[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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