[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 50 (Tuesday, March 17, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Page 11399]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-5751]


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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

[Public Notice 6542]


U.S. Department of State Advisory Committee on Private 
International Law Study Group Notice of Meeting on the United Nations 
Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) Draft Legislative 
Guide on Secured Transactions and Its Treatment of Security Rights in 
Intellectual Property (IP)

    The Department of State Advisory Committee on Private International 
Law (ACPIL) will be holding a public meeting to continue to discuss the 
treatment of IP-secured financing practices in the UNCITRAL Draft 
Legislative Guide on Secured Transactions (Guide). At the 40th Session 
of the UNCITRAL in December 2007, the Commission adopted a legislative 
guide on secured transactions, including recommendations dealing with 
the scope of the Guide as it relates to IP law and secured financing, 
as well as the inclusion in the commentary to the Guide of explanatory 
statements on the treatment of IP as secured financing. The Commission 
also approved a work project on IP law matters as they relate to 
secured financing law. Earlier sessions for that work project were held 
in May and October of 2008. A third session of that work project is 
scheduled for April 27-May 1, 2009 in New York. The ACPIL will use this 
public meeting to continue to exchange thoughts on the relationship 
between secured finance and IP and how this matter should be addressed 
in the new draft IP annex to the Guide. The report of the first two 
sessions of the working group and the papers prepared by the 
Secretariat for the next session of the working group can be obtained 
at http://www.uncitral.org/uncitral/en/commission/working_groups/6Security_Interests.html.
    Time: The public meeting will take place at the Department of 
State, Office of Private International Law, 2430 E Street, NW., 
Washington, DC on Tuesday, April 8, 2009, from 11 a.m. EST to 1 p.m. 
EST.
    Public Participation: Advisory Committee Study Group meetings are 
open to the public, subject to the capacity of the meeting room. Access 
to the meeting building is controlled; persons wishing to attend should 
contact Tricia Smeltzer or Niesha Toms of the Department of State Legal 
Adviser's Office at [email protected] or [email protected] and 
provide your name, e-mail address, and mailing address to get admission 
into the meeting or to get directions to the office. Persons who cannot 
attend but who wish to comment are welcome to do so by e-mail to 
Michael Dennis at [email protected]. If you are unable to attend the 
public meeting and you would like to participate by teleconferencing, 
please contact Tricia Smeltzer or Niesha Toms at 202-776-8420 to 
receive the conference call-in number and the relevant information.

    Dated: March 9, 2009.
Michael J. Dennis,
Attorney-Adviser, Office of Private International Law, Department of 
State.
[FR Doc. E9-5751 Filed 3-16-09; 8:45 am]
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