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IC No. Item Responses Filing fee Total filing 

fee cost 

(a) (b) (c) 

(a) × (b) 

1 ........................ Use-Based Trademark/Service Mark Applications (TEAS RF) ................ 94,756 275.00 26,057,900.00 

1 ........................ Use-Based Trademark/Service Mark Applications (TEAS Plus) .............. 82,053 225.00 18,461,925.00 

2 ........................ Intent to Use Trademark/Service Mark Application (Paper) ..................... 70 600.00 42,000.00 

2 ........................ Intent to Use Trademark/Service Mark Application (TEAS) ..................... 9,390 400.00 375,600.00 

2 ........................ Intent to Use Trademark/Service Mark Application (TEAS RF) ............... 114,779 275.00 31,564,225.00 

2 ........................ Intent to Use Trademark/Service Mark Application (TEAS Plus) ............. 99,392 225.00 22,363,200.00 

3 ........................ Applications for Registration of Trademark/Service Mark under § 44 

(Paper).

9 600.00 5,400.00 

3 ........................ Applications for Registration of Trademark/Service Mark under § 44 

(TEAS).

1,232 400.00 492,800.00 

3 ........................ Applications for Registration of Trademark/Service Mark under § 44 ......

(TEAS RF) ................................................................................................

15,064 275.00 4,127,536.00 

3 ........................ Applications for Registration of Trademark/Service Mark under § 44 

(TEAS Plus).

13,044 225.00 2,934,900.00 

Totals ......... ................................................................................................................... 437,599 ........................ 109,561,086.00 

In addition, the USPTO charges a 

processing fee of $125.00 per class for 

certain TEAS RF and TEAS Plus 

applications. If an applicant files a 

TEAS Plus or TEAS RF application that 

does not satisfy the relevant 

requirements for TEAS RF or TEAS 

Plus, they will be required to submit the 

additional $125 processing fee to bump 

the application back up to TEAS 

Regular. The total processing fees 

associated with this collection can vary 

depending on the number of classes in 

each application. 

The total processing fees of $209,500, 

shown in the table below, reflect the 

minimum processing fees associated 

with this information collection. 

IC No. Item Responses Processing 

fee 

Total 

processing 

fees 

(a) 

1 ........................ Processing fee for applications that fail to meet the additional filing and 

processing requirements for the reduced filing fee (TEAS RF).

898 $125.00 $112,250.00 

1 ........................ Processing fee for applications that fail to meet the additional filing and 

processing requirements for reduced filing fee (TEAS Plus).

778 125.00 97,250.00 

Totals ......... ....................................................................................................................... 1,676 ........................ 209,500.00 

Applicants incur postage costs when 

submitting the non-electronic 

information covered by this collection 

to the USPTO by mail. The USPTO 

expects that approximately 99 percent 

of the responses in this collection will 

be submitted electronically. The USPTO 

estimates that the overwhelming 

majority of the paper forms are 

submitted to the USPTO via first-class 

mail. The USPTO estimates that 137 

will be mailed with a first-class-postage 

cost of $0.49 per submission. Therefore, 

the USPTO estimates that the postage 

costs for this collection will be $67.13. 

Therefore, the USPTO estimates that 

the total annual (non-hour) cost burden 

for this collection in the form of filing 

fees ($109,561,086), processing fees 

($209,500), and postage costs ($67.13) is 

$109,770,653.13. 

IV. Requests for Comments 

Comments submitted in response to 

this notice will be summarized or 

included in the request for OMB 

approval of this information collection. 

They also will become a matter of 

public record. 

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 

estimation of the burden (including 

hours and cost) of the proposed 

collection of information; 

(c) Ways to enhance the quality, 

utility, and clarity of the information to 

be collected; and 

(d) Ways to minimize the burden of 

the collection of information on 

respondents, e.g., the use of automated 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology. 

Marcie Lovett, 

Records and Information Governance 

Division Director, OCTO, United States Patent 

and Trademark Office. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

United States Patent and Trademark 

Office 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request; Patent Petitions 

Related to Application and 

Reexamination Processing Fees 

The United States Patent and 

Trademark Office (USTPO) 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). 

Title: Patent Petitions Related to 

Application and Reexamination 

Processing Fees. 

OMB Control Number: 0651–0059. 

Form Number(s): 

• PTO/SB/17P 

• PTO/SB/23 

• PTO/SB/24a 

• PTO/SB/28 (EFS-Web only) 

• PTO/SB/140 (EFS-Web only) 


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Type of Request: Revision of a 

currently existing collection. 

Number of Respondents: 374,972 

responses per year. 

Average Hours per Response: The 

USPTO estimates that it takes the public 

approximately 5 minutes (0.08 hours) to 

12 hours to complete items in this 

collection, depending on the petition. 

This includes the time to gather the 

necessary information, prepare the 

petitions and petition fee transmittals, 

and submit them to the USPTO. The 

USPTO estimates that it takes the same 

amount of time to gather the necessary 

information, prepare the submission, 

and submit it electronically as it does to 

submit the information in paper form. 

Burden Hours: 42,195 hours annually. 

Cost Burden: $3,147,594.80. 

Needs and Uses: USPTO petitions 

practice provides patent applicants the 

ability to request certain administrative 

reviews of USPTO decisions and also 

supply additional information to 

applications currently being processed. 

The public uses the information in this 

collection to petition for various actions 

under 37 CFR 1.17(f), (g), and (h), such 

as petitioning for a suspension of the 

rules, requesting access to an 

assignment record, or requesting the 

withdrawal of an application from issue 

either before or after paying the issue 

fee. In addition, the public uses these 

petitions to request accelerated 

examination, to request abandonment of 

an application to avoid publication of 

said application, and to request certain 

extensions of time. The public uses the 

transmittal form to remit the required 

fees for the various petitions. The 

USPTO uses the information collected 

from the petitions and transmittal form 

to determine whether to grant the 

various requests and to ensure that the 

proper fees have been remitted and are 

processed accordingly. 

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 reginfo.gov. Follow the 

instructions to view Department of 

Commerce collections currently under 

review by OMB. 

Further information can be obtained 

by: 

• Email: InformationCollection@

uspto.gov. Include ‘‘0651–0059 copy 

request’’ in the subject line of the 

message. 

• Mail: Marcie Lovett, Records and 

Information Governance Division 

Director, Office of the Chief Technology 

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 October 30, 2017 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. 

Marcie Lovett, 

Records and Information Governance 

Division Director, OCTO, United States Patent 

and Trademark Office. 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Office of the Secretary 

Defense Advisory Committee on 

Investigation Prosecution and Defense 

of Sexual Assault in the Armed Forces; 

Notice of Federal Advisory Committee 

Meeting 

AGENCY: General Counsel of the 

Department of Defense, Department of 

Defense. 

ACTION: Notice of Federal Advisory 

Committee meeting. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Defense 

(DoD) is publishing this notice to 

announce that the following Federal 

Advisory Committee meeting of the 

Defense Advisory Committee on 

Investigation Prosecution and Defense 

of Sexual Assault in the Armed Forces 

will take place. 

DATES: Day 1—Open to the public, 

Thursday, October 19, 2017 from 1:15 

p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Day 2—Open to the 

public, Friday, October 20, 2017 from 

8:45 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. 

ADDRESSES: One Liberty Center, 875 N. 

Randolph Street, Suite 1432, Arlington, 

Virginia 22203. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Dwight Sullivan, 703–695–1055 (Voice), 

703–693–3903 (Facsimile), 

dwight.h.sullivan.civ@mail.mil (Email). 

Mailing address is DACIPAD, One 

Liberty Center, 875 N. Randolph Street, 

Suite 150, Arlington, Virginia 22203. 

Web site: http://dacipad.whs.mil/. The 

most up-to-date changes to the meeting 

agenda can be found on the Web site. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

meeting is being held under the 

provisions of the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act (FACA) of 1972 (5 

U.S.C., Appendix, as amended), the 

Government in the Sunshine Act of 

1976 (5 U.S.C. 552b, as amended), and 

41 CFR 102–3.140 and 102–3.150. 

Purpose of the Meeting: In section 546 

of the National Defense Authorization 

Act for Fiscal Year 2015 (Pub. L. 113– 

291), as modified by section 537 of the 

National Defense Authorization Act for 

Fiscal Year 2016 (Pub. L. 114–92), 

Congress tasked the DAC–IPAD to 

advise the Secretary of Defense on the 

investigation, prosecution, and defense 

of allegations of rape, forcible sodomy, 

sexual assault, and other sexual 

misconduct involving members of the 

Armed Forces. This will be the fourth 

public meeting held by the DAC–IPAD. 

On the first day of the meeting, the 

Committee will hear testimony from a 

former senior airman who is a sexual 

assault survivor. The Committee will 

then receive a briefing on the 

Department of Defense and Military 

Services’ sexual assault-related 

expedited transfer policies. For the last 

session of the day, the Committee will 

hear from senior military special 

victims’ counsel and victims’ legal 

counsel about their experiences 

assisting clients with expedited 

transfers and their perspectives on the 

victims’ counsel program. On the 

second day of the meeting, the 

Committee will hear from a panel of 

company, squadron, or Service 

equivalent commanders and their senior 

enlisted advisors about the sexual 

assault military justice and response 

training they received and their 

experience dealing with sexual assault 

allegations. Next, the Committee will 

hear from a panel of special courtmartial convening authorities regarding 

the sexual assault military justice and 

response training they received and 

their experience dealing with sexual 

assault allegations and making initial 

case disposition decisions. For the last 

session, the DAC–IPAD Case Review 

Working Group will update the 

Committee on the working group 

members’ review of sample sexual 

assault cases. Agenda: Thursday, 

October 19, 2017: 1:15 p.m.–1:30 p.m. 

Public Meeting Begins—Welcome and 

Introduction; 1:30 p.m.–2:30 p.m. 

Perspective of a Sexual Assault 

Survivor; 2:30 p.m.–3:20 p.m. Briefing 

on the Department of Defense (DoD) and 

Military Services’ Expedited Transfer 

Policies; 3:20 p.m.–3:30 p.m. Break; 3:30 

p.m.–5:00 p.m. Service Special Victims’ 

Counsel/Victims’ Legal Counsel (SVC/ 

VLC) Perspectives on the Expedited 

Transfer Policy and SVC/VLC Program; 

5:00 p.m. Public Meeting Adjourned. 

Friday, October 20, 2017: 8:45 a.m.– 

9:00 a.m. Public Meeting Begins— 

Welcome and Introduction: 9:00 a.m.— 

11:30 a.m. Company, Squadron, or 


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