Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection; Extension of Public Comment Period, 71613-71614 [2013-28528]

Download as PDF Federal Register / Vol. 78, No. 230 / Friday, November 29, 2013 / Notices Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, November 22, 2013. Michael J. Lewandowski, Associate Secretary of the Board. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, November 25, 2013. Michael J. Lewandowski, Associate Secretary of the Board. BILLING CODE 6210–01–P [FR Doc. 2013–28625 Filed 11–27–13; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6210–01–P Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection; Extension of Public Comment Period FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM AGENCY: Formations of, Acquisitions by, and Mergers of Bank Holding Companies sroberts on DSK5SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES percent of the voting shares of Cass County State Company, and thereby indirectly acquire voting shares of Cass County Bank, Inc., both in Plattsmouth, Nebraska. ACTION: 17:56 Nov 27, 2013 Jkt 232001 FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Notice of extension of public comment period. The companies listed in this notice have applied to the Board for approval, pursuant to the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 (12 U.S.C. 1841 et seq.) (BHC Act), Regulation Y (12 CFR part 225), and all other applicable statutes and regulations to become a bank holding company and/or to acquire the assets or the ownership of, control of, or the power to vote shares of a bank or bank holding company and all of the banks and nonbanking companies owned by the bank holding company, including the companies listed below. The applications listed below, as well as other related filings required by the Board, are available for immediate inspection at the Federal Reserve Bank indicated. The applications will also be available for inspection at the offices of the Board of Governors. Interested persons may express their views in writing on the standards enumerated in the BHC Act (12 U.S.C. 1842(c)). If the proposal also involves the acquisition of a nonbanking company, the review also includes whether the acquisition of the nonbanking company complies with the standards in section 4 of the BHC Act (12 U.S.C. 1843). Unless otherwise noted, nonbanking activities will be conducted throughout the United States. Unless otherwise noted, comments regarding each of these applications must be received at the Reserve Bank indicated or the offices of the Board of Governors not later than December 23, 2013. A. Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City (Dennis Denney, Assistant Vice President) 1 Memorial Drive, Kansas City, Missouri 64198–0001: 1. Plains Bancshares, Inc., Plains, Kansas; to become a bank holding company by acquiring 100 percent of the voting shares of Plains State Bank, Plains, Kansas. VerDate Mar<15>2010 [FR Doc. 2013–28620 Filed 11–27–13; 8:45 am] The FTC is soliciting public comments on proposed information requests to Patent Assertion Entities (‘‘PAEs’’) asserting patents in a variety of sectors, as well as a group of other entities asserting patents specifically in the wireless communications sector, including manufacturers and other nonpracticing entities and organizations engaged in licensing. The Commission has now determined to extend the public comment period until December 16, 2013. DATES: Comments must be received on or before December 16, 2013. ADDRESSES: Interested parties may file a comment online or on paper, by following the instructions in the Request for Comment part of the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section below. Write ‘‘PAE Reports: Paperwork Comment; Project No. P131203’’ on your comment, and file your comment online at https://ftcpublic.commentworks.com/ ftc/paestudypra, by following the instructions on the web-based form. If you prefer to file your comment on paper, mail or deliver your comment to the following address: Federal Trade Commission, Office of the Secretary, Room H–113 (Annex J), 600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20580. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: William F. Adkinson, Jr., Attorney Advisor, Office of Policy Planning, Federal Trade Commission, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20580; (202) 326–2096; paestudy@ ftc.gov. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On September 27, 2013, the Commission announced that it would seek public comments on a proposal to gather information from approximately 25 companies known as Patent Assertion Entities (‘‘PAEs’’), along with 15 other entities asserting patents specifically in the wireless communications sector. For SUMMARY: PO 00000 Frm 00053 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 71613 purposes of this notice, PAEs are firms with a business model based primarily on purchasing patents and then attempting to generate revenue by asserting the intellectual property against persons who are already practicing the patented technology.1 A notice containing the proposed information requests and seeking public comment was published in the Federal Register on October 3, 2013.2 The Commission intends to use this information to add to the existing literature and evidence on PAE activity. These comments will be considered before the FTC submits a request for Office of Management and Budget review of the compulsory process orders described in this notice under the Paperwork Reduction Act. The compulsory process orders will seek information from firms concerning, among other things, patent acquisition, litigation, and licensing practices. The Commission has now determined to extend the public comment period until December 16, 2013. The Commission will not consider requests for further extension. You may file a comment online or on paper, and the content of the comment should conform to the requirements detailed in the October 3, 2013 Federal Register Notice. For the Commission to consider your comment, we must receive it on or before December 16, 2013. Write ‘‘PAE Reports: Paperwork Comment; Project No. P131203’’ on your comment. Your comment, including your name and your state, will be placed on the public record of this proceeding, including, to the extent practicable, on the public Commission Web site, at https:// www.ftc.gov/os/publiccomments.shtm. As a matter of discretion, the Commission tries to remove individuals’ home contact information from comments before placing them on the Commission Web site. Because your comment will be made public, you are solely responsible for making sure that your comment does not include any sensitive personal information, like anyone’s Social Security number, date of birth, driver’s license number or other state identification number or foreign country 1 The Commission distinguishes PAEs from other non-practicing entities or NPEs that primarily seek to develop and transfer technology, such as universities, research entities and design firms. Fed. Trade Comm’n, The Evolving IP Marketplace: Aligning Patent Notice and Remedies with Competition, 8 n.5 (2011), available at https:// www.ftc.gov/os/2011/03/110307patentreport.pdf. 2 See Federal Trade Commission: Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection; Comment Request, 78 FR 61,352 (Oct. 3, 2013), available at https://www.ftc.gov/os/fedreg/ 2013/10/131003agencyinfofrn.pdf. E:\FR\FM\29NON1.SGM 29NON1 sroberts on DSK5SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES 71614 Federal Register / Vol. 78, No. 230 / Friday, November 29, 2013 / Notices equivalent, passport number, financial account number, or credit or debit card number. You are also solely responsible for making sure that your comment does not include any sensitive health information, like medical records or other individually identifiable health information. In addition, do not include any ‘‘[t]rade secret or any commercial or financial information which is . . . privileged or confidential,’’ as discussed in Section 6(f) of the FTC Act, 15 U.S.C. 46(f), and FTC Rule 4.10(a)(2), 16 CFR 4.10(a)(2). In particular, do not include competitively sensitive information such as costs, sales statistics, inventories, formulas, patterns, devices, manufacturing processes, or customer names. If you want the Commission to give your comment confidential treatment, you must file it in paper form, with a request for confidential treatment, and you have to follow the procedure explained in FTC Rule 4.9(c), 16 CFR 4.9(c).3 Your comment will be kept confidential only if the FTC General Counsel grants your request in accordance with the law and the public interest. Postal mail addressed to the Commission is subject to delay due to heightened security screening. As a result, we encourage you to submit your comments online. To make sure that the Commission considers your online comment, you must file it at https:// ftcpublic.commentworks.com/ftc/ paestudypra, by following the instructions on the web-based form. If this Notice appears at https:// www.regulations.gov/#!home, you also may file a comment through that Web site. If you file your comment on paper, write ‘‘PAE Reports: Paperwork Comment; Project No. P131203’’ on your comment and on the envelope, and mail or deliver it to the following address: Federal Trade Commission, Office of the Secretary, Room H–113 (Annex J), 600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20580. If possible, submit your paper comment to the Commission by courier or overnight service. Visit the Commission Web site at https://www.ftc.gov to read this Notice and the news release describing it. The FTC Act and other laws that the Commission administers permit the collection of public comments to consider and use in this proceeding as appropriate. The Commission will 3 In particular, the written request for confidential treatment that accompanies the comment must include the factual and legal basis for the request, and must identify the specific portions of the comment to be withheld from the public record. See FTC Rule 4.9(c), 16 CFR 4.9(c). VerDate Mar<15>2010 17:56 Nov 27, 2013 Jkt 232001 consider all timely and responsive public comments that it receives on or before December 16, 2013. You can find more information, including routine uses permitted by the Privacy Act, in the Commission’s privacy policy, at https://www.ftc.gov/ftc/privacy.htm. By direction of the Commission. Donald S. Clark, Secretary. [FR Doc. 2013–28528 Filed 11–27–13; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6750–01–P www.regulations.gov, including any personal and/or business confidential information provided. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sarah Crane, Director, Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies, General Services Administration, at telephone number 202–208–5855, or via email to Sarah.Crane@gsa.gov. For information pertaining to status or publication schedules, contact the Regulatory Secretariat at 202–501–4755. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: A. Purpose GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION [OMB Control No. 3090–00XX; Docket No. 2013–0001; Sequence No. 8] Submission for OMB Review; MyUSA Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies (OCSIT), General Services Administration (GSA). ACTION: Notice of request for comments regarding an extension to an existing OMB clearance. AGENCY: Under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. chapter 35), the Regulatory Secretariat Division will be submitting to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request to approve a new information collection requirement concerning MyUSA. SUMMARY: Submit comments on or before December 30, 2013. ADDRESSES: Submit comments identified by Information Collection 3090–00XX; MyUSA by any of the following methods: • Regulations.gov: https:// www.regulations.gov. Submit comments via the Federal eRulemaking portal by searching the OMB control number. Select the link ‘‘Submit a Comment’’ that corresponds with ‘‘Information Collection 3090–00XX; MyUSA.’’ Follow the instructions provided at the ‘‘Submit a Comment’’ screen. Please include your name, company name (if any), and ‘‘Information Collection 3090– 00XX; MyUSA’’ on your attached document. • Fax: 202–501–4067. • Mail: General Services Administration, Regulatory Secretariat (MVCB), 1800 F Street NW., 2nd Floor, Washington, DC 20405–0001. ATTN: IC 3090–00XX; MyUSA. Instructions: Please submit comments only and cite Information Collection 3090–00XX; MyUSA, in all correspondence related to this collection. All comments received will be posted without change to https:// DATES: PO 00000 Frm 00054 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 MyUSA (https://my.usa.gov) provides an account to users that give them control over their interactions with government agencies and how government uses and accesses their personal information. Users have the option of creating a personal profile that can be reused across government to personalize interactions and streamline common tasks such as filling out forms. Government agencies can build applications that can request permission from the user to access their MyUSA Account and read their personal profile. The information in the system is contributed voluntarily by the user and cannot be accessed by the government without explicit consent of the user; information is not shared between government agencies, except when the user gives explicit consent to share his or her information, and as detailed in the MyUSA System of Records Notice (SORN) (https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/ FR–2013–07–05/pdf/2013–16124.pdf). The information collected is basic profile information, and may include: Name, home address, phone number, date of birth, gender, marital status and basic demographic information such as whether the individual is married, a veteran, a small business owner, a parent or a student. Use of the system, and contribution of personal information, is completely voluntary. A notice was published in the Federal Register at 78 FR 49270, on August 13, 2013. No comments were received. B. Public Comments Pursuant to section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the PRA, GSA specifically solicits comments and information to enable it to: 1. Evaluate whether the proposed collection of information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the Agency, including whether the information will have practical utility; 2. Evaluate the accuracy of the Agency’s estimate of the burden of the E:\FR\FM\29NON1.SGM 29NON1

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[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 230 (Friday, November 29, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 71613-71614]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
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FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION


Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection; 
Extension of Public Comment Period

AGENCY: Federal Trade Commission (FTC).

ACTION: Notice of extension of public comment period.

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SUMMARY: The FTC is soliciting public comments on proposed information 
requests to Patent Assertion Entities (``PAEs'') asserting patents in a 
variety of sectors, as well as a group of other entities asserting 
patents specifically in the wireless communications sector, including 
manufacturers and other non-practicing entities and organizations 
engaged in licensing. The Commission has now determined to extend the 
public comment period until December 16, 2013.

DATES: Comments must be received on or before December 16, 2013.

ADDRESSES: Interested parties may file a comment online or on paper, by 
following the instructions in the Request for Comment part of the 
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section below. Write ``PAE Reports: Paperwork 
Comment; Project No. P131203'' on your comment, and file your comment 
online at https://ftcpublic.commentworks.com/ftc/paestudypra, by 
following the instructions on the web-based form. If you prefer to file 
your comment on paper, mail or deliver your comment to the following 
address: Federal Trade Commission, Office of the Secretary, Room H-113 
(Annex J), 600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20580.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: William F. Adkinson, Jr., Attorney 
Advisor, Office of Policy Planning, Federal Trade Commission, 600 
Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20580; (202) 326-2096; 
paestudy@ftc.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On September 27, 2013, the Commission 
announced that it would seek public comments on a proposal to gather 
information from approximately 25 companies known as Patent Assertion 
Entities (``PAEs''), along with 15 other entities asserting patents 
specifically in the wireless communications sector. For purposes of 
this notice, PAEs are firms with a business model based primarily on 
purchasing patents and then attempting to generate revenue by asserting 
the intellectual property against persons who are already practicing 
the patented technology.\1\ A notice containing the proposed 
information requests and seeking public comment was published in the 
Federal Register on October 3, 2013.\2\ The Commission intends to use 
this information to add to the existing literature and evidence on PAE 
activity. These comments will be considered before the FTC submits a 
request for Office of Management and Budget review of the compulsory 
process orders described in this notice under the Paperwork Reduction 
Act. The compulsory process orders will seek information from firms 
concerning, among other things, patent acquisition, litigation, and 
licensing practices.
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    \1\ The Commission distinguishes PAEs from other non-practicing 
entities or NPEs that primarily seek to develop and transfer 
technology, such as universities, research entities and design 
firms. Fed. Trade Comm'n, The Evolving IP Marketplace: Aligning 
Patent Notice and Remedies with Competition, 8 n.5 (2011), available 
at https://www.ftc.gov/os/2011/03/110307patentreport.pdf.
    \2\ See Federal Trade Commission: Agency Information Collection 
Activities; Proposed Collection; Comment Request, 78 FR 61,352 (Oct. 
3, 2013), available at https://www.ftc.gov/os/fedreg/2013/10/131003agencyinfofrn.pdf.
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    The Commission has now determined to extend the public comment 
period until December 16, 2013. The Commission will not consider 
requests for further extension. You may file a comment online or on 
paper, and the content of the comment should conform to the 
requirements detailed in the October 3, 2013 Federal Register Notice. 
For the Commission to consider your comment, we must receive it on or 
before December 16, 2013. Write ``PAE Reports: Paperwork Comment; 
Project No. P131203'' on your comment. Your comment, including your 
name and your state, will be placed on the public record of this 
proceeding, including, to the extent practicable, on the public 
Commission Web site, at https://www.ftc.gov/os/publiccomments.shtm. As a 
matter of discretion, the Commission tries to remove individuals' home 
contact information from comments before placing them on the Commission 
Web site.
    Because your comment will be made public, you are solely 
responsible for making sure that your comment does not include any 
sensitive personal information, like anyone's Social Security number, 
date of birth, driver's license number or other state identification 
number or foreign country

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equivalent, passport number, financial account number, or credit or 
debit card number. You are also solely responsible for making sure that 
your comment does not include any sensitive health information, like 
medical records or other individually identifiable health information. 
In addition, do not include any ``[t]rade secret or any commercial or 
financial information which is . . . privileged or confidential,'' as 
discussed in Section 6(f) of the FTC Act, 15 U.S.C. 46(f), and FTC Rule 
4.10(a)(2), 16 CFR 4.10(a)(2). In particular, do not include 
competitively sensitive information such as costs, sales statistics, 
inventories, formulas, patterns, devices, manufacturing processes, or 
customer names.
    If you want the Commission to give your comment confidential 
treatment, you must file it in paper form, with a request for 
confidential treatment, and you have to follow the procedure explained 
in FTC Rule 4.9(c), 16 CFR 4.9(c).\3\ Your comment will be kept 
confidential only if the FTC General Counsel grants your request in 
accordance with the law and the public interest.
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    \3\ In particular, the written request for confidential 
treatment that accompanies the comment must include the factual and 
legal basis for the request, and must identify the specific portions 
of the comment to be withheld from the public record. See FTC Rule 
4.9(c), 16 CFR 4.9(c).
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    Postal mail addressed to the Commission is subject to delay due to 
heightened security screening. As a result, we encourage you to submit 
your comments online. To make sure that the Commission considers your 
online comment, you must file it at https://ftcpublic.commentworks.com/ftc/paestudypra, by following the instructions on the web-based form. 
If this Notice appears at https://www.regulations.gov/#!home, you also 
may file a comment through that Web site.
    If you file your comment on paper, write ``PAE Reports: Paperwork 
Comment; Project No. P131203'' on your comment and on the envelope, and 
mail or deliver it to the following address: Federal Trade Commission, 
Office of the Secretary, Room H-113 (Annex J), 600 Pennsylvania Avenue 
NW., Washington, DC 20580. If possible, submit your paper comment to 
the Commission by courier or overnight service.
    Visit the Commission Web site at https://www.ftc.gov to read this 
Notice and the news release describing it. The FTC Act and other laws 
that the Commission administers permit the collection of public 
comments to consider and use in this proceeding as appropriate. The 
Commission will consider all timely and responsive public comments that 
it receives on or before December 16, 2013. You can find more 
information, including routine uses permitted by the Privacy Act, in 
the Commission's privacy policy, at https://www.ftc.gov/ftc/privacy.htm.

    By direction of the Commission.
Donald S. Clark,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2013-28528 Filed 11-27-13; 8:45 am]
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