83 FR 4036 - Public Search Facility User ID and Badging
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Patent and Trademark Office Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 19 (January 29, 2018)
Patent and Trademark Office
Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 19 (January 29, 2018)
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| FR Document | 2018-01610 |
[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 19 (Monday, January 29, 2018)] [Notices] [Pages 4036-4037] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2018-01610] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Patent and Trademark Office Public Search Facility User ID and Badging 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: 0651-0041 (Public Search Facility User ID and Badging). DATES: Written comments must be submitted on or before March 30, 2018. ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by any of the following methods:Email: [email protected]. Include ``0651- 0041 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 Terry Howard, Manager, Public Search Facility, United States Patent and Trademark Office, P.O. Box 1450, Alexandria, VA 22313-1450; by telephone at 571-272-3258; or by email to [email protected]. 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. 41(i)(1) to maintain a Public Search Facility to make publically accessible USPTO patent and trademark collections for search and retrieval. The facility is located in a publicly accessible portion of USPTO headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia, and offers access to the collection's paper and electronic files.Trained staff are available to assist users with searches. The USPTO also offers training courses to assist users with the advanced electronic search systems available at the facility. This collection covers information that individuals submit in application to establish a USPTO online access account. This application allows users to obtain, renew, or replace online access account cards which provide access to the electronic search system at the Public Search Facility. The public may apply for an online access account only at the Public Search Facility reference desk by providing the completed application (including contact information) and proper identification. The access account cards include a bar-coded user number and an expiration date. Users may renew their account card in person by validating and updating the required information and may obtain a replacement for a lost account card by providing proper identification. Users who wish to register for the voluntary training courses by do so by completing the appropriate form. This collection also covers information in applications to establish, renew, or replace security identification badges issued, under the authority provided in 41 CFR part 102-81, to members of the public who wish to access the Public Search Facility. Users may apply for a security badge in person at the USPTO Security Office by providing the completed application (including applicant and contact information) and presenting a valid form of identification with photograph. The security badges include a color photograph of the user and must be worn at all times while at the USPTO facilities. II. Methods of Collection The applications for online access accounts and security identification badges are completed on site and handed to a USPTO staff member for issuance. User training registration forms may be mailed, faxed, emailed, or hand delivered to the USPTO. III. Data OMB Number: 0651-0041. IC Instruments and Forms: PTO-2030 and PTO-2224. Type of Review: Extension of a Previously Existing Information Collection. Affected Public: Individuals or households; businesses or other for-profits; and not-for-profit institutions. Estimated Number of Respondents: 6,250 responses per year. Estimated Time per Response: The USPTO estimates that it will take the public approximately 5 minutes (0.08 hours) to 10 minutes (0.17 hours) to complete the information in this collection, depending on the application. This includes the time to gather the necessary information, prepare the appropriate form, and submit the completed request to the USPTO. Estimated Total Annual Respondent Burden Hours: 500 hours. Estimated Total Annual Respondent Cost Burden: $145,750. The USPTO expects that both attorneys and paraprofessionals will complete the submissions. The USPTO estimates that one third of the applicants will be attorneys and the remaining two thirds will be paraprofessionals. The professional hourly rate for attorneys is $438 and the professional hourly rate for paraprofessionals is $145. The attorney rates is established by estimates in the 2017 Report on the Economic Survey, published by the Committee on Economics of Legal Practice of the American Intellectual Property Law Association. The paraprofessional rate is established by estimates in the 2016 National Utilization and Compensation Survey, published by the National Association of Legal Assistance (NALA). The estimated combined rate is $291.50. Using this hourly rate, the USTPO estimates that the total respondent cost burden for this collection is $145,750. per year. [[Page 4037]] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Annual cost IC # Item Time for response (hours) Responses Burden hours Rate burden ........................ (a).............................. (b) (c) = (a) x (d) (e) = (c) x (b) (d) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.......................... Application for Public 0.08 (5 minutes)................. 1,250 100 $291.50 $29,150.00 User ID (Access Card). 2.......................... Renew Online Access Card 0.08 (5 minutes)................. 500 40 291.50 11,600.00 3.......................... Replace Online Access 0.08 (5 minutes)................. 50 4 291.50 1,166.00 Card. 4.......................... User Training 0.08 (5 minutes)................. 150 12 291.50 3,498.00 Registration Forms. 5.......................... Security Identification 0.08 (5 minutes)................. 1,000 80 291.50 23,320.00 Badges for Public Users. 6.......................... Renew Security 0.08 (5 minutes)................. 3,200 256 291.50 74,624.00 Identification Badges for Public Users. 7.......................... Replace Security 0.08 (5 minutes)................. 100 8 291.50 2,332.00 Identification Badges. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Totals................. ........................ ................................. 6,250 500 .............. 145,750.00 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Estimated Total Annual Non-hour Respondent Cost Burden: $1,501.96. This collection has annual (non-hour) costs in the form of fees and postage costs. There are no application or renewal fees for online access cards or security identification badges. However, there is a $15 fee for issuing a replacement security identification badge. The USPTO estimates that it will reissue approximately 100 security badges annually that have been lost, stolen, or need to be replaced, for a total of $1,500.00 per year in replacement fees. Users may incur postage costs when submitting a user training registration form to the USPTO by mail. The USPTO expects that approximately 4 training forms received per year will be submitted by mail. The USPTO estimates that the average first-class postage cost for a mailed training form will be $0.49 for a total postage cost of $1.96 per year for this collection. The total annual (non-hour) respondent cost burden for this collection in the forms of fees and postage costs is estimated to be $1,501.96 per year. 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; (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. 2018-01610 Filed 1-26-18; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3510-16-P
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Once submitted, the request will be FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: form of identification with photograph.
publicly available in electronic format Requests for additional information The security badges include a color
through reginfo.gov. Follow the should be directed to Terry Howard, photograph of the user and must be
instructions to view Department of Manager, Public Search Facility, United worn at all times while at the USPTO
Commerce collections currently under States Patent and Trademark Office, facilities.
review by OMB. P.O. Box 1450, Alexandria, VA 22313–
1450; by telephone at 571–272–3258; or II. Methods of Collection
Further information can be obtained
by: by email to Terry.Howard@uspto.gov. The applications for online access
• Email: InformationCollection@ Additional information about this accounts and security identification
uspto.gov. Include ‘‘0651–0035 copy collection is also available at http:// badges are completed on site and
request’’ in the subject line of the www.reginfo.gov under ‘‘Information handed to a USPTO staff member for
message. Collection Review.’’ issuance. User training registration
• Mail: Marcie Lovett, Records and SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: forms may be mailed, faxed, emailed, or
Information Governance Division hand delivered to the USPTO.
Director, Office of the Chief Technology I. Abstract
Officer, United States Patent and The United States Patent and III. Data
Trademark Office, P.O. Box 1450, Trademark Office (USPTO) is required OMB Number: 0651–0041.
Alexandria, VA 22313–1450. by 35 U.S.C. 41(i)(1) to maintain a IC Instruments and Forms: PTO–2030
Written comments and Public Search Facility to make and PTO–2224.
recommendations for the proposed publically accessible USPTO patent and Type of Review: Extension of a
information collection should be sent on trademark collections for search and Previously Existing Information
or before February 28, 2018 to Nicholas retrieval. The facility is located in a Collection.
A. Fraser, OMB Desk Officer, via email publicly accessible portion of USPTO
Affected Public: Individuals or
to Nicholas_A._Fraser@omb.eop.gov, or headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia,
households; businesses or other for-
by fax to 202–395–5167, marked to the and offers access to the collection’s
profits; and not-for-profit institutions.
attention of Nicholas A. Fraser. paper and electronic files.Trained staff
are available to assist users with Estimated Number of Respondents:
Marcie Lovett,
searches. The USPTO also offers 6,250 responses per year.
Records and Information Governance training courses to assist users with the Estimated Time per Response: The
Division Director, OCTO, United States Patent USPTO estimates that it will take the
and Trademark Office.
advanced electronic search systems
available at the facility. public approximately 5 minutes (0.08
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This collection covers information hours) to 10 minutes (0.17 hours) to
BILLING CODE 3510–16–P that individuals submit in application to complete the information in this
establish a USPTO online access collection, depending on the
account. This application allows users application. This includes the time to
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE to obtain, renew, or replace online gather the necessary information,
access account cards which provide prepare the appropriate form, and
Patent and Trademark Office submit the completed request to the
access to the electronic search system at
Public Search Facility User ID and the Public Search Facility. The public USPTO.
Badging may apply for an online access account Estimated Total Annual Respondent
only at the Public Search Facility Burden Hours: 500 hours.
ACTION: Proposed collection; comment reference desk by providing the Estimated Total Annual Respondent
request. completed application (including Cost Burden: $145,750. The USPTO
contact information) and proper expects that both attorneys and
SUMMARY: The United States Patent and identification. The access account cards paraprofessionals will complete the
Trademark Office (USPTO), as required include a bar-coded user number and an submissions. The USPTO estimates that
by the Paperwork Reduction Act of expiration date. Users may renew their one third of the applicants will be
1995, invites comments on a proposed account card in person by validating attorneys and the remaining two thirds
extension of an existing information and updating the required information will be paraprofessionals. The
collection: 0651–0041 (Public Search and may obtain a replacement for a lost professional hourly rate for attorneys is
Facility User ID and Badging). account card by providing proper $438 and the professional hourly rate
DATES: Written comments must be identification. Users who wish to for paraprofessionals is $145. The
submitted on or before March 30, 2018. register for the voluntary training attorney rates is established by estimates
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments courses by do so by completing the in the 2017 Report on the Economic
by any of the following methods: appropriate form. Survey, published by the Committee on
• Email: InformationCollection@ This collection also covers Economics of Legal Practice of the
uspto.gov. Include ‘‘0651–0041 information in applications to establish, American Intellectual Property Law
comment in the subject line of the renew, or replace security identification Association. The paraprofessional rate is
message. badges issued, under the authority established by estimates in the 2016
• Federal Rulemaking Portal: http:// provided in 41 CFR part 102–81, to National Utilization and Compensation
www.regulations.gov. members of the public who wish to Survey, published by the National
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• Mail: Marcie Lovett, Records and access the Public Search Facility. Users Association of Legal Assistance (NALA).
Information Governance Division may apply for a security badge in person The estimated combined rate is $291.50.
Director, Office of the Chief Technology at the USPTO Security Office by Using this hourly rate, the USTPO
Officer, United States Patent and providing the completed application estimates that the total respondent cost
Trademark Office, P.O. Box 1450, (including applicant and contact burden for this collection is $145,750.
Alexandria, VA 22313–1450. information) and presenting a valid per year.
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Time for response Annual cost
IC # Item Responses Burden hours Rate
(hours) burden
(a) (b) (c) = (a) × (b) (d) (e) = (c) × (d)
1 ..................... Application for Public User ID (Ac- 0.08 (5 minutes) ..... 1,250 100 $291.50 $29,150.00
cess Card).
2 ..................... Renew Online Access Card ........... 0.08 (5 minutes) ..... 500 40 291.50 11,600.00
3 ..................... Replace Online Access Card ......... 0.08 (5 minutes) ..... 50 4 291.50 1,166.00
4 ..................... User Training Registration Forms .. 0.08 (5 minutes) ..... 150 12 291.50 3,498.00
5 ..................... Security Identification Badges for 0.08 (5 minutes) ..... 1,000 80 291.50 23,320.00
Public Users.
6 ..................... Renew Security Identification 0.08 (5 minutes) ..... 3,200 256 291.50 74,624.00
Badges for Public Users.
7 ..................... Replace Security Identification 0.08 (5 minutes) ..... 100 8 291.50 2,332.00
Badges.
Totals ...... ......................................................... ................................ 6,250 500 ........................ 145,750.00
Estimated Total Annual Non-hour (d) Ways to minimize the burden of Security Authorizations Branch, United
Respondent Cost Burden: $1,501.96. the collection of information on States Patent and Trademark Office,
This collection has annual (non-hour) respondents, e.g., the use of automated P.O. Box 1450, Alexandria, VA 22313–
costs in the form of fees and postage collection techniques or other forms of 1450; by telephone at 571–270–0539; or
costs. information technology. by email to Richard.Arnold@uspto.gov.
There are no application or renewal Additional information about this
fees for online access cards or security Marcie Lovett,
collection is also available at http://
identification badges. However, there is Records and Information Governance www.reginfo.gov under ‘‘Information
a $15 fee for issuing a replacement Division Director, OCTO United States Patent
and Trademark Office.
Collection Review.’’
security identification badge. The
[FR Doc. 2018–01610 Filed 1–26–18; 8:45 am] SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
USPTO estimates that it will reissue
approximately 100 security badges BILLING CODE 3510–16–P
I. Abstract
annually that have been lost, stolen, or
need to be replaced, for a total of The United States Patent and
$1,500.00 per year in replacement fees. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Trademark Office (USPTO) uses Public
Users may incur postage costs when Key Infrastructure (PKI) technology to
Patent and Trademark Office support electronic commerce between
submitting a user training registration
form to the USPTO by mail. The USPTO Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) the USPTO and its customers. PKI is a
expects that approximately 4 training Certificate Action Form set of hardware, software, policies, and
forms received per year will be procedures that provide important
submitted by mail. The USPTO ACTION: Proposed collection; comment security services for the electronic
estimates that the average first-class request. business activities of the USPTO,
postage cost for a mailed training form including protecting the confidentiality
will be $0.49 for a total postage cost of SUMMARY: The United States Patent and of unpublished patent applications in
$1.96 per year for this collection. Trademark Office (USPTO), as required accordance with 35 U.S.C. 122 and 37
The total annual (non-hour) by the Paperwork Reduction Act of CFR 1.14, as well as protecting
respondent cost burden for this 1995, invites comments on a proposed international patent applications in
collection in the forms of fees and extension of an existing information accordance with Article 30 of the Patent
postage costs is estimated to be collection: 0651–0045 (Public Key Cooperation Treaty.
$1,501.96 per year. Infrastructure (PKI) Certificate Action In order to provide the necessary
Form). security for its electronic commerce
IV. Request for Comments
DATES: Written comments must be systems, the USPTO uses PKI
Comments submitted in response to
submitted on or before March 30, 2018. technology to protect the integrity and
this notice will be summarized or
included in the request for OMB ADDRESSES: You may submit comments confidentiality of information submitted
approval of this information collection; by any of the following methods: to the USPTO. PKI employs public and
they also will become a matter of public • Email: InformationCollection@ private encryption keys to authenticate
record. uspto.gov. Include ‘‘0651–0045 the customer’s identity and support
Comments are invited on: comment’’ in the subject line of the secure electronic communication
(a) Whether the proposed collection of message. between the customer and the USPTO.
information is necessary for the proper • Federal Rulemaking Portal: http:// Customers may submit a request to the
performance of the functions of the www.regulations.gov. USPTO for a digital certificate, which
agency, including whether the • Mail: Marcie Lovett, Records and enables the customer to create the
Information Governance Division encryption keys necessary for electronic
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information shall have practical utility;
(b) The accuracy of the agency’s Director, Office of the Chief Technology identity verification and secure
estimate of the burden (including hours Officer, United States Patent and transactions with the USPTO. This
and cost) of the proposed collection of Trademark Office, P.O. Box 1450, digital certificate is required in order to
information; Alexandria, VA 22313–1450. access any secure online systems that
(c) Ways to enhance the quality, FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: the USPTO provides, including the
utility, and clarity of the information to Requests for additional information systems for electronic filing of patent
be collected; and should be directed to Richard Arnold, applications and viewing confidential
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| Action | Proposed collection; comment request. | |
| Dates | Written comments must be submitted on or before March 30, 2018. | |
| Contact | Requests for additional information should be directed to Terry Howard, Manager, Public Search Facility, United States Patent and Trademark Office, P.O. Box 1450, Alexandria, VA 22313-1450; by telephone at 571-272-3258; or by email to [email protected] Additional information about this collection is also available at http://www.reginfo.gov under ``Information Collection Review.'' | |
| FR Citation | 83 FR 4036 |
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