[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 110 (Wednesday, June 9, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 32834-32835]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-13864]


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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

[Public Notice 7041]


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, Office of the Legal Adviser, Private 
International Law and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office would like 
to give you notice of a second round table public meeting to discuss 
the supplement to the UNCITRAL Legislative Guide on Secured 
Transactions (``the Guide'') dealing with security rights in 
intellectual property, as well as possible future work in UNCITRAL on 
an IP licensing guide. The meeting will take place on Thursday, June 
17, 2010 from 2:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. EST at the Department of State, 
Office of Private International Law, 2430 E Street, NW., Washington, 
DC. This is not a meeting of the full Advisory Committee, but a meeting 
of one of its Study Groups.
    Please follow the link below for the report of the final session of 
the Working Group February 8-12, 2010 in New York (A/CN.9/689), as well 
as the draft text of the IP supplement to the Guide (A/CN.9/700 and 
Add. 1-7) that will be considered for final adoption by UNCITRAL at its 
annual session in June in New York. http://www.uncitral.org/uncitral/en/commission/sessions/43rd.html. The Secretariat report of the 
UNCITRAL colloquium on future work (A/CN.9/702 and Add.1 (including 
possible future work on IP licensing at 10-13)) is available at http://www.uncitral.org/uncitral/en/commission/sessions/43rd.html.
    With regard to possible future work on an IP licensing guide, the 
round table discussion will review whether existing private 
international law instruments already provide general contract rules 
which might be applied for IP licensing contracts, such as the UNIDROIT 
Principles. Matters addressed by the UNIDROIT Principles include: 
general provisions (freedom of contract, binding nature of contracts, 
good faith and fair dealing, relevance of usages and practices, etc.), 
contract formation rules (including rules addressing the authority of 
agents), rules concerning the validity of contracts, rules concerning 
the interpretation of contracts, express and implied obligations, 
third-party rights, performance and excused performance, remedies, 
assignment and delegation, and limitation periods. The full UNIDROIT 
Principles may be downloaded at http://www.unidroit.org/english/principles/contracts/principles2004/integralversionprinciples2004-e.pdf.
    Time and Place: The meeting will take place on Thursday, June 17, 
2010 from 2:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. EST at the Department of State, Office of 
Private International Law, 2430 E Street, NW., Washington, DC.
    Public Participation: This Study Group round table 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] or Justin Hughes at 
[email protected]. A member of the public needing reasonable 
accommodation should advise those same contacts not later than June 
15th. 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

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conference call-in number and the relevant information.

    Dated: June 3, 2010.
Michael J. Dennis,
Attorney-Adviser, Office of Private International Law, Office of the 
Legal Advisor, Department of State.
[FR Doc. 2010-13864 Filed 6-8-10; 8:45 am]
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