59510 Federal Register / Vol. 88, No. 166 / Tuesday, August 29, 2023 / Notices 

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; Trademark Trial and Appeal 

Board (TTAB) Actions 

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 June 5, 2023, during a 60- 

day comment period. This notice allows 

for an additional 30 days for public 

comment. 

Agency: United States Patent and 

Trademark Office, Department of 

Commerce. 

Title: Trademark Trial and Appeal 

Board (TTAB) Actions. 

OMB Control Number: 0651–0040. 

Needs and Uses: The USPTO 

administers the Trademark Act of 1946, 

15 U.S.C. 1051 et seq., as amended, 

which provides for the Federal 

registration of trademarks, service 

marks, collective marks and certification 

marks. Individuals and businesses that 

use or intend to use such marks in 

commerce may file an application to 

register their marks with the USPTO. 

Section 13 of the Trademark Act, 15 

U.S.C. 1063, allows individuals and 

entities who believe that they would be 

damaged by the registration of a mark to 

file an opposition, or an extension of 

time to file an opposition, to the 

registration of the mark. Section 14 of 

the Trademark Act, 15 U.S.C. 1064, 

allows individuals and entities to file a 

petition to cancel a registration of a 

mark. Section 20 of the Trademark Act, 

15 U.S.C. 1070, allows individuals and 

entities to appeal any final decision of 

the examiner in charge of the 

registration of marks or a final decision 

by an examiner in an ex parte 

expungement proceeding or ex parte 

reexamination proceeding. 

The USPTO administers certain 

provisions of the Trademark Act of 1946 

through the regulations at 37 CFR part 

2, which contains the various rules that 

govern the filings identified above and 

other submissions filed in connection 

with inter partes and ex parte 

proceedings. These petitions, notices, 

extensions, and additional papers are 

filed with the Trademark Trial and 

Appeal Board (TTAB), an administrative 

tribunal empowered to determine the 

right to register and subsequently 

determine the validity of a trademark. 

The information in this collection must 

be submitted electronically through the 

TTAB’s electronic filing system. If 

applicants or entities wish to submit the 

petitions, notices, extensions, and 

additional papers in inter partes and ex 

parte cases, they may use the forms 

provided through the TTAB’s electronic 

filing system. 

This information collection includes 

the items needed for individuals or 

entities to file inter partes and ex parte 

proceedings regarding federal 

registration of their trademarks or 

service marks. Information is collected 

in view of the provisions of the 

Trademark Act of 1946. The responses 

in this information collection are a 

matter of public record, and are used by 

the public for a variety of private 

business purposes related to 

establishing and enforcing trademark 

rights. This information is important to 

the public, as both common law 

trademark owners and federal trademark 

registrants must actively protect their 

own rights. 

Form Number(s): 

• PTO 2120 (Notice of Opposition) 

• PTO 2151 (Papers in Inter Partes 

Cases) 

• PTO 2153 (Request for Extension of 

Time to File an Opposition) 

• PTO 2188 (Petition for Cancellation) 

• PTO 2189 (Ex Parte Appeal General 

Filing) 

• PTO 2190 (Notice of Appeal) 

Type of Review: Extension and 

revision of a currently approved 

information collection. 

Affected Public: Private sector. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Required to 

obtain or retain a benefit. 

Frequency: On occasion. 

Estimated Number of Annual 

Respondents: 41,300 respondents. 

Estimated Number of Annual 

Responses: 76,650 responses. 

Estimated Time per Response: The 

USPTO estimates that it will take the 

public from 10 minutes (0.17 hours) to 

21 hours to complete, depending on the 

complexity of the situation and item, to 

gather the necessary information, 

prepare the appropriate documents, and 

submit them to the USPTO. 

Estimated Total Annual Respondent 

Burden Hours: 1,038,747 hours. 

Estimated Total Annual Respondent 

Non-Hourly Cost Burden: $9,080,047. 

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 of the OMB 

Control Number, 0651–0040. 

Further information can be obtained 

by: 

• Email: InformationCollection@

uspto.gov. Include ‘‘0651–0040 

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. 

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Collection 3038–0091: Disclosure and 

Retention of Certain Information 

Relating to Cleared Swaps Customer 

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AGENCY: Commodity Futures Trading 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Commodity Futures 

Trading Commission (‘‘CFTC’’ or 

‘‘Commission’’) 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 

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