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independent inventors, assistance to
small businesses, prevention of
unlawful intellectual property practices,
international trends, and cooperation
between Intellectual Property entities,
in addition to other types of
information. The USPTO sponsors
conferences, fairs, speaking
engagements, and training seminars
such as those offered under the Patent
and Trademark Depository Library
Program, as well as other events, to
disseminate this information. In order to
plan for these events, the USPTO must
collect information from the attendees.
The USPTO plans to use an online
registration screen available through the
https://www.uspto.gov Web site for all of
the event registrations. However, the
USPTO believes that some of the PTDL
registrations may still be submitted in
paper. Online registration will
standardize data collection for USPTOsponsored events and provide for more
efficient event planning. Attendees may
complete forms for event registration
online and e-mail them to the USPTO,
or they may print, complete in ink, and
mail the registrations to the USPTO. The
USPTO has no plans to disseminate this
information electronically or otherwise.
II. Method of Collection
Registrations for events other than the
PTDLs can only be submitted using the
online registration option. Registration
for various PTDL events can be
submitted electronically. The
registrations can also be submitted by
mail or by hand delivery if applicants
choose to submit the information in
paper form.
III. Data
OMB Number: 0651–00xx.
Form Number(s): No Form Numbers.
Type of Review: New collection.
Affected Public: Primarily business or
other for-profit organizations, but also
individuals or households; not-for-profit
institutions; farms, Federal Government;
and state, local or tribal Government.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
4,100 responses per year.
Estimated Time Per Response: The
USPTO estimates that it will take the
public approximately 5 minutes (0.08
hours) to complete this information,
whether it is mailed to the USPTO or
submitted electronically. This includes
the time to gather the necessary
information, complete the request, and
submit it to the USPTO.
Estimated Total Annual Respondent
Burden Hours: 328 hours per year.
Estimated Total Annual Respondent
Cost Burden: $43,296. It is estimated
that the respondent audience will be 1⁄3
attorneys, 1⁄3 paraprofessionals and
members of the Patent and Trademark
Depository Library Program, and 1⁄3
independent inventors, students, or
other members of the public. Using a
combination of the professional hourly
rates of $286 for associate attorneys in
private firms, $81 for paraprofessionals
and members of the Patent and
Trademark Depository Library Program,
and $30 for independent inventors,
students, and other members of the
public, the USPTO is using an hourly
rate of $132 to calculate the respondent
costs. The USPTO estimates that the
respondent cost burden for this
collection will be $43,296 per year.
Estimated
annual
responses
Estimated
annual
burden hours
Item
Estimated time for
response
Event Registrations (electronic) ..................................................................................
PTDL Registrations (paper) ........................................................................................
PTDL Registrations (electronic) ..................................................................................
5 minutes ...........................
5 minutes ...........................
5 minutes ...........................
4,000
10
90
320
1
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Estimated Total Annual Non-hour
Respondent Cost Burden: $4. This
collection does not have any capital
start-up, maintenance, operation, or
recordkeeping costs or filing fees
associated with it. Customers can
register for PTDL events electronically
or they can print out the request,
complete it, and mail it to the USPTO
through the United States Postal
Service. The USPTO estimates that 10
PTDL registrations will be submitted via
first class mail. First class postage is 39
cents. Therefore, the USPTO estimates a
total annual (non-hour) cost burden of
$4 due to mailing 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
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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: March 6, 2006.
Susan K. Brown,
Records Officer, U.S. Patent and Trademark
Office, Office of the Chief Information Officer,
Architecture, Engineering and Technical
Services, Data Architecture and Services
Division.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Patent And Trademark Office
Submission for OMB Review;
Comment Request
The United States Patent and
Trademark Office (USPTO) has
submitted to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) for clearance the
following proposal for collection of
information under the provisions of the
Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C.
Chapter 35).
Agency: United States Patent and
Trademark Office (USPTO).
Title: Statutory Invention Registration.
Form Number(s): PTO/SB/94.
Agency Approval Number: 0651–
0036.
Type of Request: Extension of a
currently approved collection.
Burden: 4 hours annually.
Number of Respondents: 8 responses
per year.
Avg. Hours Per Response: The USPTO
estimates that it will take 24 minutes
(0.4 hours) to submit a Statutory
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Invention Registration request. This
includes time to gather the necessary
information, create the documents, and
submit the completed request.
Needs and Uses: 35 U.S.C. 157,
administered by the USPTO through 37
CFR 1.293–1.297, authorizes the USPTO
to publish a statutory invention
registration containing the
specifications and drawings of a
regularly filed application for a patent
without examination, providing the
applicant meets all the requirements for
printing, waives the right to receive a
patent on the invention within a certain
period of time prescribed by the
USPTO, and pays all application,
publication, and other processing fees.
This collection includes information
needed by the USPTO to review and
approve and/or deny such requests. The
applicant may petition the USPTO to
review final refusal to publish or to
withdraw a request to publish a
statutory invention registration prior to
the date of the notice of the intent to
publish.
Affected Public: Individuals or
households; business or other for-profit;
not-for-profit institutions; farms, the
Federal Government, and State, Local or
Tribal Governments.
Frequency: On occasion.
Respondent’s Obligation: Required to
obtain or retain benefits.
OMB Desk Officer: David Rostker,
(202) 395–3897.
Copies of the above information
collection proposal can be obtained by
any of the following methods:
• E-mail: Susan.Brown@uspto.gov.
Include ‘‘0651–0036 copy request’’ in
the subject line of the message.
• Fax: 571–273–0112, marked to the
attention of Susan Brown.
• Mail: Susan K. Brown, Records
Officer, Office of the Chief Information
Officer, Architecture, Engineering and
Technical Services, Data Architecture
and Services Division, U.S. Patent and
Trademark Office, P.O. Box 1450,
Alexandria, VA 22313–1450.
Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent on
or before April 13, 2006 to David
Rostker, OMB Desk Officer, Room
10202, New Executive Office Building,
Washington, DC 20503.
Dated: March 6, 2006.
Susan K. Brown,
Records Officer, USPTO, Office of the Chief
Information Officer, Architecture,
Engineering and Technical Services, Data
Architecture and Services Division.
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CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY
COMMISSION
[CPSC Docket No. 06–C0002]
Acuity Brands, Inc., Provisional
Acceptance of a Settlement Agreement
and Order
Consumer Product Safety
Commission.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: It is the policy of the
Commission to publish settlements
which it provisionally accepts under the
Consumer Product Safety Act in the
Federal Register in accordance with the
terms of 16 CFR 1118.20(e). Published
below is a provisionally-accepted
Settlement Agreement with Acuity
Brands, Inc., containing a civil penalty
of $700,000.00.
DATES: Any interested person may ask
the Commission not to accept this
agreement or otherwise comment on its
contents by filing a written request with
the Office of the Secretary by March 29,
2006.
ADDRESSES: Persons wishing to
comment on this Settlement Agreement
should send written comments to the
Comment 06–C0002, Office of the
Secretary, Consumer Product Safety
Commission, Washington, DC 20207.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Seth
B. Popkin, Trial Attorney, Office of
Compliance, Consumer Product Safety
Commission, Washington, DC 20207;
telephone (301) 504–7612.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The text of
the Agreement and Order appears
below.
Dated: March 8, 2006.
Todd A. Stevenson,
Secretary.
In the Matter of Acuity Brands, Inc.
Settlement Agreement and Order
1. In accordance with 16 CFR 1118.20,
Acuity Brands, Inc. and the staff
(‘‘Staff’’) of the United States Consumer
Product Safety Commission
(‘‘Commission’’) enter into this
Settlement Agreement (‘‘Agreement’’).
The Agreement and the incorporated
attached Order (‘‘Order’’) settle the
Staff’s allegations set forth below.
Parties
2. The Commission is an independent
federal regulatory agency established
pursuant to, and responsible for the
enforcement of, the Consumer Product
Safety Act, 15 U.S.C. 2051–2084
(‘‘CPSA’’).
3. Acuity Brands, Inc. is a corporation
organized and existing under the laws of
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the state of Delaware, and its principal
offices are located in Atlanta, Georgia.
Acuity Brands, Inc.’s businesses, among
other things, design and manufacture
lighting equipment. Lithonia Lighting
conducted the product recalls
referenced in the Agreement and
identified itself as the manufacturer of
those recalled products. Lithonia
Lighting is a division of, and is wholly
owned by, Acuity Lighting Group, Inc.,
which is wholly owned by Acuity
Brands, Inc. Lithonia Lighting is also a
brand of lighting products sold by
Acuity Lighting Group, Inc. Acuity
Brands Inc., Acuity Lighting Group,
Inc., and Lithonia Lighting are
collecting referred to herein as
‘‘Acuity.’’
4. Paragraphs 5 through 38 constitute
the Staff’s allegations based on the
Staff’s investigations. Paragraphs 39
through 48 constitute Acuity’s
responsive allegations disputing the
Staff’s allegations.
Staff Allegations
ELM/ELM II Emergency Lights
5. From August 1992 to May 1997,
Acuity manufactured, and wholesalers
and distributors sold, approximately 1.2
million ELM/ELM2 emergency lights
later recalled on April 13, 2001 (‘‘ELM
Lights’’). The ELM Lights were installed
near exit doors in buildings such as
schools, offices, and shopping centers,
to aid in evacuation in the event of an
emergency.
6. Each ELM Light is a ‘‘consumer
product’’ that Acuity ‘‘distributed in
commerce,’’ and Acuity is a
‘‘manufacturer’’ of that consumer
product, as those terms are defined in
CPSA sections 3(a)(1), (4), (11), and (12),
15 U.S.C. 2052(a)(1), (4), (11), and (12).
7. The ELM Lights had an electrical
component that could overheat when
connected to 277-volt electrical systems,
and that could melt and burn the light
enclosures and other objects, posing a
fire hazard.
8. From January 1996 through
September 2000, Acuity received
reports of ELM Light capacitor failures
and incidents from 33 sites, involving
109 failed capacitors, many of which
included incidents of smoking, melting,
rupturing, burning, and fire. Results
included melted or damaged light
enclosures, damaged walls and carpet,
and one injury, i.e., a burned finger.
From 1996 to 1999, Acuity replaced 345
ELM Lights due to the hazard.
9. Beginning in 1996, Acuity
conducted testing and analysis, and it
made an engineering change relating to
the hazard by switching to a different
and safer type of capacitor. By July
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Patent And Trademark Office
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has submitted
to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for clearance the
following proposal for collection of information under the provisions
of the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35).
Agency: United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
Title: Statutory Invention Registration.
Form Number(s): PTO/SB/94.
Agency Approval Number: 0651-0036.
Type of Request: Extension of a currently approved collection.
Burden: 4 hours annually.
Number of Respondents: 8 responses per year.
Avg. Hours Per Response: The USPTO estimates that it will take 24
minutes (0.4 hours) to submit a Statutory
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Invention Registration request. This includes time to gather the
necessary information, create the documents, and submit the completed
request.
Needs and Uses: 35 U.S.C. 157, administered by the USPTO through 37
CFR 1.293-1.297, authorizes the USPTO to publish a statutory invention
registration containing the specifications and drawings of a regularly
filed application for a patent without examination, providing the
applicant meets all the requirements for printing, waives the right to
receive a patent on the invention within a certain period of time
prescribed by the USPTO, and pays all application, publication, and
other processing fees. This collection includes information needed by
the USPTO to review and approve and/or deny such requests. The
applicant may petition the USPTO to review final refusal to publish or
to withdraw a request to publish a statutory invention registration
prior to the date of the notice of the intent to publish.
Affected Public: Individuals or households; business or other for-
profit; not-for-profit institutions; farms, the Federal Government, and
State, Local or Tribal Governments.
Frequency: On occasion.
Respondent's Obligation: Required to obtain or retain benefits.
OMB Desk Officer: David Rostker, (202) 395-3897.
Copies of the above information collection proposal can be obtained
by any of the following methods:
E-mail: Susan.Brown@uspto.gov. Include ``0651-0036 copy
request'' in the subject line of the message.
Fax: 571-273-0112, marked to the attention of Susan Brown.
Mail: Susan K. Brown, Records Officer, Office of the Chief
Information Officer, Architecture, Engineering and Technical Services,
Data Architecture and Services Division, U.S. Patent and Trademark
Office, P.O. Box 1450, Alexandria, VA 22313-1450.
Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information
collection should be sent on or before April 13, 2006 to David Rostker,
OMB Desk Officer, Room 10202, New Executive Office Building,
Washington, DC 20503.
Dated: March 6, 2006.
Susan K. Brown,
Records Officer, USPTO, Office of the Chief Information Officer,
Architecture, Engineering and Technical Services, Data Architecture and
Services Division.
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