Notice of Enforcement Policy Symposium on Combating Counterfeiting in the 21st Century, 36062-36063 [2010-15307]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Patent and Trademark Office
[Docket No. PTO–C–2010–0053]
Notice of Enforcement Policy
Symposium on Combating
Counterfeiting in the 21st Century
AGENCY: United States Patent and
Trademark Office, Department of
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of public symposium.
SUMMARY: To focus on the United States
Government enforcement policy
regarding counterfeit goods involving
health and safety concerns and the
United States Patent and Trademark
Office’s (USPTO) efforts at home and
abroad combating counterfeiting, the
USPTO and the National Intellectual
Property Rights Coordination Center
(IPR Center) are co-hosting an
enforcement policy symposium on
combating counterfeiting in the 21st
century. A three panel program is
planned for the symposium addressing
counterfeiting through regulatory
procedures, criminal procedures, and
training/public awareness. There are a
limited number of seats allocated for
members of the public who wish to
attend and observe the symposium.
Requests to attend the symposium are
required and must be submitted by
electronic mail through the Internet to:
elizabeth.shaw2@uspto.gov. Requests to
attend the symposium should indicate
the following information: (1) The name
of the person desiring to attend; (2) the
person’s contact information (telephone
number and electronic mail address);
and (3) the organization(s) the person
represents, if any.
Dates and Times: The symposium
will be held on Wednesday, July 14,
2010, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. The
deadline for receipt of requests to
observe the symposium is 5 p.m. on
Wednesday, July 7, 2010.
ADDRESSES: The symposium will be
held at the USPTO, Madison
Auditorium, Concourse Level, 600
Dulany Street, Alexandria, Virginia,
22314.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Elizabeth Shaw, Office of External
Affairs, by phone 571–272–8494, by
facsimile to 571–273–0121, by e-mail at
elizabeth.shaw2@uspto.gov or by mail
addressed to: Mail Stop OIPPE, United
States Patent and Trademark Office,
P.O. Box 1450, Alexandria, Virginia
22313–1450, ATTN: Elizabeth Shaw.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Enforcement Policy Symposium on
Combating Counterfeiting in the 21st
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Century will consist of three panel
discussions focused on the challenges
and opportunities presented, changes in
the intellectual property enforcement
landscape, and interagency cooperation.
A panel on regulatory authority will
address enforcement policy involving
counterfeiting and the regulatory
response. A second panel on criminal
procedure will involve a discussion of
enforcement policy involving the
investigation and prosecution of
counterfeit goods involving health and
safety concerns. A third panel on the
United States Government’s domestic
and international training efforts
relating to counterfeiting and public
awareness is the final panel.
Government agencies that provide
enforcement training and public
awareness programs will be featured.
Should there be time during the
symposium, questions from members of
the public in attendance may be
addressed.
The USPTO plans to make the
symposium available via Web cast. Web
cast information will be available on the
USPTO’s Internet Web site, https://
www.uspto.gov, before the symposium.
Dated: June 18, 2010.
David J. Kappos,
Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual
Property and Director of the United States
Patent and Trademark Office.
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Expansion and Extension of the Patent
Application Backlog Reduction
Stimulus Plan
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AGENCY: United States Patent and
Trademark Office, Commerce.
ACTION: Notice.
SUMMARY: The United States Patent and
Trademark Office (USPTO) published a
notice in the Federal Register providing
an additional temporary basis (the
Patent Application Backlog Reduction
Stimulus Plan) under which a small
entity applicant may have an
application accorded special status for
examination if the applicant expressly
abandons another copending
unexamined application. The Patent
Application Backlog Reduction
Stimulus Plan allows small entity
applicants having multiple applications
currently pending before the USPTO to
have greater control over the priority
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with which their applications are
examined while also stimulating a
reduction of the backlog of unexamined
patent applications pending before the
USPTO. The USPTO is expanding the
Patent Application Backlog Reduction
Stimulus Plan to permit all applicants to
participate by eliminating the small
entity status requirement and adding a
few new requirements in view of the
expansion. The program is also being
extended until December 31, 2010, or
the date that 10,000 applications have
been accorded special status for
examination under the Patent
Application Backlog Reduction
Stimulus Plan, whichever occurs earlier.
These changes allow more applicants to
take advantage of the program.
DATES: Effective Date: The changes in
this notice are effective on June 24,
2010. The Patent Application Backlog
Reduction Stimulus Plan became
effective on November 27, 2009.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Pinchus M. Laufer, Office of the
Associate Commissioner for Patent
Examination Policy, by telephone at
571–272–7726; or via e-mail addressed
to Pinchus.Laufer@uspto.gov; or by mail
addressed to: Box Comments Patents,
Commissioner for Patents, P.O. Box
1450, Alexandria, VA 22313–1450.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
USPTO published a notice in the
Federal Register providing an
additional temporary basis (the Patent
Application Backlog Reduction
Stimulus Plan) under which a small
entity applicant may have an
application accorded special status for
examination if the applicant expressly
abandons another copending
unexamined application. See Patent
Application Backlog Reduction
Stimulus Plan, 74 FR 62285 (Nov. 27,
2009), 1349 Off. Gaz. Pat. Off. 304 (Dec.
22, 2009) (hereinafter ‘‘Backlog
Reduction Notice’’). The Patent
Application Backlog Reduction
Stimulus Plan allows small entity
applicants having multiple applications
currently pending before the USPTO to
have greater control over the priority
with which their applications are
examined while also stimulating a
reduction of the backlog of unexamined
patent applications pending before the
USPTO. The USPTO indicated that the
program would last for a period ending
on February 28, 2010, but may be
extended for an additional time period
thereafter. See Patent Application
Backlog Reduction Stimulus Plan, 74 FR
at 62287, 1349 Off. Gaz. Pat. Off. at 306.
The USPTO extended the Patent
Application Backlog Reduction
Stimulus Plan until June 30, 2010. See
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Extension of the Patent Application
Backlog Reduction Stimulus Plan, 75 FR
5041 (Feb. 1, 2010), 1351 Off. Gaz. Pat.
Off. 202 (Feb. 23, 2010). The notice
stated that the USPTO may further
extend the procedures set forth in this
notice to all applicants (on either a
temporary or permanent basis), or may
also discontinue the procedures set
forth in this notice after June 30, 2010,
depending upon the results of the Patent
Application Backlog Reduction
Stimulus Plan.
The Backlog Reduction Notice
required inter alia that the application
for which special status is sought is a
nonprovisional application that has an
actual filing date earlier than October 1,
2009, in which the applicant has
established small entity status under 37
CFR 1.27. The program is being
expanded to permit all applicants to
participate by eliminating the small
entity status requirement and adding a
few new requirements in view of the
expansion. The modifications set forth
in this notice will apply to any petitions
that are filed on or after the publication
date of this notice. This will permit
more applications to qualify for the
program and result in a greater
reduction of the patent application
backlog. Applicants may obtain special
status for examination for as many as
fifteen applications under this program.
Effective immediately, the USPTO
will accord special status for
examination to a patent application that
has an actual filing date earlier than
October 1, 2009, if the new
requirements set forth in this notice are
satisfied, and the conditions set forth in
the Backlog Reduction Notice published
on November 27, 2009, other than the
small entity status requirement, are also
satisfied. In view of the expansion, the
following new requirements are added
to the program: (1) The letter of express
abandonment filed in the copending
nonprovisional application must also
include a statement that the applicant
has not and will not file a new
application that claims the same
invention claimed in the expressly
abandoned application (the phrase
‘‘same invention’’ has the same meaning
as used in the context of statutory
double patenting under 35 U.S.C. 101);
(2) the applicant has not received
special status for more than fourteen
other applications under this program;
and (3) the petition under 37 CFR 1.102
must also: (i) Include a specific
identification of the relationship
between the applications that qualifies
the application for special status (e.g.,
identifying, by name, a common
inventor, assignee or owner); (ii)
identify, by application number if
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Patent and Trademark Office
[Docket No. PTO-C-2010-0053]
Notice of Enforcement Policy Symposium on Combating
Counterfeiting in the 21st Century
AGENCY: United States Patent and Trademark Office, Department of
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of public symposium.
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SUMMARY: To focus on the United States Government enforcement policy
regarding counterfeit goods involving health and safety concerns and
the United States Patent and Trademark Office's (USPTO) efforts at home
and abroad combating counterfeiting, the USPTO and the National
Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center (IPR Center) are co-
hosting an enforcement policy symposium on combating counterfeiting in
the 21st century. A three panel program is planned for the symposium
addressing counterfeiting through regulatory procedures, criminal
procedures, and training/public awareness. There are a limited number
of seats allocated for members of the public who wish to attend and
observe the symposium. Requests to attend the symposium are required
and must be submitted by electronic mail through the Internet to:
elizabeth.shaw2@uspto.gov. Requests to attend the symposium should
indicate the following information: (1) The name of the person desiring
to attend; (2) the person's contact information (telephone number and
electronic mail address); and (3) the organization(s) the person
represents, if any.
Dates and Times: The symposium will be held on Wednesday, July 14,
2010, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. The deadline for receipt of requests to
observe the symposium is 5 p.m. on Wednesday, July 7, 2010.
ADDRESSES: The symposium will be held at the USPTO, Madison Auditorium,
Concourse Level, 600 Dulany Street, Alexandria, Virginia, 22314.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Elizabeth Shaw, Office of External
Affairs, by phone 571-272-8494, by facsimile to 571-273-0121, by e-mail
at elizabeth.shaw2@uspto.gov or by mail addressed to: Mail Stop OIPPE,
United States Patent and Trademark Office, P.O. Box 1450, Alexandria,
Virginia 22313-1450, ATTN: Elizabeth Shaw.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Enforcement Policy Symposium on
Combating Counterfeiting in the 21st
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Century will consist of three panel discussions focused on the
challenges and opportunities presented, changes in the intellectual
property enforcement landscape, and interagency cooperation. A panel on
regulatory authority will address enforcement policy involving
counterfeiting and the regulatory response. A second panel on criminal
procedure will involve a discussion of enforcement policy involving the
investigation and prosecution of counterfeit goods involving health and
safety concerns. A third panel on the United States Government's
domestic and international training efforts relating to counterfeiting
and public awareness is the final panel. Government agencies that
provide enforcement training and public awareness programs will be
featured.
Should there be time during the symposium, questions from members
of the public in attendance may be addressed.
The USPTO plans to make the symposium available via Web cast. Web
cast information will be available on the USPTO's Internet Web site,
https://www.uspto.gov, before the symposium.
Dated: June 18, 2010.
David J. Kappos,
Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of
the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
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