[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 176 (Monday, September 12, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 62739-62740]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-21790]
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
[Docket 2016-0053; Sequence 16; OMB Control No. 9000-0095]
Submission for OMB Review; Commerce Patent Regulations
AGENCY: Department of Defense (DOD), General Services Administration
(GSA), and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
ACTION: Notice of request for comments regarding the extension of a
previously existing OMB clearance.
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SUMMARY: Under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act, the
Regulatory Secretariat Division will be submitting to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) a request to review and approve an
extension of a previously approved information collection requirement
concerning Department of Commerce patent regulations. A notice was
published in the Federal Register at 81 FR 24103 on April 25, 2016. No
comments were received.
DATES: Submit comments on or before October 12, 2016.
ADDRESSES: Submit comments regarding this burden estimate or any other
aspect of this collection of information, including suggestions for
reducing this burden to: Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs
of OMB, Attention: Desk Officer for GSA, Room 10236, NEOB, Washington,
DC 20503. Additionally submit a copy to GSA by any of the following
methods:
Regulations.gov: http://www.regulations.gov. Submit
comments via the Federal eRulemaking portal by searching the OMB
control number. Select the link ``Submit a Comment'' that corresponds
with ``Information Collection 9000-0095, Commerce Patent Regulations''.
Follow the instructions provided at the ``Submit a Comment'' screen.
Please include your name, company name (if any), and ``Information
Collection 9000-0095, Commerce Patent Regulations'' on your attached
document.
Mail: General Services Administration, Regulatory
Secretariat Division (MVCB), 1800 F Street NW., Washington, DC 20405.
ATTN: Ms. Flowers/IC 9000-0095, Commerce Patent Regulations.
Instructions: Please submit comments only and cite Information
Collection 9000-0095, Commerce Patent Regulations, in all
correspondence related to this collection. Comments received generally
will be posted without change to http://www.regulations.gov, including
any personal and/or business confidential information provided. To
confirm receipt of your comment(s), please check www.regulations.gov,
approximately two to three days after submission to verify posting
(except allow 30 days for posting of comments submitted by mail).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Zenaida Delgado, Procurement
Analyst, Office of Governmentwide Acquisition Policy, GSA, 202-969-7207
or email [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
A. Purpose
FAR subpart 27.3, Patents Rights under Government Contracts,
implements the Department of Commerce regulation (37 CFR 401) based on
chapter 18 of title 35 U.S.C., Presidential Memorandum on Government
Patent Policy to the Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies, dated
February 18, 1983, and Executive Order 12591, Facilitating Access to
Science and Technology, dated April 10, 1987. Under the subpart, a
contracting officer may insert clauses 52.227-11, Patent Rights-
Ownership by the Contractor, or 52.227-13, Patent Rights-Ownership by
the Government, in solicitations and contracts pertaining to inventions
made in the performance of experimental, developmental, or research
work.
In accordance with the clauses, a Government contractor must report
all subject inventions to the contracting officer, submit a disclosure
of the invention, and identify any publication, or sale, or public use
of the invention (52.227-11(c), 52.227-13(e)(1)). The contracting
officer may modify 52.227-11(e) or otherwise supplement the clause to
require contractors to submit periodic or interim and final reports
listing subject inventions (27.303(b)(2)(i) and (ii)). In order to
ensure that subject inventions are reported, the contractor is required
to establish and maintain effective procedures for identifying and
disclosing subject inventions (52.227-11, Alternate IV; 52.227-
13(e)(1)). In addition, the contractor must require his employees, by
written agreements, to disclose subject inventions (52.227-11(e)(2);
52.227-13(e)(4)). The contractor also has an obligation to utilize the
subject invention, and agree to report, upon request, the utilization
or efforts to utilize the subject invention (27.302(e); 52.227-11(f)).
B. Annual Reporting Burden
Respondents: 3759.
Responses per Respondent: 3.8.
Total Responses: 14,338.
Hours per Response: 4.0.
Total Burden Hours: 57,352.
C. Public Comments
Public comments are particularly invited on: Whether this
collection of information is necessary for the proper performance of
functions of the FAR, and whether it will have practical utility;
whether our estimate of the public burden of this collection of
information is accurate, and based on
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valid assumptions and methodology; ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and ways in
which we can minimize the burden of the collection of information on
those who are to respond, through the use of appropriate technological
collection techniques or other forms of information technology.
OBTAINING COPIES OF PROPOSALS: Requesters may obtain a copy of the
information collection documents from the General Services
Administration (GSA), Regulatory Secretariat Division (MVCB), 1800 F
Street NW., Washington, DC 20405, telephone 202-501-4755. Please cite
OMB Control No. 9000-0095, Commerce Patent Regulations, in all
correspondence.
Dated: September 6, 2016.
Lorin S. Curit,
Director, Federal Acquisition Policy Division, Office of Governmentwide
Acquisition Policy, Office of Acquisition Policy, Office of
Governmentwide Policy.
[FR Doc. 2016-21790 Filed 9-9-16; 8:45 am]
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