[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 20 (Thursday, January 30, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Page 4884]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-01777]
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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, 01A, 02, 02A, 02B, 02CN, 02DE, 02ES,
02FR, 02IT, 02JP, 02KR, 02LR, 02NL, 02RU, 02SE, 03, 03A, 04, 06, 07, 14
EFS-Web, 16, 16 EFS-Web, 17, 29, 29A, and 101-110. This collection also
includes the following AIA forms: PTO/AIA01 through AIA04, AIA08
through AIA11, AIA14 and 15, AIA18 and 19, and AIA01CN and 01DE, 01ES,
01FR, 01IT, 01JP, 01KR, 01NL, 01RU, 01SE, 02CN, 02DE, 02ES, 02FR, 02IT,
02JP, 02KR, 02NL, 02RU, and 02SE.
Agency Approval Number: 0651-0032.
Type of Request: Revision of a currently approved collection.
Burden: 15,076,442 hours annually.
Number of Respondents: 597,047 responses per year. The USPTO
estimates that approximately 157,950 of these responses will be from
small entities (this estimate reflects a 25% small entity response rate
for all items in the collection except for design-related items in the
collection, for which a 50% small entity response rate is estimated).
The USPTO estimates that 577,624 responses will be filed
electronically.
Avg. Hours per Response: The USPTO estimates that it will take the
public approximately 30 minutes (0.50 hours) to 40 hours to complete
the applications, petitions, and additional papers in this collection,
depending on the complexity of 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
assumes that, on balance it takes the same amount of time to gather the
necessary information, prepare the application, petition, or other
papers, and submit the completed request 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 and 1.495(b). 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: Individuals or households; businesses or other
for-profits; non-profit institutions; and the Federal Government.
Frequency: On occasion.
Respondent's Obligation: Required to obtain or retain benefits.
OMB Desk Officer: Nicholas A. Fraser, email: [email protected].
Once submitted, the request will be publicly available in
electronic format through the Information Collection Review page at
www.reginfo.gov.
Paper copies can be obtained by:
Email: [email protected]. Include ``0651-
0032 copy request'' in the subject line of the message.
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 March 3, 2014 to Nicholas A.
Fraser, OMB Desk Officer, via email to [email protected], or by fax to 202-395-5167, marked to the attention
of Nicholas A. Fraser.
Dated: January 24, 2014.
Susan K. Fawcett,
Records Officer, USPTO, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2014-01777 Filed 1-29-14; 8:45 am]
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