83_FR_4057 83 FR 4038 - Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; Financial Transactions

83 FR 4038 - Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; Financial Transactions

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
United States Patent and Trademark Office

Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 19 (January 29, 2018)

Page Range4038-4039
FR Document2018-01611

Federal Register, Volume 83 Issue 19 (Monday, January 29, 2018) 
[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 19 (Monday, January 29, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4038-4039]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2018-01611]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

United States Patent and Trademark Office


Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; Financial 
Transactions

    The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USTPO) 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).

[[Page 4039]]

    Agency: United States Patent and Trademark Office, Commerce.
    Title: Financial Transactions.
    OMB Control Number: 0651-0043.
    Form Number(s):

 PTO-2038

    Type of Request: Regular.
    Number of Respondents: 4,885,505 responses per year.
    Average Hours per Response: The USPTO estimates that it will take 
the public approximately 1 to 8 minutes (0.03 to 0.13 hours) to prepare 
the appropriate form or documents and submit to the USPTO.
    Burden Hours: 242,402.84 hours annually.
    Cost Burden: $111,419.97.
    Needs and Uses: Under 35 U.S.C. 41 and 15 U.S.C. 1113, the United 
States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) charges fees for processing 
and other services related to patents, trademarks, and information 
products. Customers may submit payments to the USPTO by several 
methods, including credit card, deposit account, electronic funds 
transfer (EFT), and paper check transactions. The provisions of 35 
U.S.C. 41 and 15 U.S.C. 1113 are implemented in 37 CFR 1.16-1.28, 2.6-
2.7, and 2.206-2.209. This information collection includes associated 
payment and account forms for the aforementioned financial transactions 
and methods.
    Affected Public: Businesses or other for-profits; not-for-profit 
institutions.
    Frequency: On occasion.
    Respondent's Obligation: Required to Obtain or Retain Benefits.
    OMB Desk Officer: Nicholas A. Fraser, email: 
[email protected].
    Once submitted, the request will be publicly available in 
electronic format through reginfo.gov. Follow the instructions to view 
Department of Commerce collections currently under review by OMB.
    Further information can be obtained by:
     Email: [email protected]. Include ``0651-
0043 copy request'' in the subject line of the message.
     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.
    Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information 
collection should be sent on or before February 28, 2018 to Nicholas A. 
Fraser, OMB Desk Officer, via email to [email protected], 
or by fax to 202-395-5167, marked to the attention of Nicholas A. 
Fraser.

Marcie Lovett,
Records and Information Governance Division Director, OCTO, United 
States Patent and Trademark Office.
[FR Doc. 2018-01611 Filed 1-26-18; 8:45 am]
 BILLING CODE 3510-16-P

4038 Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 19 / Monday, January 29, 2018 / Notices information about unpublished patent II. Method of Collection inventors will complete the submissions applications. The Certificate Action Form must be for this collection. The professional This information collection covers the notarized and may be mailed or hand hourly rate for attorneys is $438, for Certificate Action Form (PTO–2042), delivered to the USPTO. paraprofessionals is $145, and for which is used by the public to request independent inventors is $47.71. The a new digital certificate, revoke a III. Data attorney rate is established by estimates current certificate, or recover a lost or OMB Number: 0651–0045. in the 2017 Report on the Economic corrupted certificate. Customers may IC Instruments and Forms: PTO–2042. Survey, published by the Committee on also change the name listed on the Type of Review: Revision of a Economics of Legal Practice of the certificate or associate the certificate currently approved collection. American Intellectual Property Law with one or more Customer Numbers. A Affected Public: Individuals or Customer Number allows an applicant Association. The paraprofessional rate is households; businesses or other for- to associate all correspondence and established by estimates in the 2016 profits; and not-for-profit institutions. USPTO actions regarding multiple Estimated Number of Respondents: National Utilization and Compensation patent applications to a single address 3,825 responses per year. Survey, published by the National and name. The Certificate Action Form Estimated Time per Response: The Association of Legal Assistance (NALA). must include a notarized signature in USPTO estimates that it will take the The independent inventor rate is based order to verify the identity of the public approximately 30 minutes (0.50 the mean hourly wage for engineers applicant. The Certificate Action Form hours) to read the instructions and according to the Bureau of Labor has an accompanying subscriber subscriber agreement, gather the Statistics Occupational Employment agreement to ensure that customers necessary information, prepare the Statistics (17–2199). The USPTO understand their obligations regarding Certificate Action Form, and submit the estimates that the combined average the use of the digital certificates and completed request. hourly rate of these estimates for all cryptographic software. When Estimated Total Annual Respondent respondents is approximately $210.24. generating a new certificate, customers Burden Hours: 1,912.50 hours. Using this hourly rate, the USPTO also register to receive a set of seven Estimated Total Annual Respondent estimates that the total respondent cost codes that will enable customers to Cost Burden: $402,084. The USPTO burden for this collection is $402,804 recover a lost certificate online without expects that attorneys, per year. having to contact USPTO support staff. paraprofessionals, and independent Annual Annual Annual burden Annual cost IC No. Item response time Rate response hours burden (hours) (a) (b) (c) = (a) × (b) (d) (e) = (c) × (d) 1 ..................... Certificate Action Form (including 0.50 (30 minutes) ... 3,825 1,912.50 $210.24 $402,084.00 Subscriber Agreement). Totals ...... ......................................................... ................................ 3,825 1,915.50 ........................ 402,084.00 Estimated Total Annual Non-hour postage cost for these forms will be respondents, e.g., the use of automated Respondent Cost Burden: $24,824.25. $0.49 and that it will receive 3,825 collection techniques or other forms of There are no capital start-up costs, mailed responses annually for a total information technology. maintenance costs, or fees associated postage cost of approximately $1,874.25 with this information collection. per year. Marcie Lovett, However, this collection does have Records and Information Governance annual (non-hour) cost burden IV. Request for Comments Division Director, OCTO United States Patent associated with the Certificate Action Comments submitted in response to and Trademark Office. Form. this notice will be summarized or [FR Doc. 2018–01612 Filed 1–26–18; 8:45 am] This collection has costs due to the included in the request for OMB BILLING CODE 3510–16–P notarization requirement for approval of this information collection; authenticating the signatures on the they also will become a matter of public Certificate Action Form. The USPTO record. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE estimates that the average fee for having Comments are invited on: a signature notarizing is $6 and 3,825 (a) Whether the proposed collection of United States Patent and Trademark responses for these forms will be information is necessary for the proper Office submitted annually, for a total cost of performance of the functions of the $22,950 per year. The notary fee was agency, including whether the Submission for OMB Review; determined based on estimates for information shall have practical utility; Comment Request; Financial notary fees by states as published by the (b) The accuracy of the agency’s Transactions sradovich on DSK3GMQ082PROD with NOTICES National Notary Association. estimate of the burden (including hours This collection also has postage costs and cost) of the proposed collection of The United States Patent and for submitting the Certificate Action information; Trademark Office (USTPO) will submit Form to the USPTO by mail. The form (c) Ways to enhance the quality, to the Office of Management and Budget cannot be faxed or submitted utility, and clarity of the information to (OMB) for clearance the following electronically because it requires an be collected; and proposal for collection of information original notarized signature. The (d) Ways to minimize the burden of under the provisions of the Paperwork USPTO estimates that the first class the collection of information on Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). VerDate Sep<11>2014 18:19 Jan 26, 2018 Jkt 244001 PO 00000 Frm 00016 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\29JAN1.SGM 29JAN1

Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 19 / Monday, January 29, 2018 / Notices 4039 Agency: United States Patent and by fax to 202–395–5167, marked to the Office (USPTO) to record patent and Trademark Office, Commerce. attention of Nicholas A. Fraser. trademark assignment documents, Title: Financial Transactions. including transfers of properties (i.e., Marcie Lovett, OMB Control Number: 0651–0043. patents and trademarks), liens, licenses, Form Number(s): Records and Information Governance assignments of interest, security Division Director, OCTO, United States Patent • PTO–2038 and Trademark Office. interests, mergers, and explanations of Type of Request: Regular. transactions or other documents that [FR Doc. 2018–01611 Filed 1–26–18; 8:45 am] Number of Respondents: 4,885,505 record the transfer of ownership of a BILLING CODE 3510–16–P responses per year. particular patent or trademark property Average Hours per Response: The from one party to another. Assignments USPTO estimates that it will take the are recorded for applications, patents, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE public approximately 1 to 8 minutes and trademark registrations. Patent and Trademark Office The USPTO administers these statutes (0.03 to 0.13 hours) to prepare the through 37 CFR 2.146, 2.171, and 37 appropriate form or documents and Recording Assignments CFR part 3. These rules permit the submit to the USPTO. public, corporations, other federal Burden Hours: 242,402.84 hours ACTION: Proposed collection; comment agencies, and Government-owned or annually. request. Government-controlled corporations to Cost Burden: $111,419.97. submit patent and trademark Needs and Uses: Under 35 U.S.C. 41 SUMMARY: The United States Patent and assignment documents and other and 15 U.S.C. 1113, the United States Trademark Office (USPTO), as part of its documents related to title transfers to Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) continuing effort to reduce paperwork the USPTO to be recorded. In charges fees for processing and other and respondent burden, invites the accordance with 37 CFR 3.54, the services related to patents, trademarks, general public and other Federal recording of an assignment document by and information products. Customers agencies to comment on proposed and/ the USPTO is an administrative action may submit payments to the USPTO by or continuing information collections, and not a determination of the validity several methods, including credit card, as required by the Paperwork Reduction of the document or of the effect that the deposit account, electronic funds Act of 1995, Public Law 104–13 (44 document has on the title to an transfer (EFT), and paper check U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)). application, patent, or trademark. transactions. The provisions of 35 DATES: Written comments must be Once the assignment documents are U.S.C. 41 and 15 U.S.C. 1113 are submitted on or before March 30, 2018. recorded, they are available for public implemented in 37 CFR 1.16–1.28, 2.6– inspection. The only exceptions are ADDRESSES: Written comments may be 2.7, and 2.206–2.209. This information those documents that are sealed under collection includes associated payment submitted by any of the following methods: secrecy orders according to 37 CFR 3.58 and account forms for the or related to unpublished patent • Email: InformationCollection@ aforementioned financial transactions applications maintained in confidence uspto.gov. Include ‘‘0651–0027 and methods. under 35 U.S.C. 122 and 37 CFR 1.14. Recording Assignments’’ in the subject Affected Public: Businesses or other The public uses these records to line of the message. for-profits; not-for-profit institutions. conduct ownership and chain-of-title • Mail: Marcie Lovett, Records Frequency: On occasion. searches. The public may view these Management Division Director, Office of Respondent’s Obligation: Required to records either at the USPTO Public the Chief Information Officer, United Obtain or Retain Benefits. Search Facility or at the National States Patent and Trademark Office, OMB Desk Officer: Nicholas A. Fraser, Archives and Records Administration, P.O. Box 1450, Alexandria, VA 22313– email: Nicholas_A._Fraser@ depending on the date they were 1450. omb.eop.gov. recorded. The public may also search • Federal Rulemaking Portal: http:// Once submitted, the request will be patent and trademark assignment www.regulations.gov. publicly available in electronic format information online through the USPTO through reginfo.gov. Follow the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: website. instructions to view Department of Requests for additional information In order to record an assignment Commerce collections currently under should be directed to Joyce R. Johnson, document, the respondent must submit review by OMB. Manager, Assignment Division, Mail an appropriate cover sheet along with Further information can be obtained Stop 1450, United States Patent and copies of the assignment document to be by: Trademark Office, P.O. Box 1450, recorded. The USPTO provides two • Email: InformationCollection@ Alexandria, VA 22313–1450; by paper forms for this purpose, the Patent uspto.gov. Include ‘‘0651–0043 copy telephone at 703–756–1265; or by email Recordation Form Cover Sheet (PTO– request’’ in the subject line of the to Joyce.Johnson@uspto.gov with 1595) and the Trademark Recordation message. ‘‘Paperwork’’ in the subject line. Form Cover Sheet (PTO–1594), which • Mail: Marcie Lovett, Records and Additional information about this capture all of the necessary data for Information Governance Division collection is also available at http:// accurately recording various assignment Director, Office of the Chief Technology www.reginfo.gov under ‘‘Information documents. These forms may be Officer, United States Patent and Collection Review.’’ downloaded in PDF format from the Trademark Office, P.O. Box 1450, sradovich on DSK3GMQ082PROD with NOTICES SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: USPTO website (https://www.uspto.gov/ Alexandria, VA 22313–1450. forms/pto1595.pdf and https:// Written comments and I. Abstract www.uspto.gov/sites/default/files/ recommendations for the proposed This collection of information is pto1594.pdf, respectively). information collection should be sent on required by 35 U.S.C. 261 and 262 for Customers may also submit or before February 28, 2018 to Nicholas patents and 15 U.S.C. 1057 and 1060 for assignments online by using the A. Fraser, OMB Desk Officer, via email trademarks. These statutes authorize the Electronic Patent Assignment System to Nicholas_A._Fraser@omb.eop.gov, or United States Patent and Trademark (EPAS) and the Electronic Trademark VerDate Sep<11>2014 18:19 Jan 26, 2018 Jkt 244001 PO 00000 Frm 00017 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\29JAN1.SGM 29JAN1


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PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionNotices
FR Citation83 FR 4038 
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