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OMB Control No: 0651-0071	ICR Reference No: 202412-0651-001
Status: Active	Previous ICR Reference No: 202108-0651-004
Agency/Subagency: DOC/PTO	Agency Tracking No:
Title: Matters Related to First Inventor to File
Type of Information Collection: Revision of a currently approved collection	Common Form ICR: No
Type of Review Request: Regular
OIRA Conclusion Action: Approved without change	Conclusion Date: 03/19/2025
	Date Received in OIRA: 12/18/2024
Terms of Clearance:

	Inventory as of this Action	Requested	Previously Approved
Expiration Date	03/31/2028	36 Months From Approved	03/31/2025
Responses	50	0	144
Time Burden (Hours)	100	0	288
Cost Burden (Dollars)	11	0	8

ICR Summary of Burden

	Total Approved	Previously Approved	Change Due to Adjustment in Estimate
Annual Number of Responses	50	144	-94
Annual Time Burden (Hours)	100	288	-188
Annual Cost Burden (Dollars)	11	8	3

Burden increases because of Program Change due to Agency Discretion: No

Burden Increase Due to:

Burden decreases because of Program Change due to Agency Discretion: No

Burden Reduction Due to:

Short Statement: Changes Since the Publication of the 60-Day Notice Since the publication of the 60-Day Notice in the Federal Register, the USPTO has updated its postage rates to reflect more accurate estimates. This results in an increase of $1 in non-hourly cost burden, for a new estimated total annual burden of $11. Change in Responses and Hourly Burden due to Adjustment in Agency Estimate The total number of respondents has decreased by 94 due to increasing rarity for a newly filed nonprovisional application to claim foreign priority to, or domestic benefit of, an application filed before March 16, 2013, without also claiming benefit of an earlier application in which the statement has already been filed. This decrease in the number of respondents and responses results in a decrease of 188 hours in the annual time burden estimates. Change in Annual Non-hour Costs due to Adjustment in Agency Estimate For this renewal, the USPTO estimates that the total annual non-hour costs will increase slightly by $3 from the previous approval. This increase is due to increased postage rates.

Annual Cost to Federal Government: $418

Does this IC contain surveys, censuses, or employ statistical methods? No

Does this ICR request any personally identifiable information (see OMB Circular No. A-130 for an explanation of this term)? Please consult with your agency's privacy program when making this determination. Yes

Does this ICR include a form that requires a Privacy Act Statement (see 5 U.S.C. §552a(e)(3))? Please consult with your agency's privacy program when making this determination. No

Is this ICR related to the Affordable Care Act [Pub. L. 111-148 & 111-152]? No

Is this ICR related to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, [Pub. L. 111-203]? No

Is this ICR related to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA)? No

Is this ICR related to the Pandemic Response? No

Agency Contact: Raul Tamayo 571 272-7728 raul.tamayo@uspto.gov

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