[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 69 (Tuesday, April 12, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 19061-19062]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-7296]


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COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION


Technology Advisory Committee Meeting

    This is to give notice, pursuant to Section 10(a) of the Federal 
Advisory Committee Act, 5 U.S.C. App. 2, section 10(a), that the 
Commodity Futures Trading Commission's Technology Advisory Committee 
will conduct a public meeting on Thursday, April 28, 2005. The meeting 
will take place in the first floor hearing room of the Commission's 
Washington, DC headquarters, Three Lafayette Centre, 1155 21st Street, 
NW., Washington, DC 20581. The meeting will begin at 1 p.m., and last 
until 4 p.m. The purpose of the meeting is to discuss technology-
related issues involving the financial services and commodity markets.
    The agenda will consist of the following:
    (1) What constitutes ``prior art'' in the patents process.
    (2) Intellectual property in trading and settlements technology.
    (3) Restrictions on the usage of exchange settlement prices.
    (4) Market data piracy.
    The meeting is open to the public. Any member of the public who 
wishes to file a written statement with the Advisory Committee should 
mail a copy of the statement to the attention of: Technology Advisory 
Committee, c/o Acting Chairman Sharon Brown-Hruska,

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Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Three Lafayette Centre, 1155 21st 
Street, NW., Washington, DC 20581, before the meeting. Members of the 
public who wish to make oral statements should inform Acting Chairman 
Brown-Hruska in writing at the foregoing address at least three 
business days before the meeting. Reasonable provision will be made, if 
time permits, for oral presentations of no more than five minutes each 
in duration. For further information concerning this meeting, please 
contact Ananda Radhakrishnan, Counsel to Acting Chairman Brown-Hruska, 
(202) 418-5188.

    Issued by the Commission in Washington, DC on April 7, 2005.
Jean A. Webb,
Secretary of the Commission.
[FR Doc. 05-7296 Filed 4-11-05; 8:45 am]
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