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Woman Creek, OH National Estuarine
Research Reserve.
The Estuarine Reserves
Division, Office of Ocean and Coastal
Resource Management, National Ocean
Service, National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
U.S. Department of Commerce has
approved the ACE Basin, SC National
Estuarine Research Reserve and Old
Woman Creek, OH National Estuarine
Research Reserve Management Plan
Revisions.
The revised management plan for the
ACE Basin, SC National Estuarine
Research Reserve outlines the
administrative structure; the education,
training, stewardship, and research
programs of the reserve; and the plans
for future land acquisition and facility
development to support reserve
operations. The objectives described in
this plan address the most critical
coastal issues in ACE Basin related to
habitat conservation, water quality,
community resilience, and public
access. Since the last approved
management plan in 1992, the reserve
has become fully staffed; added a
Coastal Training Program that delivers
science-based information to key
decision makers; and added significant
monitoring of emergent marsh
vegetation, water quality, and invasive
species. In addition to programmatic
and staffing advances, the reserve has
constructed an interpretive center that
houses educational exhibits, classrooms,
offices, conference space, trails and
dock with public access. A field station
with lab facilities, research dock, and
accommodations for visiting researchers
has also been constructed.
This management plan amends the
boundary to include 4,687 acres of the
Botany Bay Plantation located adjacent
to the northeastern corner of Edisto
Island in lower Charleston County, SC.
South Carolina Budget and Control
Board is the property owner and has a
cooperative partnership with South
Carolina Department of Natural
Resources to manage the Botany Bay
Plantation as a Wildlife Management
Area and Heritage Preserve property.
The undeveloped coastal habitats of the
plantation include maritime forest,
coastal shrub, wetlands, tidal marshes
and sand beaches. The property
provides important habitat for
numerous wildlife species, including
critical nesting habitat for the Federally
threatened loggerhead sea turtle and the
state threatened least tern. The lands
contain significant cultural resources
and list several sites on the National
Register of Historic Places. This
management plan amends the boundary
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by also removing 40,089 acres of private
lands previously counted in error. In
total, the ACE Basin Reserve includes
99,308 acres designated for long term
research, education and stewardship.
The revised management plan is
available at: https://www.dnr.sc.gov/
marine/NERR/.
The revised management plan for the
Old Woman Creek, OH National
Estuarine Research Reserve contains the
collective vision, mission, goals, and
objectives of the reserve; updates the
reserve boundary; as well as outlines
plans for facility use and development
to support reserve operations. The
objectives described in this plan address
the most critical coastal issues of the
reserve related to water quality (nonpoint source pollution), invasive
species, habitat loss and regional
ecosystem impacts of climate change.
Since the last approved management
plan in 2000, the reserve has all core
staff; added a Coastal Training Program
that delivers science-based information
to key decision makers; and developed
partnerships to continue to restore and
protect land and waters in the Old
Woman Creek watershed. In addition to
programmatic and staffing advances, the
reserve has completed construction of a
new dormitory, boathouse, and
administrative spaces.
This management plan includes a
boundary expansion of 2.2 acres. This
land was incorporated with the state
nature preserve in 2004 and is subject
to all protection afforded by Ohio laws
governing state nature preserves. The
additional parcel is adjacent to the
reserve’s southwestern boundary and
consists of early successional habitat
(e.g., various Cornus sp.) and will
become an area dominated by mixed
hardwoods. Incorporating these lands
increases the size of the reserve to 573
acres. The revised management plan is
available at: https://
www.oldwomancreek.org.
Tina
O’Connell at (301) 563–7107 or Laurie
McGilvray at (301) 563–1158 of NOAA’s
National Ocean Service, Estuarine
Reserves Division, 1305 East-West
Highway, N/ORM5, 10th floor, Silver
Spring, MD 20910.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Dated: June 24, 2011.
Donna Wieting,
Director, Office of Ocean and Coastal
Resource Management, National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Patent and Trademark Office
Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH)
Program
ACTION:
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 the 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 September 6,
2011.
SUMMARY:
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: Susan K. Fawcett, Records
Officer, 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.
ADDRESSES:
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Requests for additional information
should be directed to Magdalen
Greenlief, Office of the Associate
Commissioner for Patent Examination
Policy, United States Patent and
Trademark Office, P.O. Box 1450,
Alexandria, VA 22313–1450; by
telephone at 571–272–8850; or by e-mail
to Magdalen.Greenlief@uspto.gov.
Additional information about this
collection is also available at https://
www.reginfo.gov under ‘‘Information
Collection Review.’’
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Abstract
The Patent Prosecution Highway
(PPH) pilot program was originally
established between the United States
Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
and the Japan Patent Office (JPO) on
July 3, 2006. The USPTO and the JPO
agreed at the November 2007 Trilateral
Conference to fully implement the PPH
program on a permanent basis starting
on January 4, 2008.
The USPTO entered into a PPH pilot
program with the United Kingdom
Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) on
September 4, 2007. Since then,
additional PPH pilot programs have
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been established between the USPTO
and the intellectual property offices of
several other countries. Some of the
pilot programs, such as those with
Japan, Canada, and South Korea, have
become permanent.
The PPH program allows applicants
whose claims are determined to be
patentable in the office of first filing to
have the corresponding application that
is filed in the office of second filing be
advanced out of turn for examination.
At the same time, the PPH program
allows the office of second filing to
exploit the search and examination
results of the office of first filing, which
increases examination efficiency and
improves patent quality. The PCT–PPH
pilot program is an expansion to the
PPH program based on the framework of
the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT).
Information collected for the PCT is
approved under OMB control number
0651–0021.
PPH agreements streamline the patent
system by allowing patent examiners to
avail themselves of the work product
from other participating patent offices.
Originally, the PPH program was
limited to the utilization of search and
examination results of national
applications between cross filings under
the Paris Convention. The newer PCT–
PPH agreements have greatly expanded
the potential of the PPH program by
permitting participating patent offices to
draw upon the positive results of the
PCT work product from another
participating office. The PCT–PPH pilot
program uses international written
opinions and international preliminary
examination reports developed within
the framework of the PCT, thereby
making the PPH program available to a
larger number of applicants.
The forms in this collection allow
participants to file a request in a
corresponding U.S. application and
petition to make the U.S. application
special under the PPH or PCT–PPH
program. The PPH forms collect similar
data; however, there is a unique form for
each participant. This collection
includes forms for these current PPH
programs with the USPTO: Japan Patent
Office (JPO), United Kingdom
Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO),
Canadian Intellectual Property Office
(CIPO), Danish Patent and Trademark
Office (DKPTO), European Patent Office
(EPO), Korean Intellectual Property
Office (KIPO), Intellectual Property
Office of Australia (IPAU), Intellectual
Property Office of Singapore (IPOS),
German Patent and Trade Mark Office
(DPMA), National Board of Patents and
Registration of Finland (NBPR), Russian
Patent Office (ROSPATENT), Hungarian
Patent Office (HPO), Spanish Patent and
Trademark Office (SPTO), Austrian
Patent Office (APO), and the Mexican
Institute of Industrial Property (IMPI).
This collection also includes forms for
these upcoming PPH programs that are
being planned with the USPTO: Israeli
Patent Office, State Intellectual Property
Office of the P.R.C. (SIPO), Instituto
Nacional da Propriedade Industrial
(INPI), and the Taiwan Intellectual
Property Office (TIPO).
This collection includes forms for
these current PCT–PPH pilot programs
with the USPTO: EPO, JPO, KIPO, APO,
ROSPATENT, SPTO, IPAU, NBPR, the
Swedish Patent and Registration Office
(PRV), and in U.S. applications where
the USPTO was the International
Searching Authority (ISA) or
International Preliminary Examining
Authority (IPEA). This collection also
includes forms for these upcoming
PCT–PPH pilot programs that are being
planned with the USPTO: CIPO, SIPO,
and the Nordic Patent Institute (NPI).
Requests to participate in the PPH
programs must be submitted online
using EFS-Web, the USPTO’s Webbased electronic filing system.
III. Data
OMB Number: 0651–0058.
Form Number(s): PTO/SB/20AT/AU/
BR/CA/CN/DE/DK, PTO/SB/20EP/ES/
FI/HU/IL/JP/KR/MX/RU/SG/TW/UK,
and PTO/SB/20PCT–AT/PCT–AU/PCT–
CA/PCT–CN/PCT–EP/PCT–ES/PCT–FI/
PCT–JP/PCT–KR/PCT–RU/PCT–SE/
PCT–US/PCT–XN.
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:
3,700 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: 7,400 hours.
Estimated Total Annual Respondent
Cost Burden: $2,405,000. The USPTO
expects that the information in this
collection will be prepared by attorneys.
Using the professional rate of $325 per
hour for attorneys in private firms, the
USPTO estimates that the total annual
respondent cost burden for this
collection will be approximately
$2,405,000 per year.
Estimated time
for response
(hours)
Item
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II. Method of Collection
Request for Participation in the PPH Program Between the JPO and the USPTO (PTO/SB/
20JP) ........................................................................................................................................
Request for Participation in the PPH Pilot Program Between the UKIPO and the USPTO
(PTO/SB/20UK) ........................................................................................................................
Request for Participation in the PPH Program Between the CIPO and the USPTO (PTO/SB/
20CA) .......................................................................................................................................
Request for Participation in the PPH Program Between the KIPO and the USPTO (PTO/SB/
20KR) .......................................................................................................................................
Request for Participation in the PPH Pilot Program Between the IPAU and the USPTO (PTO/
SB/20AU) .................................................................................................................................
Request for Participation in the PPH Pilot Program Between the EPO and the USPTO (PTO/
SB/20EP) ..................................................................................................................................
Request for Participation in the PPH Pilot Program Between the DKPTO and the USPTO
(PTO/SB/20DK) ........................................................................................................................
Request for Participation in the PPH Pilot Program Between the IPOS and the USPTO (PTO/
SB/20SG) .................................................................................................................................
Request for Participation in the PPH Pilot Program Between the DPMA and the USPTO
(PTO/SB/20DE) ........................................................................................................................
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Estimated
annual
responses
Estimated
annual
burden hours
2
500
1,000
2
100
200
2
100
200
2
200
400
2
100
200
2
100
200
2
100
200
2
100
200
2
100
200
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Estimated time
for response
(hours)
Item
Request for Participation in the PPH Pilot Program Between the NBFR and the USPTO
(PTO/SB/20FI) ..........................................................................................................................
Request for Participation in the PPH Pilot Program Between ROSPATENT and the USPTO
(PTO/SB/20RU) ........................................................................................................................
Request for Participation in the PPH Pilot Program Between the HPO and the USPTO (PTO/
SB/20HU) .................................................................................................................................
Request for Participation in the PPH Pilot Program Between the SPTO and the USPTO
(PTO/SB/20ES) ........................................................................................................................
Request for Participation in the PPH Pilot Program Between the APO and the USPTO (PTO/
SB/20AT) ..................................................................................................................................
Request for Participation in the PPH Pilot Program Between the Israeli Patent Office and the
USPTO (PTO/SB/20IL) ............................................................................................................
Request for Participation in the PPH Pilot Program Between the IMPI and the USPTO (PTO/
SB/20MX) .................................................................................................................................
Request for Participation in the PPH Pilot Program Between the SIPO and the USPTO (PTO/
SB/20CN) .................................................................................................................................
Request for Participation in the PPH Pilot Program Between the INPI and the USPTO (PTO/
SB/20BR) .................................................................................................................................
Request for Participation in the PPH Pilot Program Between the TIPO and the USPTO (PTO/
SB/20TW) .................................................................................................................................
Request for Participation in the PCT–PPH Pilot Program Between the EPO and the USPTO
(PTO/SB/20PCT–EP) ...............................................................................................................
Request for Participation in the PCT–PPH Pilot Program Between the JPO and the USPTO
(PTO/SB/20PCT–JP) ...............................................................................................................
Request for Participation in the PCT–PPH Pilot Program Between the KIPO and the USPTO
(PTO/SB/20PCT–KR) ...............................................................................................................
Request for Participation in the PCT–PPH Pilot Program Between the APO and the USPTO
(PTO/SB/20PCT–AT) ...............................................................................................................
Request for Participation in the PCT–PPH Pilot Program Between the ROSPATENT and the
USPTO (PTO/SB/20PCT–RU) .................................................................................................
Request for Participation in the PCT–PPH Pilot Program Between the SPTO and the USPTO
(PTO/SB/20PCT–ES) ...............................................................................................................
Request for Participation in the PCT–PPH Pilot Program Between the IPAU and the USPTO
(PTO/SB/20PCT–AU) ...............................................................................................................
Request for Participation in the PCT–PPH Pilot Program Between the CIPO and the USPTO
(PTO/SB/20PCT–CA) ...............................................................................................................
Request for Participation in the PCT–PPH Pilot Program Between the NBPR and the USPTO
(PTO/SB/20PCT–FI) ................................................................................................................
Request for Participation in the PCT–PPH Pilot Program Between the PRV and the USPTO
(PTO/SB/20PCT–SE) ...............................................................................................................
Request for Participation in the PCT–PPH Pilot Program Between the NPI and the USPTO
(PTO/SB/20PCT–XN) ...............................................................................................................
Request for Participation in the PCT–PPH Pilot Program Between the SIPO and the USPTO
(PTO/SB/20PCT–CN) ..............................................................................................................
Request for Participation in the PCT–PPH Pilot Program in a U.S. Application Where the
USPTO was the ISA or IPEA (PTO/SB/20PCT–US) ..............................................................
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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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: July 1, 2011.
Susan K. Fawcett,
Records Officer, USPTO, Office of the Chief
Information Officer.
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annual
burden hours
2
100
200
2
100
200
2
100
200
2
100
200
2
100
200
2
100
200
2
100
200
2
100
200
2
100
200
2
100
200
2
100
200
2
100
200
2
100
200
2
100
200
2
100
200
2
100
200
2
100
200
2
100
200
2
100
200
2
100
200
2
100
200
2
100
200
2
100
200
........................
3,700
7,400
COMMITTEE FOR PURCHASE FROM
PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR
SEVERELY DISABLED
Procurement List; Additions
Committee for Purchase From
People Who Are Blind or Severely
Disabled.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
Additions to the Procurement
List.
This action adds products and
services to the Procurement List that
will be furnished by nonprofit agencies
employing persons who are blind or
have other severe disabilities.
SUMMARY:
DATES:
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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 the 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 September 6,
2011.
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: Susan K. Fawcett, Records Officer, 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 Magdalen Greenlief, Office of the Associate
Commissioner for Patent Examination Policy, United States Patent and
Trademark Office, P.O. Box 1450, Alexandria, VA 22313-1450; by
telephone at 571-272-8850; or by e-mail to
Magdalen.Greenlief@uspto.gov. Additional information about this
collection is also available at https://www.reginfo.gov under
``Information Collection Review.''
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Abstract
The Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) pilot program was originally
established between the United States Patent and Trademark Office
(USPTO) and the Japan Patent Office (JPO) on July 3, 2006. The USPTO
and the JPO agreed at the November 2007 Trilateral Conference to fully
implement the PPH program on a permanent basis starting on January 4,
2008.
The USPTO entered into a PPH pilot program with the United Kingdom
Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) on September 4, 2007. Since then,
additional PPH pilot programs have
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been established between the USPTO and the intellectual property
offices of several other countries. Some of the pilot programs, such as
those with Japan, Canada, and South Korea, have become permanent.
The PPH program allows applicants whose claims are determined to be
patentable in the office of first filing to have the corresponding
application that is filed in the office of second filing be advanced
out of turn for examination. At the same time, the PPH program allows
the office of second filing to exploit the search and examination
results of the office of first filing, which increases examination
efficiency and improves patent quality. The PCT-PPH pilot program is an
expansion to the PPH program based on the framework of the Patent
Cooperation Treaty (PCT). Information collected for the PCT is approved
under OMB control number 0651-0021.
PPH agreements streamline the patent system by allowing patent
examiners to avail themselves of the work product from other
participating patent offices. Originally, the PPH program was limited
to the utilization of search and examination results of national
applications between cross filings under the Paris Convention. The
newer PCT-PPH agreements have greatly expanded the potential of the PPH
program by permitting participating patent offices to draw upon the
positive results of the PCT work product from another participating
office. The PCT-PPH pilot program uses international written opinions
and international preliminary examination reports developed within the
framework of the PCT, thereby making the PPH program available to a
larger number of applicants.
The forms in this collection allow participants to file a request
in a corresponding U.S. application and petition to make the U.S.
application special under the PPH or PCT-PPH program. The PPH forms
collect similar data; however, there is a unique form for each
participant. This collection includes forms for these current PPH
programs with the USPTO: Japan Patent Office (JPO), United Kingdom
Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO), Canadian Intellectual Property
Office (CIPO), Danish Patent and Trademark Office (DKPTO), European
Patent Office (EPO), Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO),
Intellectual Property Office of Australia (IPAU), Intellectual Property
Office of Singapore (IPOS), German Patent and Trade Mark Office (DPMA),
National Board of Patents and Registration of Finland (NBPR), Russian
Patent Office (ROSPATENT), Hungarian Patent Office (HPO), Spanish
Patent and Trademark Office (SPTO), Austrian Patent Office (APO), and
the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property (IMPI). This collection
also includes forms for these upcoming PPH programs that are being
planned with the USPTO: Israeli Patent Office, State Intellectual
Property Office of the P.R.C. (SIPO), Instituto Nacional da Propriedade
Industrial (INPI), and the Taiwan Intellectual Property Office (TIPO).
This collection includes forms for these current PCT-PPH pilot
programs with the USPTO: EPO, JPO, KIPO, APO, ROSPATENT, SPTO, IPAU,
NBPR, the Swedish Patent and Registration Office (PRV), and in U.S.
applications where the USPTO was the International Searching Authority
(ISA) or International Preliminary Examining Authority (IPEA). This
collection also includes forms for these upcoming PCT-PPH pilot
programs that are being planned with the USPTO: CIPO, SIPO, and the
Nordic Patent Institute (NPI).
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/20AT/AU/BR/CA/CN/DE/DK, PTO/SB/20EP/ES/FI/
HU/IL/JP/KR/MX/RU/SG/TW/UK, and PTO/SB/20PCT-AT/PCT-AU/PCT-CA/PCT-CN/
PCT-EP/PCT-ES/PCT-FI/PCT-JP/PCT-KR/PCT-RU/PCT-SE/PCT-US/PCT-XN.
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: 3,700 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: 7,400 hours.
Estimated Total Annual Respondent Cost Burden: $2,405,000. The
USPTO expects that the information in this collection will be prepared
by attorneys. Using the professional rate of $325 per hour for
attorneys in private firms, the USPTO estimates that the total annual
respondent cost burden for this collection will be approximately
$2,405,000 per year.
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Estimated time Estimated Estimated
Item for response annual annual burden
(hours) responses hours
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Request for Participation in the PPH Program Between the JPO and 2 500 1,000
the USPTO (PTO/SB/20JP)........................................
Request for Participation in the PPH Pilot Program Between the 2 100 200
UKIPO and the USPTO (PTO/SB/20UK)..............................
Request for Participation in the PPH Program Between the CIPO 2 100 200
and the USPTO (PTO/SB/20CA)....................................
Request for Participation in the PPH Program Between the KIPO 2 200 400
and the USPTO (PTO/SB/20KR)....................................
Request for Participation in the PPH Pilot Program Between the 2 100 200
IPAU and the USPTO (PTO/SB/20AU)...............................
Request for Participation in the PPH Pilot Program Between the 2 100 200
EPO and the USPTO (PTO/SB/20EP)................................
Request for Participation in the PPH Pilot Program Between the 2 100 200
DKPTO and the USPTO (PTO/SB/20DK)..............................
Request for Participation in the PPH Pilot Program Between the 2 100 200
IPOS and the USPTO (PTO/SB/20SG)...............................
Request for Participation in the PPH Pilot Program Between the 2 100 200
DPMA and the USPTO (PTO/SB/20DE)...............................
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Request for Participation in the PPH Pilot Program Between the 2 100 200
NBFR and the USPTO (PTO/SB/20FI)...............................
Request for Participation in the PPH Pilot Program Between 2 100 200
ROSPATENT and the USPTO (PTO/SB/20RU)..........................
Request for Participation in the PPH Pilot Program Between the 2 100 200
HPO and the USPTO (PTO/SB/20HU)................................
Request for Participation in the PPH Pilot Program Between the 2 100 200
SPTO and the USPTO (PTO/SB/20ES)...............................
Request for Participation in the PPH Pilot Program Between the 2 100 200
APO and the USPTO (PTO/SB/20AT)................................
Request for Participation in the PPH Pilot Program Between the 2 100 200
Israeli Patent Office and the USPTO (PTO/SB/20IL)..............
Request for Participation in the PPH Pilot Program Between the 2 100 200
IMPI and the USPTO (PTO/SB/20MX)...............................
Request for Participation in the PPH Pilot Program Between the 2 100 200
SIPO and the USPTO (PTO/SB/20CN)...............................
Request for Participation in the PPH Pilot Program Between the 2 100 200
INPI and the USPTO (PTO/SB/20BR)...............................
Request for Participation in the PPH Pilot Program Between the 2 100 200
TIPO and the USPTO (PTO/SB/20TW)...............................
Request for Participation in the PCT-PPH Pilot Program Between 2 100 200
the EPO and the USPTO (PTO/SB/20PCT-EP)........................
Request for Participation in the PCT-PPH Pilot Program Between 2 100 200
the JPO and the USPTO (PTO/SB/20PCT-JP)........................
Request for Participation in the PCT-PPH Pilot Program Between 2 100 200
the KIPO and the USPTO (PTO/SB/20PCT-KR).......................
Request for Participation in the PCT-PPH Pilot Program Between 2 100 200
the APO and the USPTO (PTO/SB/20PCT-AT)........................
Request for Participation in the PCT-PPH Pilot Program Between 2 100 200
the ROSPATENT and the USPTO (PTO/SB/20PCT-RU)..................
Request for Participation in the PCT-PPH Pilot Program Between 2 100 200
the SPTO and the USPTO (PTO/SB/20PCT-ES).......................
Request for Participation in the PCT-PPH Pilot Program Between 2 100 200
the IPAU and the USPTO (PTO/SB/20PCT-AU).......................
Request for Participation in the PCT-PPH Pilot Program Between 2 100 200
the CIPO and the USPTO (PTO/SB/20PCT-CA).......................
Request for Participation in the PCT-PPH Pilot Program Between 2 100 200
the NBPR and the USPTO (PTO/SB/20PCT-FI).......................
Request for Participation in the PCT-PPH Pilot Program Between 2 100 200
the PRV and the USPTO (PTO/SB/20PCT-SE)........................
Request for Participation in the PCT-PPH Pilot Program Between 2 100 200
the NPI and the USPTO (PTO/SB/20PCT-XN)........................
Request for Participation in the PCT-PPH Pilot Program Between 2 100 200
the SIPO and the USPTO (PTO/SB/20PCT-CN).......................
Request for Participation in the PCT-PPH Pilot Program in a U.S. 2 100 200
Application Where the USPTO was the ISA or IPEA (PTO/SB/20PCT-
US)............................................................
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Totals...................................................... .............. 3,700 7,400
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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: July 1, 2011.
Susan K. Fawcett,
Records Officer, USPTO, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2011-17077 Filed 7-7-11; 8:45 am]
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