[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 99 (Tuesday, May 23, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 27278]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-12535]



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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
[OMB Control No. 9000-0095]


Clearance Request for Commerce Patent Regulations

AGENCIES: Department of Defense (DOD), General Services Administration 
(GSA), and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

ACTION: Notice of request for an extension to an existing OMB clearance 
(9000-0095).

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SUMMARY: Under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980 
(44 U.S.C. 3501), the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Secretariat 
has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request to 
review and approve an extension of a currently approved information 
collection requirement concerning Commerce Patent Regulations, Public 
Law 98-620.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Beverly Fayson, Office of Federal Acquisition Policy, GSA (202) 501-
4755.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

A. Purpose

    As a result of the Department of Commerce (Commerce) publishing a 
final rule in the Federal Register implementing Public Law 98-620 (52 
FR 8552, March 18, 1987), a revision to FAR subpart 27.3 to implement 
the Commerce regulation was published in the Federal Register as an 
interim rule on June 12, 1989 (54 FR 25060).
    A Government contractor must report all subject inventions to the 
contracting officer, submit a disclosure of the invention, and identify 
any publication, or sale, or public use of the invention (52.227-11(c), 
52.228-12(c), and 52.227-13(e)(2)). Contractors are required to submit 
periodic or interim and final reports listing subject inventions 
(27.303(a); 27.304-1(e)(1) (i) and (ii); 27.304-1(e)(2) (i) and (ii); 
52.227-12(f)(7); 52.227-14(e)(3)). In order to ensure that subject 
inventions are reported, the contractor is required to establish and 
maintain effective procedures for identifying and disclosing subject 
inventions (52.227-11, Alternate IV; 52.227-12(f)(5); 52.227-13(e)(1)). 
In addition, the contractor must require his employees, by written 
agreements, to disclose subject inventions (52.227-11(f)(2); 52.227-
12(f)(2); 52.227-13(e)(4)). The contractor also has an obligation to 
utilize the subject invention, and agree to report, upon request, the 
utilization or efforts to utilize the subject invention (27.302(e); 
52.227-11(h); 52.227-12(h)).

B. Annual Reporting Burden

    Public reporting burden for this collection of information is 
estimated to average 3.9 hours per response, including the time for 
reviewing instructions, searching existing data sources, gathering and 
maintaining the data needed, and completing and reviewing the 
collection of information. Send comments regarding this burden estimate 
or any other aspect of this collection of information, including 
suggestions for reducing this burden, to General Services 
Administration, FAR Secretariat, 18th & F Streets, NW, Room 4037, 
Washington, DC 20405.
    The annual reporting burden is estimated as follows: Respondents, 
1,200; responses per respondent, 9.75; total annual responses, 11,700; 
preparation hours per response, 3.9; and total response burden hours, 
45,630.

OBTAINING COPIES OF PROPOSALS: Requester may obtain copies of OMB 
applications or justifications from the General Services 
Administration, FAR Secretariat (VRS), Room 4037, Washington, DC 20405, 
telephone (202) 501-4755. Please cite OMB Control No. 9000-0095, 
Commerce Patent Regulations, in all correspondence.

    Dated: April 12, 1995.

Beverly Fayson,

FAR Secretariat.

[FR Doc. 95-12535 Filed 5-22-95; 8:45 am]

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