2014-05877. 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: Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) Actions.

Form Number(s): None.

Agency Approval Number: 0651-0040.

Type of Request: Extension of a currently approved collection.

Burden: 15,524 hours annually.

Number of Respondents: 76,017 responses per year.

Avg. Hours per Response: The USPTO estimates that it will take the public approximately 10 to 30 minutes (0.17 to 0.50 hours) to complete the submission, depending on the request. This includes time to gather the necessary information, prepare the petitions, notices, extensions, or additional papers, and submit the completed request to the USPTO, depending on the complexity of the situation.

Needs and Uses: This information is required by the Trademark Act of 1946, Sections 13, 14, and 20, 15 U.S.C. 1063, 1064, and 1070, respectively. The information in this collection is a matter of public record and is used by the public for a variety of private business purposes related to establishing and enforcing trademark rights. This information is important to the public, as both common law trademark owners and Federal trademark registrants must actively protect their own rights. This collection includes the information needed by the USPTO to review the various types of petitions to cancel the registration of a mark, notices of opposition to the registration of a mark, extensions of time to file an opposition, appeals, and other papers filed in connection with inter partes and ex parte proceedings.

Affected Public: Businesses or other for-profits or non-profit institutions.

Frequency: On occasion.

Respondent's Obligation: Required to obtain or retain benefits.

OMB Desk Officer: Nicholas A. Fraser, email:

[e-mail].

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: [e-mail]. Include “0651-0040 copy request” in the subject line of the message.
• Mail: Susan K. Fawcett, Records Officer, 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 April 17, 2014 to Nicholas A. Fraser, OMB Desk Officer, via email to [e-mail] or by fax to 202-395-5167, marked to the attention of Nicholas A. Fraser.

Dated: March 12, 2014.

Susan K. Fawcett,

Records Officer, USPTO, Office of the Chief Information Officer.