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The primary purpose of the EFP is to 

test the use of EM equipment in lieu of 

an observer and to evaluate components 

of an overall EM program before 

implementation of a comprehensive 

regulatory program. Peter Leipzig of the 

Fishermen’s Marketing Association is 

the point of contact for this EFP. 

Heather Mann and Brent Paine EFP 

The vessels participating in this EFP 

are mid-water trawls that fish in the 

shoreside and mothership whiting 

fishery. The primary purpose of the EFP 

is to determine whether utilizing 

cameras in lieu of human observers 

proves both cost effective and 

operationally effecting while still 

providing 100 percent monitoring of 

catch and discards. Heather Mann of the 

Midwater Trawlers Cooperative and 

Brent Paine of the United Catcher Boats 

are the points of contact for this EFP. 

Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq. 

Dated: December 29, 2014. 

James P. Burgess, 

Acting Director, Office of Sustainable 

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

[FR Doc. 2014–30781 Filed 12–31–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–22–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: Summer Teacher Institute. 

Agency Approval Number: 0651– 

0077. 

Type of Request: Revision of a 

currently approved collection. 

Burden: 292 hours annually. 

Number of Respondents: 900 

responses per year. 

Avg. Hours per Response: The USPTO 

estimates that it will take the public 

approximately 5 minute (0.08 hours) to 

30 minutes (0.5 hours) to prepare the 

appropriate form or documents and 

submit to the USPTO. 

Needs and Uses: As part of the Maker 

Fair Initiative, a program entitled 

‘‘National Teachers’ Summer Institute’’ 

is sponsored by USPTO. This program 

accepts applicants for a summer 

teaching workshop. The program 

receives applications from individuals, 

requesting to participate in the Institute, 

who certify that they are educators with 

at least 3 years’ experience. These 

applicants are also required to (1) have 

taught in STEM related fields last year, 

(2) plan to teach in a STEM related field 

this upcoming year, and (3) to 

acknowledge their commitment to 

incorporate the learnings from the 

Teacher Summer Institute into their 

curriculum, where applicable, and 

cooperate with sharing lessons and 

outcomes with teachers and PTO. 

The USPTO may various host 

webinars in conjunction with the 

Summer Institute. USPTO plans to 

conduct surveys of both the Institute 

and the webinars in order to gain useful 

feedback from program participants. 

Affected Public: Businesses or other 

for-profit organizations. 

Frequency: Annually. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Required to 

obtain 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 ‘‘0651–0012 copy 

request’’ in the subject line of the 

message. 

• Mail: Marcie Lovett, 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 February 2, 2015 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. 

Margaret McElrath, 

Deputy Director, Office of Information 

Management Services, Department of 

Commerce—USPTO. 

[FR Doc. 2014–30680 Filed 12–31–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–16–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

United States Patent and Trademark 

Office 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request: Applications for 

Trademark Registration 

The Department of Commerce 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, Commerce. 

Title: Applications for Trademark 

Registration. 

OMB Control Number: 0651–0009. 

Form Number(s): 

• PTO–1478 

• PTO–1479 

• PTO–1480 

• PTO–1481 

• PTO–1482 

Type of Request: Regular. 

Number of Respondents: 387,981. 

Average Minutes per Response: 30. 

Burden Hours: 149,267. 

Cost Burden: $103,000,869.42. 

Needs and Uses: The United States 

Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) 

administers the Trademark Act, 15 

U.S.C. 1051 et seq., which provides for 

the Federal registration of trademarks, 

service marks, collective trademarks and 

service marks, collective membership 

marks, and certification marks. 

Individuals and businesses who use 

their marks, or intend to use their 

marks, in commerce regulable by 

Congress, may file an application with 

the USPTO to register their marks. 

Registered marks remain on the register 

indefinitely, so long as the owner of the 

registration files the necessary 

maintenance documents. The rules 

implementing the Trademark Act are set 

forth in 37 CFR part 2. 

The Act and rules mandate that each 

certificate of registration include the 

mark, the particular goods and/or 

services for which the mark is 

registered, the owner’s name, dates of 

use of the mark in commerce, and 

certain other information. The USPTO 

also provides similar information to the 

public concerning pending applications. 

Individuals or businesses may 

determine the availability of a mark by 

accessing the register through the 

USPTO’s Web site. Accessing and 

reviewing the USPTO’s publicly 

available information may reduce the 

possibility of initiating use of a mark 

previously registered or adopted by 

another. Thus, the Federal trademark 

registration process reduces 

unnecessary litigation and its associated 

costs and burdens. The information in 

this collection is available to the public. 

Trademarks can be registered on 

either the Principal or Supplemental 

Register. Registrations on the Principal 

Register confer all of the benefits of 

registration provided under the 

Trademark Act. Certain marks that are 

not eligible for registration on the 

Principal Register, but are capable of 


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functioning as a trademark, may be 

registered on the Supplemental Register. 

Registrations on the Supplemental 

Register do not have all of the benefits 

of marks on the Principal Register. 

Registrations on the Supplemental 

Register cannot be transferred to the 

Principal Register, but owners of 

registrations on the Supplemental 

Register may apply for registration of 

their marks on the Principal Register. 

The information in this collection can 

be submitted in paper format or 

electronically through the Trademark 

Electronic Application System (TEAS). 

Applicants that file applications using 

the TEAS RF or TEAS Plus forms pay 

a reduced filing fee if they agree to file 

certain communications regarding the 

application through TEAS and to 

receive communications concerning the 

application by email. TEAS Plus 

applicants are also subject to the 

additional requirement to file a 

complete application. TEAS Plus 

applications are only available for 

trademark/service mark applications. 

There are no TEAS Plus application 

forms available for the certification 

marks, collective marks, collective 

membership marks, and applications for 

registration on the Supplemental 

Register at this time. 

Affected Public: Businesses or other 

for-profits; not-for-profit institutions. 

Frequency: On occasion. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Required to 

Obtain or Retain Benefits. 

This information collection request 

may be viewed at reginfo.gov. Follow 

the instructions to view Department of 

Commerce collections currently under 

review by OMB. 

Written comments may be submitted 

by any of the following methods: 

• Email: InformationCollection@

uspto.gov. Include ‘‘0651–0009 

Applications for Trademark 

Registration’’ in the subject line of the 

message. 

• Mail: Marcie Lovett, 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. 

Margaret McElrath, 

Deputy Director, Office of Information 

Management Services, Department of 

Commerce—USPTO. 

[FR Doc. 2014–30678 Filed 12–31–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–16–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Patent and Trademark Office 

Public Key Infrastructure Certificate 

Action Form 

ACTION: Proposed collection; comment 

request. 

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 take this opportunity to 

comment on the continuing information 

collection, 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 March 3, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by any of the following methods: 

• Email: InformationCollection@

uspto.gov. Include ‘‘0651–0045 

comment’’ 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: John 

Pardun, Cybersecurity Division, United 

States Patent and Trademark Office, 

P.O. Box 1450, Alexandria, VA 22313– 

1450; by telephone at 571–272–4349; or 

by email to John.Pardun@uspto.gov. 

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) uses Public 

Key Infrastructure (PKI) technology to 

support electronic commerce between 

the USPTO and its customers. PKI is a 

set of hardware, software, policies, and 

procedures that provide important 

security services for the electronic 

business activities of the USPTO, 

including protecting the confidentiality 

of unpublished patent applications in 

accordance with 35 U.S.C. 122 and 37 

CFR 1.14, as well as protecting 

international patent applications in 

accordance with Article 30 of the Patent 

Cooperation Treaty. 

In order to provide the necessary 

security for its electronic commerce 

systems, the USPTO uses PKI 

technology to protect the integrity and 

confidentiality of information submitted 

to the USPTO. PKI employs public and 

private encryption keys to authenticate 

the customer’s identity and support 

secure electronic communication 

between the customer and the USPTO. 

Customers may submit a request to the 

USPTO for a digital certificate, which 

enables the customer to create the 

encryption keys necessary for electronic 

identity verification and secure 

transactions with the USPTO. This 

digital certificate is required in order to 

access any secure online systems 

USPTO provides; including the systems 

for electronic filing of patent 

applications and viewing confidential 

information about unpublished patent 

applications. 

This information collection includes 

the Certificate Action Form (PTO–2042), 

which is used by the public to request 

a new digital certificate, the revocation 

of a current certificate, or the recovery 

of a lost or corrupted certificate. 

Customers may also change the name 

listed on the certificate or associate the 

certificate with one or more Customer 

Numbers. A certificate request must 

include a notarized signature in order to 

verify the identity of the applicant. The 

Certificate Action Form has an 

accompanying subscriber agreement to 

ensure that customers understand their 

obligations regarding the use of the 

digital certificates and cryptographic 

software. When generating a new 

certificate, customers register to get a set 

of seven codes that will enable 

customers to recover a lost certificate 

online without having to contact 

USPTO support staff. 

II. Method of Collection 

The Certificate Action Form must be 

notarized and may be mailed or hand 

delivered to the USPTO. 

III. Data 

OMB Number: 0651–0045. 

Form Number(s): PTO–2042. 

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: 

1,857 responses per year. 

Estimated Time per Response: The 

USPTO estimates that it will take the 

public approximately 30 minutes (0.5 

hours) to read the instructions and 

subscriber agreement, gather the 

necessary information, prepare the 

Certificate Action Form, and submit the 

completed request. 

Estimated Total Annual Respondent 

Burden Hours: 929 hours. 


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