[Federal Register: November 10, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 217)]
[Notices]               
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

 
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

    The Department of Commerce (DoC) has submitted 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: Patent and Trademark Office (PTO).
    Title: Payment of Patent and Trademark Office Fees by Credit Card.
    Form Numbers: PTO-2038.
    OMB Approval Number: None.
    Type of Request: New collection.
    Burden: 20,000 hours per year.
    Number of Respondents: 100,000 responses per year.
    Avg. Hours Per Response: 12 minutes (0.2 hours) to complete the 
credit card form, PTO-2038 U.S. Patent & Trademark Office Credit Card 
Payment Form.
    Needs and Uses: The PTO is required to collect fees during the 
patent process, during the trademark process, and for information 
products through its laws and regulations. This fee collection is 
required in 35 U.S.C. 41 and 15 U.S.C. 1113 and in 37 CFR 1.16 through 
1.26, 1.492, 2.6, and 2.7. The public uses the

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credit card form to submit their credit card information to the PTO so 
that the PTO staff can charge the fees for the indicated services to a 
specific credit card. The PTO uses the information collected from this 
form to apply the fee(s) to the specific action or item and to 
determine whether the appropriate fee(s) as required by law has been 
submitted.
    Affected Public: Individuals or households, businesses or other 
for-profit, not-for-profit institutions, farms, Federal government, and 
state, local or tribal government.
    Frequency: On occasion.
    Respondent's Obligation: Required to obtain or retain benefits.
    OMB Desk Officer: Peter Weiss, (202) 395-3630.
    Copies of the above information collection proposal can be obtained 
by calling or writing Linda Engelmeier, Departmental Forms Clearance 
Officer, (202) 482-3272, Office of the Chief Information Officer, 
Department of Commerce, Room 5027, 14th and Constitution Avenue, NW, 
Washington, DC 20230 (or via the Internet at LEngelme@doc.gov).
    Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information 
collection should be sent within 30 days of publication to Peter Weiss, 
OMB Desk Officer, Room 10236, New Executive Office Building, 725 17th 
Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20503.

    Dated: November 4, 1999.
Linda Engelmeier,
Departmental Forms Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information 
Officer.
[FR Doc. 99-29457 Filed 11-9-99; 8:45 am]
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