Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Global Intellectual Property Academy (GIPA) Surveys, 67257-67258 [2023-21538]

Download as PDF Federal Register / Vol. 88, No. 188 / Friday, September 29, 2023 / Notices lotter on DSK11XQN23PROD with NOTICES1 Also, the USPTO may determine that a mark is not entitled to registration, pursuant to one or more provisions of the Act. In such cases, the USPTO will issue an Office Action advising the applicant of the refusal to register the mark. Applicants reply to these Office Actions by providing the required information and/or by putting forth legal arguments as to why the refusal of registration should be withdrawn. The USPTO administers the Act through title 37 of the Code of Federal Regulations. These rules allow the USPTO to request and receive information required to process applications. These rules also allow applicants to submit certain amendments to their applications. Applicants may also supplement their applications and provide further information by filing a Voluntary Amendment Not in Response to USPTO Office Action/Letter, a Request for Reconsideration after Final Office Action, a Post-Approval/Publication/ Post-Notice of Allowance (NOA) Amendment, a Petition to Amend Basis Post-Publication, or a Response to Suspension Inquiry or Letter of Suspension. The 60-Day Federal Register notice was published with the form numbers associated with this information collection inadvertently left off. In this notice, the USPTO has included the form numbers associated with this information collection. Form Numbers • PTO–1771 (Post-Approval/ Publication/Post-Notice of Allowance (NOA) Amendment) • PTO–1772 (Petition to Amend Basis Post-Publication) • PTO–1822 (Response to Suspension Inquiry or Letter of Suspension) • PTO–1957 (Response to Office Action) • PTO–1960 (Request for Reconsideration After Final Office Action) • PTO–1966 (Voluntary Amendment Not in Response to USPTO Office Action/Letter) Type of Review: Extension and revision of a currently approved information collection. Affected Public: Private sector. Respondent’s Obligation: Required to obtain or retain a benefit. Frequency: On occasion. Estimated Number of Annual Respondents: 518,643 respondents. Estimated Number of Annual Responses: 518,643 responses. Estimated Time per Response: The USPTO estimates that the responses in this information collection will take the VerDate Sep<11>2014 21:46 Sep 28, 2023 Jkt 259001 public approximately between 25 minutes (0.42 hours) and 50 minutes (0.83 hours) to complete. This includes the time to gather the necessary information, create the document, and submit the complete request to the USPTO. Estimated Total Annual Respondent Burden Hours: 420,113 hours. Estimated Total Annual Respondent Non-Hourly Cost Burden: $699,101. This information collection 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 feature and entering the title of the information collection of the OMB Control Number, 0651–0050. Further information can be obtained by: • Email: InformationCollection@ uspto.gov. Include ‘‘0651–0050 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. [FR Doc. 2023–21539 Filed 9–28–23; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3510–16–P 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; Global Intellectual Property Academy (GIPA) Surveys 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 comments on this PO 00000 Frm 00033 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 67257 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 July 26, 2023 during a 60day comment period. This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comment. Agency: United States Patent and Trademark Office, Department of Commerce. Title: Global Intellectual Property Academy (GIPA) Surveys. OMB Control Number: 0651–0065. Needs and Uses: The Global Intellectual Property Academy (GIPA) was established in 2006 to offer training programs on enforcement of intellectual property rights, patents, trademarks, and copyrights. GIPA’s training programs are designed to meet the specific needs of foreign government officials concerning various intellectual property topics. By attending these programs, foreign government officials learn about global intellectual property rights protection and enforcement and discuss strategies to handle the protection and enforcement issues in their respective countries. The GIPA training programs are an important instrument that USPTO uses to achieve its objectives of halting intellectual property theft and advancing intellectual property right policies. The surveys in this information collection are conducted in an effort to provide additional details on ‘‘who’’ participants are, what kind of positions they hold, length of time working in an intellectual property area, type of organizations where respondents work, type of intellectual property functions, and the effect of the GIPA program on their professional work and their country’s intellectual property efforts. This information is being collected to improve the services that the USPTO provides in its missions of serving the international IP community. The data captured will also be used to help meet organizational performance and accountability goals through the following legislative mandates and performance guidance: • Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 (GPRA); 1 • Government Performance and Results Modernization Act of 2010 (GPRMA); 2 1 https://www.congress.gov/103/statute/ STATUTE-107/STATUTE-107-Pg285.pdf. 2 https://www.congress.gov/111/plaws/publ352/ PLAW-111publ352.pdf. E:\FR\FM\29SEN1.SGM 29SEN1 lotter on DSK11XQN23PROD with NOTICES1 67258 Federal Register / Vol. 88, No. 188 / Friday, September 29, 2023 / Notices • President’s Management Agenda (PMA); 3 and • Foundations for Evidence Based Policy Making Act of 2018.4 Evaluation and measurement efforts provide methodologically rigorous data activity and analyses in place of more subjective, ad hoc, non-standardized anecdotal material. These voluntary surveys support various business goals developed by the USPTO to fulfill customer service and performance goals, to assist the USPTO in strategic planning for future initiatives, to verify existing service standards, and to establish new ones. The USPTO also uses these surveys to implement Executive Order 12862 of September 11, 1993, Setting Customer Service Standards, published in the Federal Register on September 14, 1993 (58 FR 48257).5 The USPTO does not intend to collect any personally identifying data from the participants and intends to maintain the contact information for the participants in a separate file for the quantitative data. Form Numbers: None. Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved information collection. Affected Public: Individuals or households. Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary. Frequency: On occasion. Estimated Number of Annual Respondents: 750 respondents. Estimated Number of Annual Responses: 750 responses. Estimated Time per Response: The USPTO estimates that it will take the public approximately 15 minutes (0.25 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 Respondent Burden Hours: 188 hours. Estimated Total Annual Respondent Non-Hourly Cost Burden: $0. 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. 3 https://www.performance.gov/pma/. 4 https://www.congress.gov/115/plaws/publ435/ PLAW-115publ435.pdf. 5 https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ll/ fedreg/fr058/fr058176/fr058176.pdf. VerDate Sep<11>2014 21:46 Sep 28, 2023 Jkt 259001 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 of the OMB Control Number, 0651–0065. Further information can be obtained by: • Email: InformationCollection@ uspto.gov. Include ‘‘0651–0065 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. [FR Doc. 2023–21538 Filed 9–28–23; 8:45 am] COMMITTEE FOR PURCHASE FROM PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR SEVERELY DISABLED Procurement List; Deletions Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled. ACTION: Deletions from the Procurement List. AGENCY: This action deletes a product from the Procurement List that was furnished by nonprofit agencies employing persons who are blind or have other severe disabilities. DATES: Date deleted from the Procurement List: October 29, 2023. ADDRESSES: Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled, 355 E Street SW, Suite 325, Washington, DC 20024. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Michael R. Jurkowski, Telephone: (703) 785–6404, or email CMTEFedReg@ AbilityOne.gov. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: SUMMARY: Deletions On 8/25/2023, the Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled published notice of proposed deletions from the Procurement List. This notice is published pursuant to 41 U.S.C. 8503 (a)(2) and 41 CFR 51–2.3. After consideration of the relevant matter presented, the Committee has determined that the product(s) listed below are no longer suitable for procurement by the Federal Government Frm 00034 Fmt 4703 Regulatory Flexibility Act Certification I certify that the following action will not have a significant impact on a substantial number of small entities. The major factors considered for this certification were: 1. The action will not result in additional reporting, recordkeeping or other compliance requirements for small entities. 2. The action may result in authorizing small entities to furnish the product(s) to the Government. 3. There are no known regulatory alternatives which would accomplish the objectives of the Javits-WagnerO’Day Act (41 U.S.C. 8501–8506) in connection with the product(s) deleted from the Procurement List. End of Certification BILLING CODE 3510–16–P PO 00000 under 41 U.S.C. 8501–8506 and 41 CFR 51–2.4. Sfmt 4703 Accordingly, the following product(s) are deleted from the Procurement List: Product(s) NSN(s)—Product Name(s): 7210–00–266–9740—Cot Insect Net Protector, Olive Green Contracting Activity: DLA TROOP SUPPORT, PHILADELPHIA, PA Michael R. Jurkowski, Acting Director, Business Operations. [FR Doc. 2023–21420 Filed 9–28–23; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6353–01–P CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION Sunshine Act Meeting Wednesday, October 4, 2023—10:00 a.m. TIME AND PLACE: Room 420, Bethesda Towers, 4330 East West Highway, Bethesda, MD. PLACE: Commission Meeting—Open to the Public STATUS: MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: Decisional Matter: Notice of Proposed Rulemaking—Safety Standard for Infant Rockers and Infant/Toddler Rockers. A live webcast of the meeting can be viewed at the following link: https:// cpsc.webex.com/weblink/register/ rcba2daff690fcdbc61d969fd800c6446. CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION: Alberta E. Mills, Office of the Secretary, U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, 4330 East-West Highway, Bethesda, MD 20814, 301–504–7479 (Office) or 240–863–8939 (Cell). E:\FR\FM\29SEN1.SGM 29SEN1

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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 188 (Friday, September 29, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 67257-67258]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-21538]


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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; Global Intellectual Property Academy (GIPA) Surveys

    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 comments 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 July 26, 2023 during a 60-day comment period. This 
notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comment.
    Agency: United States Patent and Trademark Office, Department of 
Commerce.
    Title: Global Intellectual Property Academy (GIPA) Surveys.
    OMB Control Number: 0651-0065.
    Needs and Uses: The Global Intellectual Property Academy (GIPA) was 
established in 2006 to offer training programs on enforcement of 
intellectual property rights, patents, trademarks, and copyrights. 
GIPA's training programs are designed to meet the specific needs of 
foreign government officials concerning various intellectual property 
topics. By attending these programs, foreign government officials learn 
about global intellectual property rights protection and enforcement 
and discuss strategies to handle the protection and enforcement issues 
in their respective countries. The GIPA training programs are an 
important instrument that USPTO uses to achieve its objectives of 
halting intellectual property theft and advancing intellectual property 
right policies.
    The surveys in this information collection are conducted in an 
effort to provide additional details on ``who'' participants are, what 
kind of positions they hold, length of time working in an intellectual 
property area, type of organizations where respondents work, type of 
intellectual property functions, and the effect of the GIPA program on 
their professional work and their country's intellectual property 
efforts. This information is being collected to improve the services 
that the USPTO provides in its missions of serving the international IP 
community. The data captured will also be used to help meet 
organizational performance and accountability goals through the 
following legislative mandates and performance guidance:
     Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 (GPRA); \1\
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     Government Performance and Results Modernization Act of 
2010 (GPRMA); \2\
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     President's Management Agenda (PMA); \3\ and
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     Foundations for Evidence Based Policy Making Act of 
2018.\4\
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    Evaluation and measurement efforts provide methodologically 
rigorous data activity and analyses in place of more subjective, ad 
hoc, non-standardized anecdotal material.
    These voluntary surveys support various business goals developed by 
the USPTO to fulfill customer service and performance goals, to assist 
the USPTO in strategic planning for future initiatives, to verify 
existing service standards, and to establish new ones. The USPTO also 
uses these surveys to implement Executive Order 12862 of September 11, 
1993, Setting Customer Service Standards, published in the Federal 
Register on September 14, 1993 (58 FR 48257).\5\ The USPTO does not 
intend to collect any personally identifying data from the participants 
and intends to maintain the contact information for the participants in 
a separate file for the quantitative data.
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    Form Numbers: None.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved information 
collection.
    Affected Public: Individuals or households.
    Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
    Frequency: On occasion.
    Estimated Number of Annual Respondents: 750 respondents.
    Estimated Number of Annual Responses: 750 responses.
    Estimated Time per Response: The USPTO estimates that it will take 
the public approximately 15 minutes (0.25 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 Respondent Burden Hours: 188 hours.
    Estimated Total Annual Respondent Non-Hourly Cost Burden: $0.
    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 of the OMB Control Number, 0651-0065.
    Further information can be obtained by:
     Email: [email protected]. Include ``0651-
0065 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.
[FR Doc. 2023-21538 Filed 9-28-23; 8:45 am]
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