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Agency: United States Patent and
Trademark Office, Commerce.
Title: Financial Transactions.
OMB Control Number: 0651–0043.
Form Number(s):
• PTO–2038
Type of Request: Regular.
Number of Respondents: 4,885,505
responses per year.
Average Hours per Response: The
USPTO estimates that it will take the
public approximately 1 to 8 minutes
(0.03 to 0.13 hours) to prepare the
appropriate form or documents and
submit to the USPTO.
Burden Hours: 242,402.84 hours
annually.
Cost Burden: $111,419.97.
Needs and Uses: Under 35 U.S.C. 41
and 15 U.S.C. 1113, the United States
Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
charges fees for processing and other
services related to patents, trademarks,
and information products. Customers
may submit payments to the USPTO by
several methods, including credit card,
deposit account, electronic funds
transfer (EFT), and paper check
transactions. The provisions of 35
U.S.C. 41 and 15 U.S.C. 1113 are
implemented in 37 CFR 1.16–1.28, 2.6–
2.7, and 2.206–2.209. This information
collection includes associated payment
and account forms for the
aforementioned financial transactions
and methods.
Affected Public: Businesses or other
for-profits; not-for-profit institutions.
Frequency: On occasion.
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 ‘‘0651–0043 copy
request’’ in the subject line of the
message.
• Mail: Marcie Lovett, Records and
Information Governance Division
Director, Office of the Chief Technology
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 28, 2018 to Nicholas
A. Fraser, OMB Desk Officer, via email
to Nicholas_A._Fraser@omb.eop.gov, or
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Marcie Lovett,
Records and Information Governance
Division Director, OCTO, United States Patent
and Trademark Office.
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BILLING CODE 3510–16–P
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Patent and Trademark Office
Recording Assignments
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 March 30, 2018.
ADDRESSES: Written comments may be
submitted by any of the following
methods:
• Email: InformationCollection@
uspto.gov. Include ‘‘0651–0027
Recording Assignments’’ 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.
SUMMARY:
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Requests for additional information
should be directed to Joyce R. Johnson,
Manager, Assignment Division, Mail
Stop 1450, United States Patent and
Trademark Office, P.O. Box 1450,
Alexandria, VA 22313–1450; by
telephone at 703–756–1265; or by email
to Joyce.Johnson@uspto.gov with
‘‘Paperwork’’ 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
This collection of information is
required by 35 U.S.C. 261 and 262 for
patents and 15 U.S.C. 1057 and 1060 for
trademarks. These statutes authorize the
United States Patent and Trademark
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Office (USPTO) to record patent and
trademark assignment documents,
including transfers of properties (i.e.,
patents and trademarks), liens, licenses,
assignments of interest, security
interests, mergers, and explanations of
transactions or other documents that
record the transfer of ownership of a
particular patent or trademark property
from one party to another. Assignments
are recorded for applications, patents,
and trademark registrations.
The USPTO administers these statutes
through 37 CFR 2.146, 2.171, and 37
CFR part 3. These rules permit the
public, corporations, other federal
agencies, and Government-owned or
Government-controlled corporations to
submit patent and trademark
assignment documents and other
documents related to title transfers to
the USPTO to be recorded. In
accordance with 37 CFR 3.54, the
recording of an assignment document by
the USPTO is an administrative action
and not a determination of the validity
of the document or of the effect that the
document has on the title to an
application, patent, or trademark.
Once the assignment documents are
recorded, they are available for public
inspection. The only exceptions are
those documents that are sealed under
secrecy orders according to 37 CFR 3.58
or related to unpublished patent
applications maintained in confidence
under 35 U.S.C. 122 and 37 CFR 1.14.
The public uses these records to
conduct ownership and chain-of-title
searches. The public may view these
records either at the USPTO Public
Search Facility or at the National
Archives and Records Administration,
depending on the date they were
recorded. The public may also search
patent and trademark assignment
information online through the USPTO
website.
In order to record an assignment
document, the respondent must submit
an appropriate cover sheet along with
copies of the assignment document to be
recorded. The USPTO provides two
paper forms for this purpose, the Patent
Recordation Form Cover Sheet (PTO–
1595) and the Trademark Recordation
Form Cover Sheet (PTO–1594), which
capture all of the necessary data for
accurately recording various assignment
documents. These forms may be
downloaded in PDF format from the
USPTO website (https://www.uspto.gov/
forms/pto1595.pdf and https://
www.uspto.gov/sites/default/files/
pto1594.pdf, respectively).
Customers may also submit
assignments online by using the
Electronic Patent Assignment System
(EPAS) and the Electronic Trademark
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Assignment System (ETAS), which are
available through the USPTO website.
These systems allow customers to fill
out the required cover sheet information
online using web-based forms and then
attach the electronic assignment
documents to be submitted for
recordation.
II. Method of Collection
By mail, facsimile, hand delivery, or
electronically to the USPTO.
III. Data
OMB Number: 0651–0027.
IC Instruments: PTO–1594 and 1595,
Trademark and Patent Recordation
Form Cover Sheets.
Type of Review: Extension of a
Previously Existing Information
Collection.
Affected Public: Individuals or
households; businesses or other forprofits; not-for-profit institutions; the
Federal Government; and state, local or
tribal governments.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
596,527 responses per year.
Estimated Time per Response: The
USPTO estimates that the response time
for activities related to the recording
assignment process will take
approximately 30 minutes (0.5 hours) to
complete. This includes the time to
gather the necessary information, create
the document, and submit the
completed request to the USPTO.
Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden:
298,263.50 hours.
Estimated Total Annual Cost Burden
(Hourly): $86,943,810.25 per year. The
USPTO expects that the information in
this collection will be prepared by both
attorneys and paralegals. The
professional hourly rate for attorneys is
$438 and the professional hourly rate
for paraprofessionals is $145. These
rates are established by estimates in the
2017 Report on the Economic Survey,
published by the Committee on
Economics of Legal Practice of the
American Intellectual Property Law
Association and the 2017 National
Utilization and Compensation Survey
published by the National Association
of Legal Assistants (NALA). The USPTO
estimates that the combined rate for
respondents will be approximately
$291.50 per hour. Therefore, the
estimated total respondent cost burden
for this collection will be approximately
$86,943,810.25 per year.
TABLE 1— RESPONDENT COSTS
Estimated time
for response
(minutes)
Information collection instrument
1 .....................
2 .....................
3 .....................
4 .....................
Total ........
Estimated
annual
responses
Estimated
annual burden
hours
Rate
($/hr)
Estimated
total annual
hourly cost
burden
(a)
IC No.
(b)
(c) = (a) × (b)
(d)
(e) = (c) × (d)
Patent Recordation Form Cover Sheet
(PTO–1595).
Trademark Recordation Form Cover
Sheet (PTO–1594).
Electronic Patent Assignment System
(EPAS) (PTO–1595).
Electronic Trademark Assignment System (ETAS) (PTO–1594).
..................................................................
Estimated Total Annual Cost Burden
(Non-Hourly): $3,267,181.32. This
information collection has annual (nonhour) costs in the form of filing fees and
postage costs.
This collection has filing fees
associated with submitting patent and
trademark assignment documents to be
recorded. The filing fees for recording
patent and trademark assignments are
the same for both paper and electronic
submissions. However, the filing cost
30
2,498
1,249
$291.50
$364,083.50
30
816
408
291.50
118,932.00
30
546,884
273,442
291.50
79,708,343.00
30
46,329
23,164.50
291.50
6,752,451.75
........................
596,527
262,150
........................
86,943,810.25
for recording patent or trademark
assignments varies according to the
number of properties involved in each
submission.
Filing Fees
The filing fee for submitting a patent
assignment as indicated by 37 CFR
1.21(h) is $40 per property for recording
each document, while the filing fee for
submitting a trademark assignment as
indicated by 37 CFR 2.6(b)(6) is $40 for
recording the first property in a
document and $25 for each additional
property in the same document. The
USPTO estimates that the average fee for
a patent assignment recordation request
is approximately $80 and that the
average fee for a trademark assignment
recordation request is approximately
$65. Therefore, this collection has an
estimated total of $2,950,395 in filing
fees per year.
TABLE 2—FILING COSTS
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Estimated
annual
responses
Information collection instrument
Filing fee
($)
Estimated
total non-hour
cost burden
(a)
IC No.
(b)
(a) × (b) = (c)
1 .....................
2 .....................
4 .....................
Patent Recordation Form Cover Sheet (PTO–1595) .....................................
Trademark Recordation Form Cover Sheet (PTO–1594) ..............................
Electronic Trademark Assignment System (ETAS) (PTO–1594) ...................
2,498
816
46,329
$80.00
65.00
65.00
$199,840.00
53,040.00
3,011,385.00
Total ........
..........................................................................................................................
49,643
........................
3,264,265.00
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Postage Costs
Customers may incur postage costs
when submitting a patent or trademark
assignment request to the USPTO by
mail. The Patent and Trademark
Recordation Cover Sheets will be
submitted by mail, for a total of 3,314
mailed submissions. The average
postage cost for a mailed Patent or
Trademark Recordation Form Cover
Sheet submission is 88 cents, resulting
in a total postage cost of $2,916.32 per
year for this collection.
The total (non-hour) respondent cost
burden for this collection in the form of
filing fees and postage costs is estimated
to be $3,267,181.32 per year.
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.
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.
Marcie Lovett,
Records Management Division Director,
USPTO, Office of the Chief Information
Officer.
[FR Doc. 2018–01608 Filed 1–26–18; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 3510–16–P
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
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[Docket No.: ED–2017–ICCD–0144]
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget for Review
and Approval; Comment Request;
Charter School Facilities Survey
Office of Innovation and
Improvement (OII), Department of
Education (ED).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
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In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, ED is
proposing an extension of an existing
information collection.
DATES: Interested persons are invited to
submit comments on or before February
28, 2018.
ADDRESSES: To access and review all the
documents related to the information
collection listed in this notice, please
use https://www.regulations.gov by
searching the Docket ID number ED–
2017–ICCD–0144. Comments submitted
in response to this notice should be
submitted electronically through the
Federal eRulemaking Portal at https://
www.regulations.gov by selecting the
Docket ID number or via postal mail,
commercial delivery, or hand delivery.
Please note that comments submitted by
fax or email and those submitted after
the comment period will not be
accepted. Written requests for
information or comments submitted by
postal mail or delivery should be
addressed to the Director of the
Information Collection Clearance
Division, U.S. Department of Education,
400 Maryland Avenue SW, LBJ, Room
216–44, Washington, DC 20202–4537.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
specific questions related to collection
activities, please contact Clifton Jones,
202–205–2204.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Department of Education (ED), in
accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) (44 U.S.C.
3506(c)(2)(A)), provides the general
public and Federal agencies with an
opportunity to comment on proposed,
revised, and continuing collections of
information. This helps the Department
assess the impact of its information
collection requirements and minimize
the public’s reporting burden. It also
helps the public understand the
Department’s information collection
requirements and provide the requested
data in the desired format. ED is
soliciting comments on the proposed
information collection request (ICR) that
is described below. The Department of
Education is especially interested in
public comment addressing the
following issues: (1) Is this collection
necessary to the proper functions of the
Department; (2) will this information be
processed and used in a timely manner;
(3) is the estimate of burden accurate;
(4) how might the Department enhance
the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and (5) how
might the Department minimize the
burden of this collection on the
respondents, including through the use
of information technology. Please note
that written comments received in
SUMMARY:
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response to this notice will be
considered public records.
Title of Collection: Charter School
Facilities Survey.
OMB Control Number: 1855–0024.
Type of Review: An extension of an
existing information collection.
Respondents/Affected Public: State,
Local, and Tribal Governments.
Total Estimated Number of Annual
Responses: 200.
Total Estimated Number of Annual
Burden Hours: 300.
Abstract: Charter schools across the
county are spending a significant
amount of operating dollars to cover
facilities costs that could otherwise be
spent on the students. The data from
participating schools will be used to
build a database of charter school
facilities data; providing concrete
evidence to all stakeholders and
allowing researchers to study the
potential impact that charter school
facilities have on student outcomes.
Dated: January 24, 2018.
Tomakie Washington,
Acting Director, Information Collection
Clearance Division, Office of the Chief Privacy
Officer, Office of Management.
[FR Doc. 2018–01607 Filed 1–26–18; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
Combined Notice of Filings #1
Take notice that the Commission
received the following electric corporate
filings:
Docket Numbers: EC18–47–000.
Applicants: SR South Loving LLC,
Hattiesburg Farm, LLC, Shell New
Energies US LLC.
Description: Application under FPA
Section 203 of Hattiesburg Farm, LLC,
et. al.
Filed Date: 1/19/18.
Accession Number: 20180119–5200.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 2/9/18.
Docket Numbers: EC18–48–000.
Applicants: Horse Butte Wind I LLC.
Description: Application of Horse
Butte Wind I LLC for Authorization
Under Section 203 of the Federal Power
Act for Disposition of Jurisdictional
Facilities.
Filed Date: 1/19/18.
Accession Number: 20180119–5219.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 2/9/18.
Docket Numbers: EC18–49–000.
Applicants: Northern Indiana Public
Service Company.
Description: Application for Approval
of Acquisition of Transmission
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Patent and Trademark Office
Recording Assignments
ACTION: Proposed collection; comment request.
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SUMMARY: 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 March 30, 2018.
ADDRESSES: Written comments may be submitted by any of the following
methods:
Email: [email protected]. Include ``0651-
0027 Recording Assignments'' 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: Requests for additional information
should be directed to Joyce R. Johnson, Manager, Assignment Division,
Mail Stop 1450, United States Patent and Trademark Office, P.O. Box
1450, Alexandria, VA 22313-1450; by telephone at 703-756-1265; or by
email to [email protected] with ``Paperwork'' 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
This collection of information is required by 35 U.S.C. 261 and 262
for patents and 15 U.S.C. 1057 and 1060 for trademarks. These statutes
authorize the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to
record patent and trademark assignment documents, including transfers
of properties (i.e., patents and trademarks), liens, licenses,
assignments of interest, security interests, mergers, and explanations
of transactions or other documents that record the transfer of
ownership of a particular patent or trademark property from one party
to another. Assignments are recorded for applications, patents, and
trademark registrations.
The USPTO administers these statutes through 37 CFR 2.146, 2.171,
and 37 CFR part 3. These rules permit the public, corporations, other
federal agencies, and Government-owned or Government-controlled
corporations to submit patent and trademark assignment documents and
other documents related to title transfers to the USPTO to be recorded.
In accordance with 37 CFR 3.54, the recording of an assignment document
by the USPTO is an administrative action and not a determination of the
validity of the document or of the effect that the document has on the
title to an application, patent, or trademark.
Once the assignment documents are recorded, they are available for
public inspection. The only exceptions are those documents that are
sealed under secrecy orders according to 37 CFR 3.58 or related to
unpublished patent applications maintained in confidence under 35
U.S.C. 122 and 37 CFR 1.14. The public uses these records to conduct
ownership and chain-of-title searches. The public may view these
records either at the USPTO Public Search Facility or at the National
Archives and Records Administration, depending on the date they were
recorded. The public may also search patent and trademark assignment
information online through the USPTO website.
In order to record an assignment document, the respondent must
submit an appropriate cover sheet along with copies of the assignment
document to be recorded. The USPTO provides two paper forms for this
purpose, the Patent Recordation Form Cover Sheet (PTO-1595) and the
Trademark Recordation Form Cover Sheet (PTO-1594), which capture all of
the necessary data for accurately recording various assignment
documents. These forms may be downloaded in PDF format from the USPTO
website (https://www.uspto.gov/forms/pto1595.pdf and https://www.uspto.gov/sites/default/files/pto1594.pdf, respectively).
Customers may also submit assignments online by using the
Electronic Patent Assignment System (EPAS) and the Electronic Trademark
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Assignment System (ETAS), which are available through the USPTO
website. These systems allow customers to fill out the required cover
sheet information online using web-based forms and then attach the
electronic assignment documents to be submitted for recordation.
II. Method of Collection
By mail, facsimile, hand delivery, or electronically to the USPTO.
III. Data
OMB Number: 0651-0027.
IC Instruments: PTO-1594 and 1595, Trademark and Patent Recordation
Form Cover Sheets.
Type of Review: Extension of a Previously Existing Information
Collection.
Affected Public: Individuals or households; businesses or other
for-profits; not-for-profit institutions; the Federal Government; and
state, local or tribal governments.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 596,527 responses per year.
Estimated Time per Response: The USPTO estimates that the response
time for activities related to the recording assignment process will
take approximately 30 minutes (0.5 hours) to complete. This includes
the time to gather the necessary information, create the document, and
submit the completed request to the USPTO.
Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 298,263.50 hours.
Estimated Total Annual Cost Burden (Hourly): $86,943,810.25 per
year. The USPTO expects that the information in this collection will be
prepared by both attorneys and paralegals. The professional hourly rate
for attorneys is $438 and the professional hourly rate for
paraprofessionals is $145. These rates are established by estimates in
the 2017 Report on the Economic Survey, published by the Committee on
Economics of Legal Practice of the American Intellectual Property Law
Association and the 2017 National Utilization and Compensation Survey
published by the National Association of Legal Assistants (NALA). The
USPTO estimates that the combined rate for respondents will be
approximately $291.50 per hour. Therefore, the estimated total
respondent cost burden for this collection will be approximately
$86,943,810.25 per year.
Table 1-- Respondent Costs
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Estimated
Estimated time Estimated Estimated total annual
IC No. Information collection instrument for response annual annual burden Rate ($/hr) hourly cost
(minutes) responses hours burden
(a) (b) (c) = (a) x (d) (e) = (c) x
(b) (d)
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1.................................... Patent Recordation Form Cover 30 2,498 1,249 $291.50 $364,083.50
Sheet (PTO-1595).
2.................................... Trademark Recordation Form Cover 30 816 408 291.50 118,932.00
Sheet (PTO-1594).
3.................................... Electronic Patent Assignment 30 546,884 273,442 291.50 79,708,343.00
System (EPAS) (PTO-1595).
4.................................... Electronic Trademark Assignment 30 46,329 23,164.50 291.50 6,752,451.75
System (ETAS) (PTO-1594).
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Total............................ ................................. .............. 596,527 262,150 .............. 86,943,810.25
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Estimated Total Annual Cost Burden (Non-Hourly): $3,267,181.32.
This information collection has annual (non-hour) costs in the form of
filing fees and postage costs.
This collection has filing fees associated with submitting patent
and trademark assignment documents to be recorded. The filing fees for
recording patent and trademark assignments are the same for both paper
and electronic submissions. However, the filing cost for recording
patent or trademark assignments varies according to the number of
properties involved in each submission.
Filing Fees
The filing fee for submitting a patent assignment as indicated by
37 CFR 1.21(h) is $40 per property for recording each document, while
the filing fee for submitting a trademark assignment as indicated by 37
CFR 2.6(b)(6) is $40 for recording the first property in a document and
$25 for each additional property in the same document. The USPTO
estimates that the average fee for a patent assignment recordation
request is approximately $80 and that the average fee for a trademark
assignment recordation request is approximately $65. Therefore, this
collection has an estimated total of $2,950,395 in filing fees per
year.
Table 2--Filing Costs
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Estimated Estimated
IC No. Information collection annual Filing fee total non-hour
instrument responses ($) cost burden
(a) (b) (a) x (b) =
(c)
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1................................ Patent Recordation Form Cover 2,498 $80.00 $199,840.00
Sheet (PTO-1595).
2................................ Trademark Recordation Form 816 65.00 53,040.00
Cover Sheet (PTO-1594).
4................................ Electronic Trademark 46,329 65.00 3,011,385.00
Assignment System (ETAS)
(PTO-1594).
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Total........................ ............................. 49,643 .............. 3,264,265.00
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Postage Costs
Customers may incur postage costs when submitting a patent or
trademark assignment request to the USPTO by mail. The Patent and
Trademark Recordation Cover Sheets will be submitted by mail, for a
total of 3,314 mailed submissions. The average postage cost for a
mailed Patent or Trademark Recordation Form Cover Sheet submission is
88 cents, resulting in a total postage cost of $2,916.32 per year for
this collection.
The total (non-hour) respondent cost burden for this collection in
the form of filing fees and postage costs is estimated to be
$3,267,181.32 per year.
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.
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.
Marcie Lovett,
Records Management Division Director, USPTO, Office of the Chief
Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2018-01608 Filed 1-26-18; 8:45 am]
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