Federal Register: October 12, 2000 (Volume 65, Number 198)
DOCID: FR Doc 00-26182
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Patent and Trademark Office
NOTICE: NOTICES
ACTION: Meetings:
DOCUMENT ACTION: Notice of meeting.
SUBJECT CATEGORY:
Notice of Meeting of the National Intellectual Property Law Enforcement Coordination Council
DATES: The public meeting will be held on Monday, November 27, 2000, beginning at noon and ending no later than 2 P.M. Those wishing to attend the meeting must preregister by close of business on Friday, November 16, 2000.
DOCUMENT SUMMARY:
The National Intellectual Property Law Enforcement Coordination Council (Council) will be holding a public meeting. Interested members of the public are invited to attend the meeting.
SUMMARY:
National Intellectual Property Law Enforcement Coordination Council,
SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION
On Monday, June 5, 2000, the Council published a Notice of Request for Public Comments (65 FR 35611 (2000)) regarding issues related to the Council's policies and agenda. The November 27, 2000, meeting will introduce the Council to the public and give those who submitted comments (respondent industry speakers) regarding the issues identified in the notice an opportunity to elaborate on their responses.
I. Issues To Be Discussed
Respondent industry speakers have been invited to address the Council regarding law enforcement and policy issues related to the Council's mission and how the Council and the intellectual property industries can work together to improve intellectual property law enforcement in the U.S. and abroad.
The Government speakers will discuss the Council's activities and the individual agencies' current and future intellectual property law enforcementrelated activities.
II. Meeting Format
The Council will provide a brief overview of its activities and introduce its Members and other affiliated agencies. Each agency will then have an opportunity to make a brief presentation on its law enforcementrelated efforts. Respondent industry speakers will be given up to fifteen (15) minutes to present their remarks. The exact duration of each presentation will depend upon the final number of speakers. A question and answer session will follow the final industry presentation. The public is invited to be present for the entire program; however, only Council Members and respondent industry speakers may participate orally in the program. Industry speakers may provide a written copy of their testimony for inclusion in the record of the proceedings. These remarks should be provided in electronic format no later than November 27, 2000. A schedule providing the approximate starting time for each Government and industry speaker will be distributed the morning of the day of the hearing. Speakers are advised that the schedule for testimony will be subject to change during the course of the hearing. Information that is provided pursuant to this notice will be made part of a public record and may be available via the Internet. In view of this, parties should not submit information that they do not wish to be publicly disclosed or made electronically accessible. Parties who would like to rely on confidential information to illustrate a point are requested to summarize or otherwise submit the information in a way that will permit its public disclosure.
Dated: October 5, 2000.
Q. Todd Dickinson,
Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT
Elizabeth Shaw by telephone at 703- 3051033; by facsimile at 7033057575; by electronic mail at elizabeth.shaw2@uspto.gov; or by mail addressed to Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, Box 4, United States Patent and Trademark Office, Washington, DC 20231.