[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 251 (Thursday, December 31, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 72288]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-34625]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Patent and Trademark Office


Solicitation of Applications for Membership on Public Advisory 
Committee for Trademark Affairs

AGENCY: Patent and Trademark Office, Commerce.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Patent and Trademark Office seeks five members for the 
Public Advisory Committee for Trademark Affairs. Each member will serve 
a three-year term. A member must be an organization that is 
representative of the intellectual property community, e.g., a bar 
group, an intellectual property organization, a business organization 
or an academic institution. Interested organizations should respond by 
a letter that includes the information requested in the Supplementary 
Information section of this notice.

DATES: Submit applications on or before January 29, 1999.

ADDRESSES: Mail letters of request to participate in the Public 
Advisory Committee for Trademark Affairs to The Honorable Q. Todd 
Dickinson, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Deputy 
Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks, United States Patent and 
Trademark Office, Washington, DC 20231.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Sharon Marsh, Trademark Administrator, by telephone at (703) 308-8910 
ext. 45; by fax at (703) 308-9395; or be e-mail to 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This Committee is chartered under the 
Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463). Its purpose is to 
advise the Patent and Trademark Office (Office) on ways to increase the 
Office's efficiency and effectiveness and to provide a continuing flow 
of insights and perceptions from the private sector to the Office in 
the areas of domestic and international trademark law.
    The Office amended the charter of the Committee in 1996 to make the 
Committee more diverse and more representative of trademark owners, 
trademark practitioners and the Intellectual Property community as a 
whole. Accordingly, the Commissioner will select five representative 
organizations from among intellectual property organizations, bar 
groups, business-related organizations and academia. The five 
organizations whose terms will expire on December 31, 1998, are not 
precluded from responding to this notice.
    Each organization's letter to the Commissioner should explain the 
nature, size and characteristics of the organization and what insights 
and perspective it would bring to the work of the Committee.
    The members will be selected based on the following criteria: (1) 
Organization's familiarity with the operations of the Patent and 
Trademark Office relating to trademarks and trademark rules, trademark 
practices, and the administration of the trademark operations; (2) the 
organization's experience practicing before the Patent and Trademark 
Office in trademark matters; and (3) evidence of the organization's 
interest in trademark practices, such as established committees 
designed to improve trademark operations, or legal education activities 
regarding trademark practices.

    Dated: December 22, 1998.
Q. Todd Dickinson,
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Deputy Commissioner of 
Patents and Trademarks.
[FR Doc. 98-34625 Filed 12-30-98; 8:45 am]
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