[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 188 (Friday, September 29, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 67257-67258]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-21538]
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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; Global Intellectual Property Academy (GIPA) Surveys
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 comments 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 July 26, 2023 during a 60-day comment period. This
notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comment.
Agency: United States Patent and Trademark Office, Department of
Commerce.
Title: Global Intellectual Property Academy (GIPA) Surveys.
OMB Control Number: 0651-0065.
Needs and Uses: The Global Intellectual Property Academy (GIPA) was
established in 2006 to offer training programs on enforcement of
intellectual property rights, patents, trademarks, and copyrights.
GIPA's training programs are designed to meet the specific needs of
foreign government officials concerning various intellectual property
topics. By attending these programs, foreign government officials learn
about global intellectual property rights protection and enforcement
and discuss strategies to handle the protection and enforcement issues
in their respective countries. The GIPA training programs are an
important instrument that USPTO uses to achieve its objectives of
halting intellectual property theft and advancing intellectual property
right policies.
The surveys in this information collection are conducted in an
effort to provide additional details on ``who'' participants are, what
kind of positions they hold, length of time working in an intellectual
property area, type of organizations where respondents work, type of
intellectual property functions, and the effect of the GIPA program on
their professional work and their country's intellectual property
efforts. This information is being collected to improve the services
that the USPTO provides in its missions of serving the international IP
community. The data captured will also be used to help meet
organizational performance and accountability goals through the
following legislative mandates and performance guidance:
Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 (GPRA); \1\
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\1\ https://www.congress.gov/103/statute/STATUTE-107/STATUTE-107-Pg285.pdf.
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Government Performance and Results Modernization Act of
2010 (GPRMA); \2\
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\2\ https://www.congress.gov/111/plaws/publ352/PLAW-111publ352.pdf.
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President's Management Agenda (PMA); \3\ and
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\3\ https://www.performance.gov/pma/.
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Foundations for Evidence Based Policy Making Act of
2018.\4\
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\4\ https://www.congress.gov/115/plaws/publ435/PLAW-115publ435.pdf.
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Evaluation and measurement efforts provide methodologically
rigorous data activity and analyses in place of more subjective, ad
hoc, non-standardized anecdotal material.
These voluntary surveys support various business goals developed by
the USPTO to fulfill customer service and performance goals, to assist
the USPTO in strategic planning for future initiatives, to verify
existing service standards, and to establish new ones. The USPTO also
uses these surveys to implement Executive Order 12862 of September 11,
1993, Setting Customer Service Standards, published in the Federal
Register on September 14, 1993 (58 FR 48257).\5\ The USPTO does not
intend to collect any personally identifying data from the participants
and intends to maintain the contact information for the participants in
a separate file for the quantitative data.
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\5\ https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ll/fedreg/fr058/fr058176/fr058176.pdf.
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Form Numbers: None.
Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved information
collection.
Affected Public: Individuals or households.
Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
Frequency: On occasion.
Estimated Number of Annual Respondents: 750 respondents.
Estimated Number of Annual Responses: 750 responses.
Estimated Time per Response: The USPTO estimates that it will take
the public approximately 15 minutes (0.25 hours) to complete. This
includes the time to gather the necessary information, create the
document, and submit the completed request to the USPTO.
Estimated Total Annual Respondent Burden Hours: 188 hours.
Estimated Total Annual Respondent Non-Hourly Cost Burden: $0.
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 of the OMB Control Number, 0651-0065.
Further information can be obtained by:
Email: [email protected]. Include ``0651-
0065 information request'' in the subject line of the message.
Mail: Justin Isaac, Office of the Chief Administrative
Officer, United States Patent and Trademark Office, P.O. Box 1450,
Alexandria, VA 22313-1450.
Justin Isaac,
Information Collections Officer, Office of the Chief Administrative
Officer, United States Patent and Trademark Office.
[FR Doc. 2023-21538 Filed 9-28-23; 8:45 am]
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