Western Pacific Fishery Management Council; Public Meetings, 81586-81587 [2010-32595]
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Copies of the agenda and other related
materials can be obtained by calling
(813) 348–1630.
Although other non-emergency issues
not on the agenda may come before the
Advisory Panel for discussion, in
accordance with the Magnuson-Stevens
Fishery Conservation and Management
Act, those issues may not be the subject
of formal action during this meeting.
Actions of the Advisory Panel will be
restricted to those issues specifically
identified in the agenda and any issues
arising after publication of this notice
that require emergency action under
Section 305(c) of the Magnuson-Stevens
Fishery Conservation and Management
Act, provided the public has been
notified of the Council’s intent to take
action to address the emergency.
The PT, Guam REAC and
AP meetings will be held at the Guam
Hilton and Resort, 202 Hilton Road,
Tumon Bay, Guam. The CNMI REAC
will be held at the Saipan World Resort,
P.O. Box 500066, Saipan, MP.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Kitty M. Simonds, Executive Director;
telephone: (808) 522–8220.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Public
comment periods will be provided. The
order in which agenda items are
addressed may change. The meetings
will run as late as necessary to complete
scheduled business.
Schedule and Agenda for PT meeting:
ADDRESSES:
9 a.m.–4 p.m. Wednesday and
Thursday, January 19–20, 2011
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
The Marianas PT will meet to hear
reports on, discuss and consider
developing recommendations on the
following items:
A. Status of Fishery Monitoring
Programs and Research Projects
B. Update on Marianas
Recommendations from the 2009
Fishery Data Workshop
C. Marianas Archipelago Fishery
Ecosystem Plan draft annual report.
D. Proposals for improving fishery data
collection for stock assessments
E. Council meeting actions
1. CNMI bottomfish regulatory
changes to allow spear fishing of
bottomfish management unit
species
2. Federal annual catch limit scoping
F. Other business
Schedule and Agenda for Guam REAC
meeting:
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9 a.m.–5 p.m. Friday, January 21, 2011
Western Pacific Fishery Management
Council; Public Meetings
The Guam REAC will meet to hear
reports on, discuss and consider
developing recommendations on the
following items:
A. Report on previous REAC
recommendations and actions
B. Coastal Marine Spatial Planning
C. Overview of traditional access and
spatial planning
D. Panel presentations and discussion
on traditional access and history of
change
E. Guest presentation on Shoreline
access restrictions in relation to
fishermen deaths
F. Panel presentations and discussion
on Maintaining access to marine
resources
G. Local initiatives and actions
1. Military efforts to mitigate marine
spatial closure impacts on the
fishing community
2. Guam Fisheries Act
3. Indigenous Fishing Rights
4. Guam MCP
Special Accommodations
This meeting is physically accessible
to people with disabilities. Requests for
sign language interpretation or other
auxiliary aids should be directed to
Trish Kennedy at the Council (see
ADDRESSES) at least 5 working days prior
to the meeting.
Dated: December 22, 2010.
Tracey L. Thompson,
Acting Director, Office of Sustainable
Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.
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National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of public meetings.
AGENCY:
The Western Pacific Fishery
Management Council (Council) will
hold meetings of its Marianas
Archipelago Plan Team (PT), Guam
Regional Ecosystem Advisory
Committee (Guam REAC), Mariana
Archipelago Advisory Panel (AP) and
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana
Islands Regional Ecosystem Advisory
Committee (CNMI REAC).
DATES: The PT meeting will be held on
January 19–20, 2011, Guam REAC on
January 21, 2011, AP on January 22,
2011 and CNMI REAC on January 24,
2011. For specific times and agendas,
see SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION.
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H. Other business
Schedule and Agenda for Marianas
AP meeting:
9 a.m.–5 p.m. Saturday, January 22,
2011
The Marianas AP will meet to hear
reports on, discuss and consider
developing recommendations on the
following items:
A. Coastal Marine Spatial Planning
1. Shoreline access restrictions in
relation to fishermen deaths
2. Military build-up impacts to
Marianas fishing community
3. Review of Kahoolawe Transition
4. Report on REAC outcomes
B. Ecosystem monitoring and
community issues
1. Mariana programs and projects
2. Federal programs and projects
C. Local legislative activities
D. Upcoming meetings and conferences
1. Marianas archipelago lunar
calendar workshop
2. Offshore aquaculture workshop
3. Mariana islands green sea turtle
workshop
E. Fisheries Development
1. Guam Marine Conservation Plan
2. CNMI Marine Conservation Plan
F. Other business
Schedule and Agenda for CNMI REAC
meeting:
9 a.m.–5 p.m. Monday, January 24,
2011
The CNMI REAC will meet to hear
reports on, discuss and consider
developing recommendations on the
following items:
A. Status of 2010 REAC
Recommendations
B. Coastal Marine Spatial Planning
Initiative
1. Regional Ocean Partnership
2. Monument Activities and Status
3. Military build-up impacts to
Marianas fishing community
C. Ecosystem monitoring and
community issues
1. CNMI bio-sampling program
2. Impact of land-based pollution in
fish from Saipan Lagoon
3. Saipan Lagoon net fishing data
analysis
4. Annual catch limit scoping
D. Community Development
1. Status of Mariana longline fishery
2. CNMI Marine Conservation Plan
E. Upcoming meeting/conferences/
workshops
1. Mariana Archipelago Lunar
Calendar Workshop
2. Offshore Aquaculture Workshop
3. Mariana Islands Green Sea Turtle
Workshop
F. Other business
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Federal Register / Vol. 75, No. 248 / Tuesday, December 28, 2010 / Notices
Although non-emergency issues not
contained in this agenda may come
before these groups for discussion, those
issues may not be the subject of formal
action during these meetings. Action
will be restricted to those issues
specifically listed in this notice and any
issues arising after publication of this
notice that require emergency action
under section 305(c) of the MagnusonStevens Fishery Conservation and
Management Act, provided the public
has been notified of the Council’s intent
to take final action to address the
emergency.
Special Accommodations
These meetings are physically
accessible to people with disabilities.
Requests for sign language
interpretation or other auxiliary aids
should be directed to Kitty M. Simonds,
(808) 522–8220 (voice) or (808) 522–
8226 (fax), at least 5 days prior to the
meeting date.
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.
Dated: December 22, 2010.
Tracey L. Thompson,
Acting Director, Office of Sustainable
Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.
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Patent and Trademark Office
[Docket No. PTO–T–2010–0090]
Coding of Design Marks in
Registrations
United States Patent and
Trademark Office, Commerce.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:
The United States Patent and
Trademark Office (‘‘USPTO’’) proposes
to discontinue its secondary design
coding, the practice of coding newly
registered trademarks in its searchable
electronic database with design mark
codes based on the old paper search
designations.
DATES: Comments must be received by
January 27, 2011 to ensure
consideration.
Addresses for Comments: The USPTO
prefers that comments be submitted via
electronic mail message to
TMFRNotices@uspto.gov. Written
comments may also be submitted by
mail to: Commissioner for Trademarks,
P.O. Box 1451, Alexandria, VA 22313–
1451, attention Cynthia C. Lynch; by
hand-delivery to the Trademark
Assistance Center, Concourse Level,
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attention Cynthia C. Lynch; or by
electronic mail message via the Federal
eRulemaking Portal. See the Federal
eRulemaking Portal Web site (https://
www.regulations.gov) for additional
instructions on providing comments via
the Federal eRulemaking Portal. The
comments will be available for public
inspection on the USPTO’s Web site at
https://www.uspto.gov and will also be
available at the Trademark Legal Policy
Office, Madison East, Fourth Floor, 600
Dulany Street, Alexandria, Virginia.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Cynthia C. Lynch, Office of the Deputy
Commissioner for Trademark
Examination Policy, by telephone at
(571) 272–8742.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
Pursuant to 35 U.S.C. 41(i)(1)–(2), the
USPTO maintains a publicly available
searchable collection of all United
States trademark registrations. Initially,
the collection was provided in paper
form only. Currently, the USPTO
provides the collection in electronic
form.
When the trademark collection was
maintained in paper form, marks were
searched in tall cabinets located at the
USPTO’s Public Search Facility. In
addition to the public, trademark
examiners searched using the paper
collection to determine whether
registration should be refused pursuant
to 15 U.S.C. 1052(d). Design marks were
separated into design categories, groups,
types, or divisions, subdivided into
specific representations according to the
U.S. class of goods or services covered
in the registrations, and then arranged
in ascending order by registration
number. Marks with multiple design
elements generally had to be searched
separately, which was both challenging
and time-consuming.
In an effort to improve the efficiency
of searching for the public and USPTO
examiners, the USPTO began
developing a searchable electronic
database of marks in 1982. By 1988, the
USPTO’s trademark examining
attorneys used the automated system
exclusively to conduct their searches.
The USPTO also began to provide
public access to the trademark database
of active registered and pending marks
through the Public Search Facility and
later on the USPTO Web site.
When developing the new automated
search system, the USPTO also
developed a new numerical design code
system, modeled after the International
Classification of the Figurative Elements
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of Marks (‘‘USPTO Design
Classification’’), which was intended for
an electronic environment and would
enable searching multiple design
elements in one search. In this system,
each design element is generally
assigned a six-digit numerical code: the
first two digits indicate the category
type (e.g., category 01 is celestial bodies,
natural phenomena, and geographical
maps), the next two digits indicate the
division (e.g., 07 is globes), and the last
two digits indicate the section (e.g.,
section 05 is globes held by a human).
This numerical design code system is
more robust than the paper search
design code system, which relies
exclusively on a word or term to
identify a design element and cannot
achieve the level of detail of the
numerical system.
In conjunction with the new design
code system, the USPTO also provided
(and continues to provide) a Design
Search Code Manual (‘‘Manual’’) that
includes an index, provides guidance on
and examples, cross-references related
material, and gives tips on searching
using this system. The Manual is
available to the public on the USPTO
Web site.
In 2002, the USPTO submitted a
report to Congress detailing a plan for
the removal of a portion of its paper
search collection. However, in response
to public concern about relying
exclusively on the electronic system, the
USPTO decided to temporarily retain
the paper collection of registrations with
design coding, while improving the
accuracy of its electronic database, and
modified its plan accordingly.
In 2007, the USPTO submitted a new
report to Congress with updated
information about the improved
accuracy of its electronic database and
USPTO Design Classification coding,
microfilmed all paper trademark
registrations that include design
elements, and removed the entire paper
search collection from its search facility.
At the same time, the USPTO replicated
in the automated search system the
paper design code system, exhibiting
these word-based codes in a new data
field for the electronic search system
called the Trademark Search Facility
Classification Code Index (‘‘TC Index’’).
The TC Index allowed those who
wished to search using the old paper
designations to continue to do so in the
electronic database.
Proposed Changes
After more than three years of coding
under both the TC Index and USPTO
Design Classification systems, the
USPTO proposes to discontinue
applying the TC Index code system to
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
RIN 0648-XA112
Western Pacific Fishery Management Council; Public Meetings
AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of public meetings.
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SUMMARY: The Western Pacific Fishery Management Council (Council) will
hold meetings of its Marianas Archipelago Plan Team (PT), Guam Regional
Ecosystem Advisory Committee (Guam REAC), Mariana Archipelago Advisory
Panel (AP) and Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands Regional
Ecosystem Advisory Committee (CNMI REAC).
DATES: The PT meeting will be held on January 19-20, 2011, Guam REAC on
January 21, 2011, AP on January 22, 2011 and CNMI REAC on January 24,
2011. For specific times and agendas, see SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION.
ADDRESSES: The PT, Guam REAC and AP meetings will be held at the Guam
Hilton and Resort, 202 Hilton Road, Tumon Bay, Guam. The CNMI REAC will
be held at the Saipan World Resort, P.O. Box 500066, Saipan, MP.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kitty M. Simonds, Executive Director;
telephone: (808) 522-8220.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Public comment periods will be provided. The
order in which agenda items are addressed may change. The meetings will
run as late as necessary to complete scheduled business.
Schedule and Agenda for PT meeting:
9 a.m.-4 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, January 19-20, 2011
The Marianas PT will meet to hear reports on, discuss and consider
developing recommendations on the following items:
A. Status of Fishery Monitoring Programs and Research Projects
B. Update on Marianas Recommendations from the 2009 Fishery Data
Workshop
C. Marianas Archipelago Fishery Ecosystem Plan draft annual report.
D. Proposals for improving fishery data collection for stock
assessments
E. Council meeting actions
1. CNMI bottomfish regulatory changes to allow spear fishing of
bottomfish management unit species
2. Federal annual catch limit scoping
F. Other business
Schedule and Agenda for Guam REAC meeting:
9 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday, January 21, 2011
The Guam REAC will meet to hear reports on, discuss and consider
developing recommendations on the following items:
A. Report on previous REAC recommendations and actions
B. Coastal Marine Spatial Planning
C. Overview of traditional access and spatial planning
D. Panel presentations and discussion on traditional access and history
of change
E. Guest presentation on Shoreline access restrictions in relation to
fishermen deaths
F. Panel presentations and discussion on Maintaining access to marine
resources
G. Local initiatives and actions
1. Military efforts to mitigate marine spatial closure impacts on
the fishing community
2. Guam Fisheries Act
3. Indigenous Fishing Rights
4. Guam MCP
H. Other business
Schedule and Agenda for Marianas AP meeting:
9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, January 22, 2011
The Marianas AP will meet to hear reports on, discuss and consider
developing recommendations on the following items:
A. Coastal Marine Spatial Planning
1. Shoreline access restrictions in relation to fishermen deaths
2. Military build-up impacts to Marianas fishing community
3. Review of Kahoolawe Transition
4. Report on REAC outcomes
B. Ecosystem monitoring and community issues
1. Mariana programs and projects
2. Federal programs and projects
C. Local legislative activities
D. Upcoming meetings and conferences
1. Marianas archipelago lunar calendar workshop
2. Offshore aquaculture workshop
3. Mariana islands green sea turtle workshop
E. Fisheries Development
1. Guam Marine Conservation Plan
2. CNMI Marine Conservation Plan
F. Other business
Schedule and Agenda for CNMI REAC meeting:
9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday, January 24, 2011
The CNMI REAC will meet to hear reports on, discuss and consider
developing recommendations on the following items:
A. Status of 2010 REAC Recommendations
B. Coastal Marine Spatial Planning Initiative
1. Regional Ocean Partnership
2. Monument Activities and Status
3. Military build-up impacts to Marianas fishing community
C. Ecosystem monitoring and community issues
1. CNMI bio-sampling program
2. Impact of land-based pollution in fish from Saipan Lagoon
3. Saipan Lagoon net fishing data analysis
4. Annual catch limit scoping
D. Community Development
1. Status of Mariana longline fishery
2. CNMI Marine Conservation Plan
E. Upcoming meeting/conferences/workshops
1. Mariana Archipelago Lunar Calendar Workshop
2. Offshore Aquaculture Workshop
3. Mariana Islands Green Sea Turtle Workshop
F. Other business
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Although non-emergency issues not contained in this agenda may come
before these groups for discussion, those issues may not be the subject
of formal action during these meetings. Action will be restricted to
those issues specifically listed in this notice and any issues arising
after publication of this notice that require emergency action under
section 305(c) of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and
Management Act, provided the public has been notified of the Council's
intent to take final action to address the emergency.
Special Accommodations
These meetings are physically accessible to people with
disabilities. Requests for sign language interpretation or other
auxiliary aids should be directed to Kitty M. Simonds, (808) 522-8220
(voice) or (808) 522-8226 (fax), at least 5 days prior to the meeting
date.
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.
Dated: December 22, 2010.
Tracey L. Thompson,
Acting Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine
Fisheries Service.
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