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deposit account, and electronic funds 

transfer (EFT). The provisions of 35 

U.S.C. 41 and 15 U.S.C. 1113 are 

implemented in 37 CFR 1.16–1.28, 2.6–

2.7, and 2.206–2.209. 

The USPTO is developing a pilot 

program that will allow customers to 

access and manage their financial 

activity records online. Customers will 

be able to create a Financial Profile 

through the USPTO Web site by 

registering a username and password, 

providing contact information, and 

specifying the types of notifications and 

alerts they would like to receive. After 

establishing a Financial Profile, 

customers may then add the relevant 

account information to the profile in 

order to track their credit card, deposit 

account, and EFT transactions with the 

USPTO. 

In the future, customers will also be 

able to use their Financial Profiles to 

perform transactions with the USPTO 

by using their previously stored account 

information. The Financial Profiles are 

being added to this information 

collection. 

II. Method of Collection 

By mail, facsimile, hand delivery, or 

electronically to the USPTO. 

Information for Financial Profiles will 

be collected electronically through the 

USPTO Web site. 

III. Data 

OMB Number: 0651–0043. 

Form Number(s): PTO–2038, PTO–

2231, PTO–2232, PTO–2233, PTO–2234, 

PTO–2236. 

Type of Review: Revision of a 

currently approved collection. 

Affected Public: Individuals or 

households; businesses or other forprofits; and not-for-profit institutions. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

1,929,205 responses per year, including 

500 responses per year for Financial 

Profiles. 

Estimated Time Per Response: The 

USPTO estimates that it will take the 

public approximately two to four 

minutes (0.03 to 0.07 hours) to prepare 

and submit the existing items in this 

collection. The USPTO estimates that it 

will take the public approximately six 

minutes (0.10 hours) to complete and 

submit a Financial Profile. 

Estimated Total Annual Respondent 

Burden Hours: 58,166 hours per year, 

including 50 hours per year for 

Financial Profiles. 

Estimated Total Annual Respondent 

Cost Burden: $2,617,470 per year. The 

USPTO expects that 75% of the 

submissions for this information 

collection will be prepared by fee 

administrators/coordinators and that 

25% of the submissions will be 

prepared by paraprofessionals. Using 

those proportions and the estimated 

rates of $30 per hour for fee 

administrators/coordinators and $90 per 

hour for paraprofessionals, the USPTO 

estimates that the average rate for all 

respondents will be approximately $45 

per hour. Using this estimated rate of 

$45 per hour, the USPTO estimates that 

the respondent cost burden for 

submitting the information in this 

collection will be approximately 

$2,617,470 per year, including $2,250 in 

respondent cost burden for the 

Financial Profiles. 

Item 

Estimated time 

for 

response 

(minutes) 

Estimated 

annual 

responses 

Estimated 

annual burden 

hours 

Financial Profiles ......................................................................................................................... 6 500 50 

Total ...................................................................................................................................... ........................ 500 50 

Estimated Total Annual Non-hour 

Respondent Cost Burden: $237,168. 

This collection is currently approved 

with a total of $237,168 in annual (nonhour) cost burden in the form of service 

fees for deposit accounts and returned 

payments, postage costs for mailing 

submissions to the USPTO, and 

recordkeeping costs related to electronic 

credit card payments and electronic 

deposit account replenishments. There 

are no additional annual costs 

associated with the Financial Profiles. 

IV. Request for Comments 

Comments are invited on: (a) Whether 

the proposed collection of information 

is necessary for the proper performance 

of the functions of the agency, including 

whether the information shall have 

practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the 

agency’s estimate of the burden 

(including hours and cost) of the 

proposed collection of information; (c) 

ways to enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (d) ways to minimize the 

burden of the collection of information 

on respondents, e.g., the use of 

automated collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology. 

Comments submitted in response to 

this notice will be summarized or 

included in the request for OMB 

approval of this information collection; 

they also will become a matter of public 

record. 

Dated: April 3, 2007. 

Susan K. Fawcett, 

Records Officer, USPTO, Office of the Chief 

Information Officer, Customer Information 

Services Group, Public Information Services 

Division. 

[FR Doc. E7–6731 Filed 4–9–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–16–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Patent and Trademark Office 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

The United States Patent and 

Trademark Office (USPTO) will submit 

to the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for clearance the following 

proposal for collection of information 

under the provisions of the Paperwork 

Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). 

Agency: United States Patent and 

Trademark Office (USPTO). 

Title: Post Allowance and Refiling. 

Form Number(s): PTO/SB/44/50/51/ 

51S/52/53/56/57/58 and PTOL–85B. 

Agency Approval Number: 0651–

0033. 

Type of Request: Revision of a 

currently approved collection. 

Burden: 68,245 hours annually. 

Number of Respondents: 224,926 

responses per year. 

Avg. Hours Per Response: The USPTO 

estimates that it will take the public 

from approximately 1.8 minutes (0.03 

hours) to two hours to read the 

instructions, gather the necessary 

information, prepare the appropriate 

form or other document, and submit the 

information to the USPTO. 

Needs and Uses: The USPTO is 

required by 35 U.S.C. 131 and 151 to 

examine applications and issue them as 

patents when appropriate. The 

applicant must then pay the required 

issue fee to receive the patent and avoid 

abandonment of the application. The 

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and reissue patents as appropriate. 

Under 37 CFR 1.510–1.570 and 37 CFR 

1.902–1.997, the USPTO may grant 

requests for ex parte and inter partes 

reexamination proceedings. The public 

uses this collection to request 

corrections of errors in issued patents, 

to request reissue patents, to request 

reexamination proceedings, and to 

ensure that the necessary fees and 

documentation are submitted to the 

USPTO. The USPTO is adding two 

items to this information collection, an 

electronic version of the Issue Fee 

Transmittal (Form PTOL–85B) and a 

petition to request an extension of time 

in ex parte or inter partes reexamination 

proceedings. This petition is an existing 

requirement that was not previously 

covered in this collection. 

Affected Public: Individuals or 

households, businesses or other forprofits, and not-for-profit institutions. 

Frequency: On occasion. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Required to 

obtain or retain benefits. 

OMB Desk Officer: David Rostker, 

(202) 395–3897. 

Copies of the above information 

collection proposal can be obtained by 

any of the following methods: 

• E-mail: Susan.Fawcett@uspto.gov. 

Include ‘‘0651–0033 copy request’’ in 

the subject line of the message. 

• Fax: 571–273–0112, marked to the 

attention of Susan Fawcett. 

• Mail: Susan K. Fawcett, Records 

Officer, Office of the Chief Information 

Officer, Customer Information Services 

Group, Public Information Services 

Division, U.S. Patent and Trademark 

Office, P.O. Box 1450, Alexandria, VA 

22313–1450. 

Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be sent on 

or before May 10, 2007 to David Rostker, 

OMB Desk Officer, Room 10202, New 

Executive Office Building, 725 17th 

Street, NW., Washington, DC 20503. 

Dated: April 3, 2007. 

Susan K. Fawcett, 

Records Officer, USPTO, Office of the Chief 

Information Officer, Customer Information 

Services Group, Public Information Services 

Division. 

[FR Doc. E7–6735 Filed 4–9–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–16–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Patent and Trademark Office 

[Docket No. PTO–P–2007–0014] 

Grant of Interim Extension of the Term 

of U.S. Patent No. 4,650,787; Sanvar 

AGENCY: United States Patent and 

Trademark Office, Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of interim patent term 

extension. 

SUMMARY: The United States Patent and 

Trademark Office has issued a 

certificate under 35 U.S.C. 156(d)(5) for 

a third one-year interim extension of the 

term of U.S. Patent No. 4,650,787. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Mary C. Till by telephone at (571) 272–

7755; by mail marked to her attention 

and addressed to the Commissioner for 

Patents, Mail Stop Hatch-Waxman PTE., 

P.O. Box 1450, Alexandria, VA 22313–

1450; by fax marked to her attention at 

(571) 273–7755, or by e-mail to 

Mary.Till@uspto.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 

156 of Title 35, United States Code, 

generally provides that the term of a 

patent may be extended for a period of 

up to five years if the patent claims a 

product, or a method of making or using 

a product, that has been subject to 

certain defined regulatory review, and 

that the patent may be extended for 

interim periods of up to a year if the 

regulatory review is anticipated to 

extend beyond the expiration date of the 

patent. 

On March 23, 2007, Debiovision Inc., 

the exclusive agent of Debiopharm S.A. 

and Debio Recherche Pharmaceutique 

S.A., who is the exclusive licensee of 

the Administrators of the Tulane 

Educational Fund of New Orleans, 

Louisiana, the patent owner, timely 

filed an application under 35 U.S.C. 

156(d)(5) for a third interim extension of 

the term of U.S. Patent No. 4,650,787. 

The patent claims the human drug 

product Sanvar (vapreotide acetate). 

The application indicates that a New 

Drug Application for the human drug 

product Sanvar (vapreotide acetate) 

has been filed and is currently 

undergoing regulatory review before the 

Food and Drug Administration for 

permission to market or use the product 

commercially. 

Review of the application indicates 

that except for permission to market or 

use the product commercially, the 

subject patent would be eligible for an 

extension of the patent term under 35 

U.S.C. 156, and that the patent should 

be extended for an additional one year 

as required by 35 U.S.C. 156(d)(5)(B). 

Because it is apparent that the 

regulatory review period will continue 

beyond the extended expiration date of 

the patent (April 25, 2007), a third 

interim extension of the patent term 

under 35 U.S.C. 156(d)(5) is appropriate. 

A third interim extension under 35 

U.S.C. 156(d)(5) of the term of U.S. 

Patent No. 4,650,787 is granted for a 

period of one year from the extended 

expiration date of the patent, i.e., until 

April 25, 2008. 

Dated: April 3, 2007. 

Jon W. Dudas, 

Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual 

Property and Director of the United States 

Patent and Trademark Office. 

[FR Doc. E7–6698 Filed 4–9–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–16–P 

COMMISSION OF FINE ARTS 

Notice of Meeting 

The next meeting of the U.S. 

Commission of Fine Arts is scheduled 

for 19 April 2007, at 10 a.m. in the 

Commission’s offices at the National 

Building Museum, Suite 312, Judiciary 

Square, 401 F Street, NW., Washington, 

DC 20001–2728. Items of discussion 

affecting the appearance of Washington, 

DC, may include buildings, parks and 

memorials. 

Draft agendas and additional 

information regarding the Commission 

are available on our Web site: http:// 

www.cfa.gov. Inquiries regarding the 

agenda and requests to submit written 

or oral statements should be addressed 

to Thomas Luebke, Secretary, U.S. 

Commission of Fine Arts, at the above 

address or call 202–504–2200. 

Individuals requiring sign language 

interpretation for the hearing impaired 

should contact the Secretary at least 10 

days before the meeting date. 

Dated in Washington, DC, 4 April 2007. 

Thomas Luebke, 

Secretary 

[FR Doc. 07–1772 Filed 4–9–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6330–01–M 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Office of the Secretary 

[No. DoD–2007–HA–0022] 

Proposed Collection; Comment 

Request 

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant 

Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, 

DoD. 

ACTION: Notice. 


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