[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 98 (Monday, May 20, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 43825-43826]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-11010]
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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; Patent Processing
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 comments 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 January 29, 2024 during a 60-day comment period (89
FR 5500). This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public
comment.
Agency: United States Patent and Trademark Office, Department of
Commerce.
Title: Patent Processing.
OMB Control Number: 0651-0031.
Needs and Uses: 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 USPTO is also
required to publish patent applications, with certain exceptions,
promptly after the expiration of a period of eighteen months from the
earliest filing date for which a benefit is sought under title 35,
United States Code (``eighteen-month publication''). Certain situations
may arise which require that additional information be supplied in
order for the USPTO to further process the patent or application. The
USPTO administers the statutes through various sections of the rules of
practice in 37 CFR part 1.
During the processing of an application for a patent, the applicant
or applicant's representative may submit additional information to the
USPTO concerning the examination of a specific application. For
example, the applicant or applicant's representative may submit:
information disclosure statements, petitions for extension of time,
express abandonments of applications and petitions to revive abandoned
applications, disclaimers, pre-appeal requests for review, petitions to
make special, requests for expedited examination of design
applications, requests for continued examination, requests to inspect,
copy, and access patent applications, and certain transmittal forms.
The information in this collection is used by the USPTO to continue
the processing of the patent or application to ensure that applicants
are complying with the patent regulations and to aid in the prosecution
of the application. This also includes situations that require
additional information in order for the USPTO to further process the
patent or application.
For this 30-day notice, the non-hourly cost burdens have been
adjusted due to an increase in the postage rates since the 60-day
notice was published. The 60-day Federal Register notice was published
with several form numbers associated with this information collection
inadvertently left off. In this notice, the USPTO has included all the
form numbers associated with this information collection.
Forms: (AIA= America Invents Act; SB = Specimen Book)
PTO/AIA/22 (Petition for Extension of Time under 37 CFR
1.136(a))
PTO/AIA/24 (Express Abandonment under 37 CFR 1.138)
PTO/AIA/24B (Petition for Express Abandonment to Obtain a
Refund)
PTO/AIA/25 (Terminal Disclaimer to Obviate a Provisional
Double Patenting Rejection Over a Pending ``Reference'' Application)
PTO/AIA/26 (Terminal Disclaimer to Obviate a Double Patenting
Rejection Over a ``Prior'' Patent)
PTO/AIA/33 (Pre-Appeal Brief Request for Review)
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PTO/AIA/40 (Request for Correction in a Patent Application
Relating to Inventorship or an Inventor Name, or Order of Names, Other
than in a Reissue Application (37 CFR 1.48))
PTO/AIA/41 (Request to Correct or Update the Name of the
Applicant Under 37 CFR 1.46(c)(1), or Change the Applicant Under 37 CFR
1.46(c)(2)
PTO/AIA/63 (Terminal Disclaimer to Accompany Petition under 37
CFR 1.137 in a Design Application Filed on or after September 16, 2012)
PTO/AIA/67 (Power to Inspect/Copy--For Applications Filed on
or After September 16, 2012)
PTO/AIA/96 (Statement Under 37 CFR 3.73(c))
PTO/SB/08a (Information Disclosure Statement by Applicant)
PTO/SB/08b (Information Disclosure Statement by Applicant)
PTO/SB/17i (Processing Fee under 37 CFR 1.17(i) Transmittal)
PTO/SB/21 (Transmittal Form)
PTO/SB/22 (Petition for Extension of Time under 37 CFR
1.136(a))
PTO/SB/24 (Express Abandonment under 37 CFR 1.138)
PTO/SB/24B (Petition for Express Abandonment to Obtain a
Refund)
PTO/SB/25 (Terminal Disclaimer to Obviate a Provisional Double
Patenting Rejection Over a Pending ``Reference'' Application)
PTO/SB/25a (Terminal Disclaimer in a Patent or Proceeding in
View of an Application)
PTO/SB/26 (Terminal Disclaimer to Obviate a Double Patenting
Rejection Over a ``Prior'' Patent)
PTO/SB/26a (Terminal Disclaimer in a Patent or Proceeding in
View of Another Patent)
PTO/SB/27 (Request for Expedited Examination of a Design
Application (37 CFR 1.155))
PTO/SB/30 Patent Center and PTO/SB/30 (Request for Continued
Examination (RCE) Transmittal)
PTO/SB/33 (Pre-Appeal Brief Request for Review)
PTO/SB/35 (Nonpublication Request under 35 U.S.C.
122(b)(2)(B)(i))
PTO/SB/36 (Rescission of Previous Nonpublication Request (35
U.S.C. 122(b)(2)(B)(ii) and, if applicable, Notice of Foreign Filing
(35 U.S.C. 122(b)(2)(B)(iii))
PTO/SB/37 (Request Deferral of Examination 37 CFR 1.103(d))
PTO/SB/38 (Request to Retrieve Electronic Priority
Applications(s) Filed with Nonparticipating Office(s) That is Available
in a Participating Office (37 CFR 1.55(i)(4)))
PTO/SB/39 (Authorization or Rescission of Authorization to
Permit Access to Application-as-filed by Participating Offices)
PTO/SB/43 (Disclaimer in a Patent under 37 CFR 1.321(a))
PTO/SB/63 (Terminal Disclaimer to Accompany Petition)
PTO/SB/64 (Petition for Revival of an Application for Patent
Abandoned Unintentionally Under 37 CFR 1.137(a))
PTO/SB/64a (Petition for Revival of an Application for Patent
Abandoned for Failure to Notify the Office of a Foreign or
International Filing (37 CFR 1.137(f))
PTO/SB/67 (Power to Inspect/Copy--For Applications Filed
Before September 16, 2012)
PTO/SB/68 (Request for Access to an Abandoned Application
under 37 CFR 1.14)
PTO/SB/91 (Deposit Account Order Form)
PTO/SB/92 (Certificate of Mailing or Transmission under 37 CFR
1.8)
PTO/SB/96 (Statement under 37 CFR 3.73(b))
PTO/SB/130 (Petition to Make Special Based on Age for
Advancement of Examination under 37 CFR 1.102(c)(1))
PTOL/413A (Applicant Initiated Interview Request Form)
PTO-2053-A/B (Notice Under 37 CFR 1.251--Pending Application)
PTO-2054-A/B (Notice Under 37 CFR 1.251--Abandoned
Application)
PTO-2055-A/B (Notice Under 37 CFR 1.251--Patent)
Type of Review: Extension and revision of a currently approved
information collection.
Affected Public: Private sector.
Respondent's Obligation: Required to obtain or retain benefits.
Frequency: On occasion.
Estimated Number of Annual Respondents: 2,435,597 respondents.
Estimated Number of Annual Responses: 2,435,597 responses.
Estimated Time per Response: The USPTO estimates that the responses
in this information collection will take the public approximately
between 2 minutes (0.03 hours) and 8 hours to complete. 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: 535,466 hours.
Estimated Total Annual Respondent Non-Hourly Cost Burden:
$363,826,829.
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, 0651-0031.
Further information can be obtained by:
Email: [email protected]. Include ``0651-
0031 information request'' in the subject line of the message.
Mail: Justin Isaac, Office of the Chief Administrative
Officer, United States Patent and Trademark Office, P.O. Box 1450,
Alexandria, VA 22313-1450.
Justin Isaac,
Information Collections Officer, Office of the Chief Administrative
Officer, United States Patent and Trademark Office.
[FR Doc. 2024-11010 Filed 5-17-24; 8:45 am]
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