[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 96 (Thursday, May 20, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 27428-27429]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-10587]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Patent and Trademark Office


Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the 
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment 
Request; National Summer Teacher Institute

    The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) will submit 
the following information collection request to the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) for review and clearance in accordance with 
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, on or after the date of 
publication of this notice. The USPTO invites comment on this 
information collection renewal, which helps the USPTO assess the impact 
of its information collection requirements and minimize the public's 
reporting burden. Public comments were previously requested via the 
Federal Register on March 9, 2021 during a 60-day comment period. This 
notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments.
    Agency: United States Patent and Trademark Office, Department of 
Commerce.
    Title: National Summer Teacher Institute.
    OMB Control Number: 0651-0077.
    Form Numbers: (NSTI = National Summer Teacher Institute):

 NSTI 1 (Summer Teacher Institute Application)
 NSTI 2 (Summer Teacher Institute Participant Survey)
     NSTI 3 (Summer Teacher Institute Webinar/Workshop Survey)

    Type of Request: Extension and revision of a currently approved 
information collection.
    Number of Respondents: 7,000 respondents per year.
    Average Hour per Response: The USPTO estimates that it will take 
the public approximately 5 minutes (0.08 hours) to 30 minutes (0.5 
hours) to complete a response, depending on the complexity of the 
particular item. This includes the time to gather the necessary 
information, create the documents, and submit the completed item to the 
USPTO.
    Estimated Total Annual Respondent Burden Hours: 2,999 hours.
    Estimated Total Annual Non-Hour Cost Burden: $0.
    Needs and Uses: The National Summer Teacher Institute (NSTI) is a 
multi-day professional development training opportunity open to all K-
12 teachers nationwide. NSTI is designed to increase teachers' 
knowledge of making, inventing, creating, and protecting intellectual 
property so they can inspire the next generation of innovators and 
entrepreneurs. The information gathered in this information collection 
includes applications for the NSTI. The program application requires 
interested individuals to certify that they: Are educators with at 
least 3 years' experience; identify STEM-related fields they have 
taught in the last year; identify STEM-related fields they plan to 
teach in the upcoming year; and acknowledge their commitment to 
incorporate the learnings from the NSTI into their curriculum, where 
applicable, and cooperate with sharing lessons and outcomes with 
teachers and USPTO.
    The USPTO also conducts webinars and workshops for K-12 educators 
in conjunction with or subsequent to the NSTI to provide information on 
IP, invention, and STEM topics of interest to K-12 educators. Workshops 
will be available for educators with less than 3 years of experience, 
pre-service teachers, higher education faculty, home school, and 
informal educators. USPTO plans to conduct surveys on the NSTI, 
workshops, and the webinars in order to gain useful feedback from 
program participants.
    Affected Public: Individuals or households.
    Frequency: On occasion.
    Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
    This information collection request may be viewed at 
www.reginfo.gov. Follow the instructions to view Department of 
Commerce, USPTO information collections currently under review by OMB.
    Written comments and recommendations for this information 
collection should be submitted within 30 days of the publication of 
this notice on the following website www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. 
Find this particular information collection by selecting ``Currently 
under 30-day Review--Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search 
function and entering either the title of the information collection or 
the OMB Control Number 0651-0077.
    Further information can be obtained by:
     Email: [email protected]. Include ``0651-
0077 information request'' in the subject line of the message.

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     Mail: Kimberly Hardy, Office of the Chief Administrative 
Officer, United States Patent and Trademark Office, P.O. Box 1450, 
Alexandria, VA 22313-1450.

Kimberly Hardy,
Information Collections Officer, Office of the Chief Administrative 
Officer, United States Patent and Trademark Office.
[FR Doc. 2021-10587 Filed 5-19-21; 8:45 am]
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