30-day Notice

Federal Register / Vol. 82, No. 68 / Tuesday, April 11, 2017 / Notices
Dated: April 6, 2017.
Sarah Brabson,
NOAA PRA Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2017–07268 Filed 4–10–17; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Patent and Trademark Office
[Docket No.: PTO–C–2017–0006]

Notice of Public Meeting on
Developments in Trade Secret
Protection
United States Patent and
Trademark Office, Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of symposium.
AGENCY:

The United States Patent and
Trademark Office (USPTO) will be
holding a public symposium on issues
relevant to the protection of trade
secrets. Since our last symposium on
these issues in January 2015, the area of
trade secret protection has continued to
develop, most notably with the May 11,
2016, enactment of the Defend Trade
Secrets Act (DTSA). Given this
legislation and the continuing domestic
and international attention to trade
secrets, the USPTO will be holding
another public symposium to address
recent developments.
DATES: The symposium will be held on
May 8, 2017, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. EDT.
ADDRESSES: The symposium will be
held at the auditorium of the United
States Patent and Trademark Office,
Madison Building, 600 Dulany Street,
Alexandria, Virginia 22314. All major
entrances to the building are accessible
to people with disabilities.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
further information regarding the
symposium, please contact Michael
Smith, Jenny Blank, or Hollis Robinson
at the Office of Policy and International
Affairs, by telephone at (571) 272–9300,
by email at [email protected], or
by postal mail addressed to: Mail Stop
OPIA, United States Patent and
Trademark Office, P.O. Box 1450,
Alexandria, VA 22313–1450, ATTN:
Michael Smith, Jenny Blank, or Hollis
Robinson. Please direct all media
inquiries to the Office of the Chief
Communications Officer, USPTO, at
(571) 272–8400.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

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SUMMARY:

Trade Secret Symposium
Under U.S. law, trade secrets
comprise commercially valuable
information not generally known or
readily ascertainable to the public, that
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maintain confidentiality. In May 2016,
the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016
(DTSA) established a federal private
civil cause of action for the
misappropriation of a trade secret, with
the aim to provide businesses with a
uniform, reliable and predictable way to
protect their valuable trade secrets
anywhere in the country. Given this
legislation and the continuing domestic
and international attention to trade
secrets, the USPTO will hold a public
symposium on recent developments in
the protection of trade secrets. Topics to
be discussed include: (1) Measuring the
Value of Secrecy; (2) Use of the DTSA
in Practice; (3) Differences in Trade
Secret Protection in Foreign
Jurisdictions; and (4) Considerations of
Business Owners in International Cases.
Experts from academia, private legal
practice, international organizations,
and industry will serve as panelists.
Instructions and Information on the
Public Symposium
The symposium will be held on May
8, 2017, at the auditorium of the United
States Patent and Trademark Office,
Madison Building, 600 Dulany Street,
Alexandria, Virginia 22314. The
symposium will begin at 9 a.m. and end
at 4 p.m. EDT. The agenda will be
available a week in advance on the
USPTO Web site, https://
www.uspto.gov/learning-and-resources/
ip-policy/enforcement/trade-secretsymposium. Pre-registration is available
at http://www.cvent.com/d/45q976.
Attendees may also register at the door
one half-hour prior to the beginning of
the symposium.
The symposium will be physically
accessible to people with disabilities.
Individuals requiring accommodation,
such as sign language interpretation or
other ancillary aids, should
communicate their needs to Hollis
Robinson at the Office of Policy and
International Affairs, by telephone at
(571) 272–9300, by email at
[email protected], or by postal
mail addressed to: Mail Stop OPIA,
United States Patent and Trademark
Office, P.O. Box 1450, Alexandria, VA
22313–1450, ATTN: Hollis Robinson, at
least seven (7) business days prior to the
symposium.
Dated: April 5, 2017.
Michelle K. Lee,
Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual
Property and Director of the United States
Patent and Trademark Office.
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COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING
COMMISSION
Agency Information Collection
Activities Under OMB Review
Commodity Futures Trading
Commission.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

In compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(‘‘PRA’’), this notice announces that the
Information Collection Request (‘‘ICR’’)
abstracted below has been forwarded to
the Office of Management and Budget
(‘‘OMB’’) for review and comment. The
ICR describes the nature of the
information collection and its expected
costs and burden.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on
or before May 11, 2017.
ADDRESSES: Comments regarding the
burden estimated or any other aspect of
the information collection, including
suggestions for reducing the burden,
may be submitted directly to the Office
of Information and Regulatory Affairs
(‘‘OIRA’’) in OMB, within 30 days of the
notice’s publication, by email at
[email protected]. Please
identify the comments by OMB Control
No. 3038–0090. Please provide the
Commodity Futures Trading
Commission (‘‘CFTC’’ or
‘‘Commission’’) with a copy of all
submitted comments at the address
listed below. Please refer to OMB
Reference No. 3038–0090, found on
http://reginfo.gov. Comments may also
be mailed to the Office of Information
and Regulatory Affairs, Office of
Management and Budget, Attention:
Desk Officer for the Commodity Futures
Trading Commission, 725 17th Street
NW., Washington, DC 20503, and to:
Christopher J. Kirkpatrick, Secretary of
the Commission, Commodity Futures
Trading Commission, 1155 21st Street
NW., Washington, DC 20581 or by Hand
Deliver/Courier at the same address; or
through the Agency’s Web site at http://
comments.cftc.gov. Follow the
instructions for submitting comments
through the Web site.
A copy of the supporting statements
for the collection of information
discussed above may be obtained by
visiting http://RegInfo.gov. All
comments must be submitted in
English, or if not, accompanied by an
English translation. Comments will be
posted as received to http://
www.cftc.gov.
SUMMARY:

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

August A. Imholtz III, Special Counsel,
Division of Swap Dealer and
Intermediary Oversight, Commodity

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Futures Trading Commission, (202)
418–5140; email: [email protected],
and refer to OMB Control No. 3038–
0090.

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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Title: Adaption of Regulations to
Incorporate Swaps—Records of
Transactions (OMB Control No. 3038–
0090). This is a request for an extension
and revision of a currently approved
information collection.
Abstract: The Commission recently
amended Regulation 1.35(a) to change
and clarify several of the existing
recordkeeping requirements that apply
to certain registrants and market
participants. Records of Commodity
Interest and Related Cash or Forward
Transactions, 80 FR 80247 (Dec. 24,
2015). Specifically, the amendment to
Regulation 1.35: (1) Excludes members
of designated contract markets
(‘‘DCMs’’) and members of swap
execution facilities (‘‘SEFs’’) that are not
registered or required to register with
the Commission (‘‘Unregistered
Members’’) from the requirement to
keep written communications that lead
to the execution of a commodity interest
transaction and related cash or forward
transactions; (2) excludes Unregistered
Members from the requirement to
maintain records in a particular form
and manner; (3) excludes Unregistered
Members from the requirement to retain
text messages; (4) excludes commodity
trading advisors (‘‘CTAs’’) that are
members of a DCM or of a SEF from the
requirement to record oral
communications that lead to the
execution of a transaction; and (5)
clarifies the form and manner
requirements that apply to required
records.
In Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection Revision,
Comment Request: Final Rule for
Records of Commodity Interest and
Related Cash or Forward Transactions,
80 FR 80327 (Dec. 24, 2015), the
Commission addressed the PRA
implications of this amendment of
Regulation 1.35. First, the Commission
estimated that changing Regulation
1.35(a) to exclude Unregisted Members
from the requirement to keep written
communications that lead to transaction
execution will decrease the information
collection burden under the rule by
approximately one-half hour per week
per entity. Second, the Commission
estimated that excluding Unregistered
Members from the requirement to
maintain records in a particular form
and manner will decrease the
information collection burden by
approximately one-half hour per month
per entity. Third, the Commission

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estimated that excluding Unregistered
Members from the requirement to retain
text messages will decrease the
information collection burden by
approximately approximately one-half
hour per month per entity. In
connection with these estimates, the
Commission estimated that there are
approximately 3,200 Unregistered
Members that will have their
recordkeeping obligations reduced as a
result of these three changes to
Regulation 1.35(a). Next, the
Commission estimated that excluding
CTAs that are members of a DCM or of
a SEF from the requirement to record
oral communications that lead to
transaction execution will decrease the
information collection burden by
approximately one-half hour per week
per entity. In connection with this
estimate, the Commission estimated that
there are approximately 1,175 CTAs that
will have their recordkeeping
obligations reduced as a result of this
change to Regulation 1.35(a). Finally,
the Commission noted that because the
revised form and manner requirements
are a clarification of the prior
requirements, the revised requirements
do not increase or decrease the
information collection burden.
In the Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection Revision,
Comment Request: Final Rule for
Records of Commodity Interest and
Related Cash or Forward Transactions,
the Commission requested comments
on, among other things, its estimates
regarding the modified information
collection burdens associated with the
changes to Regulation 1.35(a). The
Commission did not receive any
comments that addressed any of its
estimates or any other aspect of the
information collection.
Burden Statement: The amendment of
Regulation 1.35 reduces the
recordkeeping burdens of Unregistered
Members and of CTAs that are members
of a DCM or of a SEF. For each
respondent that is an Unregistered
Member, the Commission estimates that
the amendment reduces the annual
recordkeeping burden by a total of 38
hours. For each respondent that is a
CTA, the Commission estimates that the
amendment reduces the annual
recordkeeping burden by a total of 26
hours.
The Commission estimates the burden
of this collection of information as
follows:
Respondents/Affected Entities:
Futures Commission Merchants, Retail
Foreign Exchange Dealers, Introducing
Brokers, and Members of a DCM or of
a SEF.

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Estimated number of respondents:
6,000.
Estimated total annual burden on
respondents: 321,449 hours.1
Frequency of collection: Ongoing.
There are no capital costs or operating
and maintenance costs associated with
this collection.
Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.
Dated: April 5, 2017.
Robert N. Sidman,
Deputy Secretary of the Commission.
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CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY
COMMISSION
[Docket No. CPSC–2010–0055]

Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission for OMB
Review; Comment Request—Standard
for the Flammability of Mattresses and
Mattress Pads and Standard for the
Flammability (Open Flame) of Mattress
Sets
Consumer Product Safety
Commission.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

In accordance with the
requirements of the Paperwork
Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, the
Consumer Product Safety Commission
(Commission or CPSC) announces that
the Commission has submitted to the
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) a request for extension of
approval of a collection of information
associated with the collection of
information set forth in the Standard for
the Flammability of Mattresses and
Mattress Pads, and the Standard for the
Flammability (Open Flame) of Mattress
Sets, approved previously under OMB
Control No. 3041–0014. In the Federal
Register of January 25, 2017 (82 FR
8409), the CPSC published a notice to
announce the agency’s intention to seek
extension of approval of the collection
of information. The Commission
received no comments. Therefore, by
publication of this notice, the
Commission announces that CPSC has
submitted to the OMB a request for
extension of approval of that collection
of information, without change.

SUMMARY:

1 In the Agency Information Collection Activities:
Proposed Collection Revision, Comment Request:
Final Rule for Records of Commodity Interest and
Related Cash or Forward Transactions, the
Commission mistakenly estimated the total annual
burden on respondents to be 319,707. This estimate
appears to have incorporated a mathematical error.
The correct estimate of the total annual burden on
respondents is, and should have been, 321,449.

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