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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Patent and Trademark Office
Missing Parts Practice
ACTION:
Proposed collection; comment
Patent Legal Administration, U.S. Patent
and Trademark Office (USPTO), P.O.
Box 1450, Alexandria, VA 22313–1450;
by telephone 571–272–7728; or by email at raul.tamayo@uspto.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
request.
I. Abstract
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 this new 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 November 1,
2010.
In response to a number of requests to
reduce the costs due one year after filing
a provisional application, the USPTO
published a Federal Register notice
titled ‘‘Request for Comments on
Proposed Change to Missing Parts
Practice’’ proposing a change that would
provide applicants with an extended
time period to reply to a Notice to File
Missing Parts requiring certain fees in a
nonprovisional application if certain
conditions were met. Based on public
feedback, the USPTO is implementing
an extended missing parts pilot program
which will permit applicants to request
a 12-month time period to reply to a
Notice to File Missing Parts of
Nonprovisional Application to pay
certain fees. The pilot program would be
scheduled to run for one year.
The extended missing parts pilot
program is expected to benefit
applicants by permitting additional time
to determine if patent protection should
be sought at a relatively low cost and by
permitting applicants to focus efforts on
commercialization during this period.
The extended missing parts pilot
program is also expected to benefit the
USPTO and the public by adding
publications to the body of prior art, and
by removing from the USPTO’s
workload those nonprovisional
applications for which the applicants
SUMMARY:
You may submit comments
by any of the following methods:
• E-mail:
InformationCollection@uspto.gov.
Include ‘‘0651–00xx Missing Parts
Practice comment’’ 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, U.S. Patent and Trademark
Office, P.O. Box 1450, Alexandria, VA
22313–1450.
• Federal e-Rulemaking Portal:
https://www.regulations.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Requests for additional information
should be directed to the attention of
Raul Tamayo, Legal Advisor, Office of
ADDRESSES:
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will later decide not to pursue
examination.
There is one form associated with this
collection of information. The USPTO
has created PTO/SB/421, Request for
Extended Missing Parts Pilot Program,
for applicants to request participation in
the program.
II. Method of Collection
By mail or electronically through
EFS–Web using Form PTO/SB/421 to
request participation in the extended
missing parts pilot program.
III. Data
OMB Number: 0651–00xx.
Form Number(s): PTO/SB/421.
Type of Review: New information
collection.
Affected Public: Business or other for
profit; not-for-profit institutions.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
10,000 responses per year.
Estimated Time per Response: The
USPTO estimates that it will take 15
minutes (0.25 hours) to gather the
information, prepare the form, and
submit it to the USPTO, depending
upon the complexity of the situation.
The USPTO expects that it will take the
same amount of time to complete and
submit the form, whether it is mailed or
submitted electronically.
Estimated Total Annual Respondent
Burden Hours: 2,500 hours.
Estimated Total Annual Respondent
Cost Burden: $812,500. Using the
professional hourly rate of $325 for
attorneys in private firms, the USPTO
estimates $812,500 per year for salary
costs associated with respondents.
Estimated time
for response
Estimated annual
responses
Estimated annual
burden hours
Request for Extended Missing Parts Program ...................................................................
Request for Extended Missing Parts Program (EFS–Web) ...............................................
15 minutes ......
15 minutes ......
700
9,300
175
2,325
Totals ...........................................................................................................................
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10,000
2,500
Estimated Total Annual Non-Hour
Respondent Cost Burden: $0. There are
no capital start-up or maintenance costs
associated with this information
collection. The request does not have
filing or other fees associated with it.
There are postage and recordkeeping
costs associated with this form;
however, these costs are covered under
OMB Control Number 0651–0032 Initial
Patent Applications. Since the requests
for participation in the extended
missing parts pilot program must be
filed with the nonprovisional
applications, which are covered under
0651–0032, the USPTO has concluded
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that the postage costs and filing fees for
these requests are part of the cost
calculations for 0651–0032 and do not
need to be calculated separately for this
collection.
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,
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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;
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they will also become a matter of public
record.
Susan K. Fawcett,
Records Officer, USPTO, Office of the Chief
Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2010–21767 Filed 8–31–10; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 3510–16–P
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A–583–844, A–570–952]
Narrow Woven Ribbons With Woven
Selvedge From Taiwan and the
People’s Republic of China:
Antidumping Duty Orders
Import Administration,
International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: Based on affirmative final
determinations by the Department of
Commerce (the Department) and the
International Trade Commission (the
ITC), the Department is issuing
antidumping duty orders on narrow
woven ribbons with woven selvedge
(narrow woven ribbons) from Taiwan
and the People’s Republic of China
(PRC). On August 25, 2010, the ITC
notified the Department of its
affirmative determination of threat of
material injury to a U.S. industry.
DATES: Effective Date: September 1,
2010.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Holly Phelps (Taiwan), AD/CVD
Operations, Office 2, or Karine Gziryan
(PRC), AD/CVD Operations, Office 4,
Import Administration, International
Trade Administration, U.S. Department
of Commerce, 14th Street and
Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington,
DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482–0656
and (202) 482–4081, respectively.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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AGENCY:
Background
On July 19, 2010, the Department
published its affirmative final
determinations of sales at less-than-fairvalue in the antidumping duty
investigations of narrow woven ribbons
from Taiwan and the PRC. See Notice of
Final Determination of Sales at Less
Than Fair Value: Narrow Woven
Ribbons with Woven Selvedge from
Taiwan, 75 FR 41804 (July 19, 2010)
(Taiwan Final Determination); Narrow
Woven Ribbons With Woven Selvedge
From the People’s Republic of China:
Final Determination of Sales at Less
Than Fair Value, 75 FR 41808 (July 19,
2010) (PRC Final Determination).
On August 25, 2010, the ITC notified
the Department of its final
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including but not limited to gift bags,
gift boxes and/or other types of ribbon.
Narrow woven ribbons subject to the
orders include all narrow woven fabrics,
tapes, and labels that fall within this
written description of the scope of these
antidumping duty orders.
Excluded from the scope of the orders
are the following:
Scope of the Orders
(1) Formed bows composed of narrow
The scope of the orders covers narrow woven ribbons with woven selvedge;
woven ribbons with woven selvedge, in
(2) ‘‘Pull-bows’’ (i.e., an assemblage of
any length, but with a width (measured
ribbons connected to one another,
at the narrowest span of the ribbon) less folded flat and equipped with a means
than or equal to 12 centimeters,
to form such ribbons into the shape of
composed of, in whole or in part, mana bow by pulling on a length of material
made fibers (whether artificial or
affixed to such assemblage) composed of
synthetic, including but not limited to
narrow woven ribbons;
nylon, polyester, rayon, polypropylene,
(3) Narrow woven ribbons comprised
and polyethylene teraphthalate), metal
at least 20 percent by weight of
threads and/or metalized yarns, or any
elastomeric yarn (i.e., filament yarn,
combination thereof. Narrow woven
including monofilament, of synthetic
ribbons subject to the orders may:
textile material, other than textured
• Also include natural or other nonyarn, which does not break on being
man-made fibers;
extended to three times its original
• Be of any color, style, pattern, or
length and which returns, after being
weave construction, including but not
extended to twice its original length,
limited to single-faced satin, doublewithin a period of five minutes, to a
faced satin, grosgrain, sheer, taffeta,
length not greater than one and a half
twill, jacquard, or a combination of two
times its original length as defined in
or more colors, styles, patterns, and/or
the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the
weave constructions;
United States (HTSUS), Section XI, Note
• Have been subjected to, or
13) or rubber thread;
composed of materials that have been
(4) Narrow woven ribbons of a kind
subjected to, various treatments,
used for the manufacture of typewriter
including but not limited to dyeing,
or printer ribbons;
printing, foil stamping, embossing,
(5) Narrow woven labels and apparel
flocking, coating, and/or sizing;
tapes, cut-to-length or cut-to-shape,
• Have embellishments, including but having a length (when measured across
´
not limited to applique, fringes,
the longest edge-to-edge span) not
embroidery, buttons, glitter, sequins,
exceeding eight centimeters;
laminates, and/or adhesive backing;
(6) Narrow woven ribbons with
• Have wire and/or monofilament in, woven selvedge attached to and forming
on, or along the longitudinal edges of
the handle of a gift bag;
the ribbon;
(7) Cut-edge narrow woven ribbons
• Have ends of any shape or
formed by cutting broad woven fabric
dimension, including but not limited to into strips of ribbon, with or without
straight ends that are perpendicular to
treatments to prevent the longitudinal
the longitudinal edges of the ribbon,
edges of the ribbon from fraying (such
tapered ends, flared ends or shaped
as by merrowing, lamination, sonoends, and the ends of such woven
bonding, fusing, gumming or waxing),
ribbons may or may not be hemmed;
and with or without wire running
• Have longitudinal edges that are
lengthwise along the longitudinal edges
straight or of any shape, and the
of the ribbon;
longitudinal edges of such woven
(8) Narrow woven ribbons comprised
ribbon may or may not be parallel to
at least 85 percent by weight of threads
each other;
having a denier of 225 or higher;
• Consist of such ribbons affixed to
(9) Narrow woven ribbons constructed
like ribbon and/or cut-edge woven
from pile fabrics (i.e., fabrics with a
ribbon, a configuration also known as an surface effect formed by tufts or loops of
‘‘ornamental trimming;’’
yarn that stand up from the body of the
• Be wound on spools; attached to a
fabric);
card; hanked (i.e., coiled or bundled);
(10) Narrow woven ribbon affixed
packaged in boxes, trays or bags; or
(including by tying) as a decorative
configured as skeins, balls, bateaus or
detail to non-subject merchandise, such
folds; and/or
as a gift bag, gift box, gift tin, greeting
• Be included within a kit or set such card or plush toy, or affixed (including
by tying) as a decorative detail to
as when packaged with other products,
determination pursuant to section
735(d) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as
amended (the Act), that an industry in
the United States is threatened with
material injury by reason of less-thanfair-value imports of narrow woven
ribbons from Taiwan and the PRC. See
section 735(b)(1)(A)(ii) of the Act.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Patent and Trademark Office
Missing Parts Practice
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 this new 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 November 1,
2010.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by any of the following methods:
E-mail: InformationCollection@uspto.gov. Include ``0651-
00xx Missing Parts Practice comment'' 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, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, P.O. Box
1450, Alexandria, VA 22313-1450.
Federal e-Rulemaking Portal: https://www.regulations.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Requests for additional information
should be directed to the attention of Raul Tamayo, Legal Advisor,
Office of Patent Legal Administration, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
(USPTO), P.O. Box 1450, Alexandria, VA 22313-1450; by telephone 571-
272-7728; or by e-mail at raul.tamayo@uspto.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Abstract
In response to a number of requests to reduce the costs due one
year after filing a provisional application, the USPTO published a
Federal Register notice titled ``Request for Comments on Proposed
Change to Missing Parts Practice'' proposing a change that would
provide applicants with an extended time period to reply to a Notice to
File Missing Parts requiring certain fees in a nonprovisional
application if certain conditions were met. Based on public feedback,
the USPTO is implementing an extended missing parts pilot program which
will permit applicants to request a 12-month time period to reply to a
Notice to File Missing Parts of Nonprovisional Application to pay
certain fees. The pilot program would be scheduled to run for one year.
The extended missing parts pilot program is expected to benefit
applicants by permitting additional time to determine if patent
protection should be sought at a relatively low cost and by permitting
applicants to focus efforts on commercialization during this period.
The extended missing parts pilot program is also expected to benefit
the USPTO and the public by adding publications to the body of prior
art, and by removing from the USPTO's workload those nonprovisional
applications for which the applicants will later decide not to pursue
examination.
There is one form associated with this collection of information.
The USPTO has created PTO/SB/421, Request for Extended Missing Parts
Pilot Program, for applicants to request participation in the program.
II. Method of Collection
By mail or electronically through EFS-Web using Form PTO/SB/421 to
request participation in the extended missing parts pilot program.
III. Data
OMB Number: 0651-00xx.
Form Number(s): PTO/SB/421.
Type of Review: New information collection.
Affected Public: Business or other for profit; not-for-profit
institutions.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 10,000 responses per year.
Estimated Time per Response: The USPTO estimates that it will take
15 minutes (0.25 hours) to gather the information, prepare the form,
and submit it to the USPTO, depending upon the complexity of the
situation. The USPTO expects that it will take the same amount of time
to complete and submit the form, whether it is mailed or submitted
electronically.
Estimated Total Annual Respondent Burden Hours: 2,500 hours.
Estimated Total Annual Respondent Cost Burden: $812,500. Using the
professional hourly rate of $325 for attorneys in private firms, the
USPTO estimates $812,500 per year for salary costs associated with
respondents.
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Estimated annual Estimated annual
Item Estimated time for response responses burden hours
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Request for Extended Missing Parts Program 15 minutes...................... 700 175
Request for Extended Missing Parts Program 15 minutes...................... 9,300 2,325
(EFS-Web).
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Totals................................ ................................ 10,000 2,500
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Estimated Total Annual Non-Hour Respondent Cost Burden: $0. There
are no capital start-up or maintenance costs associated with this
information collection. The request does not have filing or other fees
associated with it. There are postage and recordkeeping costs
associated with this form; however, these costs are covered under OMB
Control Number 0651-0032 Initial Patent Applications. Since the
requests for participation in the extended missing parts pilot program
must be filed with the nonprovisional applications, which are covered
under 0651-0032, the USPTO has concluded that the postage costs and
filing fees for these requests are part of the cost calculations for
0651-0032 and do not need to be calculated separately for this
collection.
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;
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they will also become a matter of public record.
Susan K. Fawcett,
Records Officer, USPTO, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2010-21767 Filed 8-31-10; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 3510-16-P
