83 FR 28205 - Post Patent Public Submissions
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 117 (June 18, 2018)
United States Patent and Trademark Office
Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 117 (June 18, 2018)
| Page Range | 28205-28206 | |
| FR Document | 2018-13023 |
[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 117 (Monday, June 18, 2018)] [Notices] [Pages 28205-28206] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2018-13023] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE United States Patent and Trademark Office Post Patent Public Submissions ACTION: Proposed collection; comment request. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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; 0651-0067: Post Patent Public Submissions. DATES: Written comments must be submitted on or before August 17, 2018. ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by any of the following methods:Email: [email protected]. Include ``0651- 0067 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 Raul Tamayo, Senior Legal Advisor, Office of Patent Legal Administration, United States Patent and Trademark Office, P.O. Box 1450, Alexandria, VA 22313-1450; by telephone at 571-272-7728; or by email to [email protected] with ``0651-0067 comments'' 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) is required by 35 U.S.C. 131 to examine an application for patent and, when appropriate, issue a patent. The provisions of 35 U.S.C. 301 and 37 CFR 1.501 govern the ability of a person to submit into the file of an issued patent (1) prior art consisting of patents or printed publications which the person making the submission believes to have a bearing on the patentability of any claim of the issued patent and (2) statements of the owner of the issued patent filed in a proceeding before a Federal court or the USPTO in which the owner of the issued patent took a position on the scope of any claim of the issued patent. The public may use this information collection to aid in ascertaining the patentability and/or scope of the claims of the issued patent. The USPTO may use this information during subsequent reissue or reexamination proceedings. The USPTO's use of the statements of the patent owners ((2) above) will be limited to determining the meaning of a patent claim in ex parte reexamination proceedings that already have been ordered and in inter partes review and post grant review proceedings that already have been instituted. II. Method of Collection Electronically via the USPTO's electronic filing system (EFS-Web). By facsimile, mail or hand delivery, if the submitter chooses to submit the information in paper form. III. Data OMB Number: 0651-0067. IC Instruments and Forms: PTO/SB/42. Type of Review: Extension of a Currently Existing Collection. Affected Public: Individuals or households; businesses or other for-profits; and not-for-profit institutions. Estimated Number of Respondents: 100 response per year. Estimated Time per Response: The USPTO estimates that it will take the public 10 hours to respond to the items in this collection. 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: 1,000 hours. Estimated Total Annual Respondent (Hour) Cost Burden: $438,000. The USPTO expects that attorneys will completed the instruments associated with this information collection. The professional hourly rate for intellectual property attorneys in private firms is $438. Using this hourly rate, the USPTO estimates that the total respondent cost burden for this collection is $438,000 per year. [[Page 28206]] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Time for IC No. Item response Responses Annual burden Rate Hourly cost (hours) ..................................... (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (a) x (b) (c) x (d) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1................................ Electronic Information Disclosure 10 98 980 $438.00 $429,240.00 Citation in a Patent. 1................................ Information Disclosure Citation in a 10 2 20 438.00 8,760.00 Patent. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total........................ ..................................... .............. 100 1,000 .............. 438,000.00 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Estimated Total Annual (Non-hour) Respondent Cost Burden: $11.50. There are no capital startup, maintenance or operating costs, or filing fees associated with this information collection. There are postage costs associated with this information collection. Customers may incur postage costs when submitting the information in this collection to the USPTO by mail. The USPTO expects that approximately 98 percent of the responses in this collection will be submitted electronically via the USPTO's electronic filing system (EFS-Web). The USPTO is estimating that all of the submissions in this collection that are not submitted electronically will be submitted by mail, for a total of 2 mailed submissions. The average first clast postage cost for a one-pound mailed submission in a flat rate envelope will be $5.75, and the USPTO is estimating that none of the mailed submissions will exceed one pound. Therefore, the USPTO estimates that the postage costs for the mailed submissions in this collection will be $11.50. 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 will also 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; (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. [FR Doc. 2018-13023 Filed 6-15-18; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3510-16-P
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enrolled property to baseline conditions DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Federal court or the USPTO in which
at the end of the Agreement, as defined the owner of the issued patent took a
in the Agreement. The Agreement United States Patent and Trademark position on the scope of any claim of the
specifies the beneficial management Office issued patent.
activities to be carried out on the
Post Patent Public Submissions The public may use this information
enrolled property, and schedule for
implementing those activities. The collection to aid in ascertaining the
Agreement is expected to promote the ACTION: Proposed collection; comment patentability and/or scope of the claims
recovery of CCC coho salmon and CCC request. of the issued patent. The USPTO may
steelhead within the Applicant’s use this information during subsequent
SUMMARY: The United States Patent and reissue or reexamination proceedings.
Kellogg Ranch. Trademark Office (USPTO), as required
The Agreement requires that the The USPTO’s use of the statements of
by the Paperwork Reduction Act of
Applicant maintain baseline condition the patent owners ((2) above) will be
1995, invites comments on a proposed
for the covered species habitat on the limited to determining the meaning of a
extension of an existing information
enrolled property. NMFS has reviewed collection; 0651–0067: Post Patent patent claim in ex parte reexamination
the baseline condition for the enrolled Public Submissions. proceedings that already have been
property as it is defined in the ordered and in inter partes review and
DATES: Written comments must be
Agreement. The Agreement also post grant review proceedings that
contains a monitoring component that submitted on or before August 17, 2018.
already have been instituted.
requires the Applicant to ensure ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
compliance with the terms and by any of the following methods: II. Method of Collection
conditions of the Agreement, and that • Email: InformationCollection@
the baseline levels of habitat for the uspto.gov. Include ‘‘0651–0067 Electronically via the USPTO’s
covered species occurs on the enrolled comment’’ in the subject line of the electronic filing system (EFS–Web). By
property. Results of the monitoring message. facsimile, mail or hand delivery, if the
efforts will be provided to NMFS by the • Federal Rulemaking Portal: http:// submitter chooses to submit the
Applicant in an annual report for the www.regulations.gov. information in paper form.
duration of the 25-year permit term. • Mail: Marcie Lovett, Records and
III. Data
Upon approval of this Agreement, and Information Governance Division
consistent with the NMFS’s Safe Harbor Director, Office of the Chief Technology OMB Number: 0651–0067.
Policy, NMFS will issue an Officer, United States Patent and
Enhancement of Survival Permit to the Trademark Office, P.O. Box 1450, IC Instruments and Forms: PTO/SB/
Applicant. The Enhancement of Alexandria, VA 22313–1450. 42.
Survival Permit will authorize the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Type of Review: Extension of a
Applicant to take CCC coho salmon and Requests for additional information Currently Existing Collection.
CCC steelhead incidental to the should be directed to Raul Tamayo, Affected Public: Individuals or
implementation of the covered activities Senior Legal Advisor, Office of Patent households; businesses or other for-
specified in the Agreement, incidental Legal Administration, United States profits; and not-for-profit institutions.
to other lawful uses of the enrolled Patent and Trademark Office, P.O. Box
property, and to return to baseline 1450, Alexandria, VA 22313–1450; by Estimated Number of Respondents:
conditions if desired at the end of the telephone at 571–272–7728; or by email 100 response per year.
Agreement. In addition to meeting other to Raul.Tamayo@uspto.gov with ‘‘0651– Estimated Time per Response: The
criteria, actions to be performed under 0067 comments’’ in the subject line. USPTO estimates that it will take the
the Enhancement of Survival Permit Additional information about this public 10 hours to respond to the items
must not jeopardize the existence of collection is also available at http:// in this collection. This includes the time
Federally listed species. www.reginfo.gov under ‘‘Information
This notice is provided pursuant to to gather the necessary information,
Collection Review.’’ create the document, and submit the
section 10(c) of the ESA. NMFS will
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: completed request to the USPTO.
evaluate the application, associated
documents, and comments submitted to I. Abstract Estimated Total Annual Respondent
determine whether the application Burden Hours: 1,000 hours.
The United States Patent and
meets the requirements of section 10(a)
Trademark Office (USPTO) is required Estimated Total Annual Respondent
of the ESA and Federal regulations. The
by 35 U.S.C. 131 to examine an (Hour) Cost Burden: $438,000. The
final permit decision will not be made
application for patent and, when USPTO expects that attorneys will
until after the end of the 30-day
appropriate, issue a patent. The completed the instruments associated
comment period. NMFS will publish
provisions of 35 U.S.C. 301 and 37 CFR with this information collection. The
notice of its final action in the Federal
1.501 govern the ability of a person to professional hourly rate for intellectual
Register.
submit into the file of an issued patent property attorneys in private firms is
Dated: June 12, 2018. (1) prior art consisting of patents or $438. Using this hourly rate, the USPTO
Angela Somma, printed publications which the person estimates that the total respondent cost
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Chief, Endangered Species Division, Office making the submission believes to have burden for this collection is $438,000
of Protected Resources, National Marine a bearing on the patentability of any
Fisheries Service.
per year.
claim of the issued patent and (2)
[FR Doc. 2018–12916 Filed 6–15–18; 8:45 am] statements of the owner of the issued
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Time for
IC No. Item response Responses Annual burden Rate Hourly cost
(hours)
(a) (b) (c) (d) (e)
(a) × (b) (c) × (d)
1 ................... Electronic Information Disclosure Citation 10 98 980 $438.00 $429,240.00
in a Patent.
1 ................... Information Disclosure Citation in a Patent 10 2 20 438.00 8,760.00
Total ...... .................................................................... ........................ 100 1,000 ........................ 438,000.00
Estimated Total Annual (Non-hour) collection techniques or other forms of in U.S. Patent No. 9,120,679: Silicon
Respondent Cost Burden: $11.50. There information technology. Carbide Synthesis, Navy Case No.
are no capital startup, maintenance or 101,536.//U.S. Patent No. 9,051,186:
Marcie Lovett,
operating costs, or filing fees associated Silicon Carbide Synthesis from
Records and Information Governance
with this information collection. Agricultural Waste, Navy Case No.
Division Director, OCTO United States Patent
There are postage costs associated and Trademark Office. 101,536.//and any continuations,
divisionals, or re-issues thereof.
with this information collection. [FR Doc. 2018–13023 Filed 6–15–18; 8:45 am]
Customers may incur postage costs DATES: Anyone wishing to object to the
BILLING CODE 3510–16–P
when submitting the information in this grant of this license must file written
collection to the USPTO by mail. The objections along with supporting
USPTO expects that approximately 98 evidence, if any, not later than July 3,
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
2018.
percent of the responses in this
collection will be submitted Department of the Navy Dated: June 12, 2018.
electronically via the USPTO’s E.K. Baldini,
Notice of Intent To Grant Exclusive
electronic filing system (EFS–Web). The Lieutenant Commander, Judge Advocate
Patent License; Integrated Composite General’s Corps, U.S. Navy, Federal Register
USPTO is estimating that all of the
Construction Systems, LLC Liaison Officer.
submissions in this collection that are
not submitted electronically will be AGENCY: Department of the Navy, DoD. [FR Doc. 2018–12980 Filed 6–15–18; 8:45 am]
submitted by mail, for a total of 2 ACTION: Notice; correction. BILLING CODE 3810–FF–P
mailed submissions. The average first
clast postage cost for a one-pound SUMMARY: The Department of the Navy
mailed submission in a flat rate published a document in the Federal DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Register on February 27, 2018,
envelope will be $5.75, and the USPTO [Docket ID ED–2017–IES–0150]
announcing an intent to grant to
is estimating that none of the mailed
Integrated Composite Construction
submissions will exceed one pound. Privacy Act of 1974; System of
Systems, LLC, a revocable,
Therefore, the USPTO estimates that the Records
nonassignable, exclusive license. The
postage costs for the mailed submissions scope of the intent to license has been AGENCY: Institute of Education Sciences,
in this collection will be $11.50. revised. Department of Education.
IV. Request for Comments FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: ACTION: Notice of a new system of
Amanda Horansky McKinney, Head, records.
Comments submitted in response to Technology Transfer Office, NRL Code
this notice will be summarized or 1004, 4555 Overlook Avenue SW, SUMMARY: In accordance with the
included in the request for OMB Washington, DC 20375–5320, telephone Privacy Act of 1974, as amended
approval of this information collection. 202–767–1644. Due to U.S. Postal (Privacy Act), the Department of
They will also become a matter of delays, please fax 202–404–7920, email: Education (Department) publishes this
public record. techtran@research.nrl.navy.mil or use notice of a new system of records
courier delivery to expedite response. entitled ‘‘Impact Evaluation of
Comments are invited on:
Academic Language Intervention (18–
(a) Whether the proposed collection of Correction 13–43).’’ This system contains
information is necessary for the proper In the Federal Register of February individually identifying information
performance of the functions of the 27, 2018, make the following revision: provided by individuals and school
agency, including whether the 1. In the first and second column, on districts that participate in the impact
information shall have practical utility; page 8462, revise the SUMMARY caption evaluation. The information in this
(b) The accuracy of the agency’s to read as follows: system will be used to conduct a
estimate of the burden (including hours SUMMARY: The Department of the Navy rigorous study of the effectiveness of an
and cost) of the proposed collection of hereby gives notice of its intent to grant academic language intervention on
information; to Integrated Composite Construction English Learner (EL) students’ and
amozie on DSK3GDR082PROD with NOTICES1
Systems, LLC., a revocable, disadvantaged non-EL students’
(c) Ways to enhance the quality, nonassignable, exclusive license to language and reading skills.
utility, and clarity of the information to practice in the field of use of fabrication DATES: Submit your comments on this
be collected; and of silicon carbide nanoparticles and new system of records notice on or
(d) Ways to minimize the burden of nanorods for use in high performance before July 18, 2018.
the collection of information on concrete, in the United States, the This new system of records will
respondents, e.g., the use of automated Government-owned invention described become applicable upon publication in
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| Contact | Requests for additional information should be directed to Raul Tamayo, Senior Legal Advisor, Office of Patent Legal Administration, United States Patent and Trademark Office, P.O. Box 1450, Alexandria, VA 22313-1450; by telephone at 571-272-7728; or by email to [email protected] with ``0651-0067 comments'' in the subject line. Additional information about this collection is also available at http://www.reginfo.gov under ``Information Collection Review.'' | |
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