Substantive Submissions Made
During Prosecution of the Trademark Application
Revision of a currently approved collection
No
Regular
12/31/2020
Requested
Previously Approved
36 Months From Approved
01/31/2021
337,382
375,132
211,639
101,466
39,702,140
42,665,447
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 that use or intend to use such marks in commerce may
file an application to register their mark with the USPTO. Such
individuals and businesses may also submit various communications
to the USPTO during the prosecution of an application. This
information collection covers the various communications that may
be submitted by the applicant, including providing additional
information needed to process a request to delete a particular
filing basis from an application or to divide an application
identifying multiple goods and/or services into two or more
separate applications. This information collection also covers
requests for a 6-month extension of time to file a statement that
the mark is in use in commerce or petitions to revive an
application that abandoned for failure to submit a timely response
to an office action or a timely statement of use or extension
request. This information collection also covers circumstances in
which an applicant may expressly abandon an application by filing a
written request for withdrawal of the application.
Change in respondent hour
burden: For this renewal, the USPTO estimates that the annual
responses will decrease by 37,750 (from 375,132 to 337,382) and the
total burden hours will increase by 110,173 (from 101,466 to
211,639) from the currently approved burden for this information
collection. These changes are due to Agency estimates: • Decreases
in the estimated number of responses due to Agency estimates
regarding the natural fluctuation in the volume of trademark
submissions. • Increases in estimated burden hours due to
increasing estimate of time to complete various items in the
information collection. The total estimated burden hours have
increased from 101,466 in the 2017 renewal to 211,639 for the
current renewal due to overall increases in estimated annual
responses. Changes in annual (non-hour) costs For this renewal, the
USPTO estimates that the total annual (non-hour) costs will
decrease by $3,111,707 (from $ 42,813,847 to $39,702,140). This
decrease is due to the reduction in the estimate of trademark
submissions.
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that
the collection of information encompassed by this request complies
with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR
1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding
the proposed collection of information, that the certification
covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a
benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control
number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of
these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked
and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.