Request for Continued Examination (RCE) Transmittal

Patent Processing

Documents and Forms

Document Name Document Type
Form PTO/SB/30 Request for Continued Examination (RCE) Transmittal Form and Instruction
PTO/SB/30 Request for Continued Examination (RCE) Transmittal sb0030.pdf www.uspto.gov/ebc/portal/efs/sb0030e_fill.pdf Form and Instruction

Information Collection (IC) Details

IC Title:	Request for Continued Examination (RCE) Transmittal	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 1.114

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/30	Request for Continued Examination (RCE) Transmittal	sb0030.pdf	http://www.uspto.gov/ebc/portal/efs/sb0030e_fill.pdf	Yes	Yes	Fillable Fileable Signable

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: 132,000	Number of Respondents for Small Entity: 396

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	132,000	0	132,000
Annual IC Time Burden (Hours)	39,600	0	39,600
Annual IC Cost Burden (Dollars)	255,554,144	40,042,568	215,511,576

Documents for IC

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