83_FR_1249 83 FR 1242 - National Summer Teacher Institute

83 FR 1242 - National Summer Teacher Institute

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
United States Patent and Trademark Office

Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 7 (January 10, 2018)

Page Range1242-1243
FR Document2018-00265

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, invites comments on a proposed extension of an existing information collection.

Federal Register, Volume 83 Issue 7 (Wednesday, January 10, 2018) 
[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 7 (Wednesday, January 10, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 1242-1243]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2018-00265]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

United States Patent and Trademark Office


National Summer Teacher Institute

ACTION: Revision of a currently approved collection.

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SUMMARY: The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), as 
required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, invites comments on a 
proposed extension of an existing information collection.

DATES: Written comments must be submitted on or before March 12, 2018.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by any of the following methods:
     Email: [email protected]. Include ``0651-
0077 comment'' in the subject line of the message.
     Federal Rulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov.
     Mail: Marcie Lovett, Records and Information Governance 
Division Director, Office of the Chief Technology 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 Joyce Ward, Under Secretary of Commerce for 
Intellectual Property, United States Patent and Trademark Office, P.O. 
Box 1450, Alexandria, VA 22313-1450; by telephone at 571-272-8424; or 
by email to [email protected] with ``0651-0077 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

    Since 2014, the USPTO has sponsored a program entitled ``National 
Summer Teacher Institute''. This program accepts applicants for a 
summer teaching workshop. Interested individuals are required to submit 
an application requesting to participate in the program. In the 
application, applicants are required 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 Summer Teacher Institute into their 
curriculum, where applicable, and cooperate with sharing lessons and 
outcomes with teachers and PTO.
    The USPTO seeks committed educators in science fields who will 
learn about innovative strategies to help increase student learning and 
achievement in these fields together with elements of invention and IP. 
Outside scientists and inventors will among the presenters and workshop 
leads. Educators will also participate in field trips (i.e. to NASA) 
and have opportunities for networking with other educators and invited 
experts. The USPTO may various host webinars in conjunction with the 
Summer Institute. USPTO plans to conduct surveys of both the Institute 
and the webinars in order to gain useful feedback from program 
participants.

II. Method of Collection

    Applications and corresponding surveys will be submitted 
electronically through the www.uspto.gov/education website.

III. Data

    OMB Number: 0651-0077.
    Form Numbers: NSTI 1-3.
    Type of Review: Revision of a Previously Existing Information 
Collection.
    Affected Public: Businesses or other for-profits; not-for-profit 
institutions.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 900 responses per year.
    Estimated Time per Response: The USPTO estimates that it will take 
the public approximately 5 (0.08 hours) to 30 minutes (0.5 hours) to 
submit the information in this collection, including the time to gather 
the necessary information, prepare the appropriate form or document, 
and submit the completed request to the USPTO.
    Estimated Total Annual Respondent Burden Hours: 291.67 hours.
    Estimated Total Annual Respondent (Hourly) Cost Burden: $8,613.02. 
The USPTO expects that secondary school teachers will complete the 
applications and surveys. The professional hourly rate for secondary 
school teachers is $29.53, based upon the May 2016 Occupational Labor 
Statistics Report for secondary school teachers (25-2031). Using this 
hourly rate, the USPTO estimates that the total respondent cost burden 
for this collection is $8,613.02 per year.

 
                                                                            (a)             (b)    (a) x (b)/60 = (c)             (d)    (c) x (d) = (e)
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1. Summer Teacher Institute Application (NSTI 1)...............            0.50             500                   250          $29.53          $7,382.50
2. Summer Teacher Institute Participant Survey (NSTI 2)........            0.17             100                 16.67           29.53             492.27
3. Summer Teacher Institute Webinar Survey (NSTI 3)............            0.08             300                    25           29.53             738.25
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    Total......................................................  ..............             900                291.67  ..............          $8,613.02
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    Estimated Total Annual (Non-hour) Respondent Cost Burden: $0. There 
are no capital start-up, maintenance, postage, or recordkeeping costs. 
All applications and surveys will be received electronically.

IV. Request for Comments

    Comments submitted in response to this notice will be summarized or 
included in the request for OMB approval of this information 
collection; they also will become a matter of public record.
    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;

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    (b) The accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden (including 
hours and cost) of the proposed collection of information;
    (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, e.g., the use of automated collection techniques or other 
forms of information technology.

Marcie Lovett,
Records and Information Governance Division Director, OCTO, United 
States Patent and Trademark Office.
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1242 Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 7 / Wednesday, January 10, 2018 / Notices V. Recommendation to Joyce.Ward@uspto.gov with ‘‘0651– the Institute and the webinars in order [FR Doc. 2018–00263 Filed 1–9–18; 8:45 am] 0077 comment’’ in the subject line. to gain useful feedback from program BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P Additional information about this participants. collection is also available at http:// II. Method of Collection www.reginfo.gov under ‘‘Information DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Collection Review.’’ Applications and corresponding SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: surveys will be submitted electronically United States Patent and Trademark through the www.uspto.gov/education Office I. Abstract website. National Summer Teacher Institute Since 2014, the USPTO has sponsored III. Data a program entitled ‘‘National Summer ACTION:Revision of a currently Teacher Institute’’. This program OMB Number: 0651–0077. approved collection. accepts applicants for a summer Form Numbers: NSTI 1–3. teaching workshop. Interested Type of Review: Revision of a SUMMARY: The United States Patent and individuals are required to submit an Previously Existing Information Trademark Office (USPTO), as required application requesting to participate in Collection. by the Paperwork Reduction Act of the program. In the application, Affected Public: Businesses or other 1995, invites comments on a proposed applicants are required to certify that for-profits; not-for-profit institutions. extension of an existing information they are educators with at least 3 years’ Estimated Number of Respondents: collection. experience; identify STEM-related fields 900 responses per year. DATES: Written comments must be they have taught in the last year; Estimated Time per Response: The submitted on or before March 12, 2018. identify STEM related fields they plan USPTO estimates that it will take the ADDRESSES: You may submit comments to teach in the upcoming year; and public approximately 5 (0.08 hours) to by any of the following methods: acknowledge their commitment to 30 minutes (0.5 hours) to submit the • Email: InformationCollection@ incorporate the learnings from the information in this collection, including uspto.gov. Include ‘‘0651–0077 Summer Teacher Institute into their the time to gather the necessary comment’’ in the subject line of the curriculum, where applicable, and information, prepare the appropriate message. cooperate with sharing lessons and form or document, and submit the • Federal Rulemaking Portal: http:// outcomes with teachers and PTO. completed request to the USPTO. www.regulations.gov. The USPTO seeks committed Estimated Total Annual Respondent • Mail: Marcie Lovett, Records and educators in science fields who will Burden Hours: 291.67 hours. Information Governance Division learn about innovative strategies to help Estimated Total Annual Respondent Director, Office of the Chief Technology increase student learning and (Hourly) Cost Burden: $8,613.02. The Officer, United States Patent and achievement in these fields together USPTO expects that secondary school Trademark Office, P.O. Box 1450, with elements of invention and IP. teachers will complete the applications Alexandria, VA 22313–1450. Outside scientists and inventors will and surveys. The professional hourly FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: among the presenters and workshop rate for secondary school teachers is Requests for additional information leads. Educators will also participate in $29.53, based upon the May 2016 should be directed to Joyce Ward, Under field trips (i.e. to NASA) and have Occupational Labor Statistics Report for Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual opportunities for networking with other secondary school teachers (25–2031). Property, United States Patent and educators and invited experts. The Using this hourly rate, the USPTO Trademark Office, P.O. Box 1450, USPTO may various host webinars in estimates that the total respondent cost Alexandria, VA 22313–1450; by conjunction with the Summer Institute. burden for this collection is $8,613.02 telephone at 571–272–8424; or by email USPTO plans to conduct surveys of both per year. Estimated time Estimated for Estimated annual Rate Item number annual Total cost response burden hours ($/hr) responses (hours) (a) (b) (a) × (b)/60 = (c) (d) (c) × (d) = (e) 1. Summer Teacher Institute Application (NSTI 1) .................................................................... 0.50 500 250 $29.53 $7,382.50 2. Summer Teacher Institute Participant Survey (NSTI 2) .......................................................... 0.17 100 16.67 29.53 492.27 3. Summer Teacher Institute Webinar Survey (NSTI 3) .......................................................... 0.08 300 25 29.53 738.25 Total ............................................................ ........................ 900 291.67 ........................ $8,613.02 Estimated Total Annual (Non-hour) IV. Request for Comments Comments are invited on: daltland on DSKBBV9HB2PROD with NOTICES Respondent Cost Burden: $0. There are (a) Whether the proposed collection of no capital start-up, maintenance, Comments submitted in response to this notice will be summarized or information is necessary for the proper postage, or recordkeeping costs. 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Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 7 / Wednesday, January 10, 2018 / Notices 1243 (b) The accuracy of the agency’s in the Extended Missing Parts Pilot Program for Extended Time Period To estimate of the burden (including hours Program must be filed on or before Reply to a Notice to File Missing Parts and cost) of the proposed collection of January 2, 2019. In addition, any of Nonprovisional Application, 75 FR information; certification and request to participate 76401 (Dec. 8, 2010), 1362 Off. Gaz. Pat. (c) Ways to enhance the quality, in the Extended Missing Parts Pilot Office 44 (Jan. 4, 2011). The USPTO utility, and clarity of the information to Program filed between January 2, 2018, cautions all applicants that, in order to be collected; and and the publication date of this notice claim the benefit of a prior provisional (d) Ways to minimize the burden of will be considered timely. The USPTO application, the statute requires a the collection of information on intends to make a decision before nonprovisional application filed under respondents, e.g., the use of automated January 2, 2019, on whether the 35 U.S.C. 111(a) to be filed within 12 collection techniques or other forms of Extended Missing Parts Pilot Program months after the date on which the information technology. offers sufficient benefits to the patent corresponding provisional application community for it to be made permanent was filed. See 35 U.S.C. 119(e). It is Marcie Lovett, or whether the USPTO should permit essential that applicants understand that Records and Information Governance the program to expire. the Extended Missing Parts Pilot Division Director, OCTO, United States Patent and Trademark Office. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Program cannot and does not change Eugenia A. Jones, Senior Legal Advisor, this statutory requirement. Title II of the [FR Doc. 2018–00265 Filed 1–9–18; 8:45 am] Office of Patent Legal Administration, Patent Law Treaties Implementation Act BILLING CODE 3510–16–P Office of the Deputy Commissioner for of 2012 (PLTIA) amended the provisions Patent Examination Policy, by telephone of title 35, United States Code, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE at (571) 272–7727, or Erin M. Harriman, including 35 U.S.C. 119(e), to Senior Legal Advisor, Office of Patent implement the Patent Law Treaty (PLT). United States Patent and Trademark Legal Administration, Office of the See Public Law 112–211, §§ 20–203, 126 Office Deputy Commissioner for Patent Stat. 1527, 1533–37 (2012). In the Examination Policy, by telephone at rulemaking to implement the PLT and [Docket No.: PTO–P–2017–0052] (571) 272–7747. title II of the PLTIA, the USPTO Inquiries regarding this notice may be provided that an applicant may file a Extension of the Extended Missing directed to the Office of Patent Legal petition under 37 CFR 1.78(b) to restore Parts Pilot Program Administration, by telephone at (571) the benefit of a provisional application AGENCY: United States Patent and 272–7701, or by electronic mail at filed up to fourteen months earlier. See Trademark Office, Commerce. PatentPractice@uspto.gov. Changes To Implement the Patent Law ACTION: Notice. Alternatively, mail may be addressed to: Treaty, 78 FR 62367, 62368–69 (Oct. 21, Mail Stop Comments—Patents, 2013) (final rule). Any petition to restore SUMMARY: The United States Patent and Commissioner for Patents, P.O. Box the benefit of a provisional application Trademark Office (USPTO) 1450, Alexandria, VA 22313–1450, must include the benefit claim, the implemented a pilot program (Extended marked to the attention of Eugenia A. petition fee, and a statement that the Missing Parts Pilot Program) in which Jones. delay in filing the subsequent an applicant, under certain conditions, SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On application was unintentional. This can request a 12-month time period to December 8, 2010, after considering change was effective on December 18, pay the search fee, the examination fee, written comments from the public, the 2013, and applies to any application any excess claim fees, and the surcharge USPTO changed the missing parts filed before, on, or after December 18, (for the late submission of the search fee examination procedures in certain 2013. However, if a nonprovisional and the examination fee) in a nonprovisional applications by application is filed outside the 12- nonprovisional application. The implementing a pilot program (i.e., month period from the date on which Extended Missing Parts Pilot Program Extended Missing Parts Pilot Program). the corresponding provisional benefits applicants by providing See Pilot Program for Extended Time application was filed, the additional time to determine if patent Period To Reply to a Notice to File nonprovisional application is not protection should be sought—at a Missing Parts of Nonprovisional eligible for participation in the relatively low cost—and by permitting Application, 75 FR 76401 (Dec. 8, 2010), Extended Missing Parts Pilot Program, applicants to focus efforts on 1362 Off. Gaz. Pat. Office 44 (Jan. 4, even though the applicant may be able commercialization during this period. 2011). Over the course of the pilot to restore the benefit of the provisional The Extended Missing Parts Pilot program, the USPTO provided application by submitting a petition Program benefits the USPTO and the extensions of the Extended Missing under 37 CFR 1.78(b). public by adding publications to the Parts Pilot Program through notices I. Requirements: In order for an body of prior art, and by removing from published in the Federal Register. The applicant to be provided a 12-month the USPTO’s workload those most recent notice extended the (non-extendable) time period to pay the nonprovisional applications for which program until January 2, 2018. See search and examination fees and any applicants later decide not to pursue Extension of Extended Missing Parts required excess claims fees in response examination. The USPTO is extending Pilot Program, 81 FR 93669 (Dec. 21, to a Notice to File Missing Parts of the Extended Missing Parts Pilot 2016), 1434 Off. Gaz. Pat. Office 187 Nonprovisional Application under the Program until January 2, 2019, to allow (Jan. 17, 2017). Extended Missing Parts Pilot Program, daltland on DSKBBV9HB2PROD with NOTICES the USPTO to continue its evaluation of The requirements of the program, the applicant must satisfy the following the pilot program. The requirements of which have not been modified, are conditions: (1) The applicant must the program have not changed. reiterated below. Applicants are submit a certification and request to DATES: Duration: The Extended Missing strongly advised to review the pilot participate in the Extended Missing Parts Pilot Program will run through program requirements before making a Parts Pilot Program with the January 2, 2019. Therefore, any request to participate in the Extended nonprovisional application on filing, certification and request to participate Missing Parts Pilot Program. 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Document Created: 2018-10-26 09:33:10
Document Modified: 2018-10-26 09:33:10
CategoryRegulatory Information
CollectionFederal Register
sudoc ClassAE 2.7:
GS 4.107:
AE 2.106:
PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionNotices
ActionRevision of a currently approved collection.
DatesWritten comments must be submitted on or before March 12, 2018.
ContactRequests for additional information should be directed to Joyce Ward, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property, United States Patent and Trademark Office, P.O. Box 1450, Alexandria, VA 22313-1450; by telephone at 571-272-8424; or by email to [email protected] with ``0651-0077 comment'' in the subject line. Additional information about this collection is also available at http://www.reginfo.gov under ``Information Collection Review.''
FR Citation83 FR 1242 
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