[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 251 (Thursday, December 31, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 86909-86910]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-28991]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Patent and Trademark Office
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment
Request; Substantive Submissions Made During Prosecution of the
Trademark Application
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) will submit
the following information collection request to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for review and clearance in accordance with
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, on or after the date of
publication of this notice. The USPTO invites comment on this
information collection renewal, which helps the USPTO assess the impact
of its information collection requirements and minimize the public's
reporting burden. Public comments were previously requested via the
Federal Register on October 23, 2020 during a 60-day comment period.
This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments.
Agency: United States Patent and Trademark Office, Department of
Commerce.
Title: Substantive Submissions Made During Prosecution of the
Trademark Application
OMB Control Number: 0651-0054.
Forms: (PTO = Patent and Trademark Office)
PTO 1553 (Allegation of Use (Statement of Use/Amendment to
Allege Use))
PTO 1581 (Request for Extension of Time to File a Statement of
Use)
PTO 2194 (Petition to Revive Abandoned Application--Failure to
Respond Timely to Office Action)
PTO 2195 (Petition to Revive Abandoned Application--Failure to
File Timely Statement of Use or Extension Request)
PTO 2200 (Request to Delete Section 1(b) Basis, Intent to Use)
PTO 2202 (Request for Express Abandonment (Withdrawal) of
Application)
PTO 2301 (Petition to Director)
Type of Review: Extension and revision of a currently approved
information collection.
Number of Respondents: 337,382 respondents per year.
Average Hour per Response: The USPTO estimates that it will take
the public from approximately 25 minutes (0.4 hours) to 65 minutes (1.1
hours) to complete a response, depending on the complexity of the
situation. This
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includes the time to gather the necessary information, prepare the
appropriate documents, and submit the information to the USPTO.
Estimated Total Annual Respondent Burden Hours: 211,639 hours.
Estimated Total Annual Non-Hour Cost Burden: $39,702,140.
Needs and Uses: The United States Patent and Trademark Office
administers the Trademark Act, 15 U.S.C. 1051 et seq., which provides
for the Federal registration of trademarks, service marks, collective
trademarks and service marks, collective membership marks, and
certification marks. Individuals and businesses that use or intend to
use such marks in commerce may file an application to register their
mark with the USPTO. Such individuals and businesses may also submit
various communications to the USPTO during the prosecution of an
application.
This information collection covers the various communications that
may be submitted by the applicant, including providing additional
information needed to process a request to delete a particular filing
basis from an application or to divide an application identifying
multiple goods and/or services into two or more separate applications.
This information collection also covers requests for a 6-month
extension of time to file a statement that the mark is in use in
commerce or petitions to revive an application that abandoned for
failure to submit a timely response to an office action or a timely
statement of use or extension request. In some circumstances, an
applicant may expressly abandon an application by filing a written
request for withdrawal of the application.
The USPTO amended its regulations to set, increase, or decrease
certain trademark fees, to become effective January 2, 2021, including
the fees in this information collection.
Affected Public: Private sector; individuals or households.
Frequency: On occasion.
Respondent's Obligation: Required to obtain or retain benefits.
This information collection request may be viewed at
www.reginfo.gov. Follow the instructions to view Department of
Commerce, USPTO information collections currently under review by OMB.
Written comments and recommendations for this information
collection should be submitted within 30 days of the publication of
this notice on the following website www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain.
Find this particular information collection by selecting ``Currently
under 30-day Review--Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search
function and entering either the title of the information collection or
the OMB Control Number 0651-0054.
Further information can be obtained by:
Email: [email protected]. Include ``0651-
0054 information request'' in the subject line of the message.
Mail: Kimberly Hardy, Office of the Chief Administrative
Officer, United States Patent and Trademark Office, P.O. Box 1450,
Alexandria, VA 22313- 1450.
Kimberly Hardy,
Information Collections Officer, Office of the Chief Administrative
Officer, United States Patent and Trademark Office.
[FR Doc. 2020-28991 Filed 12-30-20; 8:45 am]
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