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be distributed to the members but may
not be considered at the meeting.
Copies of CINTAC meeting minutes
will be available within 90 days of the
meeting.
Dated: September 9, 2019.
Devin Horne,
Designated Federal Officer, Office of Energy
and Environmental Industries.
[FR Doc. 2019–20305 Filed 9–18–19; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Institute of Standards and
Technology
Judges Panel of the Malcolm Baldrige
National Quality Award
National Institute of Standards
and Technology, Department of
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of closed meeting.
AGENCY:
The Judges Panel of the
Malcolm Baldrige National Quality
Award (Judges Panel) will meet in
closed session Monday, November 4,
2019 through Friday, November 8, 2019,
from 8:30 a.m. until 5:30 p.m. Eastern
Time each day. The purpose of this
meeting is to review recommendations
from site visits and recommend 2019
Malcolm Baldrige National Quality
Award (Award) recipients. The meeting
is closed to the public in order to
protect the proprietary data to be
examined and discussed at the meeting.
DATES: The meeting will be held
Monday, November 4, 2019 through
Friday, November 8, 2019, from 8:30
a.m. until 5:30 p.m. Eastern Time each
day. The entire meeting will be closed
to the public.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at
the National Institute of Standards and
Technology, 100 Bureau Drive,
Gaithersburg, MD 20899.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Robert Fangmeyer, Director, Baldrige
Performance Excellence Program,
National Institute of Standards and
Technology, 100 Bureau Drive, Mail
Stop 1020, Gaithersburg, MD 20899–
1020, telephone number (301) 975–
2361, email robert.fangmeyer@nist.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Authority: 15 U.S.C. 3711a(d)(1) and
the Federal Advisory Committee Act, as
amended, 5 U.S.C. App.
Pursuant to the Federal Advisory
Committee Act, as amended, 5 U.S.C.
App., notice is hereby given that the
Judges Panel will meet on Monday,
November 4, 2019 through Friday,
November 8, 2019, from 8:30 a.m. until
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5:30 p.m. Eastern Time each day. The
Judges Panel is composed of twelve
members, appointed by the Secretary of
Commerce, with balanced
representation from U.S. service,
manufacturing, nonprofit, education,
and health care industries. Members are
selected for their familiarity with
quality improvement operations and
competitiveness issues of manufacturing
companies, service companies, small
businesses, nonprofits, health care
providers, and educational institutions.
The purpose of this meeting is to review
recommendations from site visits and
recommend 2019 Award recipients. The
meeting is closed to the public in order
to protect the proprietary data to be
examined and discussed at the meeting.
The Chief Financial Officer/Assistant
Secretary for Administration, with the
concurrence of the Assistant General
Counsel for Employment, Litigation,
and Information, formally determined
on July 1, 2019, pursuant to Section
10(d) of the Federal Advisory
Committee Act, as amended by Section
5(c) of the Government in Sunshine Act,
Public Law 94–409, that the meeting of
the Judges Panel may be closed to the
public in accordance with 5 U.S.C.
552b(c)(4), because the meeting is likely
to disclose trade secrets and commercial
or financial information obtained from a
person and privileged or confidential;
and 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(9)(B) because the
meeting is likely to disclose information
the premature disclosure of which
would, in the case of any agency, be
likely to significantly frustrate
implementation of a proposed agency
action. The meeting, which involves
examination of current Award applicant
data from U.S. organizations and a
discussion of these data as compared to
the Award criteria in order to
recommend Award recipients, will be
closed to the public.
Kevin A. Kimball,
Chief of Staff.
[FR Doc. 2019–20301 Filed 9–18–19; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 3510–13–P
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Patent and Trademark Office
Legal Processes
Proposed collection; request for
comment.
ACTION:
The United States Patent and
Trademark Office (USPTO), as required
by the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995, invites comments on a proposed
extension of the existing information
collection: 0651–0046 (Legal Processes).
SUMMARY:
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Written comments must be
submitted on or before November 18,
2019.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
by any of the following methods:
• Email: InformationCollection@
uspto.gov. Include ‘‘0651–0046
comment’’ in the subject line of the
message.
• Federal Rulemaking Portal: https://
www.regulations.gov.
• Mail: Kyu Lee, Office of General
Law, 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 Kyu Lee, Office of
General Law, United States Patent and
Trademark Office, P.O. Box 1450,
Alexandria, VA 22313–1450; by
telephone at 571–272–3000; or by email
at Kyu.Lee@uspto.gov with ‘‘0651–0046
inquiry’’ in the subject line. Additional
information about this collection is also
available at https://www.reginfo.gov
under ‘‘Information Collection Review.’’
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
DATES:
I. Abstract
This collection covers information
requirements related to civil actions and
claims involving current and former
employees of the United States Patent
and Trademark Office (USPTO). The
rules for these legal processes may be
found under 37 CFR part 104, which
outlines procedures for service of
process, demands for employee
testimony and production of documents
in legal proceedings, reports of
unauthorized testimony, employee
indemnification, and filing claims
against the USPTO under the Federal
Tort Claims Act (28 U.S.C. 2672) and
the corresponding Department of Justice
regulations (28 CFR part 14). The public
may also petition the USPTO Office of
General Counsel under 37 CFR 104.3 to
waive or suspend these rules in
extraordinary cases.
The procedures under 37 CFR part
104 ensure that service of process
intended for current and former
employees of the USPTO is handled
properly. The USPTO will only accept
service of process for an employee
acting in an official capacity. This
collection is necessary so that
respondents or their representatives can
serve a summons or complaint on the
USPTO, demand employee testimony
and documents related to a legal
proceeding, or file a claim under the
Federal Tort Claims Act. Respondents
may also petition the USPTO to waive
or suspend these rules for legal
processes. This collection is also
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necessary so that current and former
USPTO employees may properly
forward service and demands to the
Office of General Counsel, report
unauthorized testimony, and request
indemnification. The USPTO covers
current employees as respondents under
this information collection even though
their responses do not require approval
under the Paperwork Reduction Act. In
those instances where both current and
former employees may respond to the
USPTO, the agency estimates that the
number of respondents will be small.
There are no forms provided by the
USPTO for this collection. For filing
claims under the Federal Tort Claims
Act, the public may use Standard Form
95 ‘‘Claim for Damage, Injury, or
Death,’’ which is provided by the
Department of Justice and approved by
the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) under OMB Control Number
1105–0008.
II. Method of Collection
By mail or hand delivery to the
USPTO.
III. Data
OMB Number: 0651–0046.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Review: Revision of a
currently approved collection.
Affected Public: Individuals or
households; businesses or other forprofits; not-for-profit institutions; and
the Federal Government.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
299 responses per year. The USPTO
estimates that approximately 10% of
these responses will be from small
entities.
Estimated Time per Response: The
USPTO estimates that it will take the
public from 5 minutes (0.08 hours) to 6
hours to prepare a single item in this
collection, including gathering the
necessary information, preparing the
appropriate documents, and submitting
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the information required for this
collection.
Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden:
130 hours.
Estimated Total Annual Cost Burden
(Hourly): $56,712.27. The USPTO
estimates that the information in this
collection will be prepared by attorneys
and former employees at an hourly rate
of $438, except for the requests for
employee indemnification, which
generally come from professional and
supervisory staff at an hourly rate of
$79.78. The attorney rates are found in
the 2017 Report of the Economic Survey
of the America Intellectual Property
Law Association (AIPLA). Since the
majority of the former employees
affected by this collection are attorneys,
the estimated attorney hourly rate will
be used for former employees as well.
Using these hourly rates, the USPTO
estimates that the total respondent cost
burden for this collection will be
approximately $56,712.27 per year.
TABLE 1—RESPONDENT HOURLY COST BURDEN
IC No.
1
2
3
4
Item
...........................
...........................
...........................
...........................
8 ...........................
9 ...........................
Petition to Waive Rules .....................
Service of Process ............................
Forwarding Service ...........................
Employee Testimony and Production
of Documents in Legal Proceedings.
Forwarding Demands ........................
Report of Unauthorized Testimony ...
Report of Possible Indemnification
Cases.
Employee Indemnification .................
Tort Claims ........................................
Totals ............
............................................................
5 ...........................
6 ...........................
7 ...........................
Estimated Total Annual Non-hour
Respondent Cost Burden: $6,928. There
are no capital start-up, maintenance, or
recordkeeping costs associated with this
information collection. However, this
collection does have annual (non-hour)
costs in the form of filing fees and
postage costs.
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Filing Fees
This collection has filing fees
associated with the petition to waive or
suspend the legal process rules under 37
CFR 104.3. The USPTO estimates that
approximately 5 petitions will be filed
per year with a fee of $130, for a total
fee cost of $650. There are no other fees
associated with this information
collection.
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Estimated
response time
Estimated
annual
responses
Estimated
annual
burden hours
Rate
($/hr)
Total cost
($/yr)
(a)
(b)
(a) × (b) = (c)
(d)
(c) × (d) = (e)
30 minutes .....
5 minutes .......
10 minutes .....
2 hours ...........
5
243
7
33
2.50
20.17
1.12
66.00
$438.00
438.00
438.00
438.00
$1,095.00
8,834.02
490.56
28,908.00
10 minutes .....
30 minutes .....
30 minutes .....
10
1
3
1.60
0.50
1.50
438.00
438.00
438.00
700.80
219.00
657.00
30 minutes .....
6 hours ...........
1
6
0.50
36.00
79.78
438.00
39.89
15,768.00
........................
309
130
........................
56,712.27
Postage Costs
Customers may incur postage costs
when submitting the information in this
collection to the USPTO by mail. The
USPTO estimates that the average firstclass postage for a mailed submission,
other than a Service of Process, will be
$1.45 and that up to 56 of these
submissions will be mailed to the
USPTO per year, for a postage cost of
$82.64. The USPTO estimates that the
average postage for a Service of Process
will be mailed Priority Express at a cost
of $25.50 and that up to 243 of these
submissions will be mailed to the
USPTO per year, for a postage cost of
$6,197. The total estimated postage cost
for this collection is approximately
$6,279 per year.
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Therefore, the total annual (non-hour)
respondent cost burden for this
collection, in the form of filing fees
($650.00) and postage costs ($6,279), is
estimated to be approximately $6,928
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;
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(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,
OCIO, United States Patent and Trademark
Office.
[FR Doc. 2019–20266 Filed 9–18–19; 8:45 am]
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COMMITTEE FOR THE
IMPLEMENTATION OF TEXTILE
AGREEMENTS
Limitations of Duty- and Quota-Free
Imports of Apparel Articles Assembled
in Beneficiary Sub-Saharan African
Countries From Regional and ThirdCountry Fabric
Committee for the
Implementation of Textile Agreements
(CITA).
ACTION: Publishing the new 12-month
cap on duty- and quota-free benefits.
AGENCY:
DATES:
Applicable: October 1, 2019.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Rebecca Geiger, International Trade
Specialist, Office of Textiles and
Apparel, U.S. Department of Commerce,
(202) 482–3117.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Authority: Title I, Section 112(b)(3) of
the Trade and Development Act of 2000
(TDA 2000), Public Law (Pub. L.) 106–
200, as amended by Division B, Title
XXI, section 3108 of the Trade Act of
2002, Public Law 107–210; Section
7(b)(2) of the AGOA Acceleration Act of
2004, Public Law 108–274; Division D,
Title VI, section 6002 of the Tax Relief
and Health Care Act of 2006 (TRHCA
2006), Public Law 109–432, and section
1 of The African Growth and
Opportunity Amendments (Pub. L. 112–
163), August 10, 2012; Presidential
Proclamation 7350 of October 2, 2000
(65 FR 59321); Presidential
Proclamation 7626 of November 13,
2002 (67 FR 69459); and Title I, Section
103(b)(2) and (3) of the Trade
Preferences Extension Act of 2015, Pub.
L. 114–27, June 29, 2015. Title I of TDA
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2000 provides for duty- and quota-free
treatment for certain textile and apparel
articles imported from designated
beneficiary sub-Saharan African
countries. Section 112(b)(3) of TDA
2000 provides duty- and quota-free
treatment for apparel articles wholly
assembled in one or more beneficiary
sub-Saharan African countries from
fabric wholly formed in one or more
beneficiary sub-Saharan African
countries from yarn originating in the
United States or one or more beneficiary
sub-Saharan African countries. This
preferential treatment is also available
for apparel articles assembled in one or
more lesser-developed beneficiary subSaharan African countries, regardless of
the country of origin of the fabric used
to make such articles, subject to
quantitative limitation. Public Law 114–
27 extended this special rule for lesserdeveloped countries through September
30, 2025.
The AGOA Acceleration Act of 2004
provides that the quantitative limitation
for the twelve-month period beginning
October 1, 2019 will be an amount not
to exceed 7 percent of the aggregate
square meter equivalents of all apparel
articles imported into the United States
in the preceding 12-month period for
which data are available. See Section
112(b)(3)(A)(ii)(I) of TDA 2000, as
amended by Section 7(b)(2)(B) of the
AGOA Acceleration Act of 2004. Of this
overall amount, apparel imported under
the special rule for lesser-developed
countries is limited to an amount not to
exceed 3.5 percent of all apparel articles
imported into the United States in the
preceding 12-month period. See Section
112(b)(3)(B)(ii)(II) of TDA 2000, as
amended by Section 6002(a)(3) of
TRHCA 2006. The Annex to Presidential
Proclamation 7350 of October 2, 2000
directed CITA to publish the aggregate
quantity of imports allowed during each
12-month period in the Federal
Register.
For the one-year period, beginning on
October 1, 2019, and extending through
September 30, 2020, the aggregate
quantity of imports eligible for
preferential treatment under these
provisions is 2,146,573,294 square
meters equivalent. Of this amount,
1,073,286,647 square meters equivalent
is available to apparel articles imported
under the special rule for lesserdeveloped countries. Apparel articles
entered in excess of these quantities will
be subject to otherwise applicable
tariffs.
These quantities are calculated using
the aggregate square meter equivalents
of all apparel articles imported into the
United States, derived from the set of
Harmonized System lines listed in the
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Annex to the World Trade Organization
Agreement on Textiles and Clothing
(ATC), and the conversion factors for
units of measure into square meter
equivalents used by the United States in
implementing the ATC.
Lloyd Wood,
Chairman, Committee for the Implementation
of Textile Agreements.
[FR Doc. 2019–20302 Filed 9–18–19; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 3510–DR–P
BUREAU OF CONSUMER FINANCIAL
PROTECTION
Supervisory Highlights, Issue 19
(Summer 2019)
Bureau of Consumer Financial
Protection.
ACTION: Supervisory highlights.
AGENCY:
The Bureau of Consumer
Financial Protection (Bureau) is issuing
its nineteenth edition of its Supervisory
Highlights. In this issue of Supervisory
Highlights, we report examination
findings in the areas of automobile loan
origination, credit card account
management, debt collection,
furnishing, and mortgage origination
that were generally completed between
December 2018 and March 2019 (unless
otherwise stated). The report does not
impose any new or different legal
requirements, and all violations
described in the report are based only
on those specific facts and
circumstances noted during those
examinations.
DATES: The Bureau released this edition
of the Supervisory Highlights on its
website on September 13, 2019.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Jaclyn Sellers, Attorney-Advisor, at
(202) 435–7449. If you require this
document in an alternative electronic
format, please contact CFPB_
Accessibility@cfpb.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
SUMMARY:
1. Introduction
The Consumer Financial Protection
Bureau is committed to a consumer
financial marketplace that is free,
innovative, competitive, and
transparent, where the rights of all
parties are protected by the rule of law,
and where consumers are free to choose
the products and services that best fit
their individual needs. To effectively
accomplish this, the Bureau remains
committed to sharing with the public
key findings from its supervisory work
to help industry limit risks to
consumers and comply with Federal
consumer financial law.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Patent and Trademark Office
Legal Processes
ACTION: Proposed collection; request for comment.
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SUMMARY: The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), as
required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, invites comments on a
proposed extension of the existing information collection: 0651-0046
(Legal Processes).
DATES: Written comments must be submitted on or before November 18,
2019.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by any of the following methods:
Email: [email protected]. Include ``0651-
0046 comment'' in the subject line of the message.
Federal Rulemaking Portal: https://www.regulations.gov.
Mail: Kyu Lee, Office of General Law, 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 Kyu Lee, Office of General Law, United States
Patent and Trademark Office, P.O. Box 1450, Alexandria, VA 22313-1450;
by telephone at 571-272-3000; or by email at [email protected] with
``0651-0046 inquiry'' 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 covers information requirements related to civil
actions and claims involving current and former employees of the United
States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The rules for these legal
processes may be found under 37 CFR part 104, which outlines procedures
for service of process, demands for employee testimony and production
of documents in legal proceedings, reports of unauthorized testimony,
employee indemnification, and filing claims against the USPTO under the
Federal Tort Claims Act (28 U.S.C. 2672) and the corresponding
Department of Justice regulations (28 CFR part 14). The public may also
petition the USPTO Office of General Counsel under 37 CFR 104.3 to
waive or suspend these rules in extraordinary cases.
The procedures under 37 CFR part 104 ensure that service of process
intended for current and former employees of the USPTO is handled
properly. The USPTO will only accept service of process for an employee
acting in an official capacity. This collection is necessary so that
respondents or their representatives can serve a summons or complaint
on the USPTO, demand employee testimony and documents related to a
legal proceeding, or file a claim under the Federal Tort Claims Act.
Respondents may also petition the USPTO to waive or suspend these rules
for legal processes. This collection is also
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necessary so that current and former USPTO employees may properly
forward service and demands to the Office of General Counsel, report
unauthorized testimony, and request indemnification. The USPTO covers
current employees as respondents under this information collection even
though their responses do not require approval under the Paperwork
Reduction Act. In those instances where both current and former
employees may respond to the USPTO, the agency estimates that the
number of respondents will be small.
There are no forms provided by the USPTO for this collection. For
filing claims under the Federal Tort Claims Act, the public may use
Standard Form 95 ``Claim for Damage, Injury, or Death,'' which is
provided by the Department of Justice and approved by the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) under OMB Control Number 1105-0008.
II. Method of Collection
By mail or hand delivery to the USPTO.
III. Data
OMB Number: 0651-0046.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Review: Revision of a currently approved collection.
Affected Public: Individuals or households; businesses or other
for-profits; not-for-profit institutions; and the Federal Government.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 299 responses per year. The USPTO
estimates that approximately 10% of these responses will be from small
entities.
Estimated Time per Response: The USPTO estimates that it will take
the public from 5 minutes (0.08 hours) to 6 hours to prepare a single
item in this collection, including gathering the necessary information,
preparing the appropriate documents, and submitting the information
required for this collection.
Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 130 hours.
Estimated Total Annual Cost Burden (Hourly): $56,712.27. The USPTO
estimates that the information in this collection will be prepared by
attorneys and former employees at an hourly rate of $438, except for
the requests for employee indemnification, which generally come from
professional and supervisory staff at an hourly rate of $79.78. The
attorney rates are found in the 2017 Report of the Economic Survey of
the America Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA). Since the
majority of the former employees affected by this collection are
attorneys, the estimated attorney hourly rate will be used for former
employees as well. Using these hourly rates, the USPTO estimates that
the total respondent cost burden for this collection will be
approximately $56,712.27 per year.
Table 1--Respondent Hourly Cost Burden
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Estimated Estimated
IC No. Item Estimated response time annual annual burden Rate ($/hr) Total cost ($/
responses hours yr)
(a)...................... (b) (a) x (b) = (d) (c) x (d) =
(c) (e)
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1................................... Petition to Waive Rules 30 minutes............... 5 2.50 $438.00 $1,095.00
2................................... Service of Process..... 5 minutes................ 243 20.17 438.00 8,834.02
3................................... Forwarding Service..... 10 minutes............... 7 1.12 438.00 490.56
4................................... Employee Testimony and 2 hours.................. 33 66.00 438.00 28,908.00
Production of
Documents in Legal
Proceedings.
5................................... Forwarding Demands..... 10 minutes............... 10 1.60 438.00 700.80
6................................... Report of Unauthorized 30 minutes............... 1 0.50 438.00 219.00
Testimony.
7................................... Report of Possible 30 minutes............... 3 1.50 438.00 657.00
Indemnification Cases.
8................................... Employee 30 minutes............... 1 0.50 79.78 39.89
Indemnification.
9................................... Tort Claims............ 6 hours.................. 6 36.00 438.00 15,768.00
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Totals.......................... ....................... ......................... 309 130 .............. 56,712.27
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Estimated Total Annual Non-hour Respondent Cost Burden: $6,928.
There are no capital start-up, maintenance, or recordkeeping costs
associated with this information collection. However, this collection
does have annual (non-hour) costs in the form of filing fees and
postage costs.
Filing Fees
This collection has filing fees associated with the petition to
waive or suspend the legal process rules under 37 CFR 104.3. The USPTO
estimates that approximately 5 petitions will be filed per year with a
fee of $130, for a total fee cost of $650. There are no other fees
associated with this information collection.
Postage Costs
Customers may incur postage costs when submitting the information
in this collection to the USPTO by mail. The USPTO estimates that the
average first-class postage for a mailed submission, other than a
Service of Process, will be $1.45 and that up to 56 of these
submissions will be mailed to the USPTO per year, for a postage cost of
$82.64. The USPTO estimates that the average postage for a Service of
Process will be mailed Priority Express at a cost of $25.50 and that up
to 243 of these submissions will be mailed to the USPTO per year, for a
postage cost of $6,197. The total estimated postage cost for this
collection is approximately $6,279 per year.
Therefore, the total annual (non-hour) respondent cost burden for
this collection, in the form of filing fees ($650.00) and postage costs
($6,279), is estimated to be approximately $6,928 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;
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(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
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