[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 198 (Thursday, October 12, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 60619]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-26182]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

United States Patent and Trademark Office


Notice of Meeting of the National Intellectual Property Law 
Enforcement Coordination Council

AGENCY: United States Patent and Trademark Office, Commerce Department.

ACTION: Notice of meeting.

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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.

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 pre-register by close of business on Friday, 
November 16, 2000.

ADDRESSES: The November 27, 2000, meeting will be held in the Main 
Auditorium at the U.S. Department of Commerce, Herbert C. Hoover 
Building, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC. 
Those interested in attending should pre-register by submitting their 
name and telephone contact number either by electronic mail through the 
Internet to [email protected] or by facsimile sent to the 
attention of Elizabeth Shaw at 703-305-7575.
    Transcripts of the meeting will be available after January 5, 2001, 
and will be maintained for public inspection in the Executive Library 
of the USPTO, Crystal Park Two, Room 900A, 2121 Crystal Drive, 
Arlington, Virginia.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Elizabeth Shaw by telephone at 703-
305-1033; by facsimile at 703-305-7575; by electronic mail at 
[email protected]; 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.

SUPPLEMENTARY 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 
enforcement-related 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 
enforcement-related 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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