# 2025-09141: USPTO Seeks Comments on Patent Address Paperwork

2025-09141, Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Representative and Address Provisions, is a Federal Register notice from Commerce Department, Patent and Trademark Office published 2025-05-21, effective To ensure consideration, you must submit comments regarding this information collection on or before July 21, 2025.; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-10-22).

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## Facts
- Document number: 2025-09141
- Title: Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Representative and Address Provisions
- Type: Notice
- Agencies: Commerce Department; Patent and Trademark Office
- Citation: 90 FR 21760
- Published: 2025-05-21
- Effective: To ensure consideration, you must submit comments regarding this information collection on or before July 21, 2025.
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: yes
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-10-22

## In one line

USPTO Seeks Comments on Patent Address Paperwork

## Summary

The USPTO is updating how people submit and manage power of attorney and address info for patents and applications. This affects inventors, lawyers, and businesses who deal with patent paperwork. They’re asking for public comments by July 21, 2025, before sending the changes to the Office of Management and Budget, with no new fees involved.

## Abstract

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, invites comments on the extension and revision of an existing information collection: 0651- 0035 (Representative and Address Provisions). The purpose of this notice is to allow 60 days for public comments preceding submission of the information collection to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).

## Effects PRIA read

- Estimated annual filing burden and cost: cost, low. If you file power-of-attorney or address forms with the USPTO, the agency estimates 182,085 annual respondents and responses, totaling 88,922 burden hours and an estimated $12,493,972 in hourly respondent cost burden per year, plus $24,698 in non-hourly costs.
- Petition filing fees for specific requests: cost, medium. Two petition types under this collection carry filing fees under 37 CFR 1.17(f): petitions under 37 CFR 1.36(a) and petitions to waive 37 CFR 1.32(b)(4). The fees are $450 for undiscounted entities, $180 for small entities, and $90 for micro entities; the USPTO estimates 18 such petition filings an…
- Customer Number: one-change updates and special uses: benefit, medium. A USPTO Customer Number lets you associate many filings with a single correspondence mailing address so one change request updates all associated patents and applications. A Customer Number is required to grant power of attorney to more than ten practitioners or to establish a separate "fee address…
- No new fees and public comment deadline: benefit, low. The USPTO states the revision/extension of this information collection involves no new fees and is soliciting public comments on the collection; comments must be submitted on or before July 21, 2025, before the package is sent to OMB for review.

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## Sources
- [2025-09141 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/05/21/2025-09141/agency-information-collection-activities-submission-to-the-office-of-management-and-budget-for)
- [2025-09141 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-05-21/pdf/2025-09141.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-09141 (as of 2026-10-22).