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Form Number(s): (AIA = American 

Invents; SB = Specimen Book). 

• PTO/AIA/17P (Petition Fee Under 

37 CFR 1.17(f), (g), and (h) Transmittal). 

• PTO/AIA/24A (Petition for Express 

Abandonment to Avoid Publication 

Under 37 CFR 1.138(c)). 

• PTO/SB/17P (Petition Fee Under 37 

CFR 1.17(f), (g), and (h) Transmittal). 

• PTO/SB/23 (Petition for Extension 

of Time Under 37 CFR 1.136(b)). 

• PTO/SB24A, (Petition for Express 

Abandonment to Avoid Publication 

Under 37 CFR 1.138(c)). 

• PTO/SB/28 (Petition to Make 

Special Under Accelerated Examination 

Program). 

• PTO/SB/140 (Petition to Withdraw 

an Application from Issue 1.313). 

Type of Request: Extension and 

revision of a currently approved 

information collection. 

Number of Respondents: 40,922 

respondents per year. 

Average Hour per Response: The 

USPTO estimates that it will take the 

public between 5 minutes (0.08 hours) 

to 12 hours to complete a response, 

depending on the complexity of the 

particular item. This includes the time 

to gather the necessary information, 

prepare the appropriate documents, and 

submit the completed response to the 

USPTO. 

Estimated Total Annual Respondent 

Burden Hours: 72,958 hours. 

Estimated Total Annual Non-Hour 

Cost Burden: $3,195,134. 

Needs and Uses: The United States 

Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is 

required by 35 U.S.C. 131 et seq. to 

examine an application for patent and, 

when appropriate, issue a patent. The 

USPTO also is required to publish 

patent applications, with certain 

exceptions, promptly after the 

expiration of a period of 18 months from 

the earliest filing date for which a 

benefit is sought under Title 35, U.S.C. 

Many actions taken by the USPTO 

during its examination of an application 

for patent or for reissue of a patent, or 

during its reexamination of a patent, are 

subject to review by an appeal to the 

Patent Trial and Appeal Board. For 

other USPTO actions, review is in the 

form of administrative review obtained 

via submission of a petition to the 

USPTO. USPTO petitions practice also 

provides an opportunity for a patent 

applicant or owner to supply additional 

information that may be required in 

order for the USPTO to further process 

an application or patent. 

This information collection covers 

petitions filed in patent applications 

and reexamination proceedings that, 

when submitted to the USPTO, must be 

accompanied by the fee set forth in 37 

CFR 1.17(f), (g), or (h). This information 

collection also covers the transmittals 

for the petition fees. 

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 0651–0059. 

Further information can be obtained 

by: 

• Email: InformationCollection@

uspto.gov. Include ‘‘0651–0059 

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. 2021–00943 Filed 1–15–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–16–P 

COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING 

COMMISSION 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Notice of Intent To Extend 

Collection 3038–0074: Core Principles 

and Other Requirements for Swap 

Execution Facilities 

AGENCY: Commodity Futures Trading 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Commodity Futures 

Trading Commission (CFTC) is 

announcing an opportunity for public 

comment on the proposed renewal of a 

collection of certain information by the 

agency. Under the Paperwork Reduction 

Act (‘‘PRA’’), Federal agencies are 

required to publish notice in the 

Federal Register concerning each 

proposed collection of information, 

including proposed extension of an 

existing collection of information, and 

to allow 60 days for public comment. 

This notice solicits comments, as 

described below, on the proposed 

Information Collection Requests (‘‘ICR’’) 

titled: OMB Control Number 3038–0074 

and Part 37, Relating to Core Principles 

and Other Requirements for Swap 

Execution Facilities. 

DATES: Comments must be submitted on 

or before March 22, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

and ‘‘OMB Control No. 3038–0074’’ by 

any of the following methods: 

• The Agency’s website, at http://

comments.cftc.gov/. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments 

through the website. 

• Mail: Christopher Kirkpatrick, 

Secretary of the Commission, 

Commodity Futures Trading 

Commission, Three Lafayette Centre, 

1155 21st Street NW, Washington, DC 

20581. 

• Hand Delivery/Courier: Same as 

Mail above. 

Please submit your comments using 

only one method and identify that it is 

for the renewal of Collection Number 

3038–0074. All comments must be 

submitted in English, or if not, 

accompanied by an English translation. 

Comments will be posted as received to 

https://www.cftc.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Roger Smith, Associate Chief Counsel, 

Division of Market Oversight, 

Commodity Futures Trading 

Commission, (202) 418–5344; email: 

rsmith@cftc.gov; or Richard Mo, 

Assistant Chief Counsel, Division of 

Market Oversight, Commodity Futures 

Trading Commission, (202) 418–7637; 

email: rmo@cftc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the 

PRA, 44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq., Federal 

agencies must obtain approval from the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for each collection of 

information they conduct or sponsor. 

‘‘Collection of Information’’ is defined 

in 44 U.S.C. 3502(3) and 5 CFR 1320.3 

and includes agency requests or 

requirements that members of the public 

submit reports, keep records, or provide 

information to a third party. Section 

3506(c)(2)(A) of the PRA, 44 U.S.C. 

3506(c)(2)(A), requires Federal agencies 

to provide a 60-day notice in the 

Federal Register concerning each 

proposed collection of information, 

including each proposed extension of an 

existing collection of information, 

before submitting the collection to OMB 

for approval. To comply with this 

requirement, the CFTC is publishing 

notice of the proposed amendment to 


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1 83 FR 15557 (Apr. 21, 2018). 

2This includes 20 SEFs that are currently 

registered with the Commission and one dormant 

SEF that is in the process of filing for reinstatement 

in accordance with Commission regulation 37.3(d) 

and is currently operating under staff no-action 

relief. See CFTC Letter No. 20–29, available at 

https://www.cftc.gov/csl/20-29/download. 

3 17 CFR 145.9. 

4The Commission notes that collection 3038– 

0074 includes an additional 1,200 burden hours for 

SEF registration applicants that have not been 

affected by this amendment. Therefore, the total 

burden for this collection is 22,200 hours. 

the collection listed below. An agency 

may not conduct or sponsor, and a 

person is not required to respond to, a 

collection of information unless it 

displays a currently valid OMB control 

number. 

Title: Core Principles and Other 

Requirements for Swap Execution 

Facilities (OMB Control No. 3038– 

0074). This is a request for extension of 

a currently approved information 

collection. 

Abstract: Title VII of the Dodd-Frank 

Wall Street Reform and Consumer 

Protection Act (‘‘Dodd-Frank Act’’) 

added new section 5h to the Commodity 

Exchange Act (‘‘CEA’’) to impose 

requirements concerning the registration 

and operation of swap execution 

facilities (‘‘SEFs’’), which the 

Commission has incorporated in part 37 

of its regulations. These information 

collections are needed for the 

Commission to ensure that SEFs comply 

with these requirements. Among other 

requirements, part 37 of the 

Commission’s regulations imposes SEF 

registration requirements for a trading 

platform or system, obligates SEFs to 

provide transaction confirmations to 

swap counterparties, and requires SEFs 

to comply with 15 core principles. 

Collection 3038–0074 was created in 

response to the part 37 regulatory 

requirements for SEFs. 

In April 2018, the Commission 

published a 30-Day Notice of Intent to 

Renew Collection 3038–0074 (30-Day 

Renewal Notice) and stated that 25 SEFs 

were registered with the Commission.1

However, since publication of the 30- 

Day Renewal Notice, the Commission 

has granted permanent registration to 

several additional SEFs, while others 

SEFs have had their registrations 

vacated or have been deemed dormant 

under part 40 of the Commission 

regulations, for a total of 21 registered 

SEFs.2 Therefore, the Commission is 

revising the below burden statement for 

OMB Control No. 3038–0074 to account 

for the decrease in the number of 

registered SEFs. 

With respect to the collection of 

information, the CFTC invites 

comments on: 

• Whether the proposed collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of the functions of the 

Commission, including whether the 

information will have a practical use; 

• The accuracy of the Commission’s 

estimate of the burden of the proposed 

collection of information, including the 

validity of the methodology and 

assumptions used; 

• Ways to enhance the quality, 

usefulness, and clarity of the 

information to be collected; and 

• Ways to minimize the burden of 

collection of information on those who 

are to respond, including through the 

use of appropriate automated electronic, 

mechanical, or other technological 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology; e.g., permitting 

electronic submission of responses. 

You should submit only information 

that you wish to make available 

publicly. If you wish the Commission to 

consider information that you believe is 

exempt from disclosure under the 

Freedom of Information Act, a petition 

for confidential treatment of the exempt 

information may be submitted according 

to the procedures established in § 145.9 

of the Commission’s regulations.3

The Commission reserves the right, 

but shall have no obligation, to review, 

pre-screen, filter, redact, refuse or 

remove any or all of your submission 

from http://www.cftc.gov that it may 

deem to be inappropriate for 

publication, such as obscene language. 

All submissions that have been redacted 

or removed that contain comments on 

the merits of the ICR will be retained in 

the public comment file and will be 

considered as required under the 

Administrative Procedure Act and other 

applicable laws, and may be accessible 

under the Freedom of Information Act. 

Burden Statement: The Commission 

is revising its estimate of the burden for 

this collection to account for the change 

in the number of SEFs currently 

registered with the Commission. The 

respondent burden for this collection is 

estimated to be as follows: 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

21. 

Estimated Average Burden Hours per 

Respondent: 21,000. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 21,000.4

Frequency of Collection: As 

applicable. 

There are no capital costs or operating 

and maintenance costs associated with 

this collection. 

Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq. 

Dated: January 13, 2021. 

Robert Sidman, 

Deputy Secretary of the Commission. 

[FR Doc. 2021–01081 Filed 1–15–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6351–01–P 

CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY 

COMMISSION 

[Docket No. CPSC–2020–0021] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission for OMB 

Review; Comment Request—Child 

Strength Study 

AGENCY: Consumer Product Safety 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: As required by the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995, the Consumer 

Product Safety Commission (CPSC or 

Commission) announces that CPSC has 

submitted to the Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB) a new proposed 

collection of information for a study that 

will assess the strength capabilities of 

children. On August 31, 2020, CPSC 

published a notice in the Federal 

Register announcing the agency’s intent 

to seek approval of this collection of 

information. After reviewing and 

considering the comments CPSC 

received, by publication of this notice, 

the Commission announces that CPSC 

has submitted to OMB a request for 

approval of this collection of 

information. 

DATES: Submit written comments on 

this request for approval of information 

collection requirements by February 18, 

2021. 

ADDRESSES: Send written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection within 30 days of 

publication of this notice to: 

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. In addition, written comments 

that are sent to OMB also should be 

submitted electronically at: http://

www.regulations.gov, under Docket No. 

CPSC–2020–0021. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Cynthia Gillham, Consumer Product 

Safety Commission, 4330 East-West 

Highway, Bethesda, MD 20814; (301) 

504–7791, or by email to: CGillham@

cpsc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

A. Background 

Under the Paperwork Reduction Act 

of 1995 (PRA; 44 U.S.C. 3501–3520), 


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