf		Yes	Yes	Fillable Fileable

Line of Business: Economic Development

Subfunction: Intellectual Property Protection

Privacy Act System of Records
Title: Patent Application Files	FR Citation: 78 FR 19243

Number of Respondents: 7,227	Number of Respondents for Small Entity: 1,662

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

Percentage of Respondents Reporting Electronically: 100 %

	Requested	Program Change Due to Agency Discretion	Previously Approved
Annual Number of Responses for this IC	7,227	0	7,227
Annual IC Time Burden (Hours)	1,807	0	1,807
Annual IC Cost Burden (Dollars)	3,957,720	276,120	3,681,600

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Blank fields in records indicate information that was not collected or not collected electronically prior to July 2006.