80 FR 61175 - International Work Sharing
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Patent and Trademark Office Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 196 (October 9, 2015)
Patent and Trademark Office
Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 196 (October 9, 2015)
| Page Range | 61175-61176 | |
| FR Document | 2015-25828 |
[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 196 (Friday, October 9, 2015)] [Notices] [Pages 61175-61176] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2015-25828] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Patent and Trademark Office International Work Sharing ACTION: Proposed collection; comment request. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invites the general public and other Federal agencies to comment on the extension of a continuing information collection, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, Public Law 104-13 (44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)). DATES: Written comments must be submitted on or before December 8, 2015. ADDRESSES: Written comments may be submitted by any of the following methods:Email: [email protected]. Include ``0651- 0079 comment'' in the subject line of the message. Federal Rulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov. Mail: Marcie Lovett, Records Management Division Director, Office of the Chief Information Officer, United States Patent and Trademark Office, P.O. Box 1450, Alexandria, VA 22313-1450. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Requests for additional information should be directed to Amber Ostrup, Program Manager, United States Patent and Trademark Office, P.O. Box 1450, Alexandria, VA 22313-1450; by telephone at 571-272-7984; or by email [[Page 61176]] at [email protected] with ``0651-0079 comment'' in the subject line. Additional information about this collection is also available at http://www.reginfo.gov under ``Information Collection Review.'' SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: I. Abstract The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) established a Work Sharing Pilot Program in conjunction with the Japan Patent Office (JPO) and the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) to study how the exchange of search results between offices for corresponding counterpart applications improves patent quality and facilitates the examination of patent applications in both offices. Under this Work Sharing Pilot Program, two Collaborative Search Pilot (CSP) programs-- USPTO-JPO and USPTO-KIPO--have been implemented. Through their respective CSP(s), each office concurrently conducts searches on corresponding counterpart applications. Each office's search results are exchanged following these concurrent searches, which provides examiners with a comprehensive set of art before them at commencement of examination. Work sharing between Intellectual Property (IP) offices is critical for increasing the efficiency and quality of patent examination worldwide. The exchange of information and documents between IP offices also benefits applicants by promoting compact prosecution, reducing pendency, and supporting patent quality by reducing the likelihood of inconsistencies in patentability determinations among IP offices when considering corresponding counterpart applications. The gains in efficiency and quality are achieved through a collaborative work sharing approach to the evaluation of patent claims. As a result of this exchange of search reports, the examiners in both offices may have a more comprehensive set of references before them when making an initial patentability determination. II. Method of Collection The forms associated with this collection may be downloaded from the USPTO Web site in Portable Document Format (PDF) and filled out electronically. Requests to participate in the International Work Sharing Program must be submitted online using EFS-Web, the USPTO's web-based electronic filing system. III. Data OMB Number: 0651-0079. IC Instruments: The individual instruments in this collection, as well as their associated forms, are listed in the table below. Type of Review: Revision of a currently previously existing Information Collection. Affected Public: Individuals or households; businesses or other for-profits; and not-for-profit institutions. Estimated Number of Respondents: 900 responses per year. The USPTO estimates that 100 percent of the annual responses for this collection will be submitted electronically via EFS-Web, which customers may access through the USPTO Web site. Estimated Time per Response: The USPTO estimates that it will take the public approximately between 5 minutes (.083 hours) and 3 hours to complete the information in this collection, including the time to gather the necessary information, prepare the forms or documents, and submit the completed request to the USPTO. Estimated Total Annual Respondent Burden Hours: 1,533.33 hours. Estimated Total Annual Respondent (Hourly) Cost Burden: $628,530.00. The USPTO expects that an attorney will complete the instruments associated with this information collection. The professional hourly rate for an attorney is $410. Using this hourly rate applied to the total annual hour burden estimation of 1,533.33 hours, the USPTO estimates $628,530.00 per year for the total hourly costs associated with respondents. The time per response, estimated annual responses, and estimated annual hour burden associated with each instrument in this information collection is shown in the table below. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Estimated time Estimated IC No. Information for responses annual Estimated annual Rate ($/hr) collection instrument (minutes) responses burden hours (a) (b) (a) x (b)/60 = (d) (c) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1...................... Petition for 180 250 750 $410.00 Participation in the Collaborative Search Pilot (CSP) Program Between the Japan Patent Office (JPO) and the USPTO (PTO/ SB/437JP). 2...................... Petition for 180 250 750 410.00 Participation in the Collaborative Search Pilot (CSP) Program Between the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) and the USPTO (PTO/SB/437KR). 3...................... CSP Survey (PTO/SB/ 5 400 33.33 410.00 CSP Survey 1). ----------------------------------------------------------------- Total.............. ..................... .............. .............. 900 1,533.33 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Estimated Total Annual (Non-hour) Respondent Cost Burden: $0. There are no estimated filing fees or postage costs for this collection. IV. Request for Comments Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed collection of information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the agency, including whether the information shall have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden (including hours and cost) of the proposed collection of information, including the validity of the methodology and assumptions used; (c) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and (d) ways to minimize the burden of the collection of information on respondents, including through the use of automated collection techniques or other forms of information technology, e.g., permitting electronic submission of responses. Comments submitted in response to this notice will be summarized or included in the request for OMB approval of this information collection; they will also become a matter of public record. Dated: October 2, 2015. Marcie Lovett, Records Management Division Director, USPTO, Office of the Chief Information Officer. [FR Doc. 2015-25828 Filed 10-8-15; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3510-16-P
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examined respondent whose weighted- the PRC-wide entity (i.e., 2.42 U.S. Comment 3: Value Added Tax and Entered
average dumping margin is above de Dollars per kilogram); and (4) for all Value
minimis (i.e., 0.50 percent), the non-PRC exporters of subject Comment 4: Application of the Differential
Department will calculate importer- merchandise which have not received Pricing Analysis
Surrogate Values
specific assessment rates on the basis of their own rate, the cash deposit rate will Comment 5: Anthracite Coal Surrogate
the ratio of the total amount of dumping be the rate applicable to the PRC Value
calculated for the importer’s examined exporters that supplied that non-PRC Comment 6: Carbonized Material Surrogate
sales and the total entered value of exporter. These cash deposit Value
sales.25 We will instruct CBP to assess requirements, when imposed, shall Comment 7: Surrogate Value–Coal Tar
antidumping duties on all appropriate remain in effect until further notice. Comment 8: Surrogate Value–Buckle
entries covered by this review when the Comment 9: Surrogate Value–Paperboard
importer-specific assessment rate is Disclosure Comment 10: Surrogate Value–
above de minimis. Where either the We intend to disclose the calculations Hydrochloric Acid
respondent’s weighted-average dumping performed within five days of the date Comment 11: Labor
Comment 12: Brokerage and Handling
margin is zero or de minimis, or an of publication of this notice to parties in
Comment 13: Truck Freight
importer-specific assessment rate is zero this proceeding in accordance with 19 Company Specific Issues
or de minimis, we will instruct CBP to CFR 351.224(b). Comment 14: Whether the Department
liquidate the appropriate entries Correctly Converted Jacobi’s Indirect
Notification to Importers Regarding the
without regard to antidumping duties. Selling Expense From Pounds to Metric
Pursuant to a refinement in the Reimbursement of Duties
Tons in Its Margin Program
Department’s non-market economy This notice also serves as a final Comment 15: Juqiang’s Margin Program
(‘‘NME’’) practice, for entries that were reminder to importers of their [FR Doc. 2015–25810 Filed 10–8–15; 8:45 am]
not reported in the U.S. sales databases responsibility under 19 CFR BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P
submitted by companies individually 351.402(f)(2) to file a certificate
examined during this review, the regarding the reimbursement of
Department will instruct CBP to antidumping duties prior to liquidation DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
liquidate such entries at the PRC-wide of the relevant entries during this POR.
rate. In addition, if the Department Failure to comply with this requirement Patent and Trademark Office
determines that an exporter under could result in the Department’s
review had no shipments of the subject presumption that reimbursement of International Work Sharing
merchandise, any suspended entries antidumping duties has occurred and
ACTION: Proposed collection; comment
that entered under that exporter’s case the subsequent assessment of double
number (i.e., at that exporter’s rate) will request.
antidumping duties.
be liquidated at the PRC-wide rate.26 SUMMARY: The United States Patent and
Notification Regarding Administrative
Cash Deposit Requirements Protective Order Trademark Office (USPTO), as part of its
continuing effort to reduce paperwork
The following cash deposit This notice also serves as a reminder and respondent burden, invites the
requirements will be effective upon to parties subject to administrative general public and other Federal
publication of the final results of this protective order (‘‘APO’’) of their agencies to comment on the extension of
administrative review for all shipments responsibility concerning the return or a continuing information collection, as
of the subject merchandise from the PRC destruction of proprietary information required by the Paperwork Reduction
entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, disclosed under APO in accordance Act of 1995, Public Law 104–13 (44
for consumption on or after the with 19 CFR 351.305(a)(3), which U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)).
publication date, as provided by section continues to govern business
DATES: Written comments must be
751(a)(2)(C) of the Act: (1) For Jacobi, proprietary information in this segment
Datong, and the non-examined, separate submitted on or before December 8,
of the proceeding. Timely written
rate respondents, the cash deposit rate 2015.
notification of the return or destruction
will be equal to their weighted-average of APO materials, or conversion to ADDRESSES: Written comments may be
dumping margins established in the judicial protective order, is hereby submitted by any of the following
final results of this review; (2) for requested. Failure to comply with the methods:
previously investigated or reviewed PRC regulations and terms of an APO is a • Email: InformationCollection@
and non-PRC exporters not listed above violation which is subject to sanction. uspto.gov. Include ‘‘0651–0079
that have separate rates, the cash We are issuing and publishing these comment’’ in the subject line of the
deposit rate will continue to be the final results of administrative review message.
exporter-specific rate published for the and notice in accordance with sections • Federal Rulemaking Portal: http://
most recently completed segment of this 751(a)(1) and 777(i) of the Act. www.regulations.gov.
proceeding in which they were • Mail: Marcie Lovett, Records
Dated: October 2, 2015. Management Division Director, Office of
reviewed; (3) for all PRC exporters of
Ronald Lorentzen, the Chief Information Officer, United
subject merchandise that have not been
Acting Assistant Secretary for Enforcement States Patent and Trademark Office,
found to be entitled to a separate rate,
and Compliance. P.O. Box 1450, Alexandria, VA 22313–
the cash deposit rate will be equal to the
weighted-average dumping margin for Appendix—Issues and Decision 1450.
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Memorandum FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
25 See Antidumping Proceedings: Calculation of Requests for additional information
Summary
the Weighted-Average Dumping Margin and
Background
should be directed to Amber Ostrup,
Assessment Rate in Certain Antidumping Program Manager, United States Patent
Proceedings: Final Modification, 77 FR 8101 Discussion of the Issues
(February 14, 2012). General Issues and Trademark Office, P.O. Box 1450,
26 For a full discussion of this practice, see Comment 1: Surrogate Country Alexandria, VA 22313–1450; by
Assessment Practice Refinement, 76 FR at 65694. Comment 2: Financial Statements telephone at 571–272–7984; or by email
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at Amber.Ostrup@USPTO.GOV with between IP offices also benefits Affected Public: Individuals or
‘‘0651–0079 comment’’ in the subject applicants by promoting compact households; businesses or other for-
line. Additional information about this prosecution, reducing pendency, and profits; and not-for-profit institutions.
collection is also available at http:// supporting patent quality by reducing Estimated Number of Respondents:
www.reginfo.gov under ‘‘Information the likelihood of inconsistencies in 900 responses per year. The USPTO
Collection Review.’’ patentability determinations among IP estimates that 100 percent of the annual
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: offices when considering corresponding responses for this collection will be
counterpart applications. The gains in submitted electronically via EFS-Web,
I. Abstract efficiency and quality are achieved which customers may access through
The United States Patent and through a collaborative work sharing the USPTO Web site.
Trademark Office (USPTO) established a approach to the evaluation of patent Estimated Time per Response: The
Work Sharing Pilot Program in claims. As a result of this exchange of USPTO estimates that it will take the
conjunction with the Japan Patent Office search reports, the examiners in both public approximately between 5
(JPO) and the Korean Intellectual offices may have a more comprehensive minutes (.083 hours) and 3 hours to
Property Office (KIPO) to study how the set of references before them when complete the information in this
exchange of search results between making an initial patentability collection, including the time to gather
offices for corresponding counterpart determination. the necessary information, prepare the
applications improves patent quality forms or documents, and submit the
II. Method of Collection
and facilitates the examination of patent completed request to the USPTO.
applications in both offices. Under this The forms associated with this Estimated Total Annual Respondent
Work Sharing Pilot Program, two collection may be downloaded from the Burden Hours: 1,533.33 hours.
Collaborative Search Pilot (CSP) USPTO Web site in Portable Document Estimated Total Annual Respondent
programs—USPTO–JPO and USPTO– Format (PDF) and filled out (Hourly) Cost Burden: $628,530.00. The
KIPO—have been implemented. electronically. Requests to participate in USPTO expects that an attorney will
Through their respective CSP(s), each the International Work Sharing Program complete the instruments associated
office concurrently conducts searches must be submitted online using EFS- with this information collection. The
on corresponding counterpart Web, the USPTO’s web-based electronic professional hourly rate for an attorney
applications. Each office’s search results filing system. is $410. Using this hourly rate applied
are exchanged following these III. Data to the total annual hour burden
concurrent searches, which provides estimation of 1,533.33 hours, the
examiners with a comprehensive set of OMB Number: 0651–0079. USPTO estimates $628,530.00 per year
art before them at commencement of IC Instruments: The individual for the total hourly costs associated with
examination. instruments in this collection, as well as respondents.
Work sharing between Intellectual their associated forms, are listed in the The time per response, estimated
Property (IP) offices is critical for table below. annual responses, and estimated annual
increasing the efficiency and quality of Type of Review: Revision of a hour burden associated with each
patent examination worldwide. The currently previously existing instrument in this information
exchange of information and documents Information Collection. collection is shown in the table below.
Estimated time Estimated Estimated Rate
IC No. Information collection instrument for responses annual annual burden ($/hr)
(minutes) responses hours
(a) (b) (a) × (b)/60 = (c) (d)
1 .................. Petition for Participation in the Collaborative Search Pilot 180 250 750 $410.00
(CSP) Program Between the Japan Patent Office
(JPO) and the USPTO (PTO/SB/437JP).
2 .................. Petition for Participation in the Collaborative Search Pilot 180 250 750 410.00
(CSP) Program Between the Korean Intellectual Prop-
erty Office (KIPO) and the USPTO (PTO/SB/437KR).
3 .................. CSP Survey (PTO/SB/CSP Survey 1) ............................... 5 400 33.33 410.00
Total ..... ............................................................................................ ........................ ........................ 900 1,533.33
Estimated Total Annual (Non-hour) and cost) of the proposed collection of Comments submitted in response to
Respondent Cost Burden: $0. There are information, including the validity of this notice will be summarized or
no estimated filing fees or postage costs the methodology and assumptions used; included in the request for OMB
for this collection. (c) ways to enhance the quality, approval of this information collection;
utility, and clarity of the information to they will also become a matter of public
IV. Request for Comments
be collected; and record.
Comments are invited on:
Dated: October 2, 2015.
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(a) Whether the proposed collection of (d) ways to minimize the burden of
information is necessary for the proper the collection of information on Marcie Lovett,
performance of the functions of the respondents, including through the use Records Management Division Director,
agency, including whether the of automated collection techniques or USPTO, Office of the Chief Information
information shall have practical utility; other forms of information technology, Officer.
(b) the accuracy of the agency’s e.g., permitting electronic submission of [FR Doc. 2015–25828 Filed 10–8–15; 8:45 am]
estimate of the burden (including hours responses. BILLING CODE 3510–16–P
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| Action | Proposed collection; comment request. | |
| Dates | Written comments must be submitted on or before December 8, 2015. | |
| Contact | Requests for additional information should be directed to Amber Ostrup, Program Manager, United States Patent and Trademark Office, P.O. Box 1450, Alexandria, VA 22313-1450; by telephone at 571-272-7984; or by email at [email protected] with ``0651-0079 comment'' in the subject line. Additional information about this collection is also available at http://www.reginfo.gov under ``Information Collection Review.'' | |
| FR Citation | 80 FR 61175 |
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