0651-0065 Cws 2024

JUSTIFICATION FOR NONMATERIAL/NONSUBSTANTIVE CHANGE

Global Intellectual Property Academy (GIPA) Surveys

OMB Control Number 0651-0065

Background

The Global Intellectual Property Academy (GIPA) was established in 2006 to offer training programs on enforcement of intellectual property rights, patents, trademarks, and copyrights. GIPA’s training programs are designed to meet the specific needs of foreign government officials concerning various intellectual property topics. By attending these programs, foreign government officials learn about global intellectual property rights protection and enforcement and discuss strategies to handle the protection and enforcement issues in their respective countries. The GIPA training programs are an important instrument that USPTO uses to achieve its objectives of halting intellectual property theft and advancing intellectual property right policies.

GIPA conducts several surveys in an effort to provide additional details on “who” participants are, what kind of positions they hold, length of time working in an intellectual property area, type of organizations where respondents work, type of intellectual property functions, and the effect of the GIPA program on their professional work and their country’s intellectual property efforts. This information is being collected to improve the services that the USPTO provides in its missions of serving the international IP community.

The USPTO is changing the surveys in this information collection. Item 1 (Overseas-Program Survey (or equivalent)) and Item 2 (Post-Program Survey (or equivalent)) are being combined into a new survey called the Post-Program Streamlined Survey. The respondents of the new Post-Program Streamlined Survey will be identical to those who previously completed Items 1 and 2, so there is no change in the estimated number of responses. However, the new Post-Program Streamlined Survey contains roughly half the number of questions as of Items 1 and 2, therefore the hourly burden in this information collection will decrease. The USPTO estimates that respondents will take about 8 minutes to complete the new survey.

Table 1: Changes in Responses

Item No.	Item	Current Responses	New Responses	Changes in Responses
1	Overseas-Program Survey (or equivalent)	225	Discontinued	-225
2	Post-Program Survey (or equivalent)	150	Discontinued	-150
New	Post-Program Streamlined Survey	- - -	375	+375
	Totals	375	375	0

Table 2: Changes in Hourly Burden

Item No.	Item	Current Burden Hours	New Burden Hours	Changes in Hourly Burden
1	Overseas-Program Survey (or equivalent)	56	Discontinued	-56
2	Post-Program Survey (or equivalent)	38	Discontinued	-38
New	Post-Program Streamlined Survey	- - -	49	49
	Totals	94	49	-45

Summary of Changes

The merger of two surveys results in a decrease of 45 hours to the hourly burden in collection 0651-0065.

Changes in Burden

Burden Type	Currently Approved	Proposed Change	New Estimate
Annual Number of Responses	750	0	750
Annual Time Burden (Hr)	188	-45	143
Annual Non-Hour Cost Burden ($)	$0	$0	$0

0651-0065’s revised burden is as follows:

• 750 annual responses (unchanged)

• 143 annual hourly burden

• $0 in annual non-hourly burden costs (unchanged)