[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 43 (Wednesday, March 5, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Page 10447]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-5135]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Patent and Trademark Office


Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

    The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) 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 U.S.C. Chapter 35).
    Agency: United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
    Title: Statutory Invention Registration.
    Form Number(s): PTO/SB/94.
    Agency Approval Number: 0651-0036.
    Type of Request: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Burden: 29 hours annually.
    Number of Respondents: 73 responses per year.
    Avg. Hours Per Response: The USPTO estimates that it will take 24 
minutes (0.4 hours) to submit a Statutory Invention Registration 
request. This includes time to gather the necessary information, create 
the documents, and submit the completed request.
    Needs and Uses: 35 U.S.C. 157, administered by the USPTO through 37 
CFR 1.298-1.297, authorizes the USPTO to publish a statutory invention 
registration containing the specifications and drawings of a regularly 
filed application for a patent without examination, providing the 
applicant meets all the requirements for printing, waives the right to 
receive a patent on the invention within a certain period of time 
prescribed by the USPTO, and pays all application, publication, and 
other processing fees. This collection includes information needed by 
the USPTO to review and approve and/or deny such requests. The 
applicant may petition the USPTO to review final refusal to publish or 
to withdraw a request to publish a statutory invention registration 
prior to the date of the notice of the intent to publish.
    Affected Public: Individuals or households; business or other for-
profit; not-for-profit institutions; farms, the 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, Office of Data 
Architecture and Services, Data Administration Division, (703) 308-
7400, USPTO, Suite 310, 2231 Crystal Drive, Washington, DC 20231, or by 
e-mail at [email protected].
    Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information 
collection should be sent on or before April 4, 2003 to David Rostker, 
OMB Desk Officer, Room 10202, New Executive Office Building, 
Washington, DC 20503.

    Dated: February 25, 2003.
Susan K. Brown,
Records Officer, USPTO, Office of Data Architecture and Services, Data 
Administration Division.
[FR Doc. 03-5135 Filed 3-4-03; 8:45 am]
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