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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

COMMERCE/PAT-TM-4

System name: Government Employee Invention Rights\--COMMERCE/PAT-TM-4.

System location: Office of the Solicitor, U.S. Patent and Trademark
Office, 2021 Jefferson Davis Highway, Arlington, Virginia 22202.

Categories of individuals covered by the system: Government employees
who are inventors or nongovernment employees who are joint inventors
together with a government employee inventor.

Categories of records in the system: Invention rights questionnaires
including information as to the inventor\'s employment status and his
official duties and responsibilities at the time the invention was made,
title determinations, appeals to the Commissioner, and petitions for
reconsideration.

Authority for maintenance of the system: 35 U.S.C. 1 and 6, and E.O.
10096, dated January 23, 1950.

Routine uses of records maintained in the system, including categories
of users and the purposes of such uses: See Prefatory Statement of
General Routine Uses Nos.1-5 and 8-13. Also, information is transferred
to various Government departments and agencies in connection with
determinations made as to respective property rights (or the methods of
protection thereof) of Government employees and such departments and
agencies in and to inventions made by such employees.

Policies and practices for storing, retrieving, accessing, retaining,
and disposing of records in the system:

Storage: Paper records in file folders.

Retrievability: Filed alphabetically by name and case number.

Safeguards: Buildings employ security guards. Records are maintained in
areas accessible only to authorized personnel who are properly screened,
cleared, and trained.

Retention and disposal: Records retention and disposal is in accordance
with the unit\'s Records Control Schedule.

System manager(s) and address: Head, Office of Government Employee
Inventions, Office of the Solicitor, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office,
Washington, DC 20231.

Notification procedure: Information may be obtained from: Assistant
Commissioner for Administration, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office,
Washington, DC 20231. Requester should provide name (and case number, if
known) pursuant to the inquiry provisions of the Department\'s rules
which appear in 15 CFR part 4b.

Record access procedures: Requests from individuals should be addressed
to: Same address as stated in the notification section above.

Contesting record procedures: The Department\'s rules for access, for
contesting contents, and appealing initial determinations by the
individual concerned appear in 15 CFR part 4b. Use above address.

Record source categories: Subject individual and their employees, and
those authorized by the individual to furnish information.

Systems exempted from certain provisions of the act: Pursuant to 5
U.S.C. 552a(k)(1), Government Employee Invention Rights records which
relate to applications or inventions subject to a secrecy order pursuant
to 35 U.S.C. 181 or are otherwise subject to security classification
pursuant to E.O. 12065 or the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, are exempted
from the notification, access, and contest requirements of the agency
procedures (under 5 U.S.C. 552a(c)(3), (d), (e)(1), (e)(4)(G), (H), and
(I), and (f)). This exemption is made to prevent disclosure of
information which might be detrimental to national security and in
accordance to agency rules, which are published in the Rules Section of
this Federal Register.