[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 197 (Wednesday, October 14, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Page 52836]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-24694]



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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

[Public Notice 6712]


Notice of Meeting of a Study Group of the U.S. Department of 
State Advisory Committee on Private International Law

    A Study Group of the Department of State Advisory Committee on 
Private International Law (ACPIL) will be holding a public meeting to 
continue the discussion of the treatment of IP-secured financing 
practices in the United Nations Commission on International Trade 
(UNCITRAL) Draft Legislative Guide on Secured Transactions (Guide). At 
the 40th Session of the UNCITRAL in December 2007, it 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. 
UNCITRAL 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 and April and May 2009. A fourth 
session of the IP work project is scheduled in November 2009 in Vienna.
    The Study Group 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 
UNCITRAL 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 Wednesday, October 21, from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. 
EST.
    Public Participation: This Study Group meeting is 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]. A member of the public needing 
reasonable accommodation should advise those same contacts not later 
than October 12th. Requests made after that date will be considered, 
but might not be able to be fulfilled. 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: October 6, 2009.
Michael J. Dennis,
Attorney-Adviser, Office of Private International Law, U.S. Department 
of State.
[FR Doc. E9-24694 Filed 10-13-09; 8:45 am]
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