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($)
Total non-hour cost burden
(yr)
(a)
IC No.
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Utility issue fee (Small entity) ................
Utility issue fee (Micro entity) ................
Design issue fee (Large entity) ..............
Design issue fee (Small entity) ..............
Design issue fee (Micro entity) ..............
Plant issue fee (Large entity) .................
Plant issue fee (Small entity) .................
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5,625
15,230
11,150
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480.00
240.00
560.00
280.00
140.00
760.00
380.00
190.00
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240.00
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27,758,400.00
1,350,000.00
8,528,800.00
3,122,000.00
309,400.00
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248,900.00
1,900.00
254,400.00
43,200.00
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Customers may incur postage costs
when submitting the information in this
collection by the USPTO by mail. The
USPTO estimates that the average firstclass postage cost for a mailed
submission will be 49 cents and that
approximately 5% submissions will be
mailed to the USPTO per year, for a
total estimated postage cost of $8,737.19
per year.
The total annual (non-hour)
respondent cost burden for this
collection is estimated to be
approximately $274,403,312.19 per
year.
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IV. Request for Comments
Comments submitted in response to
this notice will be summarized and/or
included in the request for OMB
approval. All comments will become a
matter of public record.
The USPTO is soliciting public
comments to:
(a) 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; (b) Evaluate the
accuracy of the agency’s estimate of the
burden of the proposed collection of
information, including the validity of
the methodology and assumptions used;
(c) Enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and (d) Minimize the burden
of the collection of information on those
who are to respond, including through
the use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other
technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology,
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e.g., permitting electronic submission of
responses.
Marcie Lovett,
Records Management Division Director,
Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2016–19921 Filed 8–19–16; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
United States Patent and Trademark
Office
Submission for OMB Review;
Comment Request; ‘‘Pro Bono Survey’’
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).
Title: Pro Bono Survey.
OMB Control Number: 0651—New.
Form Number(s): N/A.
Type of Request: Regular.
Number of Respondents: 20
respondents providing quarterly
responses, for a total of 80 responses per
year.
Average Hours per Response: 2 hours.
Burden Hours: 160 hours.
Cost Burden: $65,600.00
Needs and Uses: The Leahy-Smith
America Invents Act (AIA), Public Law
112–29 § 32 (2011) directs the USPTO to
work with and support intellectual
property law associations across the
country in the establishment of pro
bono programs designed to assist
financially under-resourced
independent inventors and small
businesses. In support of this law, the
USPTO, in collaboration with various
non-profit organizations, has established
a series of autonomous regional hubs
that act as matchmakers to help connect
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low income inventors with volunteer
patent attorneys across the United
States.
This information collection will
ascertain the effectiveness of each
individual regional hub with respect to
their matchmaking efforts. The USPTO
has worked with the Pro Bono Advisory
Council (PBAC) to determine what
information is necessary to ascertain the
effectiveness of each regional pro bono
hub’s matchmaking operations. PBAC is
a well-established group of patent
practitioners and patent pro bono
regional hub administrators who have
committed to provide support and
guidance to patent pro bono programs
across the country. The USPTO is
responsible for the collection of this
information, which is collected on a
quarterly basis.
Specifically, the information will
allow PBAC and the USPTO to ascertain
the origination state of applicants,
where applicants are being referred
from, and what portion of applicants are
completing and returning financial
screening applications. Additionally the
information will help track the number
of invention screenings, disqualified
applicants, corporations/law firms
agreeing to accept cases, backlog of
unmatched applicants, hours donated
by lawyer referral service panel
attorneys, and provisional and nonprovisional applications filed, all on a
quarterly basis. The information will
also allow PBAC and the USPTO to
understand program financial
information including project cost, and
depth of donor support.
The information, at its highest level,
will allow PBAC and the USPTO to
ascertain whether the regional hubs are
matching qualified low income
inventors with volunteer patent
attorneys. It will also help establish the
total economic benefit derived by lowincome inventors in the form of donated
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legal services. This information can then
be used to promote the program to
under-resourced inventors and patent
practitioners.
Affected Public: Not-for-profit
institutions.
Frequency: Quarterly.
Respondent’s Obligation: Required to
Obtain or Maintain 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, John.Kirkpatrick@uspto.gov,
or Gautam.Prakash@uspto.gov. Include
‘‘Pro Bono Survey 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 September 21, 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: August 16, 2016.
Marcie Lovett,
Records Management Division Director,
USPTO, Office of the Chief Information
Officer.
[FR Doc. 2016–19865 Filed 8–19–16; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Patent and Trademark Office
Patent Law Treaty
ACTION:
Notice and request for comment.
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
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SUMMARY:
agencies to comment on the extension of
a 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 October 21,
2016.
You may submit comments
by any of the following methods:
• Email: InformationCollection@
uspto.gov. Include ‘‘0651–0073
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 Raul Tamayo,
Senior Legal Advisor, Office of Patent
Legal Administration, United States
Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO),
P.O. Box 1450, Alexandria, VA 22313–
1450; by telephone at 571–272–7728; or
by email at Raul.Tamayo.uspto.gov with
‘‘0651–0073 comment’’ in the subject
line. Additional information about this
collection is also available at https://
www.reginfo.gov under ‘‘Information
Collection Review.’’
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
ADDRESSES:
I. Abstract
The Patent Law Treaties
Implementation Act of 2012 (PLTIA)
amends the patent laws to implement
the provisions of the Patent Law Treaty
(PLT) in title II. The PLT harmonizes
and streamlines formal procedures
pertaining to the filing and processing of
patent applications.
By a final rule titled ‘‘Changes to
Implement the Patent Law Treaty’’ (RIN
0651–AC85) and published in the
Federal Register on October 21, 2013,
the USPTO revised the rules of practice
for consistency with the changes in the
PLT and title II of the PLTIA. One
notable change pertains to the
restoration of the right of priority to a
foreign application or the benefit of a
provisional application in a subsequent
application filed within two months of
the expiration of the twelve-month
period (six-month period for design
applications) for filing such a
subsequent application. The
information in this collection relates to
the petitions for restoration that may be
filed in accordance with the revised
rules.
The information in this collection can
be submitted electronically through
EFS-Web, the USPTO’s Web-based
electronic filing system, as well as on
paper. The USPTO is therefore
accounting for both electronic and paper
submissions in this collection.
II. Method of Collection
Electronically if applicants submit the
information using EFS-Web. By mail or
hand delivery in paper form.
III. Data
OMB Number: 0651–0073.
Form Number(s): No form numbers.
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:
500 responses per year. The USPTO
estimates that 120 responses will be
received from small entities.
Approximately 98% of the total
responses for this collection will be
submitted electronically.
Estimated Time per Response: The
USPTO estimates it will take
approximately 60 minutes (1 hour) to
complete the information in this
collection, including the time it takes
for reading the instructions for the
forms, gathering the necessary
information, completing the forms, and
submitting them to the USPTO. The
time per response, estimated annual
responses, and estimated annual hour
burden associated with each instrument
in this collection are shown in the table
below.
Estimated Total Annual Respondent
Burden Hours: 500 hours.
Estimated Total Annual Respondent
(Hourly) Cost Burden: $205,000.00. The
USPTO expects that attorneys in private
firms will complete these applications.
The professional hourly rate for
attorneys is $410. Using this hourly rate,
the USPTO estimates that the total
respondent cost burden for this
collection is [AMOUNT] per year.
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Petition to Restore the Right of Priority
under 37 CFR 1.55(b)(2).
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[FR Doc No: 2016-19865]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
United States Patent and Trademark Office
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; ``Pro Bono Survey''
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).
Title: Pro Bono Survey.
OMB Control Number: 0651--New.
Form Number(s): N/A.
Type of Request: Regular.
Number of Respondents: 20 respondents providing quarterly
responses, for a total of 80 responses per year.
Average Hours per Response: 2 hours.
Burden Hours: 160 hours.
Cost Burden: $65,600.00
Needs and Uses: The Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA), Public
Law 112-29 Sec. 32 (2011) directs the USPTO to work with and support
intellectual property law associations across the country in the
establishment of pro bono programs designed to assist financially
under-resourced independent inventors and small businesses. In support
of this law, the USPTO, in collaboration with various non-profit
organizations, has established a series of autonomous regional hubs
that act as matchmakers to help connect low income inventors with
volunteer patent attorneys across the United States.
This information collection will ascertain the effectiveness of
each individual regional hub with respect to their matchmaking efforts.
The USPTO has worked with the Pro Bono Advisory Council (PBAC) to
determine what information is necessary to ascertain the effectiveness
of each regional pro bono hub's matchmaking operations. PBAC is a well-
established group of patent practitioners and patent pro bono regional
hub administrators who have committed to provide support and guidance
to patent pro bono programs across the country. The USPTO is
responsible for the collection of this information, which is collected
on a quarterly basis.
Specifically, the information will allow PBAC and the USPTO to
ascertain the origination state of applicants, where applicants are
being referred from, and what portion of applicants are completing and
returning financial screening applications. Additionally the
information will help track the number of invention screenings,
disqualified applicants, corporations/law firms agreeing to accept
cases, backlog of unmatched applicants, hours donated by lawyer
referral service panel attorneys, and provisional and non-provisional
applications filed, all on a quarterly basis. The information will also
allow PBAC and the USPTO to understand program financial information
including project cost, and depth of donor support.
The information, at its highest level, will allow PBAC and the
USPTO to ascertain whether the regional hubs are matching qualified low
income inventors with volunteer patent attorneys. It will also help
establish the total economic benefit derived by low-income inventors in
the form of donated
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legal services. This information can then be used to promote the
program to under-resourced inventors and patent practitioners.
Affected Public: Not-for-profit institutions.
Frequency: Quarterly.
Respondent's Obligation: Required to Obtain or Maintain 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,
John.Kirkpatrick@uspto.gov, or Gautam.Prakash@uspto.gov. Include ``Pro
Bono Survey 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 September 21, 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: August 16, 2016.
Marcie Lovett,
Records Management Division Director, USPTO, Office of the Chief
Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2016-19865 Filed 8-19-16; 8:45 am]
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