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100 pages, the application size fee is 

$420 (or $210 for small entities and 

$105 for micro entities) for each 

additional 50 pages or fraction thereof. 

The average length of a sequence listing 

filed on paper or in PDF format is 150 

pages, which results in an average total 

size fee of $1,260 ($630 for small 

entities, $315 for micro entities) for 

applications that are 100 pages long 

prior to adding the sequence listing. 

As a Receiving Office under the 

Patent Cooperation Treaty, the USPTO 

collects a basic international filing fee 

for each international application it 

receives. The basic international filing 

fee only covers the first 30 pages of the 

international application. For each 

additional application page in excess of 

30, a size fee of $16 is added to the basic 

international filing fee. The average 

length of a sequence listing in an 

international application filed on paper 

or in PDF format is 150 pages. As a 

result, a paper- or PDF-filed 

international application including a 

sequence listing incurs an estimated 

$2,400 size fee when the application 

already includes 30 pages prior to 

adding the sequence listing. 

The USPTO charges a fee for the 

handling of mega sequence listings. 

There are two tiers of fees related to 

differenent sequence listing sizes: one 

tier for file sizes between 300 MB and 

800 MB and one tier for file sizes greater 

than 800 MB. 

The USPTO also charges a Late 

Furnishing Fee for Providing a 

Sequence Listing in Response to an 

Invitation Under PCT Rule 13ter to 

encourage timely filing of sequence 

listings in international applications 

and to facilitate the effective 

administration of the patent system. 

TABLE 3—FILING FEES

Item 

No. Item 

Estimated 

annual 

responses 

Filing fee 

($) 

Non-hourly 

cost burden 

(a) (b) (a) × (b) = (c) 

1 ........ Size fees under 37 CFR 1.16(s) and 1.492(j), undiscounted entity ...................... 130 $1,260 $163,800 

1 ........ Size fees under 37 CFR 1.16(s) and 1.492(j), small entity ................................... 65 630 40,950 

1 ........ Size fees under 37 CFR 1.16(s) and 1.492(j), micro entity .................................. 25 315 7,875 

1 ........ Size fees for international applications .................................................................. 420 2,400 1,008,000 

1 ........ Submission of sequence listings of 300 MB to 800 MB (undiscounted entity) ..... 30 1,060 31,800 

1 ........ Submission of sequence listings of 300 MB to 800 MB (small entity) .................. 30 530 15,900 

1 ........ Submission of sequence listings of 300 MB to 800 MB (micro entity) ................. 10 265 2,650 

1 ........ Submission of sequence listings of more than 800 MB (undiscounted entity) ..... 2 10,500 21,000 

1 ........ Submission of sequence listings of more than 800 MB (small entity) .................. 1 5,250 5,250 

1 ........ Submission of sequence listings of more than 800 MB (micro entity) .................. 1 2,625 2,625 

1 ........ Late Furnishing Fee for Providing a Sequence Listing in Response to an Invitation Under PCT Rule 13ter (undiscounted entity).215 320 68,800 

1 ........ Late Furnishing Fee for Providing a Sequence Listing in Response to an Invitation Under PCT Rule 13ter (small entity).700 160 112,000 

1 ........ Late Furnishing Fee for Providing a Sequence Listing in Response to an Invitation Under PCT Rule 13ter (micro entity).8 80 640 

Total ................................................................................................................ ........................ ........................ 1,481,290 

Postage 

Although the USPTO prefers that the 

items in this information collection be 

submitted electronically, responses may 

be submitted by mail through the 

United States Postal Service (USPS). 

The USPTO estimates that the average 

postage cost for a mailed submission, 

using a Priority Mail 2-day flat rate legal 

envelope, will be $9.25. The USPTO 

estimates that 1% sequence listings will 

be submitted in the mail resulting in 

286 mailing submissions . Therefore, the 

USPTO estimates the total mailing costs 

for this information collection at $2,646. 

IV. Request for Comments 

The USPTO is soliciting public 

comments to: 

(a) Evaluate whether the collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of the functions of the 

Agency, including whether the 

information will have practical utility; 

(b) Evaluate the accuracy of the 

Agency’s estimate of the burden of the 

collection of information, including the 

validity of the methodology and 

assumptions used; 

(c) Enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and 

(d) Minimize the burden of the 

collection of information on those who 

are to respond, including through the 

use of appropriate automated, 

electronic, mechanical, or other 

technological collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology, 

e.g., permitting electronic submission of 

responses. 

All comments submitted in response 

to this notice are a matter of public 

record. The USPTO will include or 

summarize each comment in the request 

to OMB to approve this information 

collection. Before including an address, 

phone number, email address, or other 

personally identifiable information (PII) 

in a comment, be aware that the entire 

comment—including PII—may be made 

publicly available at any time. While 

you may ask in your comment to 

withhold PII from public view, the 

USPTO cannot guarantee that it will be 

able to do so. 

Kimberly Hardy, 

Information Collections Officer, Office of the 

Chief Adminstrative Officer, United States 

Patent and Trademark Office. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Patent and Trademark Office 

[Docket No. PTO–P–2021–0057] 

Events for the Artificial Intelligence 

and Emerging Technologies 

Partnership 

AGENCY: United States Patent and 

Trademark Office, Department of 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of meetings. 

SUMMARY: The United States Patent and 

Trademark Office (USPTO) is focused 

on incentivizing more innovation, 


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inclusively and in key technology areas 

such as artificial intelligence (AI) and 

other emerging technologies (ET) (e.g., 

quantum computing, synthetic biology, 

blockchain, precision medicine, and 

virtual reality), protecting that 

innovation and bringing it to impact to 

enhance our country’s economic 

prosperity and national security and to 

solve world problems. In recent years, 

the USPTO has actively engaged its 

stakeholders regarding AI/ET. The 

USPTO has promoted the importance of 

intellectual property (IP) rights as an 

incentive to foster and protect 

innovation in these critical areas. To 

expand and scale these efforts, the 

USPTO seeks to form a partnership (AI/ 

ET Partnership) with the AI and ET 

communities, including, for example, 

academia, independent inventors, small 

businesses, industry, other government 

agencies, nonprofits, and civil society. 

The AI/ET Partnership will provide an 

opportunity to bring stakeholders 

together through a series of engagements 

to share ideas, feedback, experiences, 

and insights on the intersection of IP 

and AI/ET. Through this notice, the 

USPTO announces a series of meetings 

exploring AI/ET-related initiatives at the 

USPTO and IP policy issues impacted 

by AI and other ET. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Matthew Sked, Senior Legal Advisor, 

Office of Patent Legal Administration, at 

571–272–7627. You can also send 

inquiries to AIPartnership@uspto.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background on the AI/ET Efforts at 

the USPTO: While AI has the potential 

to provide tremendous societal and 

economic benefits and foster a new 

wave of innovation and creativity, the 

USPTO recognizes it poses novel 

challenges and opportunities for IP 

policy. To this end, in January 2019, the 

USPTO hosted a conference regarding 

the IP policy considerations of AI. The 

event consisted of six panels of IP 

specialists from around the world 

discussing the impact of AI in such 

areas as patents, trade secrets, 

trademarks, and copyright. Recordings 

of the event are available at 

www.uspto.gov/about-us/events/ 

artificial-intelligence-intellectualproperty-policy-considerations. 

Continuing its outreach to 

stakeholders, the USPTO issued a 

request for public comments in August 

2019 on patenting AI inventions. 

Particularly, the notice sought 

comments on various patent policy 

issues, such as AI’s impact on 

inventorship, subject matter eligibility, 

written descriptions, enablement, and 

the level of ordinary skill in the art. 84 

FR 44889. In October 2019, the USPTO 

issued a second request for comments 

on additional IP policy and AI topics, 

such as copyright, trademarks, data 

protections, and trade secret law. 84 FR 

58141. The USPTO received numerous 

comments on both notices from a wide 

range of stakeholders, including 

individuals, associations, corporations, 

law firms, academics, and foreign IP 

offices. The requests for comments and 

the public comments received are 

available at www.uspto.gov/initiatives/ 

artificial-intelligence/artificialintelligence-reports. 

In response to the public comments, 

the USPTO published a report titled 

‘‘Public Views on Artificial Intelligence 

and Intellectual Property Policy’’ in 

October 2020. The report takes a 

comprehensive look at a wide variety of 

stakeholder views on the impact of AI 

across the IP landscape and provides AI 

context, legal background, and public 

comment synthesis for each of the 

questions presented in the two requests 

for comments. The USPTO has used the 

report to focus on issues for continued 

exploration and stakeholder engagement 

to bolster the understanding and 

reliability of IP rights for AI and other 

ET. The full report is available at 

www.uspto.gov/sites/default/files/ 

documents/USPTO_AI-Report_2020-10- 

07.pdf. 

Also in October 2020, the USPTO 

issued a report titled ‘‘Inventing AI: 

Tracing the diffusion of artificial 

intelligence with U.S. patents.’’ This 

report sought to gauge the volume and 

potential impact of AI innovation 

through patent data. The report found 

that AI is increasingly important for 

invention, and it diffuses broadly across 

technologies, inventor-patentees, 

organizations, and geography. 

Particularly, AI patent applications 

increased by more than 100% from 

2002–2018 and spread to over 42% of 

all technology subclasses by 2018. The 

full report is available at 

www.uspto.gov/sites/default/files/ 

documents/OCE-DH-AI.pdf. The AI 

patent dataset that was the basis of the 

report is also available to the public at 

www.uspto.gov/ip-policy/economicresearch/research-datasets/artificialintelligence-patent-dataset. This novel 

dataset can help researchers, 

policymakers, and the public explore 

the growing role of AI in invention. 

More recently, in July 2021, in 

response to a request by Senators Thom 

Tillis, Tom Cotton, Mazie Hirono, and 

Chris Coons, the USPTO published a 

request for information to solicit views 

from stakeholders on the impact of the 

current state of patent subject matter 

eligibility jurisprudence on investment 

and innovation in critical technologies. 

86 FR 36257. These critical technologies 

include quantum computing, AI, 

precision medicine, diagnostic methods, 

and pharmaceutical treatments. The 

USPTO will use the comments received 

in response to this request as the basis 

for a report to Congress on the topic. 

The request for information and the 

public comments received are available 

at www.regulations.gov/docket/PTO-P2021-0032/document. 

In addition, the USPTO recently 

hosted several events regarding AI and 

ET. In April 2021, for example, the 

USPTO held a virtual AI and ET small 

business event to foster collaboration, 

networking, and business partnerships 

in the AI and ET space. Additionally, in 

October 2021, the USPTO hosted a joint 

conference with the U.S. Copyright 

Office titled ‘‘Copyright law and 

machine learning for AI: where are we 

and where are we going?,’’ which 

explored existing copyright laws and 

policies as they apply to machine 

learning, as well as potential alternative 

solutions in this space. 

These engagements support and align 

with the National AI Initiative Act of 

2020, which became law on January 1, 

2021. The purpose of the National AI 

Initiative is to ensure continued U.S. 

leadership in AI research and 

development and the use of trustworthy 

AI systems in the public and private 

sectors; prepare the present and future 

U.S. workforce for the integration of AI 

systems across all sectors of the 

economy and society; and coordinate 

ongoing AI research, development, and 

demonstrations among the civilian 

agencies, the Department of Defense, 

and the Intelligence Community to 

ensure that each informs the work of the 

others. To continue its support for the 

National AI Initiative, the USPTO is 

creating a partnership with the AI/ET 

community, including, for example, 

academia, independent inventors, small 

businesses, industry, other government 

agencies, nonprofits, and civil society. 

II. Formation of the AI/ET 

Partnership: To build on its previous 

efforts to encourage innovation, 

creativity, and entrepreneurship in AI 

and other ET and promote predictable 

and reliable IP rights for these 

technologies, the USPTO announces the 

formation of the AI/ET Partnership. The 

AI/ET Partnership will be an ongoing, 

cooperative effort between the USPTO 

and the AI/ET community to explore 

various issues resulting from the 

intersection of ET, including AI, and IP 

policy. In particular, the USPTO seeks 

to engage the AI/ET community on 

ongoing and future AI/ET efforts at the 

USPTO to promote greater awareness, 


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openness, and inclusivity. These efforts 

include the USPTO’s use of AI and ET 

within the agency to further its goals of 

enhancing the quality and efficiency of 

patent and trademark examination. 

Additionally, the USPTO seeks to better 

understand the public’s views on the IP 

policy issues that uniquely affect the AI/ 

ET community to help inform the 

USPTO’s future work in the AI/ET IP 

policy space. The AI/ET Partnership 

will commence with a series of meetings 

exploring AI/ET-related initiatives at the 

USPTO and IP policy issues impacted 

by AI and other ET. Further information 

on the AI/ET Partnership, future events, 

and participation in these events is 

available on the AI/ET Partnership web 

page at www.uspto.gov/aipartnership. 

III. AI/ET Meeting Series: The AI/ET 

Partnership will begin with a series of 

virtual events. The inaugural event will 

explore various patent policy issues 

including subject matter eligibility, 

inventorship, and disclosure practice. 

Future events will engage stakeholders 

on other IP policy issues and USPTO 

efforts in the AI/ET space. 

The USPTO will hold the inaugural 

Partnership meeting virtually on June 

29, 2022, from 1:00 p.m. to 4:45 p.m. 

ET. For registration and further 

information on the AI/ET Partnership 

series, please visit the AI/ET 

Partnership web page at www.uspto.gov/ 

aipartnership. 

Katherine K. Vidal, 

Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual 

Property and Director of the United States 

Patent and Trademark Office. 

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INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT 

FINANCE CORPORATION 

[DFC–012] 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comments Request 

AGENCY: U.S. International Development 

Finance Corporation (DFC). 

ACTION: Notice of information collection; 

request for comment. 

SUMMARY: Under the provisions of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act, agencies are 

required to publish a Notice in the 

Federal Register notifying the public 

that the agency renewing an existing 

previously approved information 

collection for OMB review and approval 

and requests public review and 

comment on the submission. Comments 

are being solicited on the need for the 

information; the accuracy of the burden 

estimate; the quality, practical utility, 

and clarity of the information to be 

collected; and ways to minimize 

reporting the burden, including 

automated collected techniques and 

uses of other forms of technology. 

DATES: Comments must be received by 

August 8, 2022. 

ADDRESSES: Comments and requests for 

copies of the subject information 

collection may be sent by any of the 

following methods: 

• Mail: Deborah Papadopoulos, 

Agency Submitting Officer, U.S. 

International Development Finance 

Corporation, 1100 New York Avenue 

NW, Washington, DC 20527. 

• Email: fedreg@dfc.gov. 

Instructions: All submissions received 

must include the agency name and 

agency form number or OMB form 

number for this information collection. 

Electronic submissions must include the 

agency form number in the subject line 

to ensure proper routing. Please note 

that all written comments received in 

response to this notice will be 

considered public records. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Agency Submitting Officer: Deborah 

Papadopoulos, (202) 357–3979. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

notice informs the public that DFC will 

submit to OMB a request for approval of 

the following information collection. 

Summary Form Under Review 

Title of Collection: Economic 

Questionnaire. 

Type of Review: Extension without 

change of a currently approved 

information collection. 

Agency Form Number: DFC–012. 

OMB Form Number: 3015–0001. 

Frequency: Per request of investor. 

Affected Public: Business or other forprofit. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Number of Respondents: 20. 

Estimated Time per Respondent: 0.5 

hours. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Burden Hours: 10 hours. 

Abstract: The DFC Economic 

Questionnaire is provided to DFC 

investors to complete information for 

planned revenues and exports of goods. 

The resulting answers determine the 

sector of analysis to assess risk to the 

U.S. economy of DFC support for a 

project. 

Dated: June 1, 2022. 

Nichole Skoyles, 

Administrative Counsel, Office of the General 

Counsel. 

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U.S. INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT 

FINANCE CORPORATION 

Notice of Cancellation of public 

hearing 

AGENCY: U.S. International Development 

Finance Corporation. 

ACTION: Cancellation of public hearing. 

SUMMARY: The June 8, 2022, Public 

Hearing of the DFC Board of Directors 

has been cancelled and will be 

rescheduled. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Catherine F.I. Andrade, DFC Corporate 

Secretary, (202) 336–8768, or 

candrade@dfc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: DFC 

published notice of its June 8, 2022 

Public Hearing of the Board of Directors 

in the Federal Register volume 87, page 

26741 on May 5, 2022. This hearing is 

cancelled due to scheduling conflicts. 

The public will be notified when the 

public hearing is rescheduled. 

Authority: 22 U.S.C. 9613(c). 

Catherine F.I. Andrade, 

DFC Corporate Secretary. 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Office of the Secretary 

Renewal of Department of Defense 

Federal Advisory Committees—U.S. 

Strategic Command Strategic Advisory 

Board 

AGENCY: Department of Defense (DoD). 

ACTION: Charter and Membership 

Balance Plan renewal of Federal 

advisory committee. 

SUMMARY: The DoD is publishing this 

notice to announce that it is renewing 

the Charter and Membership Balance 

Plan of the U.S. Strategic Command 

Strategic Advisory Group (SAG). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jim 

Freeman, Advisory Committee 

Management Officer for the Department 

of Defense, 703–692–5952. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The SAG’s 

charter is being renewed pursuant to 10 

U.S.C. 1781a and in accordance with the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act 

(FACA) (5 U.S.C., Appendix) and 41 

CFR 102–3.50(a). The charter and 

contact information for the SAG’s 

Designated Federal Officer (DFO) are 

found at https://www.facadatabase.gov/ 

FACA/apex/ 

FACAPublicAgencyNavigation. 

The SAG provides the Secretary of 

Defense independent advice and 


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