[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 188 (Wednesday, September 29, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 60073-60074]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-24354]
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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) 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 and 01A, PTO/SB/02A and 02B, 02CN, 02DE,
02ES, 02FR, 02IT, 02JP, 02KR, 02NL, 02RU, 02SE, and 02LR, PTO/SB/03 and
03A, PTO/SB/04 through 07, PTO/SB/13/PCT, PTO/SB/14 and EFS-Web, PTO/
SB/16 and EFS-Web, PTO/SB/17 through 19, PTO/SB/29 and 29A, and PTO/SB/
101 through 110.
Agency Approval Number: 0651-0032.
Type of Request: Revision of a currently approved collection.
Burden: 11,553,888 hours annually.
Number of Respondents: 513,221 responses per year, with an
estimated 466,385 responses filed electronically.
Avg. Hours Per Response: The USPTO estimates that it takes the
public between 24 minutes (0.40 hours) and 33 hours and 12 minutes
(33.2 hours) to complete the applications, petitions,
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and additional papers in this collection, depending on the request.
This includes the time to gather the necessary information, prepare the
application, petition, or other papers, and submit the completed
request to the USPTO. The USPTO calculates that, on balance, it takes
the same amount of time to gather the necessary information, prepare
the utility, design, or provisional application, and submit it to the
USPTO, whether the applicant submits it in paper form or
electronically.
Needs and Uses: This collection of information is required by 35
U.S.C. 131 and 37 CFR 1.16 through 1.84. Each patent applicant must
provide sufficient information to allow the USPTO to properly examine
the application, petition, or paper to determine whether the
application, petition, or paper meets the criteria set forth in the
patent statutes and regulations. The various fee and application
transmittal forms, the declarations, the cover sheets, the petitions,
and the papers filed under 37 CFR 1.41, 1.48, and 1.53(c)(2) 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: Businesses or other for profits and non-profit
institutions.
Frequency: On occasion.
Respondent's Obligation: Required to obtain or retain benefits.
OMB Desk Officer: Nicholas A. Fraser, e-mail: [email protected].
Once submitted, the request will be publicly available in
electronic format through the Information Collection Review page at
http://www.reginfo.gov.
Paper copies can be obtained by:
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 K.
Fawcett.
Mail: Susan K. Fawcett, Records Officer, Office of the
Chief Information Officer, United States 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 October 29, 2010 to Nicholas A.
Fraser, OMB Desk Officer, via e-mail to [email protected]
or by fax to 202-395-5167, marked to the attention of Nicholas A.
Fraser.
Dated: September 23, 2010.
Susan K. Fawcett,
Records Officer, USPTO, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2010-24354 Filed 9-28-10; 8:45 am]
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