[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 189 (Friday, September 28, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Page 49070]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-21214]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

 Patent and Trademark Office


Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; ``Post Patent Public 
Submissions''

    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.
    Agency: United States Patent and Trademark Office, Department of 
Commerce.
    Title: Post Patent Public Submissions.
    OMB Control Number: 0651-0067.
    Form Number(s):

 PTO/SB/42

    Type of Request: Regular.
    Number of Respondents: 100 responses per year.
    Average Hours per Response: The USPTO expects that it will take the 
public 10 hours to respond to the items in this collection. This 
includes the time to gather the necessary information, create the 
document, and submit the completed request to the USPTO.
    Burden Hours: 1,000 hours per year.
    Cost Burden: $11.50 per year.
    Needs and Uses: This information collection is necessary so that 
the public may submit, in a patent file, prior art consisting of 
patents or printed publications which the person making the submission 
believes to have a bearing on the patentability of any claim of the 
patent, and statements of the patent owner that were filed by the 
patent owner in a proceeding before a Federal court or the USPTO in 
which the patent owner took a position on the scope of any claim of the 
patent. The public may use this information to aid in ascertaining the 
patentability and/or scope of the claims of the patent. The USPTO may 
use the information during subsequent reissue or reexamination 
proceedings, except that the USPTO's use of statements of the patent 
owner that were filed by the patent owner in a proceeding before a 
Federal court or the USPTO in which the patent owner took a position on 
the scope of any claim of the patent will be limited to determining the 
meaning of a patent claim in ex parte reexamination proceedings that 
have already been ordered and in inter partes review and post review 
proceedings that have already been instituted.
    Affected Public: Businesses or other for-profits; not-for-profit 
institutions.
    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 www.reginfo.gov. Follow the instructions to 
view Department of Commerce collections currently under review by OMB.
    Further information can be obtained by:
     Email: [email protected]. Include ``0651-
0067 information request'' in the subject line of the message.
     Mail: Marcie Lovett, Records and Information Governance 
Division Director, Office of the Chief Technology Officer, United 
States Patent and Trademark Office, P.O. Box 1450, Alexandria, VA 
22314-1450.
    Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information 
collection should be sent on or before October 29, 2018 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.

Marcie Lovett,
Records and Information Governance Division Director, OCTO, United 
States Patent and Trademark Office.
[FR Doc. 2018-21214 Filed 9-27-18; 8:45 am]
 BILLING CODE 3510-16-P