[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 226 (Monday, November 29, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 67692-67693]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-25930]
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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; Representative and Address Provisions
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
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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
September 7, 2021 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: Representative and Address Provisions.
OMB Control Number: 0651-0035.
Form Number(s): (AIA = American Invents; SB = Specimen Book).
PTO/AIA/80; PTO/SB/80 (Power of Attorney to Prosecute
Applications Before the USPTO)
PTO/AIA/81 (Power of Attorney to One or More of the Joint
Inventors and Change of Correspondence Address)
PTO/SB/81 (Power of Attorney or Revocation of Power of
Attorney with a New Power of Attorney and Change of Correspondence
Address)
PTO/AIA/81A; PTO/SB/81A (Patent--Power of Attorney or
Revocation of Power of Attorney with a New Power of Attorney and Change
of Correspondence Address)
PTO/AIA/81B (Reexamination or Supplemental Examination--Patent
Owner Power of Attorney or Revocation of Power of Attorney With a New
Power of Attorney and Change of Correspondence Address for
Reexamination or Supplemental Examination and Patent)
PTO/SB/81B (Reexamination--Patent Owner Power of Attorney or
Revocation of Power of Attorney with a New Power of Attorney and Change
of Correspondence Address)
PTO/SB/81C (Reexamination--Third Party Requester Power of
Attorney or Revocation of Power of Attorney with a New Power of
Attorney and Change of Correspondence Address)
PTO/AIA/82A; PTO/AIA/82B; PTO/AIA/82C (Transmittal for Power
of Attorney To One Or More Registered Practitioners/Power Of Attorney
By Applicant)
PTO/AIA/83; PTO/SB/83 (Request for Withdrawal as Attorney or
Agent and Change of Correspondence Address)
PTO/SB/124 (Request for Customer Number Data Change)
PTO/SB/125 (Request for Customer Number)
PTO/2248 (Request to Update a PCT Application with a Customer
Number)
Type of Review: Extension and revision of a currently approved
information collection.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 184,743 respondents per year.
Estimated Number of Responses: 226,573 responses per year.
Average Hour per Response: The USPTO estimates that it takes the
public approximately between 0.2 hours (12 minutes) and 1.5 hours (90
minutes) to submit the information in this information collection,
including the time to gather the necessary information, prepare the
appropriate form or document, and submit the completed item to the
USPTO.
Estimated Total Annual Respondent Burden Hours: 111,104 hours per
year.
Estimated Total Annual Non-Hour Cost Burden: $26,695 per year.
Needs and Uses: The public uses this information collection to
grant or revoke power of attorney, to withdraw as attorney or agent of
record, to authorize a practitioner to act in a representative
capacity, to request a Customer Number, and to change the data
associated with a Customer Number. This information collection is
necessary so that the USPTO knows who is authorized to take action in
an application, patent, or reexamination proceeding and where to send
correspondence regarding an application, patent, or reexamination
proceeding. In this notice, the USPTO has updated and slightly revised
its estimated numbers from those originally published in the 60-day
notice.
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 0651-0035.
Further information can be obtained by:
Email: [email protected]. Include ``0651-
0035 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. 2021-25930 Filed 11-26-21; 8:45 am]
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