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Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
Review and Approval; Comment
Request; Patent Prosecution Highway
(PPH) Program
The United States Patent and
Trademark Office (USPTO) will submit
the following information collection
request to the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) for review and clearance
in accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, on or after the
date of publication of this notice. The
USPTO invites comments on this
information collection renewal, which
helps the USPTO assess the impact of
its information collection requirements
and minimize the public’s reporting
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burden. Public comments were
previously requested via the Federal
Register on May 14, 2024 during a 60day comment period (89 FR 41948).
This notice allows for an additional 30
days for public comment.
Agency: United States Patent and
Trademark Office, Department of
Commerce.
Title: Patent Prosecution Highway
(PPH) Program.
OMB Control Number: 0651–0058.
Needs and Uses: The Patent
Prosecution Highway (PPH) is a
framework in which an application
whose claims have been determined to
be patentable by the Office of Earlier
Examination (OEE) is eligible to go
through an accelerated examination in
an Office of Later Examination (OLE)
with a simple procedure upon an
applicant’s request. By leveraging the
search and examination work product of
the OEE, PPH programs (1) deliver
lower prosecution costs, (2) support
applicants in their efforts to obtain
stable patent rights efficiently around
the world, and (3) reduce the search and
examination burden, while improving
the examination quality, of participating
patent offices.
Initially, the PPH programs were
limited to the utilization of search and
examination results of national
applications between cross filings under
the Paris Convention. Later, the
potential of the PPH was greatly
expanded by the Patent Cooperation
Treaty (PCT)-PPH programs, which
permit participating patent offices to
draw upon the positive results of the
PCT work product from another
participating office. PCT–PPH programs
use international written opinions and
international preliminary examination
reports developed within the framework
of the PCT, thereby making the PPH
available to a larger number of
applicants. Information collected for the
PCT is approved under the USPTO
information collection 0651–0021
(Patent Cooperation Treaty).
More recently, the USPTO and several
other offices acted to consolidate and
replace existing PPH programs, with the
goal of streamlining the PPH process for
both offices and applicants. To that end,
the USPTO and other offices established
the Global PPH pilot program and the
IP5 PPH pilot program. Both the Global
PPH and IP5 PPH pilot programs are
running concurrently and are
substantially identical, differing only
with regard to their respective
participating offices. The USPTO
participates in both the Global PPH pilot
program and the IP5 PPH pilot program.
For USPTO applications, the Global
PPH and IP5 PPH pilot programs
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supersede any prior PPH program
between the USPTO and each Global
PPH and IP5 PPH participating office.
Any existing PPH programs between the
USPTO and offices that are not
participating in either the Global PPH
pilot program or the IP5 PPH pilot
program remain in effect.
This information collection covers
data gathered through the Request for
Participation in the Patent Prosecution
Highway (PPH) Pilot Program, which
the public uses to request an accelerated
examination within the PPH provisions.
The USPTO makes one change to the
information published in the 60-Day
Federal Register Notice to add a new
item, form PTO/SB/20BH (Request for
Participation in the Patent Prosecution
Highway (PPH) Pilot Program Between
the National Patent Office of Bahrain
(NPOB) and the USPTO), due to the
USPTO’s decision to implement a PPH
pilot program with the NPOB. The
addition of this item results in an
increase of 1 respondent, 1 response,
and 2 hours to the estimated annual
burden of this information collection.
Forms: (SB = Specimen Book)
• PTO/SB/20BH (Request for
Participation in the Patent
Prosecution Highway (PPH) Pilot
Program Between the National Patent
Office of Bahrain (NPOB) and the
USPTO)
• PTO/SB/20BR (Request for
Participation in the Patent
Prosecution Highway (PPH) Pilot
Program Between the Brazilian
National Institute of Industrial
Property (INPI) and the USPTO)
• PTO/SB/20CZ (Request for
Participation in the Patent
Prosecution Highway (PPH) Pilot
Program Between the Industrial
Property Office of the Czech Republic
(IPOCZ) and the USPTO)
• PTO/SB/20FR (Request for
Participation in the Patent
Prosecution Highway (PPH) Pilot
Program Between the National
Institute of Industrial Property of
France (INPI) and the USPTO)
• PTO/SB/20GLBL (Request for
Participation in the Global/IP5 Patent
Prosecution Highway (PPH) Pilot
Program in the USPTO)
• PTO/SB/20MA (Request for
Participation in the Patent
Prosecution Highway (PPH) Pilot
Program Between the Moroccan Office
of Industrial and Commercial
Property (OMPIC) and the USPTO)
• PTO/SB/20MX (Request for
Participation in the Patent
Prosecution Highway (PPH) Pilot
Program Between the Mexican
Institute of Industrial Property (IMPI)
and the USPTO)
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• PTO/SB/20MY (Request for
Participation in the Patent
Prosecution Highway (PPH) Pilot
Program Between the Intellectual
Property Corporation of Malaysia
(MYIPO) and the USPTO)
• PTO/SB/20NI (Request for
Participation in the Patent
Prosecution Highway (PPH) Pilot
Program Between the Nicaraguan
Registry of Intellectual Property
(NRIP) and the USPTO)
• PTO/SB/20PH (Request for
Participation in the Patent
Prosecution Highway (PPH) Pilot
Program Between the Intellectual
Property Office of the Philippines
(IPOPH) and the USPTO)
• PTO/SB/20RO (Request for
Participation in the Patent
Prosecution Highway (PPH) Pilot
Program Between the Romanian State
Office for Inventions and Trademarks
(OSIM) and the USPTO)
• PTO/SB/20SA (Request for
Participation in the Patent
Prosecution Highway (PPH) Pilot
Program Between the Saudi Authority
for Intellectual Property of the
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (SAIP) and
the USPTO)
• PTO/SB/20TW (Request for
Participation in the Patent
Prosecution Highway (PPH) Pilot
Program Between the Taiwan
Intellectual Property Office (TIPO)
and the USPTO)
Type of Review: Extension and
revision of a currently approved
information collection.
Affected Public: Private sector.
Respondent’s Obligation: Required to
obtain or retain benefits.
Frequency: On occasion.
Estimated Number of Annual
Respondents: 8,586 respondents.
Estimated Number of Annual
Responses: 8,586 responses.
Estimated Time per Response: The
USPTO estimates that the responses in
this information collection will take the
public approximately 2 hours to
complete. This includes the time to
gather the necessary information, create
the document, and submit the
completed request to the USPTO.
Estimated Total Annual Respondent
Burden Hours: 17,172 hours.
Estimated Total Annual Respondent
Non-Hourly Cost Burden: $0.
This information collection request
may be viewed at www.reginfo.gov.
Follow the instructions to view
Department of Commerce, USPTO
information collections currently under
review by OMB.
Written comments and
recommendations for this information
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collection should be submitted within
30 days of the publication of this notice
on the following website,
www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain.
Find this particular information
collection by selecting ‘‘Currently under
30-day Review—Open for Public
Comments’’ or by using the search
function and entering either the title of
the information collection or the OMB
Control Number, 0651–0058.
Further information can be obtained
by:
• Email: InformationCollection@
uspto.gov. Include ‘‘0651–0058
information request’’ in the subject line
of the message.
• Mail: Justin Isaac, Office of the
Chief Administrative Officer, United
States Patent and Trademark Office,
P.O. Box 1450, Alexandria, VA 22313–
1450.
Lisa Lawn,
Director, Records and Information
Compliance Program Office, Office of the
Chief Administrative Officer, United States
Patent and Trademark Office.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Patent and Trademark Office
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment
Request; Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) Program
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) will submit
the following information collection request to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for review and clearance in accordance with
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, on or after the date of
publication of this notice. The USPTO invites comments on this
information collection renewal, which helps the USPTO assess the impact
of its information collection requirements and minimize the public's
reporting burden. Public comments were previously requested via the
Federal Register on May 14, 2024 during a 60-day comment period (89 FR
41948). This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public
comment.
Agency: United States Patent and Trademark Office, Department of
Commerce.
Title: Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) Program.
OMB Control Number: 0651-0058.
Needs and Uses: The Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) is a framework
in which an application whose claims have been determined to be
patentable by the Office of Earlier Examination (OEE) is eligible to go
through an accelerated examination in an Office of Later Examination
(OLE) with a simple procedure upon an applicant's request. By
leveraging the search and examination work product of the OEE, PPH
programs (1) deliver lower prosecution costs, (2) support applicants in
their efforts to obtain stable patent rights efficiently around the
world, and (3) reduce the search and examination burden, while
improving the examination quality, of participating patent offices.
Initially, the PPH programs were limited to the utilization of
search and examination results of national applications between cross
filings under the Paris Convention. Later, the potential of the PPH was
greatly expanded by the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT)-PPH programs,
which permit participating patent offices to draw upon the positive
results of the PCT work product from another participating office. PCT-
PPH programs use international written opinions and international
preliminary examination reports developed within the framework of the
PCT, thereby making the PPH available to a larger number of applicants.
Information collected for the PCT is approved under the USPTO
information collection 0651-0021 (Patent Cooperation Treaty).
More recently, the USPTO and several other offices acted to
consolidate and replace existing PPH programs, with the goal of
streamlining the PPH process for both offices and applicants. To that
end, the USPTO and other offices established the Global PPH pilot
program and the IP5 PPH pilot program. Both the Global PPH and IP5 PPH
pilot programs are running concurrently and are substantially
identical, differing only with regard to their respective participating
offices. The USPTO participates in both the Global PPH pilot program
and the IP5 PPH pilot program. For USPTO applications, the Global PPH
and IP5 PPH pilot programs
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supersede any prior PPH program between the USPTO and each Global PPH
and IP5 PPH participating office. Any existing PPH programs between the
USPTO and offices that are not participating in either the Global PPH
pilot program or the IP5 PPH pilot program remain in effect.
This information collection covers data gathered through the
Request for Participation in the Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) Pilot
Program, which the public uses to request an accelerated examination
within the PPH provisions.
The USPTO makes one change to the information published in the 60-
Day Federal Register Notice to add a new item, form PTO/SB/20BH
(Request for Participation in the Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH)
Pilot Program Between the National Patent Office of Bahrain (NPOB) and
the USPTO), due to the USPTO's decision to implement a PPH pilot
program with the NPOB. The addition of this item results in an increase
of 1 respondent, 1 response, and 2 hours to the estimated annual burden
of this information collection.
Forms: (SB = Specimen Book)
PTO/SB/20BH (Request for Participation in the Patent
Prosecution Highway (PPH) Pilot Program Between the National Patent
Office of Bahrain (NPOB) and the USPTO)
PTO/SB/20BR (Request for Participation in the Patent
Prosecution Highway (PPH) Pilot Program Between the Brazilian National
Institute of Industrial Property (INPI) and the USPTO)
PTO/SB/20CZ (Request for Participation in the Patent
Prosecution Highway (PPH) Pilot Program Between the Industrial Property
Office of the Czech Republic (IPOCZ) and the USPTO)
PTO/SB/20FR (Request for Participation in the Patent
Prosecution Highway (PPH) Pilot Program Between the National Institute
of Industrial Property of France (INPI) and the USPTO)
PTO/SB/20GLBL (Request for Participation in the Global/IP5
Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) Pilot Program in the USPTO)
PTO/SB/20MA (Request for Participation in the Patent
Prosecution Highway (PPH) Pilot Program Between the Moroccan Office of
Industrial and Commercial Property (OMPIC) and the USPTO)
PTO/SB/20MX (Request for Participation in the Patent
Prosecution Highway (PPH) Pilot Program Between the Mexican Institute
of Industrial Property (IMPI) and the USPTO)
PTO/SB/20MY (Request for Participation in the Patent
Prosecution Highway (PPH) Pilot Program Between the Intellectual
Property Corporation of Malaysia (MYIPO) and the USPTO)
PTO/SB/20NI (Request for Participation in the Patent
Prosecution Highway (PPH) Pilot Program Between the Nicaraguan Registry
of Intellectual Property (NRIP) and the USPTO)
PTO/SB/20PH (Request for Participation in the Patent
Prosecution Highway (PPH) Pilot Program Between the Intellectual
Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPH) and the USPTO)
PTO/SB/20RO (Request for Participation in the Patent
Prosecution Highway (PPH) Pilot Program Between the Romanian State
Office for Inventions and Trademarks (OSIM) and the USPTO)
PTO/SB/20SA (Request for Participation in the Patent
Prosecution Highway (PPH) Pilot Program Between the Saudi Authority for
Intellectual Property of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (SAIP) and the
USPTO)
PTO/SB/20TW (Request for Participation in the Patent
Prosecution Highway (PPH) Pilot Program Between the Taiwan Intellectual
Property Office (TIPO) and the USPTO)
Type of Review: Extension and revision of a currently approved
information collection.
Affected Public: Private sector.
Respondent's Obligation: Required to obtain or retain benefits.
Frequency: On occasion.
Estimated Number of Annual Respondents: 8,586 respondents.
Estimated Number of Annual Responses: 8,586 responses.
Estimated Time per Response: The USPTO estimates that the responses
in this information collection will take the public approximately 2
hours to complete. This includes the time to gather the necessary
information, create the document, and submit the completed request to
the USPTO.
Estimated Total Annual Respondent Burden Hours: 17,172 hours.
Estimated Total Annual Respondent Non-Hourly Cost Burden: $0.
This information collection request may be viewed at
www.reginfo.gov. Follow the instructions to view Department of
Commerce, USPTO information collections currently under review by OMB.
Written comments and recommendations for this information
collection should be submitted within 30 days of the publication of
this notice on the following website, www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. Find this particular information collection by selecting
``Currently under 30-day Review--Open for Public Comments'' or by using
the search function and entering either the title of the information
collection or the OMB Control Number, 0651-0058.
Further information can be obtained by:
Email: [email protected]. Include ``0651-
0058 information request'' in the subject line of the message.
Mail: Justin Isaac, Office of the Chief Administrative
Officer, United States Patent and Trademark Office, P.O. Box 1450,
Alexandria, VA 22313-1450.
Lisa Lawn,
Director, Records and Information Compliance Program Office, Office of
the Chief Administrative Officer, United States Patent and Trademark
Office.
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