[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 138 (Thursday, July 18, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 58352-58353]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-15871]


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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 (NSTI) and Master Teacher of 
Invention and Intellectual Property Education Program (MTIP)

    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 May 13, 2024 during a 60-day comment period (89 FR 
41396). This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public 
comment.
    Agency: United States Patent and Trademark Office, Department of 
Commerce.
    Title: National Summer Teacher Institute (NSTI) and Master Teacher 
of Invention and Intellectual Property Education Program (MTIP).
    OMB Control Number: 0651-0077.
    Needs and Uses: The United States Patent and Trademark Office 
(USPTO) conducts the National Summer Teacher Institute (NSTI) on 
Innovation, STEM, and Intellectual Property. This program, which 
focuses on innovation, STEM, entrepreneurship, and intellectual 
property, is offered in support of USPTO's ongoing education and 
outreach programming and Department of Commerce Innovation initiatives. 
The Institute, launched in 2014, is part of the USPTO's ongoing efforts 
to foster innovation, competitiveness and economic growth, domestically 
and abroad, by providing relevant intellectual property, innovation, 
and invention education resources to school administrators, teachers, 
students, and parents.
    In 2023, USPTO introduced the Master Teacher of Invention and 
Intellectual Property Education Program (MTIP) (previously published as 
Master Teacher in Intellectual Property Program in the 60-day notice) 
to align and support the USPTO's mission to foster innovation, 
competitiveness, domestic and international economic growth, and 
deliver invention IP training to educators across the nation. The MTIP 
builds a network of qualified NSTI participants and intellectual 
property educators and enables them to become teacher-leaders. These 
teacher leaders in turn provide professional development to U.S. 
educators who seek to learn more about invention and IP education. MTIP 
teacher-leaders share USPTO resources and practical classroom 
experience they learned through their implementation of lessons learned 
at the NSTI.
    USPTO facilitates the enhancement of internal and external 
relations, including stakeholder partnerships and collaborations, and 
support for Government-wide efforts to promote STEM education 
initiatives. In order to obtain a broad range of participants for the 
NSTI and MTIP, the USPTO must collect data related to courses taught, 
teaching experience, and school district demographics.
    Both NSTI and MTIP combine experiential training tools, practices, 
and project-based learning models to support elementary, middle, and 
high school teachers in incorporating concepts of making, inventing, 
entrepreneurship, and innovation into classroom instruction. Recent 
focuses include the creation and protection of intellectual property; 
including inventions, knowledge discovery, creative ideas, and 
expressions of the human mind that may have commercial value and are 
protectable under patent, trademark, copyright, or trade secret laws. 
Intellectual property is modeled as both a teaching and learning 
platform to help inspire and motivate student achievement in science, 
technology, engineering, and mathematics.
    This information collection covers data gathered from applicants 
and participants in the NSTI and MTIP programs. The USPTO gathers this 
information from program applications, and participant surveys, 
workshops, and webinars. The application collects data which the USPTO 
uses to determine who will be accepted into the respective programs. 
The participant survey is used to gather feedback from participants for 
future program enhancements, while the webinar survey allows the USPTO 
to understand the particular needs and interests of participants.
    To account for the recent addition of the MTIP program, the name of 
this information collection has been changed from ``National Summer 
Teacher Institute'' to ``National Summer Teacher Institute (NSTI) and 
Master Teacher of Invention and Intellectual Property Education Program 
(MTIP)''.

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    Forms:
     PTO/NSTI/001 (NSTI Application)
     PTO/NSTI/002 (NSTI Participant Survey)
     PTO/NSTI/003 (NSTI Webinar Survey)
     PTO/MTIP/001 (MTIP Application)
     PTO/MTIP/002 (MTIP Participant Survey)
     PTO/MTIP/003 (MTIP Webinar Survey)
    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: 14,000 respondents.
    Estimated Number of Annual Responses: 27,400 responses.
    Estimated Time per Response: The USPTO estimates that the responses 
in this information collection will take the public approximately 
between 8 minutes (0.13 hours) and 30 minutes (0.5 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: 5,998 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 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.
     Mail: Justin Isaac, Office of the Chief Administrative 
Officer, United States Patent and Trademark Office, P.O. Box 1450, 
Alexandria, VA 22313-1450.

Lisa Lawn,
Director, Records and Information Compliance Program Office, Office of 
the Chief Administrative Officer, United States Patent and Trademark 
Office.
[FR Doc. 2024-15871 Filed 7-17-24; 8:45 am]
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