[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 37 (Monday, February 26, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Page 8355]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-3182]


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PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE


Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

    The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) will submit 
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: Initial Patent Applications.
    Form Number(s): PTO/SB/01-01A, PTO/SB/02A-02B, PTO/SB/02LR, PTO/SB/
03-03A, PTO/SB/04-07, PTO/SB/13PCT, PTO/SB/14, PTO/SB/16-19, PTO/SB/29-
29A, PTO/SB/101-110, EFS-Web Original New Utility, Design, and 
Provisional Application Forms.
    Agency Approval Number: 0651-0032.
    Type of Request: Revision of a currently approved collection.
    Burden: 10,677,624 hours annually.
    Number of Respondents: 543,591 responses per year.
    Avg. Hours Per Response: The USPTO estimates that it takes between 
24 minutes to 30 hours to gather the information, prepare, and submit 
the various paper and electronic applications in this collection, 
depending on the situation and the amount of information that needs to 
be submitted. Since EFS-Web is still relatively new, the USPTO does not 
yet have a good indication of how much time is saved by filing 
applications or documents electronically via EFS-Web. Accordingly, the 
USPTO has estimated the same time to complete the electronically-filed 
applications as it does to complete those submitted in paper form. As 
experience with EFS-Web grows, the USPTO will reevaluate the time 
required for electronically-filed versus paper-filed applications and 
documents. The USPTO estimates that it takes between 30 minutes to 1 
hour to gather the information, prepare, and submit the petitions in 
this collection.
    Needs and Uses: This collection of information is required by 35 
U.S.C. 131 and 37 CFR 1.16 through 1.84. An applicant must provide 
sufficient information to allow the USPTO to properly examine the 
application or petition to determine whether it meets the requirements 
outlined in the patent statutes and regulations. The various fee and 
application transmittal forms, the declarations, the cover sheets, and 
the petitions permit applicants to supply all of the information 
necessary to process the application and enables the USPTO to ensure 
that all of the information has been provided in order to process the 
application.
    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 any of the following methods:
     E-mail: [email protected]. Include ``0651-0032 copy 
request'' in the subject line of the message.
     Fax: 571-273-0112, marked to the attention of Susan Brown.
     Mail: Susan K. Brown, Records Officer, Office of the Chief 
Information Officer, Architecture, Engineering and Technical Services, 
Data Architecture and Services Division, U.S. Patent and Trademark 
Office, P.O. Box 1450, Alexandria, VA 22313-1450.
    Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information 
collection should be sent on or before March 28, 2007 to David Rostker, 
OMB Desk Officer, Room 10202, New Executive Office Building, 725 17th 
Street NW., Washington, DC 20503.

    Dated: February 20, 2007.
Susan K. Brown,
Records Officer, USPTO, Office of the Chief Information Officer, 
Architecture, Engineering and Technical Services, Data Architecture and 
Services Division.
[FR Doc. E7-3182 Filed 2-23-07; 8:45 am]
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