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Notices Federal Register

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Vol. 84, No. 18 

Monday, January 28, 2019 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

United States Patent and Trademark 

Office 

[Docket No.: PTO–P–2018–0066] 

Extension of the Cancer 

Immunotherapy Pilot Program 

AGENCY: United States Patent and 

Trademark Office, Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: On June 29, 2016, the United 

States Patent and Trademark Office 

(USPTO) implemented the Cancer 

Immunotherapy Pilot Program, which 

permits patent applications pertaining 

to cancer immunotherapy to be 

advanced out of turn for examination 

and reviewed earlier (accorded special 

status). To date, over 300 petitions 

requesting participation in the pilot 

program have been filed, and over 100 

patents have been granted under the 

pilot program. In view of the continued 

interest in the pilot program, the USPTO 

has extended the pilot program until 

June 30, 2020. All pilot parameters 

remain the same as the original pilot. 

DATES: Duration: The Cancer 

Immunotherapy Pilot Program will 

continue to run until June 30, 2020. 

Therefore, petitions to make special 

under the Cancer Immunotherapy Pilot 

Program must be filed on or before June 

30, 2020. In addition, any petition to 

make special under the Cancer 

Immunotherapy Pilot Program filed 

between December 31, 2018, and the 

publication date of this notice will be 

considered timely. The USPTO may 

further extend the pilot program (with 

or without modifications) or terminate it 

depending on feedback received, 

continued interest and the effectiveness 

of the pilot program. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Pinchus M. Laufer, Patent Attorney 

(telephone (571) 272–7726; electronic 

mail at pinchus.laufer@uspto.gov) or 

Susy Tsang-Foster, Senior Legal Advisor 

(telephone (571) 272–7711; electronic 

mail at susy.tsang-foster@uspto.gov), of 

the Office of Patent Legal 

Administration, Office of the Deputy 

Commissioner for Patent Examination 

Policy. 

For questions relating to a specific 

petition, please contact Gary B. Nickol, 

Supervisory Patent Examiner (telephone 

(571) 272–0835; electronic mail at 

gary.nickol@uspto.gov) or Brandon J. 

Fetterolf, Supervisory Patent Examiner 

(telephone (571) 272–2919; electronic 

mail at brandon.fetterolf@uspto.gov), of 

Technology Center 1600. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

USPTO published a notice for the 

implementation of the Cancer 

Immunotherapy Pilot Program on June 

29, 2016. See Cancer Immunotherapy 

Pilot Program, 81 FR 42328 (June 29, 

2016), 1428 Off. Gaz. Pat. Office 253 

(July 26, 2016) (Cancer Immunotherapy 

Notice). The pilot program was designed 

to support the global fight against 

cancer. The Cancer Immunotherapy 

Notice indicated that an applicant may 

have an application advanced out of 

turn (accorded special status) for 

examination without meeting all of the 

current requirements of the accelerated 

examination program set forth in item 

VIII of MPEP section 708.02(a), if the 

application contained at least one claim 

to a method of treating cancer using 

immunotherapy and met other 

requirements specified in the Cancer 

Immunotherapy Notice. 

The Cancer Immunotherapy Notice 

established that the pilot program 

would run for twelve months from June 

29, 2016. The USPTO extended the pilot 

program to December 31, 2018, through 

a notice published in the Federal 

Register. See Extension of the Cancer 

Immunotherapy Pilot Program, 82 FR 

28645 (June 23, 2017), 1440 Off. Gaz. 

Pat. Office 256 (July 25, 2017). In view 

of the continued interest in the pilot 

program, the USPTO has extended the 

pilot program through June 30, 2020. 

The extension also will allow the 

USPTO to continue its evaluation of the 

pilot program. The requirements of the 

pilot program have not been modified. 

Various stakeholders from around the 

world have filed petitions to participate 

in the pilot program—they are 

independent inventors, universities, 

research institutions, hospitals, medical 

centers, government agencies, and large 

and small companies. To date, over 300 

petitions requesting participation in the 

pilot program have been filed, and over 

100 patents have been granted under the 

pilot program. The USPTO may again 

extend the pilot program (with or 

without modifications) depending on 

the feedback from the participants, 

continued interest, and the effectiveness 

of the pilot program. 

Dated: January 18, 2019. 

Andrei Iancu, 

Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual 

Property and Director of the United States 

Patent and Trademark Office. 

[FR Doc. 2019–00202 Filed 1–25–19; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

United States Patent and Trademark 

Office 

[Docket No.: PTO–P–2018–0070] 

Expiration of the Extended Missing 

Parts Pilot Program 

AGENCY: United States Patent and 

Trademark Office, Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The United States Patent and 

Trademark Office (USPTO) 

implemented a pilot program (Extended 

Missing Parts Pilot Program) in which 

an applicant, under certain conditions, 

can request a 12-month time period to 

pay the search fee, the examination fee, 

any excess claim fees, and the surcharge 

(for the late submission of the search fee 

and the examination fee) in a 

nonprovisional application. Based on 

the limited number of grantable requests 

and the administrative burden on the 

USPTO in processing improper 

requests, the USPTO decided not to 

extend the Extended Missing Parts Pilot 

Program beyond January 2, 2019. 

DATES: The USPTO decided not to 

extend the Extended Missing Parts Pilot 

Program beyond January 2, 2019. 

Therefore, any certification and request 

to participate in the Extended Missing 

Parts Pilot Program must have been filed 

on or before January 2, 2019. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Eugenia A. Jones, Senior Legal Advisor, 

Office of Patent Legal Administration, 

Office of the Deputy Commissioner for 

Patent Examination Policy, by telephone 

at (571) 272–7727, or Erin M. Harriman, 


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1HUD was first authorized to enter into 

performance agreements with respect to Homeless 

Assistance Grants by the Consolidated 

Appropriations Act, 2016. 

2 DOJ’s Office of Justice Programs was first 

authorized to enter into performance agreements by 

the Consolidated and Further Continuing 

Appropriations Act, 2015. 

Senior Legal Advisor, Office of Patent 

Legal Administration, Office of the 

Deputy Commissioner for Patent 

Examination Policy, by telephone at 

(571) 272–7747. 

Inquiries regarding this notice may 

also be directed to the Office of Patent 

Legal Administration, by telephone at 

(571) 272–7701, or by electronic mail at 

PatentPractice@uspto.gov. 

Alternatively, mail may be addressed to: 

Mail Stop Comments—Patents, 

Commissioner for Patents, P.O. Box 

1450, Alexandria, VA 22313–1450, 

marked to the attention of Eugenia A. 

Jones. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On 

December 8, 2010, after considering 

written comments from the public, the 

USPTO changed the missing parts 

examination procedures in certain 

nonprovisional applications by 

implementing a pilot program (i.e., 

Extended Missing Parts Pilot Program). 

See Pilot Program for Extended Time 

Period To Reply to a Notice to File 

Missing Parts of Nonprovisional 

Application, 75 FR 76401 (Dec. 8, 2010), 

1362 Off. Gaz. Pat. Office 44 (Jan. 4, 

2011). The USPTO has extended the 

pilot program through notices published 

in the Federal Register. On September 

6, 2016, the USPTO sought public 

comment on whether the Extended 

Missing Parts Pilot Program offers 

sufficient benefits to the patent 

community for it to be made permanent 

or whether the USPTO should permit 

the pilot program to expire. See Request 

for Comments on the Extended Missing 

Parts Pilot Program, 81 FR 61195 (Sept. 

6, 2016), 1430 Off. Gaz. Pat. Office 269 

(Sept. 27, 2016). The USPTO received 

only two comments. The two comments 

are available via the USPTO’s internet 

website at https://www.uspto.gov/ 

patent/laws-and-regulations/commentspublic/comments-extended-missingparts-pilot-program. On January 10, 

2018, the USPTO extended the pilot 

program until January 2, 2019, and 

indicated that it intended to make a 

decision before January 2, 2019, on 

whether the program should be made 

permanent or permitted to expire. See 

Extension of Extended Missing Parts 

Pilot Program, 83 FR 1243 (Jan. 10, 

2018), 1447 Off. Gaz. Pat. Office 47 

(Feb. 6, 2018). 

Since the inception of the Extended 

Missing Parts Pilot Program, the USPTO 

has received fewer than 200 grantable 

requests per year. In addition, the 

number of grantable requests has 

decreased over the past year. In view of 

the low usage of the pilot program, the 

limited number of written comments 

received from the public in response to 

the 2016 request for comments, and the 

administrative burden on the USPTO in 

processing improper requests, the 

USPTO decided to permit the Extended 

Missing Parts Pilot Program to expire on 

January 2, 2019. 

Any certification and request must 

have been filed on or before January 2, 

2019, in order to participate in the 

Extended Missing Parts Pilot Program. 

The USPTO will review any 

certification and request filed on or 

before January 2, 2019, for compliance 

with the requirements of the program. 

Any certification and request filed after 

January 2, 2019, will not be granted. 

Dated: January 18, 2019. 

Andrei Iancu, 

Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual 

Property and Director of the United States 

Patent and Trademark Office. 

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Applications for Selection as a 

Performance Partnership Pilot; 

Performance Partnership Pilots for 

Disconnected Youth 

AGENCY: Office of Career, Technical, and 

Adult Education, Department of 

Education. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Education 

(ED or Department) is issuing a notice 

inviting applications for selection of up 

to 10 performance partnership pilots for 

fiscal year (FY) 2018 and up to 10 

performance partnership pilots for FY 

2019 under the Performance Partnership 

Pilots for Disconnected Youth authority. 

DATES:

Deadline for Notice of Intent to Apply: 

March 14, 2019. 

Note: Submission of a notice of intent to 

apply is optional. 

Deadline for Transmittal of 

Applications: April 29, 2019. 

Deadline for Intergovernmental 

Review: June 27, 2019. 

ADDRESSES: Braden Goetz, U.S. 

Department of Education, 400 Maryland 

Avenue SW, Room 11141, Potomac 

Center Plaza (PCP), Washington, DC 

20202. Telephone: (202) 245–7405. 

Email: DisconnectedYouth@ed.gov. Or 

Corinne Sauri, U.S. Department of 

Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW, 

Room 11–134, Potomac Center Plaza 

(PCP), Washington, DC 20202. 

Telephone: (202) 245–6412. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Braden Goetz, U.S. Department of 

Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW, 

Room 11141, PCP, Washington, DC 

20202. Telephone: (202) 245–7405. 

Email: DisconnectedYouth@ed.gov. Or 

Corinne Sauri, U.S. Department of 

Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW, 

Room 11–134, Potomac Center Plaza 

(PCP), Washington, DC 20202. 

Telephone: (202) 245–6412. 

If you use a telecommunications 

device for the deaf (TDD) or a text 

telephone (TTY), call the Federal Relay 

Service (FRS), toll free, at 1–800–877– 

8339. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Full Text of Announcement 

I. Pilot Opportunity Description 

Purpose of Program: Performance 

Partnership Pilots for Disconnected 

Youth (P3) was first authorized by 

Congress in FY 2014 by the 

Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2014 

(2014 Act), and the authority has been 

included by Congress in appropriations 

acts each year since FY 2014. The P3 

authority enables pilot sites to blend FY 

2018 and FY 2019 Federal funds and 

obtain waivers of program requirements, 

including statutory, regulatory, and 

administrative requirements that are 

barriers to achieving improved 

outcomes for youth-serving programs 

included in the authority. Under P3, 

pilots can test innovative, outcomefocused strategies to achieve significant 

improvements in educational, 

employment, and other key outcomes 

for disconnected youth using the 

flexibility provided by P3. 

Background: P3 aligns with the 

Administration’s priorities of relieving 

burden, breaking down ‘‘silos,’’ 

increasing flexibility, and providing 

State, local, and Tribal governments 

greater freedom to innovate. P3 gives 

ED; the Departments of Labor (DOL), 

Health and Human Services (HHS), 

Housing and Urban Development 

(HUD),1 and Justice (DOJ); 2 the 

Corporation for National and 

Community Service (CNCS); and the 

Institute of Museum and Library 

Services (IMLS) (collectively, the 

Agencies) authority, provided certain 

conditions and requirements are met, to 

waive Federal statutory and regulatory 

requirements that inhibit effective 

service delivery for disconnected youth. 

The authority also advances the 


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