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Type of Review: Revision of a
currently approved collection.
Affected Public: Businesses or other
for-profits.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 95
responses per year.
Estimated Time per Response: The
USPTO estimates that it will take the
public approximately 15 minutes (0.25
hours) to gather the necessary
information, prepare the form, and
submit the request for recordal or
renewal of a fastener insignia to the
USPTO.
Estimated Total Annual Respondent
Burden Hours: 24 hours.
Estimated Total Annual Respondent
Cost Burden: $3,000. The USPTO
expects that the information in this
collection will be prepared by
paraprofessionals at an estimated rate of
$125 per hour. Therefore, the USPTO
estimates that the respondent cost
burden for this collection will be
approximately $3,000 per year.
Estimated
annual
responses
Estimated
annual burden
hours
Item
Estimated time for response
Application for Recordal of Insignia or Renewal/Reactivation of
Recordal Under the Fastener Quality Act (PTO–1611).
15 minutes .......................................
95
24
Totals ..................................................................................................
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95
24
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Estimated Total Annual Non-Hour
Respondent Cost Burden: $2,047. There
are no capital start-up, recordkeeping, or
maintenance costs associated with this
information collection. However, this
collection does have annual (non-hour)
costs in the form of filing fees and
postage costs.
Under 37 CFR 2.7, the filing fee is $20
for a recordal of a new fastener insignia,
a renewal, or a request for reactivation.
The USPTO estimates that it will
receive 95 new recordals, renewals, or
reactivations of fastener insignia per
year, for a total of $1,900 in filing fees.
If a manufacturer submits a renewal
after the expiration date but within six
months of that date, then the
manufacturer must pay an additional
$20 late-renewal surcharge. The USPTO
estimates that approximately 7 of the 95
responses per year will be late renewals
that incur the surcharge, for a total of
$140 in additional charges. Therefore,
the total estimated filing fees for this
collection will be $2,040 per year.
The public may submit the
information for this collection to the
USPTO by mail through the United
States Postal Service. The USPTO
estimates that approximately 5 of the 95
responses per year will be submitted to
the USPTO by mail at an average firstclass postage cost of $1.42 per response,
for a total postage cost of approximately
$7 per year.
The total non-hour respondent cost
burden for this collection in the form of
filing fees ($2,040) and postage costs
($7) is estimated to be $2,047 per year.
IV. Request for Comments
Comments are invited on: (a) Whether
the proposed collection of information
is necessary for the proper performance
of the functions of the agency, including
whether the information shall have
practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden
(including hours and cost) of the
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proposed collection of information; (c)
ways to enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and (d) ways to minimize the
burden of the collection of information
on respondents, e.g., the use of
automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
Comments submitted in response to
this notice will be summarized or
included in the request for OMB
approval of this information collection;
they also will become a matter of public
record.
Dated: October 23, 2014.
Marcie Lovett,
Records Management Division Director,
USPTO, Office of the Chief Information
Officer.
[FR Doc. 2014–25861 Filed 10–29–14; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 3510–16–P
Patent and Trademark Office
Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH)
Program
Proposed collection; comment
request.
The United States Patent and
Trademark Office (USPTO), as part of its
continuing effort to reduce paperwork
and respondent burden, invites the
general public and other Federal
agencies to take this opportunity to
comment on a continuing information
collection, as required by the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, Public Law 104–
13 (44 U.S. C. 3506(c)(2)(A)).
DATES: Written comments must be
submitted on or before December 29,
2014.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
by any of the following methods:
• E-Mail: InformationCollection@
uspto.gov. Include ‘‘0651–0058
SUMMARY:
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Requests for additional information
should be directed to Raul Tamayo,
Senior Legal Advisor, Office of Patent
Legal Administration, United States
Patent and Trademark Office, P.O. Box
1450, Alexandria, VA 22313–1450; by
telephone at 571–272–7728; or by email
to Raul.Tamayo@uspto.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Abstract
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
ACTION:
comment’’ in the subject line of the
message.
• Mail: Marcie Lovett, Records
Management Division Director, Office of
the Chief Information Officer, United
States Patent and Trademark Office,
P.O. Box 1450, Alexandria, VA 22313–
1450.
• Federal Rulemaking Portal: https://
www.regulations.gov.
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The Patent Prosecution Highway
(PPH) is a framework in which an
application whose claims have been
determined to be patentable by an Office
of Earlier Examination (OEE) is eligible
to go through an accelerated
examination in an Office of Later
Examination 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.
Originally, 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 PCT–PPH programs, which
permit participating patent offices to
draw upon the positive results of the
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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 OMB control
number 0651–0021.
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. 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 is participating in both the
Global PPH pilot program and the IP5
PPH pilot program. For USPTO
applications, the Global PPH and IP5
PPH pilot programs 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.
For more complete information on the
PPH, including (1) a complete
identification of participating countries
and offices and the programs under
which each country/office is
participating, (2) the forms needed to
request entry into the PPH, both at the
USPTO and other participating offices,
and (3) information as to which of the
PPH programs remain pilots and which
have been made permanent, please visit
https://www.uspto.gov/patents/init_
events/pph/index.jsp.
The forms in this collection allow
participants to file in a U.S. application
a request to make the U.S. application
special under a PPH or PCT–PPH
program.
II. Method of Collection
Requests to participate in the PPH
programs must be submitted online
using EFS-Web, the USPTO’s web-based
electronic filing system.
III. Data
OMB Number: 0651–0058.
Form Number(s): PTO/SB/20GLBL/
AT/AU/BR/CA/CN/CO/CZ/DE/DK/EP/
ES/FI/HU/IL/IS/JP/KR/MX/NI/NO/PH/
PL/PT/RU/SG/TW/UK, and PTO/SB/
20PCT–AT/PCT–AU/PCT–CA/PCT–CN/
PCT–EP/PCT–ES/PCT–FI/PCT–IL/PCT–
JP/PCT–KR/PCT–NPI/PCT–RU/PCT–
SE/PCT–US.
Type of Review: Revision of a
currently approved collection.
Affected Public: Individuals or
households; businesses or other forprofits; and not-for-profit institutions.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
8,210 responses per year. The USPTO
estimates that approximately 10% of
these responses will be from small
entities.
Estimated Time per Response: The
USPTO estimates that it will take the
public approximately two hours to
gather the necessary information,
prepare the appropriate form, and
submit a completed request to the
USPTO.
Estimated Total Annual Respondent
Burden Hours: 16,420 hours.
Estimated Total Annual Respondent
Cost Burden: $6,387,380. The USPTO
expects that the information in this
collection will be prepared by attorneys.
Using the professional rate of $389 per
hour for attorneys in private firms, the
USPTO estimates that the total annual
respondent cost burden for this
collection will be approximately
$6,387,380 per year.
Estimated
annual
responses
Estimated
annual burden
hours
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Item
Estimated time for response
Request for Participation in the Global/IP5 PPH Pilot Program in the
USPTO (PTO/SB/20GLBL).
Intellectual Property Office of Australia (IPAU), Form PTO/SB/20AU ......
Austrian Patent Office (APO), Form PTO/SB/20AT .................................
Instituto Nacional da Propriedade Industrial (Brazil)(INPI), Form PTO/
SB/20BR.
Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO), Form PTO/SB/20CA ........
State Intellectual Property Office of the P.R.C. (SIPO), Form PTO/SB/
20CN.
Colombian Superintendence of Industry and Commerce (SIC), Form
PTO/SB/20CO.
Industrial Property Office of the Czech Republic (IPOCZ), Form PTO/
SB/20CZ.
Danish Patent and Trademark Office (DKPTO), Form PTO/SB/20DK .....
European Patent Office (EPO), Form PTO/SB/20EP ...............................
National Board of Patents and Registration of Finland (NBPR), Form
PTO/SB/20FI.
German Patent and Trade Mark Office (DPMA), Form PTO/SB/20DE ....
Hungarian Patent Office (HPO), Form PTO/SB/20HU .............................
Icelandic Patent Office (IPO), Form PTO/SB/20IS ...................................
Israeli Patent Office (ILPO), Form PTO/SB/20IL ......................................
Japan Patent Office (JPO), Form PTO/SB/20JP ......................................
Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO), Form PTO/SB/20KR ............
Mexican Institute of Industrial Property (IMPI), Form PTO/SB/20MX ......
Nicaraguan Registry of Intellectual Property (NRIP), Form PTO/SB/20NI
Norwegian Industrial Property Office (NIPO), Form PTO/SB/20NO .........
Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPH), Form PTO/SB/
PH.
Intellectual Property Office of the Republic of Poland (UPRP) Form
PTO/SB/20PL.
Portuguese Institute of Industrial Property (INPI–PT), Form PTO/SB/PT
2 hours .............................................
5000
10,000
2 hours .............................................
2 hours .............................................
2 hours .............................................
30
10
10
60
20
20
2 hours .............................................
2 hours .............................................
30
80
60
160
2 hours .............................................
10
20
2 hours .............................................
10
20
2 hours .............................................
2 hours .............................................
2 hours .............................................
20
150
10
40
300
20
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
.............................................
.............................................
.............................................
.............................................
.............................................
.............................................
.............................................
.............................................
.............................................
.............................................
40
10
10
10
850
150
10
10
10
10
80
20
20
20
1700
300
20
20
20
20
2 hours .............................................
10
20
2 hours .............................................
10
20
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Estimated
annual
responses
Estimated
annual burden
hours
Item
Estimated time for response
Russian Federal Service for Intellectual Property (ROSPATENT), Form
PTO/SB/20RU.
Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS), Form PTO/SB/20SG ...
Spanish Patent and Trademark Office (SPTO), Form PTO/SB/20ES ......
Taiwan Intellectual Property Office (TIPO), Form PTO/SB/20TW ............
United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO), Form PTO/SB/
20UK.
U.S. Applications Where the USPTO was the ISA or IPEA, Form PTO/
SB/20PCT–US.
Intellectual Property Office of Australia (IPAU), Form PTO/SB/20PCT–
AU.
Austrian Patent Office (APO), Form PTO/SB/20PCT–AT ........................
Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO), Form PTO/SB/20PCT–CA
State Intellectual Property Office of the P.R.C. (SIPO), Form PTO/SB/
20PCT–CN.
European Patent Office (EPO), Form PTO/SB/20PCT–EP ......................
National Board of Patents and Registration of Finland (NBPR), Form
PTO/SB/20PCT–FI.
Israeli Patent Office (ILPO), Form PTO/SB/20PCT–IL .............................
Japan Patent Office (JPO), Form PTO/SB/20PCT–JP .............................
Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO), Form PTO/SB/20PCT–KR ...
Nordic Patent Institute (NPI), Form PTO/SB/20PCT–NPI ........................
Russian Federal Service for Intellectual Property (ROSPATENT), Form
PTO/SB/20PCT–RU.
Spanish Patent and Trademark Office (SPTO), Form PTO/SB/20PCT–
ES.
Swedish Patent and Registration Office (PRV), Form PTO/SB/20PCT–
SE.
2 hours .............................................
10
20
2
2
2
2
.............................................
.............................................
.............................................
.............................................
10
10
10
40
20
20
20
80
2 hours .............................................
200
400
2 hours .............................................
30
60
2 hours .............................................
2 hours .............................................
2 hours .............................................
10
10
80
20
20
160
2 hours .............................................
2 hours .............................................
550
10
1100
20
2
2
2
2
2
.............................................
.............................................
.............................................
.............................................
.............................................
10
150
550
10
10
20
300
1100
20
20
2 hours .............................................
10
20
2 hours .............................................
10
20
..........................................................
8,210
16,420
Totals ..................................................................................................
Estimated Total Annual Non-hour
Respondent Cost Burden: $0. There are
no capital start-up, maintenance, or
postage costs associated with this
collection. This collection also has no
filing fees or recordkeeping costs.
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Comments are invited on: (a) Whether
the proposed collection of information
is necessary for the proper performance
of the functions of the agency, including
whether the information shall have
practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden
(including hours and cost) of the
proposed collection of information; (c)
ways to enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and (d) ways to minimize the
burden of the collection of information
on respondents, e.g., the use of
automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
Comments submitted in response to
this notice will be summarized or
included in the request for OMB
approval of this information collection;
they also will become a matter of public
record.
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hours
hours
hours
hours
Dated: October 23, 2014.
Marcie Lovett,
Records Management Division Director,
USPTO, Office of the Chief Information
Officer.
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CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION:
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Secretary of the Commission.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Patent and Trademark Office
Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) Program
ACTION: Proposed collection; comment request.
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SUMMARY: The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), as part
of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden,
invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this
opportunity to comment on a continuing information collection, as
required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, Public Law 104-13 (44
U.S. C. 3506(c)(2)(A)).
DATES: Written comments must be submitted on or before December 29,
2014.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by any of the following methods:
E-Mail: InformationCollection@uspto.gov. Include ``0651-
0058 comment'' in the subject line of the message.
Mail: Marcie Lovett, Records Management Division Director,
Office of the Chief Information Officer, United States Patent and
Trademark Office, P.O. Box 1450, Alexandria, VA 22313-1450.
Federal Rulemaking Portal: https://www.regulations.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Requests for additional information
should be directed to Raul Tamayo, Senior Legal Advisor, Office of
Patent Legal Administration, United States Patent and Trademark Office,
P.O. Box 1450, Alexandria, VA 22313-1450; by telephone at 571-272-7728;
or by email to Raul.Tamayo@uspto.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Abstract
The Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) is a framework in which an
application whose claims have been determined to be patentable by an
Office of Earlier Examination (OEE) is eligible to go through an
accelerated examination in an Office of Later Examination 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.
Originally, 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 PCT-PPH programs, which permit participating patent
offices to draw upon the positive results of the
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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 OMB control number 0651-0021.
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. 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 is participating in both the Global PPH pilot program and the
IP5 PPH pilot program. For USPTO applications, the Global PPH and IP5
PPH pilot programs 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.
For more complete information on the PPH, including (1) a complete
identification of participating countries and offices and the programs
under which each country/office is participating, (2) the forms needed
to request entry into the PPH, both at the USPTO and other
participating offices, and (3) information as to which of the PPH
programs remain pilots and which have been made permanent, please visit
https://www.uspto.gov/patents/init_events/pph/index.jsp.
The forms in this collection allow participants to file in a U.S.
application a request to make the U.S. application special under a PPH
or PCT-PPH program.
II. Method of Collection
Requests to participate in the PPH programs must be submitted
online using EFS-Web, the USPTO's web-based electronic filing system.
III. Data
OMB Number: 0651-0058.
Form Number(s): PTO/SB/20GLBL/AT/AU/BR/CA/CN/CO/CZ/DE/DK/EP/ES/FI/
HU/IL/IS/JP/KR/MX/NI/NO/PH/PL/PT/RU/SG/TW/UK, and PTO/SB/20PCT-AT/PCT-
AU/PCT-CA/PCT-CN/PCT-EP/PCT-ES/PCT-FI/PCT-IL/PCT-JP/PCT-KR/PCT-NPI/PCT-
RU/PCT-SE/PCT-US.
Type of Review: Revision of a currently approved collection.
Affected Public: Individuals or households; businesses or other
for-profits; and not-for-profit institutions.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 8,210 responses per year. The
USPTO estimates that approximately 10% of these responses will be from
small entities.
Estimated Time per Response: The USPTO estimates that it will take
the public approximately two hours to gather the necessary information,
prepare the appropriate form, and submit a completed request to the
USPTO.
Estimated Total Annual Respondent Burden Hours: 16,420 hours.
Estimated Total Annual Respondent Cost Burden: $6,387,380. The
USPTO expects that the information in this collection will be prepared
by attorneys. Using the professional rate of $389 per hour for
attorneys in private firms, the USPTO estimates that the total annual
respondent cost burden for this collection will be approximately
$6,387,380 per year.
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Estimated Estimated
Item Estimated time for response annual annual burden
responses hours
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Request for Participation in the Global/IP5 2 hours......................... 5000 10,000
PPH Pilot Program in the USPTO (PTO/SB/
20GLBL).
Intellectual Property Office of Australia 2 hours......................... 30 60
(IPAU), Form PTO/SB/20AU.
Austrian Patent Office (APO), Form PTO/SB/20AT 2 hours......................... 10 20
Instituto Nacional da Propriedade Industrial 2 hours......................... 10 20
(Brazil)(INPI), Form PTO/SB/20BR.
Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO), 2 hours......................... 30 60
Form PTO/SB/20CA.
State Intellectual Property Office of the 2 hours......................... 80 160
P.R.C. (SIPO), Form PTO/SB/20CN.
Colombian Superintendence of Industry and 2 hours......................... 10 20
Commerce (SIC), Form PTO/SB/20CO.
Industrial Property Office of the Czech 2 hours......................... 10 20
Republic (IPOCZ), Form PTO/SB/20CZ.
Danish Patent and Trademark Office (DKPTO), 2 hours......................... 20 40
Form PTO/SB/20DK.
European Patent Office (EPO), Form PTO/SB/20EP 2 hours......................... 150 300
National Board of Patents and Registration of 2 hours......................... 10 20
Finland (NBPR), Form PTO/SB/20FI.
German Patent and Trade Mark Office (DPMA), 2 hours......................... 40 80
Form PTO/SB/20DE.
Hungarian Patent Office (HPO), Form PTO/SB/ 2 hours......................... 10 20
20HU.
Icelandic Patent Office (IPO), Form PTO/SB/ 2 hours......................... 10 20
20IS.
Israeli Patent Office (ILPO), Form PTO/SB/20IL 2 hours......................... 10 20
Japan Patent Office (JPO), Form PTO/SB/20JP... 2 hours......................... 850 1700
Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO), 2 hours......................... 150 300
Form PTO/SB/20KR.
Mexican Institute of Industrial Property 2 hours......................... 10 20
(IMPI), Form PTO/SB/20MX.
Nicaraguan Registry of Intellectual Property 2 hours......................... 10 20
(NRIP), Form PTO/SB/20NI.
Norwegian Industrial Property Office (NIPO), 2 hours......................... 10 20
Form PTO/SB/20NO.
Intellectual Property Office of the 2 hours......................... 10 20
Philippines (IPOPH), Form PTO/SB/PH.
Intellectual Property Office of the Republic 2 hours......................... 10 20
of Poland (UPRP) Form PTO/SB/20PL.
Portuguese Institute of Industrial Property 2 hours......................... 10 20
(INPI-PT), Form PTO/SB/PT.
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Russian Federal Service for Intellectual 2 hours......................... 10 20
Property (ROSPATENT), Form PTO/SB/20RU.
Intellectual Property Office of Singapore 2 hours......................... 10 20
(IPOS), Form PTO/SB/20SG.
Spanish Patent and Trademark Office (SPTO), 2 hours......................... 10 20
Form PTO/SB/20ES.
Taiwan Intellectual Property Office (TIPO), 2 hours......................... 10 20
Form PTO/SB/20TW.
United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office 2 hours......................... 40 80
(UKIPO), Form PTO/SB/20UK.
U.S. Applications Where the USPTO was the ISA 2 hours......................... 200 400
or IPEA, Form PTO/SB/20PCT-US.
Intellectual Property Office of Australia 2 hours......................... 30 60
(IPAU), Form PTO/SB/20PCT-AU.
Austrian Patent Office (APO), Form PTO/SB/ 2 hours......................... 10 20
20PCT-AT.
Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO), 2 hours......................... 10 20
Form PTO/SB/20PCT-CA.
State Intellectual Property Office of the 2 hours......................... 80 160
P.R.C. (SIPO), Form PTO/SB/20PCT-CN.
European Patent Office (EPO), Form PTO/SB/ 2 hours......................... 550 1100
20PCT-EP.
National Board of Patents and Registration of 2 hours......................... 10 20
Finland (NBPR), Form PTO/SB/20PCT-FI.
Israeli Patent Office (ILPO), Form PTO/SB/ 2 hours......................... 10 20
20PCT-IL.
Japan Patent Office (JPO), Form PTO/SB/20PCT- 2 hours......................... 150 300
JP.
Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO), 2 hours......................... 550 1100
Form PTO/SB/20PCT-KR.
Nordic Patent Institute (NPI), Form PTO/SB/ 2 hours......................... 10 20
20PCT-NPI.
Russian Federal Service for Intellectual 2 hours......................... 10 20
Property (ROSPATENT), Form PTO/SB/20PCT-RU.
Spanish Patent and Trademark Office (SPTO), 2 hours......................... 10 20
Form PTO/SB/20PCT-ES.
Swedish Patent and Registration Office (PRV), 2 hours......................... 10 20
Form PTO/SB/20PCT-SE.
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Totals.................................... ................................ 8,210 16,420
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Estimated Total Annual Non-hour Respondent Cost Burden: $0. There
are no capital start-up, maintenance, or postage costs associated with
this collection. This collection also has no filing fees or
recordkeeping costs.
IV. Request for Comments
Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed collection of
information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of
the agency, including whether the information shall have practical
utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden
(including hours and cost) of the proposed collection of information;
(c) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and (d) ways to minimize the burden of the
collection of information on respondents, e.g., the use of automated
collection techniques or other forms of information technology.
Comments submitted in response to this notice will be summarized or
included in the request for OMB approval of this information
collection; they also will become a matter of public record.
Dated: October 23, 2014.
Marcie Lovett,
Records Management Division Director, USPTO, Office of the Chief
Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2014-25866 Filed 10-29-14; 8:45 am]
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