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The primary purpose of the EFP is to
test the use of EM equipment in lieu of
an observer and to evaluate components
of an overall EM program before
implementation of a comprehensive
regulatory program. Peter Leipzig of the
Fishermen’s Marketing Association is
the point of contact for this EFP.
Heather Mann and Brent Paine EFP
The vessels participating in this EFP
are mid-water trawls that fish in the
shoreside and mothership whiting
fishery. The primary purpose of the EFP
is to determine whether utilizing
cameras in lieu of human observers
proves both cost effective and
operationally effecting while still
providing 100 percent monitoring of
catch and discards. Heather Mann of the
Midwater Trawlers Cooperative and
Brent Paine of the United Catcher Boats
are the points of contact for this EFP.
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.
Dated: December 29, 2014.
James P. Burgess,
Acting Director, Office of Sustainable
Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.
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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: Summer Teacher Institute.
Agency Approval Number: 0651–
0077.
Type of Request: Revision of a
currently approved collection.
Burden: 292 hours annually.
Number of Respondents: 900
responses per year.
Avg. Hours per Response: The USPTO
estimates that it will take the public
approximately 5 minute (0.08 hours) to
30 minutes (0.5 hours) to prepare the
appropriate form or documents and
submit to the USPTO.
Needs and Uses: As part of the Maker
Fair Initiative, a program entitled
‘‘National Teachers’ Summer Institute’’
is sponsored by USPTO. This program
accepts applicants for a summer
teaching workshop. The program
receives applications from individuals,
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requesting to participate in the Institute,
who certify that they are educators with
at least 3 years’ experience. These
applicants are also required to (1) have
taught in STEM related fields last year,
(2) plan to teach in a STEM related field
this upcoming year, and (3) to
acknowledge their commitment to
incorporate the learnings from the
Teacher Summer Institute into their
curriculum, where applicable, and
cooperate with sharing lessons and
outcomes with teachers and PTO.
The USPTO may various host
webinars in conjunction with the
Summer Institute. USPTO plans to
conduct surveys of both the Institute
and the webinars in order to gain useful
feedback from program participants.
Affected Public: Businesses or other
for-profit organizations.
Frequency: Annually.
Respondent’s Obligation: Required to
obtain benefits.
OMB Desk Officer: Nicholas A. Fraser,
email: Nicholas_A._Fraser@
omb.eop.gov.
Once submitted, the request will be
publicly available in electronic format
through the Information Collection
Review page at www.reginfo.gov.
Paper copies can be obtained by:
• Email: InformationCollection@
uspto.gov. Include ‘‘0651–0012 copy
request’’ in the subject line of the
message.
• Mail: Marcie Lovett, Office of the
Chief Information Officer, United States
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 February 2, 2015 to Nicholas
A. Fraser, OMB Desk Officer, via email
to Nicholas_A._Fraser@omb.eop.gov, or
by fax to 202–395–5167, marked to the
attention of Nicholas A. Fraser.
Margaret McElrath,
Deputy Director, Office of Information
Management Services, Department of
Commerce—USPTO.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
United States Patent and Trademark
Office
Submission for OMB Review;
Comment Request: Applications for
Trademark Registration
The Department of Commerce will
submit to the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) for clearance the
following proposal for collection of
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information under the provisions of the
Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C.
Chapter 35).
Agency: United States Patent and
Trademark Office, Commerce.
Title: Applications for Trademark
Registration.
OMB Control Number: 0651–0009.
Form Number(s):
• PTO–1478
• PTO–1479
• PTO–1480
• PTO–1481
• PTO–1482
Type of Request: Regular.
Number of Respondents: 387,981.
Average Minutes per Response: 30.
Burden Hours: 149,267.
Cost Burden: $103,000,869.42.
Needs and Uses: The United States
Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
administers the Trademark Act, 15
U.S.C. 1051 et seq., which provides for
the Federal registration of trademarks,
service marks, collective trademarks and
service marks, collective membership
marks, and certification marks.
Individuals and businesses who use
their marks, or intend to use their
marks, in commerce regulable by
Congress, may file an application with
the USPTO to register their marks.
Registered marks remain on the register
indefinitely, so long as the owner of the
registration files the necessary
maintenance documents. The rules
implementing the Trademark Act are set
forth in 37 CFR part 2.
The Act and rules mandate that each
certificate of registration include the
mark, the particular goods and/or
services for which the mark is
registered, the owner’s name, dates of
use of the mark in commerce, and
certain other information. The USPTO
also provides similar information to the
public concerning pending applications.
Individuals or businesses may
determine the availability of a mark by
accessing the register through the
USPTO’s Web site. Accessing and
reviewing the USPTO’s publicly
available information may reduce the
possibility of initiating use of a mark
previously registered or adopted by
another. Thus, the Federal trademark
registration process reduces
unnecessary litigation and its associated
costs and burdens. The information in
this collection is available to the public.
Trademarks can be registered on
either the Principal or Supplemental
Register. Registrations on the Principal
Register confer all of the benefits of
registration provided under the
Trademark Act. Certain marks that are
not eligible for registration on the
Principal Register, but are capable of
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functioning as a trademark, may be
registered on the Supplemental Register.
Registrations on the Supplemental
Register do not have all of the benefits
of marks on the Principal Register.
Registrations on the Supplemental
Register cannot be transferred to the
Principal Register, but owners of
registrations on the Supplemental
Register may apply for registration of
their marks on the Principal Register.
The information in this collection can
be submitted in paper format or
electronically through the Trademark
Electronic Application System (TEAS).
Applicants that file applications using
the TEAS RF or TEAS Plus forms pay
a reduced filing fee if they agree to file
certain communications regarding the
application through TEAS and to
receive communications concerning the
application by email. TEAS Plus
applicants are also subject to the
additional requirement to file a
complete application. TEAS Plus
applications are only available for
trademark/service mark applications.
There are no TEAS Plus application
forms available for the certification
marks, collective marks, collective
membership marks, and applications for
registration on the Supplemental
Register at this time.
Affected Public: Businesses or other
for-profits; not-for-profit institutions.
Frequency: On occasion.
Respondent’s Obligation: Required to
Obtain or Retain Benefits.
This information collection request
may be viewed at reginfo.gov. Follow
the instructions to view Department of
Commerce collections currently under
review by OMB.
Written comments may be submitted
by any of the following methods:
• Email: InformationCollection@
uspto.gov. Include ‘‘0651–0009
Applications for Trademark
Registration’’ in the subject line of the
message.
• Mail: Marcie Lovett, 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.
Margaret McElrath,
Deputy Director, Office of Information
Management Services, Department of
Commerce—USPTO.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Patent and Trademark Office
Public Key Infrastructure Certificate
Action Form
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 March 3, 2015.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
by any of the following methods:
• Email: InformationCollection@
uspto.gov. Include ‘‘0651–0045
comment’’ in the subject line of the
message.
• Mail: Marcie Lovett, Records
Management Division Director, 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: John
Pardun, Cybersecurity Division, United
States Patent and Trademark Office,
P.O. Box 1450, Alexandria, VA 22313–
1450; by telephone at 571–272–4349; or
by email to John.Pardun@uspto.gov.
Additional information about this
collection is also available at https://
www.reginfo.gov under ‘‘Information
Collection Review.’’
SUMMARY:
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
I. Abstract
The United States Patent and
Trademark Office (USPTO) uses Public
Key Infrastructure (PKI) technology to
support electronic commerce between
the USPTO and its customers. PKI is a
set of hardware, software, policies, and
procedures that provide important
security services for the electronic
business activities of the USPTO,
including protecting the confidentiality
of unpublished patent applications in
accordance with 35 U.S.C. 122 and 37
CFR 1.14, as well as protecting
international patent applications in
accordance with Article 30 of the Patent
Cooperation Treaty.
In order to provide the necessary
security for its electronic commerce
systems, the USPTO uses PKI
technology to protect the integrity and
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confidentiality of information submitted
to the USPTO. PKI employs public and
private encryption keys to authenticate
the customer’s identity and support
secure electronic communication
between the customer and the USPTO.
Customers may submit a request to the
USPTO for a digital certificate, which
enables the customer to create the
encryption keys necessary for electronic
identity verification and secure
transactions with the USPTO. This
digital certificate is required in order to
access any secure online systems
USPTO provides; including the systems
for electronic filing of patent
applications and viewing confidential
information about unpublished patent
applications.
This information collection includes
the Certificate Action Form (PTO–2042),
which is used by the public to request
a new digital certificate, the revocation
of a current certificate, or the recovery
of a lost or corrupted certificate.
Customers may also change the name
listed on the certificate or associate the
certificate with one or more Customer
Numbers. A certificate request must
include a notarized signature in order to
verify the identity of the applicant. The
Certificate Action Form has an
accompanying subscriber agreement to
ensure that customers understand their
obligations regarding the use of the
digital certificates and cryptographic
software. When generating a new
certificate, customers register to get a set
of seven codes that will enable
customers to recover a lost certificate
online without having to contact
USPTO support staff.
II. Method of Collection
The Certificate Action Form must be
notarized and may be mailed or hand
delivered to the USPTO.
III. Data
OMB Number: 0651–0045.
Form Number(s): PTO–2042.
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:
1,857 responses per year.
Estimated Time per Response: The
USPTO estimates that it will take the
public approximately 30 minutes (0.5
hours) to read the instructions and
subscriber agreement, gather the
necessary information, prepare the
Certificate Action Form, and submit the
completed request.
Estimated Total Annual Respondent
Burden Hours: 929 hours.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
United States Patent and Trademark Office
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request: Applications for
Trademark Registration
The Department of Commerce 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, Commerce.
Title: Applications for Trademark Registration.
OMB Control Number: 0651-0009.
Form Number(s):
PTO-1478
PTO-1479
PTO-1480
PTO-1481
PTO-1482
Type of Request: Regular.
Number of Respondents: 387,981.
Average Minutes per Response: 30.
Burden Hours: 149,267.
Cost Burden: $103,000,869.42.
Needs and Uses: The United States Patent and Trademark Office
(USPTO) administers the Trademark Act, 15 U.S.C. 1051 et seq., which
provides for the Federal registration of trademarks, service marks,
collective trademarks and service marks, collective membership marks,
and certification marks. Individuals and businesses who use their
marks, or intend to use their marks, in commerce regulable by Congress,
may file an application with the USPTO to register their marks.
Registered marks remain on the register indefinitely, so long as the
owner of the registration files the necessary maintenance documents.
The rules implementing the Trademark Act are set forth in 37 CFR part
2.
The Act and rules mandate that each certificate of registration
include the mark, the particular goods and/or services for which the
mark is registered, the owner's name, dates of use of the mark in
commerce, and certain other information. The USPTO also provides
similar information to the public concerning pending applications.
Individuals or businesses may determine the availability of a mark by
accessing the register through the USPTO's Web site. Accessing and
reviewing the USPTO's publicly available information may reduce the
possibility of initiating use of a mark previously registered or
adopted by another. Thus, the Federal trademark registration process
reduces unnecessary litigation and its associated costs and burdens.
The information in this collection is available to the public.
Trademarks can be registered on either the Principal or
Supplemental Register. Registrations on the Principal Register confer
all of the benefits of registration provided under the Trademark Act.
Certain marks that are not eligible for registration on the Principal
Register, but are capable of
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functioning as a trademark, may be registered on the Supplemental
Register. Registrations on the Supplemental Register do not have all of
the benefits of marks on the Principal Register. Registrations on the
Supplemental Register cannot be transferred to the Principal Register,
but owners of registrations on the Supplemental Register may apply for
registration of their marks on the Principal Register.
The information in this collection can be submitted in paper format
or electronically through the Trademark Electronic Application System
(TEAS). Applicants that file applications using the TEAS RF or TEAS
Plus forms pay a reduced filing fee if they agree to file certain
communications regarding the application through TEAS and to receive
communications concerning the application by email. TEAS Plus
applicants are also subject to the additional requirement to file a
complete application. TEAS Plus applications are only available for
trademark/service mark applications. There are no TEAS Plus application
forms available for the certification marks, collective marks,
collective membership marks, and applications for registration on the
Supplemental Register at this time.
Affected Public: Businesses or other for-profits; not-for-profit
institutions.
Frequency: On occasion.
Respondent's Obligation: Required to Obtain or Retain Benefits.
This information collection request may be viewed at reginfo.gov.
Follow the instructions to view Department of Commerce collections
currently under review by OMB.
Written comments may be submitted by any of the following methods:
Email: InformationCollection@uspto.gov. Include ``0651-
0009 Applications for Trademark Registration'' in the subject line of
the message.
Mail: Marcie Lovett, 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.
Margaret McElrath,
Deputy Director, Office of Information Management Services, Department
of Commerce--USPTO.
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