81_FR_33582 81 FR 33480 - Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; “Requirements for Patent Applications Containing Nucleotide Sequence and/or Amino Acid Sequence Disclosures”

81 FR 33480 - Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; “Requirements for Patent Applications Containing Nucleotide Sequence and/or Amino Acid Sequence Disclosures”

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
United States Patent and Trademark Office

Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 102 (May 26, 2016)

Page Range33480-33481
FR Document2016-12477

Federal Register, Volume 81 Issue 102 (Thursday, May 26, 2016) 
[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 102 (Thursday, May 26, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 33480-33481]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2016-12477]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

United States Patent and Trademark Office


Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; ``Requirements for 
Patent Applications Containing Nucleotide Sequence and/or Amino Acid 
Sequence Disclosures''

    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 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35).
    Agency: United States Patent and Trademark Office, Commerce.
    Title: Requirements for Patent Applications Containing Nucleotide 
Sequence and/or Amino Acid Sequence Disclosures.
    OMB Control Number: 0651-0024.
    Form Number(s):
     PTO/SB/93.
    Type of Request: Regular.
    Number of Respondents: 27,200.
    Estimated Time per Response: The USPTO estimates that it will take 
approximately 6 minutes (0.10 hours) to 6 hours to complete a single 
item in this collection. This includes the time to gather the necessary 
information, create the documents, and submit the completed request to 
the USPTO.
    Burden Hours: 152,285 hours.
    Cost Burden: $1,815,457.50.
    Needs and Uses: Patent applications that contain nucleotide and/or 
amino acid sequence disclosures must include a copy of the sequence 
listing in accordance with the requirements in 37 CFR 1.821-1.825. 
Applicants submit copies of sequence listings for both U.S.

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and international biotechnology patent applications. The USPTO uses the 
sequence listings during the examination process to determine the 
patentability of the associated patent application. The USPTO also uses 
the sequence listings to support publication of patent applications and 
issued patents. Sequence listings are searchable after publication.
    Frequency: On occasion.
    Respondent's Obligation: Required to Obtain or Retain Benefits.
    OMB Desk Officer: Nicholas A. Fraser, email: 
Nicholas_A._Fraser@omb.eop.gov.
    Once submitted, the request will be publicly available in 
electronic format through reginfo.gov. Follow the instructions on the 
Web site to view Department of Commerce collections currently under 
review by OMB.
    Further information can be obtained by:
     Email: InformationCollection@uspto.gov. Include ``0651-
0024 copy request'' in the subject line of the message.
     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.
    Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information 
collection should be sent on or before June 27, 2016 to Nicholas A. 
Fraser, OMB Desk Officer, via email to Nicholas_A._Fraser@omb.eop.gov, 
or by fax to 202-395-5167, marked to the attention of Nicholas A. 
Fraser.

    Dated: May 20, 2016.
Marcie Lovett,
Records Management Division Director, OCIO, United States Patent and 
Trademark Office.
[FR Doc. 2016-12477 Filed 5-25-16; 8:45 am]
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33480 Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 102 / Thursday, May 26, 2016 / Notices • Continued implementation of the their contributions to the conservation delist the Snake River fall-run Chinook FCRPS Biological Opinion, including of the naturally spawned population(s). ESU is not warranted at this time, and hydropower system operations such as As noted above (see Viability Criteria as such it shall retain its status as a cool-water releases from Dworshak Dam and Recovery Planning), the Technical threatened species under the ESA. to maintain adequate migration and Recovery Team viability criteria (ICTRT 2007) and the proposed recovery References rearing conditions in the lower Snake River, summer flow augmentation and scenarios articulated in the Proposed A complete list of all references cited summer spill at multiple projects to Recovery Plan (NMFS 2015) provide herein is available upon request (see FOR maintain migration and passage useful guides for evaluating the FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT). conditions, and operations at Lower conditions that must be met for the delisting of Snake River fall-run Authority Granite Dam to address adult passage blockages caused by warm surface Chinook to be warranted. All the The Authority for this action is the waters entering the fish ladders. viability criteria and proposed recovery Endangered Species Act of 1973, as • Continued implementation of scenarios conclude that the extant amended (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.). Lower Snake River Programmatic Lower Mainstem Snake River Dated: May 19, 2016. Sediment Management Plan measures to population must be at least highly Samuel D. Rauch III, reduce impacts of reservoir and river viable. The Northwest Fisheries Science Deputy Assistant Administrator for channel dredging and disposal on Snake Center report (NWFSC 2015) concluded Regulatory Programs, National Marine River fall-run Chinook. that the Lower Mainstem Snake River Fisheries Service. • Continued implementation of population is currently viable, but is [FR Doc. 2016–12453 Filed 5–25–16; 8:45 am] recovery plan actions in tributary and less than highly viable. In other words, BILLING CODE 3510–22–P lower mainstem habitats to maintain the current risk level of the Snake River and improve spawning and rearing fall-run Chinook ESU does not meet the potential for Snake River fall-run status described in the Technical DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Chinook (Although these actions are Recovery Team report and the Proposed generally focused on Snake River Recovery Plan as necessary for the United States Patent and Trademark recovery of the ESU. Office spring/summer Chinook salmon and Additionally, based on our evaluation steelhead and, therefore, located above of the five section 4(a)(1) factors, above, Submission for OMB Review; fall-run Chinook spawning and rearing we conclude that historical habitat loss, habitats, the actions have cumulative Comment Request; ‘‘Requirements for continued degradation and modification Patent Applications Containing beneficial effects on downstream of habitat, and the inadequacy of habitats). Nucleotide Sequence and/or Amino regulatory mechanisms continue to pose Acid Sequence Disclosures’’ • Large-scale restoration projects in threats to, and limit the recovery the Tucannon River, which have been potential of, the Snake River fall-run The United States Patent and highly effective in reestablishing Chinook ESU. Disease, predation, and Trademark Office (USPTO) will submit channel functions related to overutilization do not pose threats to the to the Office of Management and Budget temperature, floodplain connectivity, ESU at this time. We also find that the (OMB) for clearance the following channel morphology, and habitat high levels of uncertainty associated proposal for collection of information complexity. These key protective efforts with projecting the effects of other under the provisions of the Paperwork were largely possible thanks to the natural or man-made factors affecting Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). persistence and support from the Snake the continued existence of the ESU Agency: United States Patent and River Salmon Recovery Board, represent a threat to the persistence and Trademark Office, Commerce. Washington Department of Fish and recovery potential of the Snake River Title: Requirements for Patent Wildlife, and local restoration partners. fall-run Chinook ESU. This latter Applications Containing Nucleotide Programs such as these are critical if uncertainty, particularly that conferred Sequence and/or Amino Acid Sequence we are to address the threats and by the prevalence and broad Disclosures. limiting factors facing the ESU to distribution of hatchery-origin fish OMB Control Number: 0651–0024. improve its viability. However, at this across all major spawning areas, needs Form Number(s): time, we conclude that these and other to be addressed if we are to be able to • PTO/SB/93. protective efforts are insufficient to assess the viability of the extant Lower Type of Request: Regular. ameliorate the threats facing the Snake Mainstem Snake River population with Number of Respondents: 27,200. River fall-run Chinook ESU to the extent sufficient certainty. After reviewing Estimated Time per Response: The where delisting would be warranted. efforts being made to protect salmonids USPTO estimates that it will take and their habitat in the Snake River approximately 6 minutes (0.10 hours) to Final Determination Basin, we conclude that these efforts are 6 hours to complete a single item in this The petitioners’ arguments that the insufficient to ameliorate the threats collection. This includes the time to Snake River fall-run Chinook ESU facing the Snake River fall-run Chinook gather the necessary information, create should be delisted are based in large ESU to the point where the species the documents, and submit the measure upon the prevalence of would warrant delisting. completed request to the USPTO. hatchery-produced fish and their view Based on our review of the species’ Burden Hours: 152,285 hours. that we impermissibly emphasize the viability, the five section 4(a)(1) factors, Cost Burden: $1,815,457.50. sradovich on DSK3TPTVN1PROD with NOTICES naturally spawned component of the and efforts being made to protect the Needs and Uses: Patent applications ESU in our viability assessments. We species, we conclude that the Snake that contain nucleotide and/or amino disagree and conclude that, consistent River fall-run Chinook ESU is likely to acid sequence disclosures must include with the Hatchery Listing Policy and the become an endangered species a copy of the sequence listing in Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling in throughout all or a significant portion of accordance with the requirements in 37 Trout Unlimited v. Lohn, hatchery fish its range in the foreseeable future. We CFR 1.821–1.825. Applicants submit should be evaluated in the context of conclude that the petitioned action to copies of sequence listings for both U.S. VerDate Sep<11>2014 18:47 May 25, 2016 Jkt 238001 PO 00000 Frm 00022 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\26MYN1.SGM 26MYN1

Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 102 / Thursday, May 26, 2016 / Notices 33481 and international biotechnology patent Written comments and employees for official travel in Alaska, applications. The USPTO uses the recommendations for the proposed Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the Northern sequence listings during the information collection should be sent on Mariana Islands and Possessions of the examination process to determine the or before June 27, 2016 to Nicholas A. United States when applicable. AEA patentability of the associated patent Fraser, OMB Desk Officer, via email to changes announced in Bulletin Number application. The USPTO also uses the Nicholas_A._Fraser@omb.eop.gov, or by 194 remain in effect. Bulletin Number sequence listings to support publication fax to 202–395–5167, marked to the 303 is being published in the Federal of patent applications and issued attention of Nicholas A. Fraser. Register to assure that travelers are paid patents. Sequence listings are searchable Dated: May 20, 2016. per diem at the most current rates. after publication. Marcie Lovett, DATES: Effective Date: June 1, 2016. Frequency: On occasion. Records Management Division Director, FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Respondent’s Obligation: Required to OCIO, United States Patent and Trademark Sonia Malik, 571–372–1276. Obtain or Retain Benefits. Office. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This OMB Desk Officer: Nicholas A. Fraser, [FR Doc. 2016–12477 Filed 5–25–16; 8:45 am] document gives notice of revisions in email: Nicholas_A._Fraser@ BILLING CODE 3510–16–P per diem rates prescribed by the Defense omb.eop.gov. Travel Management Office for non- Once submitted, the request will be foreign areas outside the contiguous publicly available in electronic format DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE United States. It supersedes Civilian through reginfo.gov. Follow the Personnel Per Diem Bulletin Number instructions on the Web site to view Office of the Secretary 302. Per Diem Bulletins published Department of Commerce collections periodically in the Federal Register now currently under review by OMB. Revised Non-Foreign Overseas Per constitute the only notification of Further information can be obtained Diem Rates revisions in per diem rates to agencies by: and establishments outside the AGENCY: Defense Travel Management • Email: InformationCollection@ Department of Defense. For more Office, DoD. uspto.gov. Include ‘‘0651–0024 copy information or questions about per diem ACTION: Notice of revised non-foreign rates, please contact your local travel request’’ in the subject line of the overseas per diem rates. message. office. Civilian Bulletin 303 includes updated rates for Alaska. • Mail: Marcie Lovett, Records SUMMARY: The Defense Travel Management Division Director, Office of Management Office is publishing Dated: May 23, 2016. the Chief Information Officer, United Civilian Personnel Per Diem Bulletin Aaron Siegel, States Patent and Trademark Office, Number 303. This bulletin lists Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison P.O. Box 1450, Alexandria, VA 22313– revisions in the per diem rates Officer, Department of Defense. 1450. prescribed for U.S. Government BILLING CODE 5001–06–P sradovich on DSK3TPTVN1PROD with NOTICES VerDate Sep<11>2014 18:47 May 25, 2016 Jkt 238001 PO 00000 Frm 00023 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\26MYN1.SGM 26MYN1


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