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TABLE 1—TOTAL BURDEN HOURS AND HOURLY COSTS TO INDIVIDUAL AND HOUSEHOLD RESPONDENTS
Item No.
1 .................
Totals ..
Item
Estimated
annual
respondents
Responses
per
respondent
Estimated annual
responses
Estimated
time for
response
(hours)
Estimated
burden
(hour/year)
Rate 1
($/hour)
Estimated
annual
respondent
cost burden
(a)
(b)
(a) × (b) = (c)
(d)
(c) × (d) = (e)
(f)
(e) × (f) = (g)
Application for Public User ID PTO
Form 2030.
60
1
60
0.08 (5
minutes)
6
$285
$1,170
...............................................................
60
....................
60
....................
6
....................
1,710
1A
combined rate for attorneys and paralegals/paraprofessionals is used for the security badge items. The USPTO uses the average billing rate for intellectual
property work in all firms which is $447 per hour (https://www.aipla.org/home/news-publications/economic-survey. 2023 Report of the Economic Survey, published by
the Committee on Economics of Legal Practice of the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA); pg. F–41.). The USPTO uses the average billing rate
for paralegals/paraprofessionals, which is $122 per hour (https://nala.org/paralegal-info/). 2022 National Utilization and Compensation Survey Report published by the
National Association of Legal Assistants (NALA); pg. 38.
Estimated Total Annual Respondent
Non-hourly Cost Burden: $75. There are
no capital start-up, maintenance costs,
recordkeeping costs, or postage
associated with this information
collection. However, the USPTO
estimates that the total annual non-hour
cost burden in this information
collection, in the form of filing fees, is
$75.
Filing Fees
TABLE 2—FILING FEES
Item No.
1 ...............
Totals
Item
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Filing fee
($)
Non-hourly
cost burden
(a)
(b)
(a) × (b) = (c)
Replace Security Identification Badges for Public Users ......................................
5
$15
$75
................................................................................................................................
5
........................
75
IV. Request for Comments
The USPTO is soliciting public
comments to:
(a) Evaluate whether the collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the
Agency, including whether the
information will have practical utility;
(b) Evaluate the accuracy of the
Agency’s estimate of the burden of the
collection of information, including the
validity of the methodology and
assumptions used;
(c) Enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and
(d) Minimize the burden of the
collection of information on those who
are to respond, including through the
use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other
technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology,
e.g., permitting electronic submission of
responses.
All comments submitted in response
to this notice are a matter of public
record. The USPTO will include or
summarize each comment in the request
to OMB to approve this information
collection. Before including an address,
phone number, email address, or other
personally identifiable information (PII)
in a comment, be aware that the entire
comment—including PII—may be made
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publicly available at any time. While
you may ask in your comment to
withhold PII from public view, the
USPTO cannot guarantee that it will be
able to do so.
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; National Summer Teacher
Institute (NSTI) and Master Teacher in
Intellectual Property Program (MTIP)
Patent and Trademark Office,
Department of Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of information collection;
request for comment.
AGENCY:
The United States Patent and
Trademark Office (USPTO), as required
by the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995, invites comments on the
extension of an existing information
collection: 0651–0077 (National
SUMMARY:
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Summer Teacher Institute (NSTI) and
Master Teacher in Intellectual Property
Program (MTIP)). The purpose of this
notice is to allow 60 days for public
comment preceding submission of the
information collection to OMB.
DATES: To ensure consideration,
comments regarding this information
collection must be received on or before
July 12, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Interested persons are
invited to submit written comments by
any of the following methods. Do not
submit Confidential Business
Information or otherwise sensitive or
protected information.
• Email: InformationCollection@
uspto.gov. Include ‘‘0651–0077
comment’’ in the subject line of the
message.
• Federal eRulemaking Portal: https://
www.regulations.gov.
• Mail: Justin Isaac, Office of the
Chief Administrative Officer, United
States Patent and Trademark Office,
P.O. Box 1450, Alexandria, VA 22313–
1450.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Request for additional information
should be directed to Joyce Ward,
Education Director, Office of Public
Engagement, United States Patent and
Trademark Office, P.O. Box 1450,
Alexandria, VA 22313–1450; by
telephone at 571–272–8424; or by email
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at Joyce.Ward@uspto.gov with ‘‘0651–
0077 comment’’ in the subject line.
Additional information about this
information collection is also available
at https://www.reginfo.gov under
‘‘Information Collection Review.’’
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Abstract
The United States Patent and
Trademark Office (USPTO) conducts the
National Summer Teacher Institute
(NSTI) on Innovation, STEM, and
Intellectual Property. This program,
which focuses on innovation, STEM,
entrepreneurship, and intellectual
property, is offered in support of
USPTO’s ongoing education and
outreach programming and Department
of Commerce Innovation initiatives. The
Institute, launched in 2014, is part of
the USPTO’s ongoing efforts to foster
innovation, competitiveness and
economic growth, domestically and
abroad, by providing relevant
intellectual property, innovation, and
invention education resources to school
administrators, teachers, students, and
parents.
In 2023, USPTO introduced the
Master Teacher in Intellectual Property
Program (MTIP) to align and support the
USPTO’s mission to foster innovation,
competitiveness, domestic and
international economic growth, and
deliver invention IP training to
educators across the nation. The MTIP
builds a network of qualified NSTI
participants and intellectual property
educators and enable them to become
teacher-leaders. These teacher leaders in
turn provide professional development
to U.S. educators who seek to learn
more about invention and IP education.
MTIP teacher-leaders share USPTO
resources and practical classroom
experience they learned through their
implementation of lessons learned at the
NSTI.
USPTO facilitates the enhancement of
internal and external relations,
including stakeholder partnerships and
collaborations, and support for
Government-wide efforts to promote
STEM education initiatives. In order to
obtain a broad range of participants for
the NSTI and MTIP, the USPTO must
collect data related to courses taught,
teaching experience, and school district
demographics.
Both NSTI and MTIP combine
experiential training tools, practices,
and project-based learning models to
support elementary, middle, and high
school teachers in incorporating
concepts of making, inventing,
entrepreneurship, and innovation into
classroom instruction. Recent focuses
include the creation and protection of
intellectual property; including
inventions, knowledge discovery,
creative ideas, and expressions of the
human mind that may have commercial
value and are protectable under patent,
trademark, copyright, or trade secret
laws. Intellectual property is modeled as
both a teaching and learning platform to
help inspire and motivate student
achievement in science, technology,
engineering, and mathematics.
This information collection covers
data gathered from applicants and
participants in the NSTI and MTIP
programs. The USPTO gathers this
information from program applications,
and participant surveys, workshops, and
webinars. The application collects data
which the USPTO uses to determine
who will be accepted into the respective
programs. The participant survey is
used to gather feedback from
participants for future program
enhancements, while the webinar
survey allows the USPTO to understand
the particular needs and interests of
participants.
To account for the recent addition of
the MTIP program, the name of this
information collection has been changed
from ‘‘National Summer Teacher
Institute’’ to ‘‘National Summer Teacher
Institute (NSTI) and Master Teacher in
Intellectual Property Program (MTIP)’’.
II. Method of Collection
Items in this information collection
must be submitted electronically.
III. Data
•
•
•
•
•
•
OMB Control Number: 0651–0077.
Forms:
PTO/NSTI/001 (NSTI Application)
PTO/NSTI/002 (NSTI Participant
Survey)
PTO/NSTI/003 (NSTI Webinar
Survey)
PTO/MTIP/001 (MTIP Application)
PTO/MTIP/002 (MTIP Participant
Survey)
PTO/MTIP/003 (MTIP Webinar
Survey)
Type of Review: Extension of a
currently approved information
collection.
Affected Public: Individuals or
households.
Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary.
Estimated Number of Annual
Respondents: 14,000 respondents.
Estimated Number of Annual
Responses: 27,400 responses.
Estimated Time per Response: The
USPTO estimates that the responses in
this information collection will take the
public approximately between 8
minutes (0.13 hours) and 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 Respondent
Burden Hours: 5,998 hours.
Estimated Total Annual Respondent
Hourly Cost Burden: $200,334.
TABLE 1—TOTAL BURDEN HOURS AND HOURLY COSTS TO INDIVIDUAL OR HOUSEHOLD RESPONDENTS
Item
No.
1 ..........
1 ..........
2 ..........
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3 ..........
3 ..........
4 ..........
4 ..........
5 ..........
6 ..........
Item
NSTI Application (PTO/NSTI/001) ..
NSTI Application (PTO/NSTI/001) ..
NSTI Participant Survey (PTO/
NSTI/002).
NSTI Webinar Survey (PTO/NSTI/
003).
NSTI Webinar Survey (PTO/NSTI/
003).
MTIP Application (PTO/MTIP/001)
MTIP Application (PTO/MTIP/001)
MTIP Participant Survey (PTO/
MTIP/002).
MTIP Webinar/Workshop Survey
(PTO/MTIP/003).
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Estimated
annual
respondents
Responses
per
respondent
Estimated
annual
responses
Estimated time
for response
(hour)
Estimated
annual
burden
(hour/year)
Rate 1
($/hour)
Estimated
annual
respondent
cost burden
(a)
(b)
(a) × (b) = (c)
(b)
(a) × (b) = (c)
(d)
(c) × (d) = (e)
2,100
* 900
1
1
1
2,100
900
900
0.50 (30 minutes) .......
0.50 (30 minutes) .......
0.25 (15 minutes) .......
1,050
450
225
$33.40
33.40
33.40
$35,070
15,030
7,515
2
1,800
0.13 (8 minutes) .........
234
33.40
7,816
4,000
2
8,000
0.13 (8 minutes) .........
1,040
33.40
34,736
2,100
** 900
1
1
1
2,100
900
900
0.50 (30 minutes) .......
0.50 (30 minutes) .......
0.25 (15 minutes) .......
1,050
450
225
33.40
33.40
33.40
35,070
15,030
7,515
2
1,800
0.13 (8 minutes) .........
234
33.40
7,816
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Item
No.
6 ..........
Item
Estimated
annual
respondents
Responses
per
respondent
Estimated
annual
responses
Estimated time
for response
(hour)
Estimated
annual
burden
(hour/year)
Rate 1
($/hour)
Estimated
annual
respondent
cost burden
(a)
(b)
(a) × (b) = (c)
(b)
(a) × (b) = (c)
(d)
(c) × (d) = (e)
MTIP Webinar/Workshop Survey
(PTO/MTIP/003).
Totals ........................................................
4,000
2
8,000
0.13 (8 minutes) .........
1,040
33.40
34,736
14,000
....................
27,400
.....................................
5,998
................
200,334
1 The
USPTO expects that secondary schoolteachers will complete the applications and surveys. The professional hourly rate for secondary school teachers is
$33.40, as found in the May 2022 Occupational Labor Statistics Report for secondary school teachers (25–2031). The hourly rate is based on the mean annual wage
($69,480), divided by 2,080 (the average annual work hours based on a 40-hour work week); https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes252031.htm.
* Respondents for these three lines are individuals who are selected to participate in the NSTI Program or its equivalent. These respondents are distinct from applicants who are not accepted into the program and those who may attend program webinars or workshops.
** Respondents for these three lines are individuals who are selected to participate in the MTIP Program. These respondents are distinct from applicants who are
not accepted into the program and those who may attend program webinars or workshops.
Estimated Total Annual Respondent
Non-hourly Cost Burden: $0. There are
no capital start-up, maintenance costs,
recordkeeping costs, filing fees, or
postage costs associated with this
information collection.
IV. Request for Comments
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The USPTO is soliciting public
comments to:
(a) Evaluate whether the collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the
Agency, including whether the
information will have practical utility;
(b) Evaluate the accuracy of the
Agency’s estimate of the burden of the
collection of information, including the
validity of the methodology and
assumptions used;
(c) Enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and
(d) Minimize the burden of the
collection of information on those who
are to respond, including through the
use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other
technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology,
e.g., permitting electronic submission of
responses.
All comments submitted in response
to this notice are a matter of public
record. The USPTO will include or
summarize each comment in the request
to OMB to approve this information
collection. Before including an address,
phone number, email address, or other
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personally identifiable information (PII)
in a comment, be aware that the entire
comment—including PII—may be made
publicly available at any time. While
you may ask in your comment to
withhold PII from public view, the
USPTO cannot guarantee that it will be
able to do so.
Justin Isaac,
Information Collections Officer, Office of the
Chief Administrative Officer, United States
Patent and Trademark Office.
[FR Doc. 2024–10399 Filed 5–10–24; 8:45 am]
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Dated: May 8, 2024.
Alberta Mills,
Commission Secretary.
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Office of the Secretary
[Transmittal No. 22–15]
Arms Sales Notification
Defense Security Cooperation
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ACTION: Arms sales notice.
AGENCY:
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COMMISSION
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The DoD is publishing the
unclassified text of an arms sales
notification.
SUMMARY:
Neil
Hedlund at neil.g.hedlund.civ@mail.mil
or (703) 697–9214.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
36(b)(1) arms sales notification is
published to fulfill the requirements of
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dated July 21, 1996. The following is a
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and Sensitivity of Technology.
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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; National Summer Teacher Institute (NSTI) and Master Teacher in
Intellectual Property Program (MTIP)
AGENCY: Patent and Trademark Office, Department of Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of information 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
the extension of an existing information collection: 0651-0077
(National Summer Teacher Institute (NSTI) and Master Teacher in
Intellectual Property Program (MTIP)). The purpose of this notice is to
allow 60 days for public comment preceding submission of the
information collection to OMB.
DATES: To ensure consideration, comments regarding this information
collection must be received on or before July 12, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Interested persons are invited to submit written comments by
any of the following methods. Do not submit Confidential Business
Information or otherwise sensitive or protected information.
Email: [email protected]. Include ``0651-
0077 comment'' in the subject line of the message.
Federal eRulemaking Portal: https://www.regulations.gov.
Mail: Justin Isaac, Office of the Chief Administrative
Officer, United States Patent and Trademark Office, P.O. Box 1450,
Alexandria, VA 22313-1450.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Request for additional information
should be directed to Joyce Ward, Education Director, Office of Public
Engagement, United States Patent and Trademark Office, P.O. Box 1450,
Alexandria, VA 22313-1450; by telephone at 571-272-8424; or by email
[[Page 41397]]
at [email protected] with ``0651-0077 comment'' in the subject line.
Additional information about this information collection is also
available at https://www.reginfo.gov under ``Information Collection
Review.''
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Abstract
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) conducts the
National Summer Teacher Institute (NSTI) on Innovation, STEM, and
Intellectual Property. This program, which focuses on innovation, STEM,
entrepreneurship, and intellectual property, is offered in support of
USPTO's ongoing education and outreach programming and Department of
Commerce Innovation initiatives. The Institute, launched in 2014, is
part of the USPTO's ongoing efforts to foster innovation,
competitiveness and economic growth, domestically and abroad, by
providing relevant intellectual property, innovation, and invention
education resources to school administrators, teachers, students, and
parents.
In 2023, USPTO introduced the Master Teacher in Intellectual
Property Program (MTIP) to align and support the USPTO's mission to
foster innovation, competitiveness, domestic and international economic
growth, and deliver invention IP training to educators across the
nation. The MTIP builds a network of qualified NSTI participants and
intellectual property educators and enable them to become teacher-
leaders. These teacher leaders in turn provide professional development
to U.S. educators who seek to learn more about invention and IP
education. MTIP teacher-leaders share USPTO resources and practical
classroom experience they learned through their implementation of
lessons learned at the NSTI.
USPTO facilitates the enhancement of internal and external
relations, including stakeholder partnerships and collaborations, and
support for Government-wide efforts to promote STEM education
initiatives. In order to obtain a broad range of participants for the
NSTI and MTIP, the USPTO must collect data related to courses taught,
teaching experience, and school district demographics.
Both NSTI and MTIP combine experiential training tools, practices,
and project-based learning models to support elementary, middle, and
high school teachers in incorporating concepts of making, inventing,
entrepreneurship, and innovation into classroom instruction. Recent
focuses include the creation and protection of intellectual property;
including inventions, knowledge discovery, creative ideas, and
expressions of the human mind that may have commercial value and are
protectable under patent, trademark, copyright, or trade secret laws.
Intellectual property is modeled as both a teaching and learning
platform to help inspire and motivate student achievement in science,
technology, engineering, and mathematics.
This information collection covers data gathered from applicants
and participants in the NSTI and MTIP programs. The USPTO gathers this
information from program applications, and participant surveys,
workshops, and webinars. The application collects data which the USPTO
uses to determine who will be accepted into the respective programs.
The participant survey is used to gather feedback from participants for
future program enhancements, while the webinar survey allows the USPTO
to understand the particular needs and interests of participants.
To account for the recent addition of the MTIP program, the name of
this information collection has been changed from ``National Summer
Teacher Institute'' to ``National Summer Teacher Institute (NSTI) and
Master Teacher in Intellectual Property Program (MTIP)''.
II. Method of Collection
Items in this information collection must be submitted
electronically.
III. Data
OMB Control Number: 0651-0077.
Forms:
PTO/NSTI/001 (NSTI Application)
PTO/NSTI/002 (NSTI Participant Survey)
PTO/NSTI/003 (NSTI Webinar Survey)
PTO/MTIP/001 (MTIP Application)
PTO/MTIP/002 (MTIP Participant Survey)
PTO/MTIP/003 (MTIP Webinar Survey)
Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved information
collection.
Affected Public: Individuals or households.
Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
Estimated Number of Annual Respondents: 14,000 respondents.
Estimated Number of Annual Responses: 27,400 responses.
Estimated Time per Response: The USPTO estimates that the responses
in this information collection will take the public approximately
between 8 minutes (0.13 hours) and 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 Respondent Burden Hours: 5,998 hours.
Estimated Total Annual Respondent Hourly Cost Burden: $200,334.
Table 1--Total Burden Hours and Hourly Costs to Individual or Household Respondents
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Estimated
Estimated Responses Estimated Estimated time for response Estimated Rate \1\ annual
Item No. Item annual per annual (hour) annual burden ($/hour) respondent
respondents respondent responses (hour/year) cost burden
(a) (b) (a) x (b) = (b).......................... (a) x (b) = (d) (c) x (d) =
(c) (c) (e)
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1............. NSTI Application 2,100 1 2,100 0.50 (30 minutes)............ 1,050 $33.40 $35,070
(PTO/NSTI/001).
1............. NSTI Application * 900 1 900 0.50 (30 minutes)............ 450 33.40 15,030
(PTO/NSTI/001).
2............. NSTI Participant 1 900 0.25 (15 minutes)............ 225 33.40 7,515
Survey (PTO/NSTI/
002).
3............. NSTI Webinar Survey 2 1,800 0.13 (8 minutes)............. 234 33.40 7,816
(PTO/NSTI/003).
3............. NSTI Webinar Survey 4,000 2 8,000 0.13 (8 minutes)............. 1,040 33.40 34,736
(PTO/NSTI/003).
4............. MTIP Application 2,100 1 2,100 0.50 (30 minutes)............ 1,050 33.40 35,070
(PTO/MTIP/001).
4............. MTIP Application ** 900 1 900 0.50 (30 minutes)............ 450 33.40 15,030
(PTO/MTIP/001).
5............. MTIP Participant 1 900 0.25 (15 minutes)............ 225 33.40 7,515
Survey (PTO/MTIP/
002).
6............. MTIP Webinar/ 2 1,800 0.13 (8 minutes)............. 234 33.40 7,816
Workshop Survey
(PTO/MTIP/003).
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6............. MTIP Webinar/ 4,000 2 8,000 0.13 (8 minutes)............. 1,040 33.40 34,736
Workshop Survey
(PTO/MTIP/003).
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Totals.......................... 14,000 ........... 27,400 ............................. 5,998 ......... 200,334
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\1\ The USPTO expects that secondary schoolteachers will complete the applications and surveys. The professional hourly rate for secondary school
teachers is $33.40, as found in the May 2022 Occupational Labor Statistics Report for secondary school teachers (25-2031). The hourly rate is based on
the mean annual wage ($69,480), divided by 2,080 (the average annual work hours based on a 40-hour work week); https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes252031.htm.
* Respondents for these three lines are individuals who are selected to participate in the NSTI Program or its equivalent. These respondents are
distinct from applicants who are not accepted into the program and those who may attend program webinars or workshops.
** Respondents for these three lines are individuals who are selected to participate in the MTIP Program. These respondents are distinct from applicants
who are not accepted into the program and those who may attend program webinars or workshops.
Estimated Total Annual Respondent Non-hourly Cost Burden: $0. There
are no capital start-up, maintenance costs, recordkeeping costs, filing
fees, or postage costs associated with this information collection.
IV. Request for Comments
The USPTO is soliciting public comments to:
(a) Evaluate whether the collection of information is necessary for
the proper performance of the functions of the Agency, including
whether the information will have practical utility;
(b) Evaluate the accuracy of the Agency's estimate of the burden of
the collection of information, including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used;
(c) Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected; and
(d) Minimize the burden of the collection of information on those
who are to respond, including through the use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology, e.g., permitting electronic
submission of responses.
All comments submitted in response to this notice are a matter of
public record. The USPTO will include or summarize each comment in the
request to OMB to approve this information collection. Before including
an address, phone number, email address, or other personally
identifiable information (PII) in a comment, be aware that the entire
comment--including PII--may be made publicly available at any time.
While you may ask in your comment to withhold PII from public view, the
USPTO cannot guarantee that it will be able to do so.
Justin Isaac,
Information Collections Officer, Office of the Chief Administrative
Officer, United States Patent and Trademark Office.
[FR Doc. 2024-10399 Filed 5-10-24; 8:45 am]
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