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Notwithstanding any other provision of
law, no person is required to respond to,
nor shall any person be subject to a
penalty for failure to comply with a
collection of information subject to the
requirements of the Paperwork
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Patent and Trademark Office
Submission for OMB Review;
Comment Request; Invention
Promoters/Promotion Firms
Complaints
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
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under the provisions of the Paperwork
Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35).
Agency: United States Patent and
Trademark Office, Commerce.
Title: Invention Promoters/Promotion
Firms Complaints.
OMB Control Number: 0651–0044.
Form Number(s):
• PTO/SB/2048
Type of Request: Regular.
Number of Respondents: 50.
Average Hours per Response: The
USPTO estimates that it will take the
public 15 minutes (0.25 hours) to gather
the necessary information, prepare the
form, and submit a complaint to the
USPTO and 30 minutes (0.5 hours) for
an invention promoter or promotion
firm to prepare and submit a response
to a complaint.
Burden Hours: 17.5 burden hours
annually.
Cost Burden: $493.70.
Needs and Uses: The Inventors’
Rights Act of 1999 requires the USPTO
to provide a forum for the publication
of complaints concerning invention
promoters and responses from invention
promoters to those complaints. An
individual may submit a complaint to
the USPTO, which will then forward the
complaint to the identified invention
promoter for response. The complaints
and responses are published on the
USPTO Web site. The USPTO uses the
information collected to comply with its
statutory duty to publish the complaint
along with any response from the
invention promoter. The USPTO does
not investigate these complaints or
participate in any legal proceedings
against invention promoters or
promotion firms.
Affected Public: Individuals or
households; businesses or other forprofits; and not-for-profit institutions.
Frequency: On occasion.
Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary.
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 ‘‘0651–0044 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.
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Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent on
or before February 8, 2016 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: December 29, 2015.
Randy Hill,
Director, Collaborative Services Division,
Office of the Chief Information Officer.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
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COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING
COMMISSION
Agency Information Collection
Activities Under OMB Review
Commodity Futures Trading
Commission.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
In compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(‘‘PRA’’), this notice announces that the
Information Collection Request (‘‘ICR’’)
abstracted below has been forwarded to
the Office of Management and Budget
(‘‘OMB’’) for review and comment. The
ICR describes the nature of the
information collection and its expected
costs and burden.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on
or before February 8, 2016.
ADDRESSES: Comments regarding the
burden estimated or any other aspect of
the information collection, including
suggestions for reducing the burden,
may be submitted directly to the Office
of Information and Regulatory Affairs
(‘‘OIRA)’’ in OMB, within 30 days of the
notice’s publication, by email at
OIRAsubmissions@omb.eop.gov. Please
identify the comments by OMB Control
No. 3038–0094. Please provide the
Commission with a copy of all
submitted comments at the address
listed below. Please refer to OMB
Reference No. 3038–0094, found on
https://reginfo.gov. Comments may also
be mailed to the Office of Information
and Regulatory Affairs, Office of
Management and Budget, Attention:
Desk Officer for the Commodity Futures
Trading Commission, 725 17th Street
NW., Washington, DC 20503, or through
the Agency’s Web site at https://
comments.cftc.gov. Follow the
instructions for submitting comments
through the Web site.
Comments may also be mailed to:
Christopher Kirkpatrick, Secretary of the
Commission, Commodity Futures
Trading Commission, Three Lafayette
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Deliver/Courier at the same address.
A copy of the supporting statements
for the collection of information
discussed above may be obtained by
visiting https://reginfo.gov. All
comments must be submitted in
English, or if not, accompanied by an
English translation. Comments will be
posted as received to https://
www.cftc.gov.
Christopher Hower, Special Counsel,
Division of Clearing and Risk,
Commodity Futures Trading
Commission, (202) 418–6703; email:
chower@cftc.gov, and refer to OMB
Control No. 3038–0094.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Clearing Member Risk
Management (OMB Control No. 3038–
0094). This is a request for extension of
a currently approved information
collection.
Abstract: Section 3(b) of the
Commodity Exchange Act (‘‘Act’’ or
‘‘CEA’’) provides that one of the
purposes of the Act is to ensure the
financial integrity of all transactions
subject to the Act and to avoid systemic
risk. Section 8a(5) authorizes the
Commission to promulgate such
regulations that it believes are
reasonably necessary to effectuate any of
the provisions or to accomplish any of
the purposes of the Act. Risk
management systems are critical to the
avoidance of systemic risks.
Section 4s(j)(2) requires each Swap
Dealer (‘‘SD’’) and Major Swap
Participant (‘‘MSP’’) to have risk
management systems adequate for
managing its business. Section 4s(j)(4)
requires each SD and MSP to have
internal systems and procedures to
perform any of the functions set forth in
Section 4s.
Section 4d requires FCMs to register
with the Commodity Futures Trading
Commission (‘‘Commission’’). It further
requires Futures Commission Merchants
(‘‘FCMs’’) to segregate customer funds.
Section 4f requires FCMs to maintain
certain levels of capital. Section 4g
establishes reporting and recordkeeping
requirements for FCMs.
Pursuant to these provisions, the
Commission adopted § 1.73 which
applies to clearing members that are
FCMs and § 23.609 which applies to
clearing members that are SDs or MSPs.
These provisions require these clearing
members to have procedures to limit the
financial risks they incur as a result of
clearing trades and liquid resources to
meet the obligations that arise. The
regulations require clearing members to:
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(1) Establish credit and market riskbased limits based on position size,
order size, margin requirements, or
similar factors;
(2) use automated means to screen
orders for compliance with the riskbased limits;
(3) monitor for adherence to the riskbased limits intra-day and overnight;
(4) conduct stress tests of all positions
in the proprietary account and all
positions in any customer account that
could pose material risk to the futures
commission merchant at least once per
week;
(5) evaluate its ability to meet initial
margin requirements at least once per
week;
(6) evaluate its ability to meet
variation margin requirements in cash at
least once per week;
(7) evaluate its ability to liquidate the
positions it clears in an orderly manner,
and estimate the cost of the liquidation
at least once per month; and
(8) test all lines of credit at least once
per quarter.
Each of these items has been observed
by Commission staff as an element of an
existing sound risk management
program at an SD, MSP, or FCM. The
Commission regulations require each
clearing member to establish written
procedures to comply with this
regulation and to keep records
documenting its compliance. The
information collection obligations
imposed by the regulations are
necessary to implement certain
provisions of the CEA, including
ensuring that registrants exercise
effective risk management and for the
efficient operation of trading venues
among SDs, MSPs, and FCMs. An
agency may not conduct or sponsor, and
a person is not required to respond to,
a collection of information unless it
displays a currently valid OMB control
number. The Commission did not
receive any comments on the 60-day
Federal Register notice, 80 FR 65217,
dated October 26, 2015.
Burden Statement: The respondent
burden for this collection is estimated to
average 2 hours per response for an
estimated annual burden of 504 hours
per respondent. This estimate includes
the total time, effort, or financial
resources expended by persons to
generate, maintain, retain, disclose, or
provide information to or for a federal
agency.
Respondents/Affected Entities: Swap
Dealers, Major Swap Participants, and
Futures Commission Merchants.
Estimated number of respondents:
240 (106 Swap Dealers and Major Swap
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Patent and Trademark Office
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; Invention Promoters/
Promotion Firms Complaints
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: Invention Promoters/Promotion Firms Complaints.
OMB Control Number: 0651-0044.
Form Number(s):
PTO/SB/2048
Type of Request: Regular.
Number of Respondents: 50.
Average Hours per Response: The USPTO estimates that it will take
the public 15 minutes (0.25 hours) to gather the necessary information,
prepare the form, and submit a complaint to the USPTO and 30 minutes
(0.5 hours) for an invention promoter or promotion firm to prepare and
submit a response to a complaint.
Burden Hours: 17.5 burden hours annually.
Cost Burden: $493.70.
Needs and Uses: The Inventors' Rights Act of 1999 requires the
USPTO to provide a forum for the publication of complaints concerning
invention promoters and responses from invention promoters to those
complaints. An individual may submit a complaint to the USPTO, which
will then forward the complaint to the identified invention promoter
for response. The complaints and responses are published on the USPTO
Web site. The USPTO uses the information collected to comply with its
statutory duty to publish the complaint along with any response from
the invention promoter. The USPTO does not investigate these complaints
or participate in any legal proceedings against invention promoters or
promotion firms.
Affected Public: Individuals or households; businesses or other
for-profits; and not-for-profit institutions.
Frequency: On occasion.
Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
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-
0044 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.
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Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information
collection should be sent on or before February 8, 2016 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: December 29, 2015.
Randy Hill,
Director, Collaborative Services Division, Office of the Chief
Information Officer.
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