[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 31 (Tuesday, February 15, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 7486-7487]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-3563]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE


Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

    The Department of Commerce (DOC) has submitted to the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) for clearance the following proposal for 
collection of information under the provisions of the Paperwork 
Reduction Act (44 USC Chapter 35).
    Agency: Patent and Trademark Office (PTO).
    Title: Statutory Invention Registration.
    Agency Form Number(s): PTO/SB/94.
    OMB Approval Number: 0651-0036.
    Type of Request: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Burden Hours: 33.2 hours.
    Number of Respondents: 83.
    Average Hours Per Response: Based on PTO time and motion studies, 
the agency estimates that the burden hours required by the public to 
gather, prepare and submit a Request for a Statutory Invention 
Registration (PTO/SB/94), a petition to review final refusal to 
publish, or a petition to withdraw a publication request to be 24 
minutes for each item.
    Needs and Uses: The information is necessary to ensure that the 
requirements of 35 USC 157 and 37 CFR 1.293-1.297 are met. The public 
uses form PTO/SB/94, Request for Statutory Invention Registration, to 
request and authorize publication of a regularly-filed patent 
application as a statutory invention registration, to waive the right 
to receive a United States patent on the same invention claimed in the

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identified patent application, and to agree that the waiver will be 
effective upon publication of the statutory invention registration. The 
PTO uses form PTO/SB/94, Request for a Statutory Invention 
Registration, to review, grant, or deny a request for a statutory 
invention registration.
    No forms are associated with the petition to review final refusal 
to publish a statutory invention registration or the petition to 
withdraw a publication request. The petition to review final refusal to 
publish a statutory invention registration is used by the public to 
petition the PTO's rejection of a request for a statutory invention 
registration. The PTO uses the petition to withdraw a publication 
request to review requests to stop publication of a statutory invention 
registration.
    Affected Public: Individuals or households, businesses or other 
for-profit organizations; not-for-profit institutions; farms; the 
Federal Government; or State, Local or Tribal Governments.
    Frequency: On occasion.
    Respondent's Obligation: Required to obtain or retain a benefit.
    OMB Desk Officer: Peter Weiss, (202) 395-3630.
    Copies of the above information collection proposal can be obtained 
by calling or writing Linda Engelmeier, Departmental Forms Clearance 
Officer, Office of the Chief Information Officer, (202) 482-3272, 
Department of Commerce, Room 5027, 14th and Constitution Avenue, NW, 
Washington, DC, 20230 or via the Internet at ([email protected]).
    Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information 
collection should be sent within 30 days of publication to Peter Weiss, 
OMB Desk Officer, Room 10236, New Executive Office Building, 725 17th 
Street, NW, Washington, DC, 20503.

    Dated: February 9, 2000.
Linda Engelmeier,
Departmental Forms Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information 
Officer.
[FR Doc. 00-3563 Filed 2-14-00; 8:45 am]
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