2024-14917. Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Patent Reexaminations, Supplemental Examinations, and Post Patent Submissions

Table 1—Total Burden Hours and Hourly Costs to Private Sector Respondents

Item No.	Item	Estimated annual respondents	Responses per respondent	Estimated annual responses	Estimated time for response (hours)	Estimated burden (hour/year)	Rate 1 ($/hour)	Estimated annual respondent cost burden
		(a)	(b)	(a) × (b) = (c)	(d)	(c) × (d) = (e)	(f)	(e) × (f) = (g)
1	Request for Supplemental Examination PTO/SB/59	30	1	30	25	750	$447	$335,250
2	Request for Ex Parte Reexamination PTO/SB/57	332	1	332	55	18,260	447	8,162,220
3	Petition in a Reexamination Proceeding (except for those specifically enumerated in 37 CFR 1.550(i) and 1.937(d))	117	1	117	23	2,691	447	1,202,877
4	Patent Owner's 37 CFR 1.530 Statement	25	1	25	8	200	447	89,400
5	Third Party Requester's 37 CFR 1.535 Reply	15	1	15	8	120	447	53,640
6	Amendment in Ex Parte or Inter Partes Reexamination	15	1	15	33	495	447	221,265
7	Third Party Requester's 37 CFR 1.947 Comments in Inter Partes Reexamination	1	1	1	41	41	447	18,327
8	Response to Final Rejection in Ex Parte Reexamination	148	1	148	17	2,516	447	1,124,652
9	Patent Owner's 37 CFR 1.951 Comments in Inter Partes Reexamination	1	1	1	41	41	447	18,327
10	Third Party Requester's 37 CFR 1.951 Response in Inter Partes Reexamination	1	1	1	41	41	447	18,327
11	Petition to Request Extension of Time in Ex Parte or Inter Partes Reexamination	157	1	157	0.5	79	447	35,313
12	37 CFR 1.501 Information Disclosure Citation in a Patent PTO/SB/42	32	1.5	48	10	480	447	214,560
Totals		874		890		25,714		11,494,158
1  2023 Report of the Economic Survey, published by the Committee on Economics of Legal Practice of the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA); pg. F-41. The USPTO uses the average billing rate for intellectual property work in all firms which is $447 per hour ( https://www.aipla.org/​home/​news-publications/​economic-survey).

Estimated Total Annual Respondent Non-hourly Cost Burden: $3,680,879. There are no capital start-up, maintenance costs, or recordkeeping costs associated with this information collection. However, the USPTO estimates that the total annual non-hour cost burden for this information collection, in the form of filing fees and postage, is $3,680,879.

Filing Fees

There are filing fees associated with this information collection, which are listed in the table below.

Table 2—Filing Fees

Item No.	Fee code(s)	Item	Estimated annual responses	Filing fee ($)	Total non-hour cost burden (yr) ($)
			(a)	(b)	(a) × (b) = (c)
1	1826	Request for supplemental examination (undiscounted entity)	17	$4,620	$78,540
1	2826	Request for supplemental examination (small entity)	12	1,848	22,176
1	3826	Request for supplemental examination (micro entity)	1	924	924
1	1827	Reexamination ordered as a result of supplemental examination (undiscounted entity)	10	12,700	127,000
1	2827	Reexamination ordered as a result of supplemental examination (small entity)	1	5,080	5,080
1	3827	Reexamination ordered as a result of supplemental examination (micro entity)	1	2,540	2,540
1	1828	Supplemental examination document size fee—for nonpatent document having between 21 and 50 sheets (undiscounted entity)	19	180	3,420
1	2828	Supplemental examination document size fee—for nonpatent document having between 21 and 50 sheets (small entity)	12	72	864
1	3828	Supplemental examination document size fee—for nonpatent document having between 21 and 50 sheets (micro entity)	1	36	36
1	1829	Supplemental examination document size fee—for each additional 50 sheets or a fraction thereof in a nonpatent document (undiscounted entity)	1	300	300
1	2829	Supplemental examination document size fee—for each additional 50 sheets or a fraction thereof in a nonpatent document (small entity)	3	120	360
1	3829	Supplemental examination document size fee—for each additional 50 sheets or a fraction thereof in a nonpatent document (micro entity)	1	60	60
2	1821	Each reexamination independent claim in excess of three and also in excess of the number of such claims in the patent under reexamination (undiscounted entity)	112	480	53,760
2	2821	Each reexamination independent claim in excess of three and also in excess of the number of such claims in the patent under reexamination (small entity)	49	192	9,408
2	3821	Each reexamination independent claim in excess of three and also in excess of the number of such claims in the patent under reexamination (micro entity)	1	96	96
2	1822	Each reexamination claim in excess of 20 and also in excess of the number of claims in the patent under reexamination (undiscounted entity)	1,626	100	162,600
2	2822	Each reexamination claim in excess of 20 and also in excess of the number of claims in the patent under reexamination (small entity)	298	40	11,920
2	3822	Each reexamination claim in excess of 20 and also in excess of the number of claims in the patent under reexamination (micro entity)	1	20	20
2	1831	Ex parte reexamination (§ 1.510(a)) streamlined (undiscounted entity)	23	6,300	144,900
2	2831	Ex parte reexamination (§ 1.510(a)) streamlined (small entity)	67	2,520	168,840
2	3831	Ex parte reexamination (§ 1.510(a)) streamlined (micro entity)	2	1,260	2,520
2	1812	Ex parte reexamination (§ 1.510(a)) non-streamlined (undiscounted entity)	195	12,600	2,457,000
2	2812	Ex parte reexamination (§ 1.510(a)) non-streamlined (small entity)	45	5,040	226,800
2	3812	Ex parte reexamination (§ 1.510(a)) non-streamlined (micro entity)	1	2,520	2,520
3	1824	Petitions in a reexamination proceeding, except for those specifically enumerated in 37 CFR 1.550(i) and 1.937(d) (undiscounted entity)	87	2,040	177,480
3	2824	Petitions in a reexamination proceeding, except for those specifically enumerated in 37 CFR 1.550(i) and 1.937(d) (small entity)	25	816	20,400
3	3824	Petitions in a reexamination proceeding, except for those specifically enumerated in 37 CFR 1.550(i) and 1.937(d) (micro entity)	3	408	1,224
Totals			2,614		3,680,788