13330 Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 49 / Friday, March 13, 2015 / Notices 

accordance with 19 CFR 351.216(e), the 

Department intends to issue the final 

results of its antidumping duty CCR not 

later than 270 days after the date on 

which the review was initiated. 

This notice is published in 

accordance with sections 751(b)(l) and 

777(i)(l) of the Act and 19 CFR 

351.216(b) and 351.221(b)(1). 

Dated: March 9, 2015. 

Gary Taverman, 

Associate Deputy Assistant Secretary for 

Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 

Operations. 

[FR Doc. 2015–05830 Filed 3–12–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Patent and Trademark Office 

Proposed Collection; Comment 

Request; ‘‘Third-Party Submissions 

and Protests’’ 

AGENCY: United States Patent and 

Trademark Office, Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The United States Patent and 

Trademark Office (USPTO), as part of its 

continuing effort to reduce paperwork 

and respondent burden, invites the 

general public and other Federal 

agencies to comment on proposed and/ 

or continuing information collections, 

as required by the Paperwork Reduction 

Act of 1995, Public Law 104–13 (44 

U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)). 

DATES: Written comments must be 

submitted on or before May 12, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments may be 

submitted by any of the following 

methods: 

• Email: InformationCollection@

uspto.gov. Include ‘‘0651–0062 ThirdParty Submissions and Protests’’ in the 

subject line of the message. 

• Mail: Marcie Lovett, Records 

Management Division Director, Office of 

the Chief Information Officer, United 

States Patent and Trademark Office, 

P.O. Box 1450, Alexandria, VA 22313– 

1450. 

• Federal Rulemaking Portal: http://

www.regulations.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information 

should be directed to Raul Tamayo, 

Senior Legal Advisor, Office of Patent 

Legal Administration, United States 

Patent and Trademark Office, P.O. Box 

1450, Alexandria, VA 22313–1450; by 

telephone at 571–272–7728; or by email 

to Raul.Tamayo@uspto.gov with 

‘‘Paperwork’’ in the subject line. 

Additional information about this 

collection is also available at http://

www.reginfo.gov under ‘‘Information 

Collection Review.’’ 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Abstract 

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 

provisions of 35 U.S.C. 122(c), 122(e), 

131, and 151, as well as 37 CFR 1.290 

and 1.291, limit the ability of a third 

party to have information entered and 

considered in, or to protest, a patent 

application pending before the Office. 

37 CFR 1.290 provides a mechanism 

for third parties to submit to the 

USPTO, for consideration and inclusion 

in the record of a patent application, 

any patents, published patent 

applications, or other printed 

publications of potential relevance to 

the examination of the application. 

A preissuance submission under 37 

CFR 1.290 may be made in any nonprovisional utility, design, and plant 

application, as well as in any continuing 

application. A preissuance submission 

under 37 CFR 1.290 must include a 

concise description of the asserted 

relevance of each document submitted, 

and must be submitted within a certain 

statutorily specified time period. 

37 CFR 1.291 permits a member of the 

public to file a protest against a pending 

application. Protests pursuant to 37 CFR 

1.291 are supported by a separate 

statutory provision from third-party 

submissions under 37 CFR 1.290 (35 

U.S.C. 122(c) v. 35 U.S.C. 122(e)). As a 

result, there are several differences 

between protests and third-party 

submissions. 

For example, 37 CFR 1.291 permits 

the submission of information that is 

not permitted in a third-party 

submission under 37 CFR 1.290. 

Specifically, 37 CFR 1.291 provides for 

the submission of information other 

than publications, including any facts or 

information adverse to patentability, 

and arguments to that effect. Further, 37 

CFR 1.291 requires a protest to include 

a concise explanation of the relevance of 

each item of information submitted. 

Unlike the concise description of 

relevance required for a preissuance 

submission under 37 CFR 1.290, which 

is limited to a description of a 

document’s relevance, the concise 

explanation for a protest under 37 CFR 

1.291 allows for arguments against 

patentability. Additionally, the 

specified time period for submitting a 

protest differs from the time period for 

submitting third-party submissions, and 

is impacted by whether the protest is 

accompanied by the written consent of 

the applicant. 

This information collection (the 

information collected via third-party 

submissions under 37 CFR 1.290 and 

protests under 37 CFR 1.291) is 

necessary so that the public may 

contribute to the quality of issued 

patents. The USPTO will use this 

information, as appropriate, during the 

patent examination process to assist in 

evaluating the patent application. 

II. Method of Collection 

Electronically when using the USPTO 

online filing system EFS-Web, or by 

mail or hand delivery. 

III. Data 

OMB Number: 0651–0062. 

IC Instruments: The individual 

instruments in this collection, as well as 

their associated forms, are listed in the 

table below. 

TABLE 1—INFORMATION COLLECTION

INSTRUMENTS AND FORMS

IC 

No. 

Information 

collection 

instrument 

Form number 

1 .... Third-Party Submissions in 

Nonissued Application; electronic.

• No Form Associated. 

2 .... Third-Party Submissions in 

Nonissued Application; paper.

• PTO/SB/429. 

3 .... Protests by the 

Public Against 

Pending Applications Under 

37 CFR 1.291; 

paper.

• No Form Associated. 

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: 

1,560 responses per year. 

Estimated Time per Response: The 

USPTO estimates that it will take the 

public approximately 10 hours to gather 

the necessary information, prepare the 

appropriate form or other documents, 

and submit the information to the 

USPTO. 

Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 

15,600 hours. 

Estimated Total Annual Cost Burden 

(Hourly): $6,068,400. The USPTO 

expects that attorneys will complete the 

instruments associated with this 

information collection. The professional 

hourly rate for an attorney is $389. 

Using this hourly rate, the USPTO 

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estimates $6,068,400 per year for the total hourly costs associated with 

respondents. 

TABLE 2—HOURLY COST BURDEN

IC Number Information collection 

instrument 

Estimated time 

for response 

(minutes) 

Estimated annual 

responses 

Estimated annual 

burden hours 

Rate 

($/hr) 

Total cost 

($/hr) 

(a) (b) (a) × (b) = (c) (d) (c) × (d) = (e) 

1 .................. Third-Party Submissions in 

Nonissued Applications 

(electronic).

10 hours 1,500 15,000 $389.00 $5,835,000.00 

2 .................. Third-Party Submissions in 

Nonissued Applications 

(paper).

10 hours 50 500 389.00 194,500.00 

3 .................. Protests by the Public Against 

Pending Applications Under 

37 CFR 1.291 (paper).

10 hours 10 100 389.00 38,900.00 

Totals ... ................................................. ............................ 1,560 15,600 ............................ 6,068,400.00 

Estimated Total Annual Cost Burden 

(Non-Hourly): $237,619.25 per year. 

There are no capital start-up, 

recordkeeping or maintenance costs 

associated with this information 

collection. There are, however, annual 

(non-hour) costs associated with this 

information collection in the form of 

filing fees and postage costs. 

When submitting the information in 

this collection to the USPTO 

electronically, the applicant is strongly 

urged to retain a copy of the file 

submitted to the USPTO as evidence of 

authenticity in addition to keeping the 

acknowledgment receipt as clear 

evidence of the date the file was 

received by the USPTO. The USPTO 

does not, however, require this 

recordkeeping, and thus does not 

consider this action to be a 

recordkeeping cost imposed on the 

applicant. 

This collection has a non-hourly 

annual cost burden in the form of filing 

fees. 37 CFR 1.290 requires the payment 

of the fee set forth in 37 CFR 1.17(o) for 

every ten documents, or fraction thereof, 

listed in each third-party preissuance 

submission. The USPTO provides an 

exemption from this fee requirement 

where a preissuance submission listing 

three or fewer total documents is the 

first preissuance submission submitted 

in an application by a third party, or a 

party in privity with the third party. 

Taking the fee and exemption into 

account, the USPTO estimates that the 

average fee per submission for the thirdparty submissions is $180, with the 

average fee for small entities totaling 

$90. 

There is no fee for filing protests 

under 37 CFR 1.291 unless the filed 

protest is the second or subsequent 

protest by the same real party in 

interest, in which case the 37 CFR 

1.17(i) fee of $130 must be included (the 

USPTO estimates 1 of the 10 protests 

filed per year will trigger this fee). The 

table below illustrates the total amount 

of and distribution of filing fees 

associated with this collection. 

TABLE 3—NON-HOURLY COST BURDEN—FILING FEES

IC Number Information collection instrument Responses (yr) Filing fee ($) Total non-hour 

cost burden (yr) 

(a) (b) (a) × (b) = (c) 

1–2 .............. Third-Party Submissions in Nonissued Applications ............................. 1,085 $180 $195,300.00 

1–2 .............. Third-Party Submissions in Nonissued Applications (small entity) ....... 465 90 41,850.00 

3 .................. Protests by the public against pending applications under 37 CFR 

1.291.

1 130 130.00 

Total ..... ................................................................................................................. 1,551 ............................ 237,280.00 

This collection also has a non-hourly 

annual cost burden in the form of 

postage costs. Customers may incur 

postage costs when submitting the 

Information Collection instruments 

contained within this collection to the 

USPTO by mail through the United 

States Postal Service. The USPTO 

estimates that the average first class 

postage cost for a one-pound submission 

mailed in a flat-rate envelope to be 

$5.75. The USPTO further estimates that 

the vast majority—roughly 98 percent— 

of all paper submissions will be 

delivered by mail, with the remainder 

delivered by hand delivery, for an 

estimate that approximately 59 

submissions will require postage. 

Therefore, the estimated postage cost for 

this collection will be $339.25. 

The total non-hour respondent cost 

burden for this collection in the form of 

filing fees ($237,280) and postage costs 

($339.25) is approximately $237,619.25 

per year. 

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, 

including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions used; (c) 

ways to enhance the quality, utility, and 

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1See Steel Wire Garment Hangers From the 

People’s Republic of China: Preliminary Results of 

Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2012– 

2013, 79 FR 65616 (November 5, 2014) 

(‘‘Preliminary Results’’). 

2The Department previously found that Shanghai 

Wells Hanger Co., Ltd., Hong Kong Wells Ltd. (‘‘HK 

Wells’’) and Hong Kong Wells Ltd. (USA) (‘‘Wells 

USA’’) are affiliated and that Shanghai Wells 

Hanger Co., Ltd. and HK Wells comprise a single 

entity (collectively, ‘‘Shanghai Wells’’). Because 

there were no changes in this review to the facts 

that supported that decision, we continue to find 

Shanghai Wells, HK Wells, and USA Wells are 

affiliated and that Shanghai Wells and HK Wells 

comprise a single entity. See Steel Wire Garment 

Hangers From the People’s Republic of China: 

Preliminary Results and Preliminary Rescission, in 

Part, of the First Antidumping Duty Administrative 

Review, 75 FR 68758, 68761 (November 9, 2010), 

unchanged in First Administrative Review of Steel 

Wire Garment Hangers From the People’s Republic 

of China: Final Results and Final Partial Rescission 

of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, 76 FR 

27994, 27996 (May 13, 2011). 

3The deadline for the final results was March 5, 

2015, however, due to inclement weather, the 

government was closed on March 5, 2015. 

Therefore, the deadline for the final results falls on 

the next business day, March 6, 2015. 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (d) ways to minimize the 

burden of the collection of information 

on respondents, including through the 

use of automated collection techniques 

or other forms of information 

technology, e.g., permitting electronic 

submission of responses. 

Comments submitted in response to 

this notice will be summarized or 

included in the request for OMB 

approval of this information collection; 

they will also become a matter of public 

record. 

Dated: March 9, 2015. 

Marcie Lovett, 

Records Management Division Director, 

USPTO, Office of the Chief Information 

Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2015–05781 Filed 3–12–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–16–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

Ocean Exploration Advisory Board 

(OEAB); Notice of Public Meeting 

AGENCY: Office of Ocean Exploration 

and Research (OER), National Oceanic 

and Atmospheric Administration 

(NOAA), Department of Commerce 

(DOC). 

ACTION: Notice of public meeting. 

SUMMARY: This notice sets forth the 

schedule and proposed agenda of a 

forthcoming meeting of the Ocean 

Exploration Advisory Board (OEAB). 

OEAB members will discuss and 

provide advice on Federal ocean 

exploration programs, with a particular 

emphasis on National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) 

Office of Ocean Exploration and 

Research (OER) activities, in the areas 

of: Strategic planning, current and 

future exploration priorities, the 

competitive grants process, citizen 

exploration, the next National Forum on 

Ocean Exploration, and other matters as 

described in the agenda found on the 

OEAB Web site at http://oeab/noaa.gov. 

Time and Dates: The announced 

meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, 

March 31, 2015, from 8:30 a.m.–4:30 

p.m. PDT, and Wednesday, April 1, 

2015, from 9:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m. PDT. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 

Seaside Forum, 8610 Kennel Way, La 

Jolla, CA 92037. 

Status: The meeting will be open to 

public participation with a 15-minute 

public comment period on Wednesday, 

April 1, 2015, at 9:30 a.m. PDT (please 

check the agenda on the Web site to 

confirm the time). 

The OEAB expects that public 

statements at its meetings will not be 

repetitive of previously submitted 

verbal or written statements. In general, 

each individual or group making a 

verbal presentation will be limited to a 

total time of three minutes. The 

Designated Federal Officer should 

receive written comments by March 24, 

2015, to provide sufficient time for 

OEAB review. Written comments 

received after March 24, 2015, will be 

distributed to the OEAB but may not be 

reviewed prior to the meeting date. 

Seats will be available on a first-come, 

first-served basis. 

Special Accomodations: These 

meetings are physically accessible to 

people with disabilities. Requests for 

sign language interpretation or other 

auxiliary aids should be directed to 

David McKinnie, Designated Federal 

Officer, at (206) 526–6950 by March 16, 

2015. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

David McKinnie, Designated Federal 

Officer, Ocean Exploration Advisory 

Board, National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration, 7600 Sand 

Point Way, NE., Seattle, WA 98115, 

(206) 526–6950. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: NOAA 

established the OEAB under the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act (FACA) and 

legislation that gives the agency 

statutory authority to operate an ocean 

exploration program and to coordinate a 

national program of ocean exploration. 

The OEAB advises NOAA leaderships 

on strategic planning, exploration 

priorities, competitive ocean 

exploration grant programs and other 

matters as the NOAA Administrator 

requests. 

OEAB members represent government 

agencies involved in ocean exploration, 

the private sector, academic institutions, 

and not-for-profit institutions involved 

in all facets of ocean exploration—from 

advanced technology to citizen 

exploration. 

In addition to advising NOAA 

leadership, NOAA expects the OEAB to 

play a leadership role in helping to 

define and develop a national program 

of ocean exploration—a network of 

stakeholders and partnerships 

advancing national priorities for ocean 

exploration. 

Dated: March 6, 2015. 

Jason Donaldson, 

Chief Financial Officer, Office of Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Research, National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration. 

[FR Doc. 2015–05775 Filed 3–12–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–KA–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–570–918] 

Steel Wire Garment Hangers From the 

People’s Republic of China: Final 

Results of Antidumping Duty 

Administrative Review, 2012–2013 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: On November 5, 2014, the 

Department of Commerce (‘‘the 

Department’’) published the Preliminary 

Results of the fifth administrative 

review of the antidumping duty order 

on steel wire garment hangers from the 

People’s Republic of China (‘‘PRC’’).1

We invited parties to comment on the 

Preliminary Results. Based on our 

analysis of the comments and 

information received, we have not made 

changes to the final margin calculations 

of Shanghai Wells Hanger Co., Ltd. 

(‘‘Shanghai Wells’’).2 Listed below in 

the ‘‘Final Results of the Administrative 

Review’’ section of this notice are the 

final dumping margins. The period of 

review (‘‘POR’’) is October 1, 2012, 

through September 31, 2013.3

DATES: Effective Date: March 13, 2015. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Josh 

Startup or Alexis Polovina, AD/CVD 

Operations, Office V, Enforcement and 

Compliance, International Trade 

Administration, Department of 

Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution 

Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20230; 

telephone: (202) 482–5260 or (202) 482– 

3927, respectively. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

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