Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 120 / Friday, June 25, 2021 / Notices 33685 

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30, 2021 

Time Activity Lead 

9 a.m–12 p.m .................................................... Follow-Ups/Report Writing ............................... Review Panel. 

12 p.m.–1 p.m ................................................... Lunch. 

1 p.m.–5 p.m ..................................................... Report Writing .................................................. Review Panel. 

5 p.m .................................................................. Adjourn. 

*Thursday, July 1, 2021 Will Be Used for 

Report Writing if Necessary 

The meeting is open to the public; 

however, during the ‘Report Writing’ 

session on Wednesday, June 30th, and 

Thursday, July 1st, the public should 

not engage in discussion with the Peer 

Review Panel. 

Special Accommodations 

This meeting is physically accessible 

to people with disabilities. Special 

requests should be directed to Michele 

Traver, via email, at least 5 days prior 

to the meeting date. 

Dated: June 22, 2021. 

Jennifer M. Wallace, 

Acting Director, Office of Sustainable 

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

[FR Doc. 2021–13639 Filed 6–24–21; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

United States Patent and Trademark 

Office 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

Review and Approval; Comment 

Request; Public Search Facility User ID 

and Badging 

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 comment 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 April 16, 2021 during a 60- 

day comment period. This notice allows 

for an additional 30 days for public 

comments. 

Agency: United States Patent and 

Trademark Office, Department of 

Commerce. 

Title: Public Search Facility User ID 

and Badging. 

OMB Control Number: 0651–0041. 

Form Numbers: 

• PTO–2030 (Application for Public 

User ID). 

• PTO–2224 (Security Identification 

Badges for Public Users). 

Type of Review: Extension and 

revision of a currently approved 

information collection. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

5,525 respondents per year. 

Estimated Number of Responses: 

5,925 responses per year. 

Estimated Time per Response: The 

USPTO estimates that it will take the 

public approximately 5 minutes (0.08 

hours) to complete the information in 

this information collection, depending 

on the form. This includes the time to 

gather the necessary information, 

prepare the appropriate form, and 

submit the completed item to the 

USPTO. 

Estimated Total Annual Respondent 

Burden Hours: 474 hours. 

Estimated Total Annual Non-Hour 

Cost Burden: $1,505. 

Needs and Uses: The United States 

Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is 

required by 35 U.S.C. 41(i)(1) to 

maintain a Public Search Facility to 

make publicly accessible USPTO patent 

and trademark collections for search 

and retrieval. The Public Search Facility 

is located in a publicly accessible 

portion of USPTO headquarters in 

Alexandria, Virginia, and offers the 

public access to the collection’s paper, 

microfilm, and electronic files and 

trained staff to assist users with 

searches. The USPTO also offers 

training courses to assist users with the 

advanced electronic search systems 

available at the facility. 

This information collection covers 

information collected in applications 

required for those members of the 

public who wish to use the electronic 

search systems at the Public Search 

Facility to establish a USPTO online 

access account, and to obtain, renew, or 

replace online access accounts. The 

public may apply for an online access 

account at the Public Search Facility 

reference desk by providing the 

necessary information and proper 

identification. The access account 

includes a bar-coded user number and 

an expiration date. Users may renew 

their account by validating and 

updating the required information and 

may obtain a replacement for a lost 

account information by providing 

proper identification. Users who wish to 

register for the voluntary training 

courses may do so by completing the 

appropriate form. 

This information collection also 

covers information in applications to 

establish, renew, or replace security 

identification badges issued, under the 

authority provided in 41 CFR part 102– 

81, to members of the public who wish 

to access the Public Search Facility. 

Users may apply for a security badge inperson at the USPTO Security Office by 

providing the necessary information and 

presenting a valid form of identification 

with photograph. A security badge 

includes a color photograph of the user 

and must be worn at all times while 

within the USPTO facilities. 

Affected Public: 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 0651–0041. 

Further information can be obtained 

by: 

• Email: InformationCollection@

uspto.gov. Include ‘‘0651–0041 

information request’’ in the subject line 

of the message. 

• Mail: Kimberly Hardy, Office of the 

Chief Administrative Officer, United 

States Patent and Trademark Office, 


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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. 

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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; Patent Prosecution Highway 

(PPH) Program 

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 comment 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 April 16, 2021 during a 60- 

day comment period. This notice allows 

for an additional 30 days for public 

comments. 

Agency: United States Patent and 

Trademark Office, Department of 

Commerce. 

Title: Patent Prosecution Highway 

(PPH) Program. 

OMB Control Number: 0651–0058. 

Form Numbers: 

• PTO/SB/20GLBL (Request for 

Participation in the Global/IP5 PPH 

Pilot Program in the USPTO) 

• PTO/SB/20BR (Request for 

Participation in the Patent Prosecution 

Highway (PPH) Pilot Program Between 

the Brazilian National Institute of 

Industrial Property (INPI) and the 

USPTO) 

• PTO/SB/20CZ (Request for 

Participation in the Patent Prosecution 

Highway (PPH) Pilot Program Between 

the Industrial Property Office of the 

Czech Republic (IPOCZ) and the 

USPTO) 

• PTO/SB/20MX (Request for 

Participation in the Patent Prosecution 

Highway (PPH) Pilot Program Between 

the Mexican Institute of Industrial 

Property (TMPI) and the USPTO) 

• PTO/SB/20NI (Request for 

Participation in the Patent Prosecution 

Highway (PPH) Pilot Program Between 

the Nicaraguan Registry of Intellectual 

Property (NRIP) and the USPTO) 

• PTO/SB/20PH (Request for 

Participation in the Patent Prosecution 

Highway (PPH) Pilot Program Between 

the Intellectual Property Office of the 

Philippines (IPOPH) and the USPTO) 

• PTO/SB/20RO (Request for 

Participation in the Patent Prosecution 

Highway (PPH) Pilot Program Between 

the Romanian State Office of Inventions 

and Trademarks (OSIM) and the 

USPTO) 

• PTO/SB/20SA (Request for 

Participation in the Patent Prosecution 

Highway (PPH) Pilot Program between 

the Saudi Authority for Intellectual 

Property of the Kingdom of Saudi 

Arabia (SAIP) and the USPTO) 

• PTO/SB/20TW (Request for 

Participation in the Patent Prosecution 

Highway (PPH) Pilot Program Between 

the Taiwan Intellectual Property Office 

(TIPO) and the USPTO) 

Type of Review: Extension and 

revision of a currently approved 

information collection. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

3,567 respondents per year. 

Estimated Number of Responses: 

7,090 responses per year. 

Estimated Time per Response: The 

USPTO estimates that it will take the 

public approximately 2 hours to 

complete a response. This includes the 

time to gather the necessary 

information, create the documents, and 

submit the completed item to the 

USPTO. 

Estimated Total Annual Respondent 

Burden Hours: 14,180 hours. 

Estimated Total Annual Non-Hour 

Cost Burden: $0. 

Needs and Uses: The Patent 

Prosecution Highway (PPH) is a 

framework in which an application 

whose claims have been determined to 

be patentable by an Office of Earlier 

Examination (OEE) is eligible to go 

through an accelerated examination in 

an Office of Later Examination (OLE) 

with a simple procedure upon an 

applicant’s request. By leveraging the 

search and examination work product of 

the OEE, PPH programs (1) deliver 

lower prosecution costs, (2) support 

applicants in their efforts to obtain 

stable patent rights efficiently around 

the world, and (3) reduce the search and 

examination burden, while improving 

the examination quality, of participating 

patent offices. 

In 2014, the USPTO and several other 

offices acted to consolidate and replace 

existing PPH programs, with the goal of 

streamlining the PPH process for both 

offices and applicants. To that end, the 

USPTO and other offices established the 

Global PPH pilot program and the IP5 

PPH pilot program. Both the Global PPH 

and the IP5 PPH pilot programs are 

running concurrently and are 

substantially identical, differing only 

with regard to their respective 

participating offices. The USPTO is 

participating in both the Global PPH 

pilot program and the IP5 PPH pilot 

program. For USPTO applications, the 

Global PPH and IP5 PPH pilot programs 

supersede any prior PPH program 

between the USPTO and each Global 

PPH and IP5 PPH participating office. 

Any existing PPH programs between the 

USPTO and offices that are not 

participating in either the Global PPH 

pilot program or the IP5 PPH pilot 

program remain in effect. 

This information collection covers 

data gathered through the Request for 

Participation in the Patent Prosecution 

Highway (PPH) Pilot Program, which 

the public uses to request an accelerated 

examination within the PPH provisions 

(35 U.S.C. 119). 

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 0651–0058. 

Further information can be obtained 

by: 

• Email: InformationCollection@

uspto.gov. Include ‘‘0651–0058 

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. 

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