Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; “Trademark Petitions”, 32540-32541 [2015-14083]
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Estimated
time for
response
(minutes)
Information collection instrument
Estimated
annual
responses
Estimated annual
burden hours
(a)
IC No.
(b)
(a) × (b)/60 = (c)
Rate
($/hr)
120
120
120
120
120
120
120
9,700
300
7,760
240
1,940
60
146
19,400
600
15,520
480
3,880
120
292
$389.00
389.00
389.00
389.00
389.00
389.00
389.00
120
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389.00
600
29,100
291,000
389.00
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Electronic Submissions Under 37 CFR 1.55(j) ...............
Submissions Under 37 CFR 1.55(j) ................................
Electronic Submissions Under 37 CFR 1.78(a)(6) .........
Submissions Under 37 CFR 1.78(a)(6) ..........................
Electronic Submissions Under 37 CFR 1.78(d)(6) .........
Submissions Under 37 CFR 1.78(d)(6) ..........................
Electronic Identification of Inventorship and Ownership
of the Subject Matter of Individual Claims under 37
CFR 1.110.
Identification of Inventorship and Ownership of the Subject Matter of Individual Claims under 37 CFR 1.110.
Electronic Rule 1.130, 1.131, and 1.132 Affidavits or
Declarations.
Rule 1.130, 1.131, and 1.132 Affidavits or Declarations
600
900
9,000
389.00
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50,150
340,300
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Estimated Total Annual (Non-hour)
Cost Burden: $8,475.50. The USPTO
estimates that the total annualized (nonhour) cost burden for this collection is
due to postage costs of $8,475.50 per
year. Customers may incur postage costs
when submitting some of the items
covered by this collection to the USPTO
by mail. The USPTO expects that
approximately 97 percent of the
responses in this collection will be
submitted electronically. Of the
remaining 3 percent, the vast majority—
98 percent—will be submitted by mail,
for a total of 1,474 mailed submissions.
The average first class USPS postage
cost for these items is estimated at
$5.75; the cost of a one pound mailed
submission in a flat rate envelope.
Therefore, the USPTO estimates that the
postage costs for the mailed submissions
in this collection will total $8,475.50.
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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, including the validity of
the methodology and assumptions used;
(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, including through the use
of automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology,
e.g., permitting electronic submission of
responses.
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Comments submitted in response to
this notice will be summarized or
included in the request for OMB
approval of this information collection;
they will also become a matter of public
record.
Dated: June 1, 2015.
Marcie Lovett,
Records Management Division Director,
USPTO, Office of the Chief Information
Officer.
[FR Doc. 2015–14093 Filed 6–8–15; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
United States Patent and Trademark
Office
Submission for OMB Review;
Comment Request; ‘‘Trademark
Petitions’’
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, Commerce.
Title: Trademark Petitions.
OMB Control Number: 0651–0061.
Form Number(s):
• N/A.
Type of Request: Regular.
Number of Respondents: 2,988 per
year.
Estimated Time per Response: The
USPTO estimates that the items in this
collection have an average response
time of 55 minutes (0.92 hours), and
that it will take approximately 35
minutes (0.58 hours) to 75 minutes (1.25
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hours) to complete this information.
This includes the time to gather the
necessary information, create the
documents, and submit the completed
request to the USPTO.
Burden Hours: 2,749.67.
Cost Burden: $22,660.19.
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 registration of trademarks, service
marks, collective trademarks and
collective service marks, collective
membership marks, and certification
marks. Individuals and businesses that
use or intend to use such marks in
commerce may file an application to
register their marks with the USPTO.
Individuals and businesses may also
submit various communications to the
USPTO, including letters of protest,
requests to make special, responses to
petition inquiry letters, petitions to
make special, requests to restore a filing
date, and requests for reinstatement.
The USPTO uses the information
described in this collection to process
letters of protest, requests to make
special, responses to petition inquiry
letters, petitions to make special,
requests to restore filing date, and
requests for reinstatement. The
information is used by the public for a
variety of private business purposes
related to establishing and enforcing
trademark rights. Information relating to
the registration of a trademark is made
publicly available by the USPTO. The
release of information in a letter of
protest is controlled and may be
available upon request only.
Affected Public: Individuals and
households; Businesses and other forprofit organizations; Not-for-profit
institutions.
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Frequency: Annually.
Respondent’s Obligation: Required to
obtain or retain 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 reginfo.gov. Follow the
instructions to view Department of
Commerce collections currently under
review by OMB.
Further information can be obtained
by:
• Email: InformationCollection@
uspto.gov. Include ‘‘0651–0061 copy
request’’ 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.
Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent on
or before July 9, 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.
Dated: June 1, 2015.
Marcie Lovett,
Records Management Division Director,
USPTO, Office of the Chief Information
Officer.
[FR Doc. 2015–14083 Filed 6–8–15; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Patent and Trademark Office
Patent Review and Derivation
Proceedings
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 comment on proposed and/
or continuing information collections,
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 August 10, 2015.
ADDRESSES: Written comments may be
submitted by any of the following
methods:
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SUMMARY:
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• Email: InformationCollection@
uspto.gov. Include ‘‘0651–0069
comment’’ in the subject line of the
message.
• Federal Rulemaking Portal: https://
www.regulations.gov.
• 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.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Requests for additional information
should be directed to Susan Mitchell,
Lead Administrative Patent Judge,
Patent Trial and Appeal Board, United
States Patent and Trademark Office
(USPTO), P.O. Box 1450, Alexandria,
VA 22313– 1450; by telephone at 571–
272–8715; or by email at
susan.mitchell@uspto.gov with ‘‘0651–
0069 comment’’ in the subject line.
Additional information about this
collection is also available at https://
www.reginfo.gov under ‘‘Information
Collection Review.’’
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Abstract
The USPTO is required by 35 U.S.C.
131 and 151 to examine applications
and, when appropriate, issue
applications as patents. The LeahySmith America Invents Act, which was
enacted into law on September 16, 2011,
provided for many changes to the
procedures of the Patent Trial and
Appeal Board (‘‘PTAB’’ or ‘‘Board’’,
formerly the Board of Patent Appeals
and Interference) procedures. See Public
Law 112–29, 125 Stat. 284 (2011). These
changes included the introduction of
inter partes review, post-grant review,
derivation proceedings, and the
transitional program for covered
business method patents. In 2012, six
rulemaking actions were taken to
propose and implement new rules of
practice for the multiple reviews and
proceedings impacted by the items
contained within this information
collection.
This renewal seeks to enable the
continuation of the review and
proceeding processes outlined in the
information collection below. The
public will use this information
collection to petition the Board to
initiate inter partes reviews, post-grant
reviews, covered business method
patent reviews, and derivation
proceedings, as well as initiate other
actions, and to ensure that the
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associated fees and documentation are
submitted to the USPTO.
II. Method of Collection
Electronically if applicants submit the
information using the Patent Review
Processing System (PRPS). Applicants
may be able to submit the information
via email if PRPS is unavailable, or by
Priority Mail Express® if both PRPS and
the Board’s email address are
unavailable.
III. Data
OMB Number: 0651–0069.
IC Instruments and Forms: The
individual instruments in this
collection, as well as their associated
forms, are listed in the table below.
Type of Review: Revision of a
Previously Existing Information
Collection
Affected Public: Businesses or other
for-profit organizations; individuals or
households; not-for-profit institutions;
Federal Government; and state, local, or
tribal governments.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
The USPTO estimates that this
collection will generate approximately
11,349 responses per year. Of this total,
the USPTO expects that 11,274
responses will be submitted through an
electronic portal such as PRPS and 75
will be submitted on paper.
Estimated Time per Response: The
USPTO estimates that it will take the
public an average of 128.6 hours to
complete an individual form in this
collection, with estimated response
times for individual forms ranging
between approximately 6 minutes and
approximately 165 hours and 18
minutes (0.10 hours to 165.3 hours) to
complete, depending on the situation
and collection tool used.
The time per response, estimated
annual responses, and estimated annual
hour burden associated with each
instrument in this information
collection is shown in the table below.
Estimated Total Annual Respondent
Burden Hours: 1,459,184 hours.
Estimated Total Annual Respondent
(Hourly) Cost Burden: $567,622,576.
The USPTO expects that attorneys will
complete the instruments associated
with this information collection. The
professional hourly rate for an attorney
is $389. Using this hourly rate, the
USPTO estimates $567,622,576 per year
for the total hourly costs associated with
respondents.
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[FR Doc No: 2015-14083]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
United States Patent and Trademark Office
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; ``Trademark
Petitions''
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, Commerce.
Title: Trademark Petitions.
OMB Control Number: 0651-0061.
Form Number(s):
N/A.
Type of Request: Regular.
Number of Respondents: 2,988 per year.
Estimated Time per Response: The USPTO estimates that the items in
this collection have an average response time of 55 minutes (0.92
hours), and that it will take approximately 35 minutes (0.58 hours) to
75 minutes (1.25 hours) to complete this information. This includes the
time to gather the necessary information, create the documents, and
submit the completed request to the USPTO.
Burden Hours: 2,749.67.
Cost Burden: $22,660.19.
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 registration of trademarks, service marks, collective
trademarks and collective service marks, collective membership marks,
and certification marks. Individuals and businesses that use or intend
to use such marks in commerce may file an application to register their
marks with the USPTO.
Individuals and businesses may also submit various communications
to the USPTO, including letters of protest, requests to make special,
responses to petition inquiry letters, petitions to make special,
requests to restore a filing date, and requests for reinstatement.
The USPTO uses the information described in this collection to
process letters of protest, requests to make special, responses to
petition inquiry letters, petitions to make special, requests to
restore filing date, and requests for reinstatement. The information is
used by the public for a variety of private business purposes related
to establishing and enforcing trademark rights. Information relating to
the registration of a trademark is made publicly available by the
USPTO. The release of information in a letter of protest is controlled
and may be available upon request only.
Affected Public: Individuals and households; Businesses and other
for-profit organizations; Not-for-profit institutions.
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Frequency: Annually.
Respondent's Obligation: Required to obtain or retain 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 reginfo.gov. Follow the instructions to view
Department of Commerce collections currently under review by OMB.
Further information can be obtained by:
Email: InformationCollection@uspto.gov. Include ``0651-
0061 copy request'' 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.
Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information
collection should be sent on or before July 9, 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.
Dated: June 1, 2015.
Marcie Lovett,
Records Management Division Director, USPTO, Office of the Chief
Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2015-14083 Filed 6-8-15; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 3510-16-P
