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the information collection or the OMB
Control Number 0651–0020.
Further information can be obtained
by:
• Email: InformationCollection@
uspto.gov. Include ‘‘0651–0020
information request’’ in the subject line
of the message.
• Mail: Justin Isaac, Office of the
Chief Administrative Officer, United
States Patent and Trademark Office,
P.O. Box 1450, Alexandria, VA 22313–
1450.
Justin Isaac,
Information Collections Officer, Office of the
Chief Administrative Officer, United States
Patent and Trademark Office.
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Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
Review and Approval; Comment
Request; Patent Law Treaty
The United States Patent and
Trademark Office (USPTO) will submit
the following information collection
request to the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) for review and clearance
in accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, on or after the
date of publication of this notice. The
USPTO invites comment on this
information collection renewal, which
helps the USPTO assess the impact of
its information collection requirements
and minimize the public’s reporting
burden. Public comments were
previously requested via the Federal
Register on November 17, 2022 during
a 60-day comment period. This notice
allows for an additional 30 days for
public comments.
Agency: United States Patent and
Trademark Office, Department of
Commerce.
Title: Patent Law Treaty.
OMB Control Number: 0651–0073.
Needs and Uses: The Patent Law
Treaties Implementation Act of 2012
(PLTIA) implements the provisions of
the Patent Law Treaty (PLT) in title II.
PLT Article 13 provides for the
restoration of the right of priority where
there is a failure to timely claim priority
to the prior application, and also where
there is a failure to file the subsequent
application within 12 months of the
filing date of the priority application.
The United States Patent and
Trademark Office (USPTO) rules of
practice are consistent with the PLT and
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title II of the PLTIA. Section 201(c) of
the PLTIA amended 35 U.S.C. 119 to
provide that the 12-month periods set
forth in 35 U.S.C. 119(a) and (e) may be
extended by an additional 2 months if
the delay in filing an application
claiming priority to a foreign
application or the benefit of a
provisional application within that 12month period was unintentional.
The information in this information
collection is necessary so that patent
applicants and/or patentees may seek
restoration of the right of priority to a
prior-filed foreign application or of the
right to the benefit of a prior-filed
provisional application. The USPTO
will use the petition to restore the right
of priority to a prior filed foreign
application or the right to the benefit of
a prior-filed provisional application to
determine whether the applicant has
satisfied the conditions of the applicable
statute (35 U.S.C. 119) and regulation
(37 CFR 1.55(c) or 1.78(b)).
• Form Number(s): PTO/SB/459
(Petition to Restore the Right of Priority
under 37 CFR 1.55(c) or Petition to
Restore the Benefit of a Prior-Filed
Provisional Application under 37 CFR
1.78(b)).
Type of Review: Extension and
revision of a currently approved
information collection.
Affected Public: Private sector;
individuals or households.
Respondent’s Obligation: Required to
obtain or retain benefits.
Frequency: On occasion.
Estimated Number of Annual
Respondents: 800 respondents.
Estimated Number of Annual
Responses: 800 responses.
Estimated Time per Response: The
USPTO estimates that the responses in
this information collection will take the
public approximately 1 hour 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 Respondent
Burden Hours: 800 hours.
Estimated Total Annual Respondent
Non-Hourly Cost Burden: $1,464,824.
This information collection request
may be viewed at www.reginfo.gov.
Follow the instructions to view
Department of Commerce, USPTO
information collections currently under
review by OMB.
Written comments and
recommendations for this information
collection should be submitted within
30 days of the publication of this notice
on the following website
www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain.
Find this particular information
collection by selecting ‘‘Currently under
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30-day Review—Open for Public
Comments’’ or by using the search
function and entering either the title of
the information collection or the OMB
Control Number 0651–0073.
Further information can be obtained
by:
• Email: InformationCollection@
uspto.gov. Include ‘‘0651–0073
information request’’ in the subject line
of the message.
• Mail: Justin Isaac, Office of the
Chief Administrative Officer, United
States Patent and Trademark Office,
P.O. Box 1450, Alexandria, VA 22313–
1450.
Justin Isaac,
Information Collections Officer, Office of the
Chief Administrative Officer, United States
Patent and Trademark Office.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Patent and Trademark Office
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
Review and Approval; Comment
Request; Patent and PTAB Pro Bono
Programs
The United States Patent and
Trademark Office (USPTO) will submit
the following information collection
request to the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) for review and clearance
in accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, on or after the
date of publication of this notice. The
USPTO invites comment on this
information collection renewal, which
helps the USPTO assess the impact of
its information collection requirements
and minimize the public’s reporting
burden. Public comments were
previously requested via the Federal
Register on August 30, 2022 during a
60-day comment period. This notice
allows for an additional 30 days for
public comments.
Agency: United States Patent and
Trademark Office, Department of
Commerce.
Title: Patent and PTAB Pro Bono
Programs.
OMB Control Number: 0651–0082.
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
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businesses. To support this, the
USPTO—in collaboration with various
non-profit organizations—implemented
the Patent Pro Bono program; a series of
autonomous regional programs that act
as matchmakers to help connect lowincome inventors with volunteer patent
attorneys across the United States. The
Patent Pro Bono program comprises a
network of regional programs organized
by various bar associations, law school
IP clinics, and lawyer referral services
that provide services across all fifty
states, the District of Columbia, and
Puerto Rico.
In 2022, the Patent Trial and Appeal
Board (PTAB) began coordinating pro
bono opportunities through the newly
created PTAB Pro Bono Program, having
supported the establishment of a
national clearinghouse that acts as a
matchmaker to connect under-resourced
inventors with volunteer patent
practitioners across the United States for
assistance in preparing and arguing ex
parte appeals before the PTAB. The
PTAB Bar Association’s national
clearinghouse provides access to legal
representation for pro bono ex parte
appeal services across all fifty states and
the District of Columbia.
Each pro bono program will be
requesting that their respective regional
programs and a national clearinghouse
collect demographic information from
those seeking assistance that will be
self-identified by the applicant. The
requested standardized demographic
information, collected through
Applicant Intake Forms, will be a
voluntary part of the overall application
materials that each independent
inventor fills out when seeking pro bono
assistance. The information collected
will be kept confidential by the regional
programs and the national
clearinghouse and only aggregate
information is shared with the USPTO.
This aggregate information, will also be
used to help determine the extent to
which women, minorities, and veterans
engage the Pro Bono Programs
supported by USPTO.
This renewal of 0651–0082 broadens
the scope of the information collection
to include the PTAB Pro Bono Program,
in addition to the Patent Pro Bono
Program that was covered under this
collection. The name of the information
collection has been adjusted from ‘‘Pro
Bono Survey’’ to ‘‘Patent and PTAB Pro
Bono Programs’’ in order to include
related programs under this single
information collection. This information
collection includes an instrument
capturing data for the Patent Pro Bono
program (Patent Pro Bono Survey) and
its applicant participations (Patent
Applicant Intake Form). The
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information collection also has a similar
instrument that covers the collection of
data for the PTAB program (PTAB Pro
Bono Survey) and the applicants
requesting to participate in that PTAB
offering (PTAB Applicant Intake Form).
Form Number(s):
• USPTO/550 (Patent Pro Bono Survey)
• USPTO/551 (Patent Applicant Intake
Form)
• USPTO/552 (PTAB Pro Bono Survey)
• USPTO/553 (PTAB Applicant Intake
Form)
Type of Review: Extension and
revision of a currently approved
information collection.
Affected Public: Private sector;
individuals or households.
Respondent’s Obligation: Required to
obtain or retain benefits.
Frequency: On occasion.
Estimated Number of Annual
Respondents: 1,763 respondents.
Estimated Number of Annual
Responses: 1,832 responses.
Estimated Time per Response: The
USPTO estimates that the responses in
this information collection will take the
public between approximately 5
minutes (0.08 hours) and 2 hours to
complete. This includes the time to
gather the necessary information, fill out
the item, and submit the completed
request to the USPTO.
Estimated Total Annual Respondent
Burden Hours: 332 hours.
Estimated Total Annual Respondent
Non-Hourly Cost Burden: $1,333.
This information collection request
may be viewed at www.reginfo.gov.
Follow the instructions to view
Department of Commerce, USPTO
information collections currently under
review by OMB.
Written comments and
recommendations for this information
collection should be submitted within
30 days of the publication of this notice
on the following website
www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain.
Find this particular information
collection by selecting ‘‘Currently under
30-day Review—Open for Public
Comments’’ or by using the search
function and entering either the title of
the information collection or the OMB
Control Number 0651–0082.
Further information can be obtained
by:
• Email: InformationCollection@
uspto.gov. Include ‘‘0651–0082
information request’’ in the subject line
of the message.
• Postal mail: Justin Isaac, Office of
the Chief Administrative Officer, United
States Patent and Trademark Office,
PO 00000
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P.O. Box 1450, Alexandria, VA 22313–
1450.
Justin Isaac,
Information Collections Officer, Office of the
Chief Administrative Officer, United States
Patent and Trademark Office.
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Defense Acquisition Regulations
System
[Docket Number DARS–2022–0020; OMB
Control Number 0750–0005]
Information Collection Requirements;
Defense Federal Acquisition
Regulation Supplement; Part 225,
Disclosure of Employment of
Individuals Who Work in the People’s
Republic of China
Defense Acquisition
Regulations System, Department of
Defense (DoD).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The Defense Acquisition
Regulations System has submitted to
OMB for clearance the following
proposal for collection of information
under the provisions of the Paperwork
Reduction Act.
DATES: Consideration will be given to all
comments received by March 1, 2023.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title and OMB Number: Defense
Federal Acquisition Regulation
Supplement (DFARS) Part 225,
Disclosure of Employment of
Individuals Who Work in the People’s
Republic of China; OMB Control
Number 0750–0005.
Type of Request: Extension of a
currently approved collection.
Affected Public: Businesses or other
for-profit and not-for-profit institutions.
Respondent’s Obligation: Required to
obtain or retain benefits.
Number of Respondents: 30.
Annual Responses: 50.
Annual Burden Hours: 50.
Reporting Frequency: On Occasion.
Needs and Uses: This information
collection implements section 855 of the
National Defense Authorization Act
(NDAA) for Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 (Pub.
L. 117–81, 10 U.S.C. 4651 note prec.).
DoD uses the information obtained
through this collection to ensure
compliance with the statute as follows:
DFARS 252.225–7057, Preaward
Disclosure of Employment of
Individuals Who Work in the People’s
Republic of China. The offeror’s
disclosure is required when the offeror
SUMMARY:
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[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Patent and Trademark Office
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment
Request; Patent and PTAB Pro Bono Programs
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) will submit
the following information collection request to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for review and clearance in accordance with
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, on or after the date of
publication of this notice. The USPTO invites comment on this
information collection renewal, which helps the USPTO assess the impact
of its information collection requirements and minimize the public's
reporting burden. Public comments were previously requested via the
Federal Register on August 30, 2022 during a 60-day comment period.
This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments.
Agency: United States Patent and Trademark Office, Department of
Commerce.
Title: Patent and PTAB Pro Bono Programs.
OMB Control Number: 0651-0082.
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
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businesses. To support this, the USPTO--in collaboration with various
non-profit organizations--implemented the Patent Pro Bono program; a
series of autonomous regional programs that act as matchmakers to help
connect low-income inventors with volunteer patent attorneys across the
United States. The Patent Pro Bono program comprises a network of
regional programs organized by various bar associations, law school IP
clinics, and lawyer referral services that provide services across all
fifty states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.
In 2022, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) began
coordinating pro bono opportunities through the newly created PTAB Pro
Bono Program, having supported the establishment of a national
clearinghouse that acts as a matchmaker to connect under-resourced
inventors with volunteer patent practitioners across the United States
for assistance in preparing and arguing ex parte appeals before the
PTAB. The PTAB Bar Association's national clearinghouse provides access
to legal representation for pro bono ex parte appeal services across
all fifty states and the District of Columbia.
Each pro bono program will be requesting that their respective
regional programs and a national clearinghouse collect demographic
information from those seeking assistance that will be self-identified
by the applicant. The requested standardized demographic information,
collected through Applicant Intake Forms, will be a voluntary part of
the overall application materials that each independent inventor fills
out when seeking pro bono assistance. The information collected will be
kept confidential by the regional programs and the national
clearinghouse and only aggregate information is shared with the USPTO.
This aggregate information, will also be used to help determine the
extent to which women, minorities, and veterans engage the Pro Bono
Programs supported by USPTO.
This renewal of 0651-0082 broadens the scope of the information
collection to include the PTAB Pro Bono Program, in addition to the
Patent Pro Bono Program that was covered under this collection. The
name of the information collection has been adjusted from ``Pro Bono
Survey'' to ``Patent and PTAB Pro Bono Programs'' in order to include
related programs under this single information collection. This
information collection includes an instrument capturing data for the
Patent Pro Bono program (Patent Pro Bono Survey) and its applicant
participations (Patent Applicant Intake Form). The information
collection also has a similar instrument that covers the collection of
data for the PTAB program (PTAB Pro Bono Survey) and the applicants
requesting to participate in that PTAB offering (PTAB Applicant Intake
Form).
Form Number(s):
USPTO/550 (Patent Pro Bono Survey)
USPTO/551 (Patent Applicant Intake Form)
USPTO/552 (PTAB Pro Bono Survey)
USPTO/553 (PTAB Applicant Intake Form)
Type of Review: Extension and revision of a currently approved
information collection.
Affected Public: Private sector; individuals or households.
Respondent's Obligation: Required to obtain or retain benefits.
Frequency: On occasion.
Estimated Number of Annual Respondents: 1,763 respondents.
Estimated Number of Annual Responses: 1,832 responses.
Estimated Time per Response: The USPTO estimates that the responses
in this information collection will take the public between
approximately 5 minutes (0.08 hours) and 2 hours to complete. This
includes the time to gather the necessary information, fill out the
item, and submit the completed request to the USPTO.
Estimated Total Annual Respondent Burden Hours: 332 hours.
Estimated Total Annual Respondent Non-Hourly Cost Burden: $1,333.
This information collection request may be viewed at
www.reginfo.gov. Follow the instructions to view Department of
Commerce, USPTO information collections currently under review by OMB.
Written comments and recommendations for this information
collection should be submitted within 30 days of the publication of
this notice on the following website www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain.
Find this particular information collection by selecting ``Currently
under 30-day Review--Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search
function and entering either the title of the information collection or
the OMB Control Number 0651-0082.
Further information can be obtained by:
Email: [email protected]. Include ``0651-
0082 information request'' in the subject line of the message.
Postal mail: Justin Isaac, Office of the Chief
Administrative Officer, United States Patent and Trademark Office, P.O.
Box 1450, Alexandria, VA 22313-1450.
Justin Isaac,
Information Collections Officer, Office of the Chief Administrative
Officer, United States Patent and Trademark Office.
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