[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 213 (Thursday, November 2, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 65845]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-28067]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE


Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

    The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has 
resubmitted 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 U.S.C. Chapter 35).

AGENCY: United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
    Title: Post Allowance and Refiling.
    Form Numbers: PTO/SB/44/50/51/51S/52/53/54/55/56/57/58 and PTOL-
85B.
    Agency Approval Number: 0651-0033.
    Type of Request: Revision of a currently approved collection.
    Burden: 51,593.5 hours.
    Number of Respondents: 172,475 responses.
    Avg. Hours Per Response: The USPTO estimates that it will take the 
public approximately two hours to gather, prepare, and submit a request 
for inter partes reexamination of a patent. The USPTO estimates that it 
will take the public anywhere from 1.8 minutes to two hours, depending 
on the complexity of the situation, to gather, prepare, and submit the 
documents associated with a request for a certificate of correction, 
reissue application, request for ex parte reexamination of a patent, 
and issue fee transmittal. These estimates are unchanged from the last 
renewal of this information collection package on September 24, 1997.
    Needs and Uses: This collection of information is required to 
administer the patent law pursuant to title 35, U.S.C., concerning the 
issuance of patents and related actions including correcting errors in 
printed patents, refiling of patent applications, requesting ex parte 
or inter partes reexamination of a patent, and requesting a reissue 
patent to correct an error in a patent.
    Affected Public: Individuals or households, businesses or other 
for-profit, not-for-profit institutions, farms, Federal Government, and 
State, local or tribal governments.
    Frequency: On occasion.
    Respondent's Obligation: Required to obtain or retain benefits.
    OMB Desk Officer: David Rostker (202) 395-3897.
    Copies of the above information collection proposal can be obtained 
by calling or writing Susan K. Brown, Records Officer, Data 
Administration Division, Office of Data Management, United States 
Patent and Trademark Office, Crystal Park 3, 3rd Floor, Suite 310, 
Washington, D.C. 20231, by phone at (703) 308-7400, 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 David 
Rostker, OMB Desk Officer, Room 10236, New Executive Office Building, 
725 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20503.

    Dated: October 25, 2000.
Susan K. Brown,
Records Officer, Data Administration Division, Office of Data 
Management.
[FR Doc. 00-28067 filed 11-1-00; 8:45 a.m.]
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