52166 Federal Register / Vol. 78, No. 163 / Thursday, August 22, 2013 / Notices 

Dated: August 19, 2013. 

Helen M. Golde, 

Deputy Director, Office of Protected 

Resources, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

[FR Doc. 2013–20507 Filed 8–21–13; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

United States 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: Patent Term Extension. 

Form Number(s): None. 

Agency Approval Number: 0651– 

0020. 

Type of Request: Revision of a 

currently approved collection. 

Burden: 7,252 hours annually. 

Number of Respondents: 1,950 

responses per year. 

Avg. Hours per Response: The USPTO 

estimates that it will take the public 

from 1 to 25 hours, depending on the 

complexity and type of filing, to gather 

the necessary information, prepare the 

appropriate documents, and submit the 

information to the USPTO. 

Needs and Uses: The patent term 

restoration portion of the Drug Price 

Competition and Patent Term 

Restoration Act of 1984 (Pub. L. 98– 

417), which is codified at 35 U.S.C. 156, 

permits the United States Patent and 

Trademark Office (USPTO) to extend 

the term of protection under a patent to 

compensate for delay during regulatory 

review and approval by the Food and 

Drug Administration (FDA) or 

Department of Agriculture. Only patents 

for drug products, medical devices, food 

additives, or color additives are 

potentially eligible for extension. The 

maximum length that a patent may be 

extended under 35 U.S.C. 156 is five 

years. The USPTO administers 35 U.S.C. 

156 through 37 CFR 1.710–1.791. 

Separate from the extension 

provisions of 35 U.S.C. 156, the USPTO 

may in some cases extend the term of an 

original patent due to certain delays in 

the prosecution of the patent 

application, including delays caused by 

interference proceedings, secrecy 

orders, or appellate review by the Patent 

Trial and Appeal Board or a Federal 

court in which the patent is issued 

pursuant to a decision reversing an 

adverse determination of patentability. 

The patent term provisions of 35 U.S.C. 

154(b), as amended by Title IV, Subtitle 

D of the Intellectual Property and 

Communications Omnibus Reform Act 

of 1999, require the USPTO to notify the 

applicant of the patent term adjustment 

in the notice of allowance and give the 

applicant an opportunity to request 

reconsideration of the USPTO’s patent 

term adjustment determination. The 

USPTO administers 35 U.S.C. 154 

through 37 CFR 1.701–1.705. 

The public uses this information 

collection to file requests related to 

patent term extensions and 

reconsideration or reinstatement of 

patent term adjustments. The 

information in this collection is used by 

the USPTO to consider whether an 

applicant is eligible for a patent term 

extension or reconsideration of a patent 

term adjustment and, if so, to determine 

the length of the patent term extension 

or adjustment. 

Affected Public: Businesses or other 

for-profits; not-for-profit institutions. 

Frequency: On occasion. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Required to 

obtain or retain benefits. 

OMB Desk Officer: Nicholas A. Fraser, 

email: Nicholas_A._Fraser@

omb.eop.gov. 

Once submitted, the request will be 

publicly available in electronic format 

through the Information Collection 

Review page at www.reginfo.gov. 

Paper copies can be obtained by: 

• Email: InformationCollection@

uspto.gov. Include ‘‘0651–0020 copy 

request’’ in the subject line of the 

message. 

• Mail: Susan K. Fawcett, Records 

Officer, Office of the Chief Information 

Officer, United States 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 September 23, 2013 to 

Nicholas A. Fraser, OMB Desk Officer, 

via email to Nicholas_A._Fraser@

omb.eop.gov, or by fax to 202–395– 

5167, marked to the attention of 

Nicholas A. Fraser. 

Dated: August 19, 2013. 

Susan K. Fawcett, 

Records Officer, USPTO, Office of the Chief 

Information Officer. 

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COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING 

COMMISSION 

Quantitative Messaging Research 

AGENCY: Commodity Futures Trading 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Commodity Futures 

Trading Commission (‘‘CFTC’’ or 

‘‘Commission’’) is announcing an 

opportunity for public comment on a 

proposed collection of information by 

the agency. Under the Paperwork 

Reduction Act (‘‘PRA’’), 44 U.S.C. 3501 

et seq., Federal agencies are required to 

publish notice in the Federal Register 

concerning each proposed collection of 

information and to allow 60 days for 

public comment. The CFTC’s Office of 

Consumer Outreach (‘‘OCO’’) develops 

campaigns to change consumer 

behaviors so that consumers can better 

avoid fraud as defined under the 

Commodities Exchange Act. The CFTC 

is posing survey questions to the public. 

This survey will include screening 

questions to identify the correct 

respondents and questions to determine 

optimal messages to help consumers 

identify, avoid, and report financial 

fraud as part of a consumer-facing antifraud campaign. This survey will follow 

qualitative message testing research (for 

which CFTC received fast-track OMB 

approval) and is necessary to identify, 

with statistical validation, which of 

these messages most effectively help 

consumers to identify, avoid, and report 

financial fraud. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before October 21, 2013. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

regarding the burden estimated or any 

other aspect of the information 

collection, including suggestions for 

reducing the burden, by any of the 

following methods: 

Agency Web site, via its Comments 

Online process: http://

comments.cftc.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments 

through the Web site. 

Mail: Send to Melissa D. Jurgens, 

Secretary of the Commission, 

Commodity Futures Trading 

Commission, 1155 21st Street NW., 

Washington, DC 20581. 

Hand delivery/Courier: Same as Mail 

above. 

Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://

www.regulations.gov/search/index.jsp. 

Follow the instructions for submitting 

comments. 

Please submit your comments using 

only one method. 

All comments must be submitted in 

English, or if not, accompanied by an 


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Federal Register / Vol. 78, No. 163 / Thursday, August 22, 2013 / Notices 52167 

1 17 CFR 145.9. 

2See Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and 

Consumer Protection Act, Public Law. 111–203,124 

Stat. 1376 (2010). The text of the Dodd-Frank Act 

may be accessed at http://www.cftc.gov/

LawRegulation/DoddFrankAct/index.htm. 

3See 7 U.S.C. 26. 

4See 17 CFR 165.12. 

English translation. Comments will be 

posted as received to http://

www.cftc.gov. 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.1

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 rulemaking 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. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Nisha Smalls, Consumer Education & 

Outreach Specialist, 202–418–5000, 

consumers@cftc.gov, Office of Consumer 

Outreach, Commodity Futures Trading 

Commission, Three Lafayette Centre, 

1155 21st Street NW., Washington, DC 

20581. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the 

PRA, federal agencies must obtain 

approval from the Office of Management 

and Budget (‘‘OMB’’) for each collection 

of information they collect or sponsor. 

‘‘Collection of information’’ is defined 

in 44 U.S.C. 3502(3) as ‘‘the obtaining, 

causing to be obtained, soliciting . . . 

facts or opinions by or for an agency, 

regardless of form or format [from] ten 

or more persons.’’ An agency may not 

conduct or sponsor, and a person is not 

required to respond to, a collection of 

information unless it displays a valid 

OMB control number. 

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 for each proposed 

collection of information before 

submitting the collection to OMB for 

approval. Under OMB regulations, 

which implement provisions of the 

PRA, certain ‘‘facts or opinions 

submitted in response to general 

solicitations of comments from the 

public, published in the Federal 

Register or other publications,’’ 5 CFR 

1320.3(h)(4), or ‘‘facts or opinions 

obtained or solicited at or in connection 

with public hearings or meetings,’’ 5 

CFR 1320.3(h)(8), are excluded from the 

OMB approval process. 

In 2010, the Dodd-Frank Act 2

expanded the Commission’s authority 

to, among other matters related to 

regulatory oversight, establish funding 

of consumer education initiatives under 

its new Whistleblower authority.3

Under this new authority, the 

Commission established an Office of 

Consumer Outreach (‘‘OCO’’) to, among 

other efforts, survey the public 

regarding consumer education 

initiatives.4 This notice announces a 

public survey. The survey will include 

screening questions to identify the 

correct respondents and questions to 

determine optimal messages to help 

consumers identify, avoid, and report 

financial fraud as part of a consumerfacing anti-fraud campaign. This survey 

will follow qualitative message testing 

research (for which CFTC received fasttrack OMB approval) and is necessary to 

identify, with statistical validation, 

which of these messages most 

effectively help consumers to identify, 

avoid, and report financial fraud. 

The OCO will use the information 

collected in the survey to develop 

effective methods to inform the public 

on how best to detect and report 

financial fraud. This will be done by 

creating a final summary report that 

combines key findings from both the 

survey as well as other qualitative 

research. 

Findings from the summary report 

will be used to inform a directional 

document to be used by the OCO that 

will include recommendations on 

primary messages, support points, 

content, overall tone, phrasing and 

imagery of outreach efforts on financial 

fraud, as well as how to use these 

messages in various communications 

channels (e.g. online, print, radio, TV 

and collateral materials). 

The survey will be administered using 

an online survey tool. The online 

modality approach will allow 

presentation of test material to 

participants in a more convenient and 

time-efficient manner than other 

collection methods such as mall 

intercepts. The online method also 

allows for a quicker turnaround for data 

collection. No other collection methods 

will be used. 

The screening questions will take 

about 1 minute to complete. It is 

anticipated that 2,200 people will be 

screened. The survey will take 15 

minutes. 1,100 people will take the 15 

minute survey. Based on these 

assumptions, the total burden hours will 

be 330 hours. This estimate includes the 

time to prepare the survey and transmit 

it to the Commission. The Commission 

estimates the average burden of this 

collection of information as follows: 

ESTIMATED ANNUAL REPORTING BURDEN HOURS

Annual Frequency Hours per Total 

17 CFR Part 165 ........................................................ 2,200 1 response per respondent.1 minute per response.2,200 36.7 hours—$96.36 

per burden hour. 

17 CFR Part 165 ........................................................ 1,100 1 response per respondent.15 minutes per response.1,100 293.3 hours—$96.36 

per burden hour. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on August 16, 

2013, by the Commission. 

Melissa D. Jurgens, 

Secretary of the Commission. 

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