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deposit account, and electronic funds
transfer (EFT). The provisions of 35
U.S.C. 41 and 15 U.S.C. 1113 are
implemented in 37 CFR 1.16–1.28, 2.6–
2.7, and 2.206–2.209.
The USPTO is developing a pilot
program that will allow customers to
access and manage their financial
activity records online. Customers will
be able to create a Financial Profile
through the USPTO Web site by
registering a username and password,
providing contact information, and
specifying the types of notifications and
alerts they would like to receive. After
establishing a Financial Profile,
customers may then add the relevant
account information to the profile in
order to track their credit card, deposit
account, and EFT transactions with the
USPTO.
In the future, customers will also be
able to use their Financial Profiles to
perform transactions with the USPTO
by using their previously stored account
information. The Financial Profiles are
being added to this information
collection.
II. Method of Collection
By mail, facsimile, hand delivery, or
electronically to the USPTO.
Information for Financial Profiles will
be collected electronically through the
USPTO Web site.
III. Data
OMB Number: 0651–0043.
Form Number(s): PTO–2038, PTO–
2231, PTO–2232, PTO–2233, PTO–2234,
PTO–2236.
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:
1,929,205 responses per year, including
500 responses per year for Financial
Profiles.
Estimated Time Per Response: The
USPTO estimates that it will take the
public approximately two to four
minutes (0.03 to 0.07 hours) to prepare
and submit the existing items in this
collection. The USPTO estimates that it
will take the public approximately six
minutes (0.10 hours) to complete and
submit a Financial Profile.
Estimated Total Annual Respondent
Burden Hours: 58,166 hours per year,
including 50 hours per year for
Financial Profiles.
Estimated Total Annual Respondent
Cost Burden: $2,617,470 per year. The
USPTO expects that 75% of the
submissions for this information
collection will be prepared by fee
administrators/coordinators and that
25% of the submissions will be
prepared by paraprofessionals. Using
those proportions and the estimated
rates of $30 per hour for fee
administrators/coordinators and $90 per
hour for paraprofessionals, the USPTO
estimates that the average rate for all
respondents will be approximately $45
per hour. Using this estimated rate of
$45 per hour, the USPTO estimates that
the respondent cost burden for
submitting the information in this
collection will be approximately
$2,617,470 per year, including $2,250 in
respondent cost burden for the
Financial Profiles.
Estimated time
for
response
(minutes)
Item
Estimated
annual
responses
Estimated
annual burden
hours
Financial Profiles .........................................................................................................................
6
500
50
Total ......................................................................................................................................
........................
500
50
Estimated Total Annual Non-hour
Respondent Cost Burden: $237,168.
This collection is currently approved
with a total of $237,168 in annual (nonhour) cost burden in the form of service
fees for deposit accounts and returned
payments, postage costs for mailing
submissions to the USPTO, and
recordkeeping costs related to electronic
credit card payments and electronic
deposit account replenishments. There
are no additional annual costs
associated with the Financial Profiles.
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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
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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: April 3, 2007.
Susan K. Fawcett,
Records Officer, USPTO, Office of the Chief
Information Officer, Customer Information
Services Group, Public Information 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) will submit
to the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for clearance the following
proposal for collection of information
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under the provisions of the Paperwork
Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35).
Agency: United States Patent and
Trademark Office (USPTO).
Title: Post Allowance and Refiling.
Form Number(s): PTO/SB/44/50/51/
51S/52/53/56/57/58 and PTOL–85B.
Agency Approval Number: 0651–
0033.
Type of Request: Revision of a
currently approved collection.
Burden: 68,245 hours annually.
Number of Respondents: 224,926
responses per year.
Avg. Hours Per Response: The USPTO
estimates that it will take the public
from approximately 1.8 minutes (0.03
hours) to two hours to read the
instructions, gather the necessary
information, prepare the appropriate
form or other document, and submit the
information to the USPTO.
Needs and Uses: The USPTO is
required by 35 U.S.C. 131 and 151 to
examine applications and issue them as
patents when appropriate. The
applicant must then pay the required
issue fee to receive the patent and avoid
abandonment of the application. The
USPTO can also correct errors in patents
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and reissue patents as appropriate.
Under 37 CFR 1.510–1.570 and 37 CFR
1.902–1.997, the USPTO may grant
requests for ex parte and inter partes
reexamination proceedings. The public
uses this collection to request
corrections of errors in issued patents,
to request reissue patents, to request
reexamination proceedings, and to
ensure that the necessary fees and
documentation are submitted to the
USPTO. The USPTO is adding two
items to this information collection, an
electronic version of the Issue Fee
Transmittal (Form PTOL–85B) and a
petition to request an extension of time
in ex parte or inter partes reexamination
proceedings. This petition is an existing
requirement that was not previously
covered in this collection.
Affected Public: Individuals or
households, businesses or other forprofits, and not-for-profit institutions.
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.Fawcett@uspto.gov.
Include ‘‘0651–0033 copy request’’ in
the subject line of the message.
• Fax: 571–273–0112, marked to the
attention of Susan Fawcett.
• Mail: Susan K. Fawcett, Records
Officer, Office of the Chief Information
Officer, Customer Information Services
Group, Public Information 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 May 10, 2007 to David Rostker,
OMB Desk Officer, Room 10202, New
Executive Office Building, 725 17th
Street, NW., Washington, DC 20503.
Dated: April 3, 2007.
Susan K. Fawcett,
Records Officer, USPTO, Office of the Chief
Information Officer, Customer Information
Services Group, Public Information Services
Division.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Patent and Trademark Office
[Docket No. PTO–P–2007–0014]
Grant of Interim Extension of the Term
of U.S. Patent No. 4,650,787; Sanvar
United States Patent and
Trademark Office, Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of interim patent term
extension.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: The United States Patent and
Trademark Office has issued a
certificate under 35 U.S.C. 156(d)(5) for
a third one-year interim extension of the
term of U.S. Patent No. 4,650,787.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Mary C. Till by telephone at (571) 272–
7755; by mail marked to her attention
and addressed to the Commissioner for
Patents, Mail Stop Hatch-Waxman PTE.,
P.O. Box 1450, Alexandria, VA 22313–
1450; by fax marked to her attention at
(571) 273–7755, or by e-mail to
Mary.Till@uspto.gov.
Section
156 of Title 35, United States Code,
generally provides that the term of a
patent may be extended for a period of
up to five years if the patent claims a
product, or a method of making or using
a product, that has been subject to
certain defined regulatory review, and
that the patent may be extended for
interim periods of up to a year if the
regulatory review is anticipated to
extend beyond the expiration date of the
patent.
On March 23, 2007, Debiovision Inc.,
the exclusive agent of Debiopharm S.A.
and Debio Recherche Pharmaceutique
S.A., who is the exclusive licensee of
the Administrators of the Tulane
Educational Fund of New Orleans,
Louisiana, the patent owner, timely
filed an application under 35 U.S.C.
156(d)(5) for a third interim extension of
the term of U.S. Patent No. 4,650,787.
The patent claims the human drug
product Sanvar (vapreotide acetate).
The application indicates that a New
Drug Application for the human drug
product Sanvar (vapreotide acetate)
has been filed and is currently
undergoing regulatory review before the
Food and Drug Administration for
permission to market or use the product
commercially.
Review of the application indicates
that except for permission to market or
use the product commercially, the
subject patent would be eligible for an
extension of the patent term under 35
U.S.C. 156, and that the patent should
be extended for an additional one year
as required by 35 U.S.C. 156(d)(5)(B).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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Because it is apparent that the
regulatory review period will continue
beyond the extended expiration date of
the patent (April 25, 2007), a third
interim extension of the patent term
under 35 U.S.C. 156(d)(5) is appropriate.
A third interim extension under 35
U.S.C. 156(d)(5) of the term of U.S.
Patent No. 4,650,787 is granted for a
period of one year from the extended
expiration date of the patent, i.e., until
April 25, 2008.
Dated: April 3, 2007.
Jon W. Dudas,
Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual
Property and Director of the United States
Patent and Trademark Office.
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COMMISSION OF FINE ARTS
Notice of Meeting
The next meeting of the U.S.
Commission of Fine Arts is scheduled
for 19 April 2007, at 10 a.m. in the
Commission’s offices at the National
Building Museum, Suite 312, Judiciary
Square, 401 F Street, NW., Washington,
DC 20001–2728. Items of discussion
affecting the appearance of Washington,
DC, may include buildings, parks and
memorials.
Draft agendas and additional
information regarding the Commission
are available on our Web site: https://
www.cfa.gov. Inquiries regarding the
agenda and requests to submit written
or oral statements should be addressed
to Thomas Luebke, Secretary, U.S.
Commission of Fine Arts, at the above
address or call 202–504–2200.
Individuals requiring sign language
interpretation for the hearing impaired
should contact the Secretary at least 10
days before the meeting date.
Dated in Washington, DC, 4 April 2007.
Thomas Luebke,
Secretary
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Office of the Secretary
[No. DoD–2007–HA–0022]
Proposed Collection; Comment
Request
Office of the Assistant
Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs,
DoD.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
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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) will submit
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: Post Allowance and Refiling.
Form Number(s): PTO/SB/44/50/51/51S/52/53/56/57/58 and PTOL-85B.
Agency Approval Number: 0651-0033.
Type of Request: Revision of a currently approved collection.
Burden: 68,245 hours annually.
Number of Respondents: 224,926 responses per year.
Avg. Hours Per Response: The USPTO estimates that it will take the
public from approximately 1.8 minutes (0.03 hours) to two hours to read
the instructions, gather the necessary information, prepare the
appropriate form or other document, and submit the information to the
USPTO.
Needs and Uses: The USPTO is required by 35 U.S.C. 131 and 151 to
examine applications and issue them as patents when appropriate. The
applicant must then pay the required issue fee to receive the patent
and avoid abandonment of the application. The USPTO can also correct
errors in patents
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and reissue patents as appropriate. Under 37 CFR 1.510-1.570 and 37 CFR
1.902-1.997, the USPTO may grant requests for ex parte and inter partes
reexamination proceedings. The public uses this collection to request
corrections of errors in issued patents, to request reissue patents, to
request reexamination proceedings, and to ensure that the necessary
fees and documentation are submitted to the USPTO. The USPTO is adding
two items to this information collection, an electronic version of the
Issue Fee Transmittal (Form PTOL-85B) and a petition to request an
extension of time in ex parte or inter partes reexamination
proceedings. This petition is an existing requirement that was not
previously covered in this collection.
Affected Public: Individuals or households, businesses or other
for-profits, and not-for-profit institutions.
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.Fawcett@uspto.gov. Include ``0651-0033 copy
request'' in the subject line of the message.
Fax: 571-273-0112, marked to the attention of Susan
Fawcett.
Mail: Susan K. Fawcett, Records Officer, Office of the
Chief Information Officer, Customer Information Services Group, Public
Information 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 May 10, 2007 to David Rostker,
OMB Desk Officer, Room 10202, New Executive Office Building, 725 17th
Street, NW., Washington, DC 20503.
Dated: April 3, 2007.
Susan K. Fawcett,
Records Officer, USPTO, Office of the Chief Information Officer,
Customer Information Services Group, Public Information Services
Division.
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