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USPTO Requests Comments on Office's Paperwork Burden Collection Procedures

By Donald Zuhn, Kevin Noonan, Chris Singer, Sherri Oslick, and Jason Derry

By Sarah Fendrick -- In order to assess the burden of patent-related paperwork, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has retained ICF International (ICF) to conduct an independent study. As described in a notice in the Federal Regster (75 Fed. Reg. 8649), the overall objectives of the study included: (1) Develop an independent, publicly vetted, objectively based estimate of the total cost of paperwork for patent applicants; (2) Develop recommendations for continued improvement in the accuracy of burden estimates made by the USPTO in the future; and (3) Identify opportunities to reduce applicant burdens. As a result of the study,...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on March 09, 2010 (boomark / email).