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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 22 / Thursday, February 4, 2021 / Notices TABLE 1APPROVED PROVIDERS FOR FISHING YEARS 2021 AND 2022Continued Provider
Services

East West Technical Services, LLC.
Fathom Resources, LLC.
Flywire Cameras.
Saltwater, Inc.
Teem Fish
ASM/EM

91 Point Judith Rd., Unit 347, Narragansett, RI 02882.

8609104957

8602236005

https www.ewts.com/

ASM/EM

855 Aquidneck Ave., Unit 9, Middletown, RI 02842.
PO BOX 55048, Lexington, KY 40511.
733 N St., Anchorage, AK 99501.
90425 Carrall St., Vancouver, BC V6B 6E3
Canada.

5089900997

5089917372

https fathomresources.com/

8883157796

5028616568

https www.flywirecameras.com/

9072763241

9072585999

https www.saltwaterinc.com/

7788842598

EM
ASM/EM
EM

Address
Phone
Fax
Website
https teem.fish/

ASM/EM = At-sea and electronic monitoring; EM = Electronic monitoring only.
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.
Dated: January 29, 2021.
Jennifer M. Wallace, Acting Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.
FR Doc. 202102336 Filed 2321; 8:45 am BILLING CODE 351022P

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Patent and Trademark Office Docket No.: PTOP20200062

Expanded Collaborative Search Pilot Program Extension United States Patent and Trademark Office, Department of Commerce.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

The United States Patent and Trademark Office USPTO has extended the Expanded Collaborative Search Pilot CSP program, originally running from November 2017 through October 2020, an additional two years.
The Expanded CSP program, conducted with the Japan Patent Office JPO and the Korean Intellectual Property Office KIPO, builds on the success of the initial CSP program, taking advantage of improvements in patent quality and examination pendency. With the Expanded CSP, applicants may request that multiple partnering intellectual property IP offices exchange search results for their counterpart applications prior to formulating and issuing their office actions. Each designated partner IP office independently conducts a prior art search for its corresponding counterpart application. The search results are then exchanged between the designated partner IP offices, including the USPTO, before any IP
office issues an office action. With this exchange of search results, the
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examiners in all designated partner IP
offices will have a more comprehensive set of prior art references to consider when making initial patentability determinations. The Expanded CSP
allows the USPTO to study the impact on examination processes of exchanges of search results between the USPTO
and multiple partner IP offices prior to formulating and issuing office actions.
DATES: Under the Expanded CSP, the USPTO and partner IP offices will each continue to accept requests to participate beyond November 1, 2020, until October 31, 2022. Each IP office will not grant more than 400 requests per year per partner office. The offices may extend the pilot program with or without modification if they deem it appropriate. Each office reserves the right to withdraw from the program at any time.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Inquiries regarding the handling of any specific application participating in the pilot may be directed to Nelson Yang, Senior Advisor, International Patent Business Solutions, Office of International Patent Cooperation, by phone at 5712720826. Any inquiries regarding this pilot program can be emailed to csp@uspto.gov. Inquiries concerning this notice may be directed to Anthony Smith, Attorney-Advisor, International Patent Legal Administration, by phone at 571272
3298.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Background The USPTO is continually looking for ways to improve the quality of issued patents and to promote worksharing with other IP offices throughout the world. Worksharing benefits applicants by promoting compact prosecution, reducing pendency, and supporting patent quality by reducing the
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likelihood of inconsistencies in patentability determinations not predicated upon differences in national patent laws between IP offices. The USPTO has launched numerous worksharing pilot programs, including both the Initial and Expanded versions of CSP with the JPO and the KIPO. In the Initial CSP, the participating offices implemented administrative procedures to facilitate worksharing between the USPTO and a single designated partner IP office in the form of sharing search results of related counterpart applications. Feedback from the completed Initial CSP and the current Expanded CSP showed sufficiently positive benefits to justify extending the CSP an additional two years to continue to permit worksharing between the USPTO and more than one designated partner IP office for the corresponding U.S. application.
The USPTO will continue to cooperate in the Expanded CSP to determine whether exchanging the results from searches independently performed by multiple IP offices, which occur substantially simultaneously, also increases the efficiency and quality of patent examination. The Expanded CSP
is designed so that this exchange of search results would occur prior to the IP offices making initial patentability determinations. The current partner IP
offices for the Expanded CSP remain the JPO and the KIPO. The USPTO will announce future partner IP offices when they are designated.
Currently, applicants in the USPTO
having U.S. applications with claims of foreign priority may have search results and prior art cited to them by the foreign IP office during pendency of their U.S. applications. Often, applicants submit the prior art after examination on the merits is already underway in their U.S. application.
Upon evaluation of the search results
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