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February, 2014.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Patent and Trademark Office
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37 CFR Part 1
[Docket No.: PTO–P–2014–0004]
Extension of Deadline for Requesting
To Testify at the Public Hearings on
the Proposed Changes To Require
Identification of Attributable Owner
United States Patent and
Trademark Office, Commerce.
AGENCY:
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Notice of public hearings and
extension of period for requesting to
testify.
ACTION:
The United States Patent and
Trademark Office (Office) published a
notice on January 24, 2014, proposing
changes to the rules of practice to
require that the attributable owner,
including the ultimate parent entity, be
identified during the pendency of a
patent application and at specified
times during the life of a patent, and
seeking written comments on the
proposed changes. This initiative is one
of a number of executive actions issued
by the Administration that are designed
to ensure issuance of the highest-quality
patents, enhance competition by
providing the public with more
complete information about the
competitive environment in which
innovators operate, improve market
efficiency for patent rights by making
patent ownership information more
readily and easily available, reduce
abusive patent litigation by helping the
public defend itself against frivolous
litigation, and level the playing field for
innovators. The Office published a
notice on February 20, 2014 indicating
that it was conducting two public
hearings to introduce the proposed
changes and directly receive feedback
from the public. The notice published
on February 20, 2014 also extended the
period for comment on the proposed
rules until April 24, 2014. The Office is
now extending the deadline for
requesting to testify at either public
hearing until March 12, 2014.
DATES: Public Hearing Dates: The first
public hearing will take place on March
13, 2014, from 1 p.m. Eastern Daylight
Time (EDT) until 4 p.m. EDT, in
Alexandria, Virginia.
The second public hearing will take
place on March 26, 2014, from 9 a.m.
Pacific Daylight Time (PDT) until noon
PDT, in San Francisco, California.
Requests To Provide Oral Testimony:
Those wishing to provide oral testimony
must submit a request to do so in
writing no later than March 12, 2014.
Members of the public who wish to
attend solely to observe need not submit
a request to attend.
ADDRESSES: Public Hearings: The first
public hearing will take place at:
Madison Auditorium North, Concourse
Level, United States Patent and
Trademark Office Headquarters, 600
Dulany Street, Alexandria, Virginia
22314.
The second public hearing will take
place at: The University of California
Hastings College of the Law, Louis B.
Mayer Lounge, 198 McAllister Street,
San Francisco, California 94102.
SUMMARY:
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Requests To Provide Oral Testimony:
Requests to provide oral testimony at
either public hearing must be sent by
electronic mail message over the
Internet addressed to:
aohearingrequest@uspto.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
James Engel, Senior Legal Advisor (571)
272–7725), or Erin M. Harriman, Legal
Advisor (571) 272–7747), Office of
Patent Legal Administration, Office of
the Deputy Commissioner for Patent
Examination Policy.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Office
recently published a notice of proposed
rulemaking proposing to require the
disclosure of ownership information
about patents and applications and
requesting comments about the
voluntary reporting of licensing offers
and commitments and making them
available online. See Changes to Require
Identification of Attributable Owner, 79
FR 4105 (Jan. 24, 2014). Under the
proposed rulemaking, the Office plans
to collect information on the
‘‘attributable owner’’ of a patent or
application, which includes the
titleholders, entities with rights to
enforce the patent, and entities with
effective control over anyone reported
in the first two categories, called the
‘‘ultimate parent entities.’’
The Office also published a notice
that it was conducting two public
hearings (the first in Alexandria,
Virginia, and the second in San
Francisco, California) to introduce the
proposed changes and directly receive
feedback from the public. See Notice of
Public Hearings and Extension of
Comment Period on the Proposed
Changes to Require Identification of
Attributable Owner, 79 FR 9677 (Feb.
20, 2014). The notice palso extended the
period for comment on the proposed
rules until April 24, 2014. The Office is
now extending the deadline for
requesting to testify at either public
hearing until March 12, 2014, to provide
interested members of the public with
additional time to request to provide
testimony at this public hearing.
Members of the public who wish to
provide oral testimony at either public
hearing must submit a timely request
(i.e., must submit a request to provide
oral testimony no later than March 12,
2014). Requests to provide oral
testimony at either public hearing must
indicate the following information: (1)
The name of the person desiring to
speak; (2) the person’s contact
information (telephone number and
electronic mail address); (3) the
organization(s) the person represents, if
any; and (4) the hearing location where
the person prefers to speak. A person
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must be physically present at the
hearing location to provide oral
testimony; virtual testimony via
telephone or webcast is not available.
Based on the requests received, an
agenda of scheduled speakers will be
sent to those speaking and posted on the
Office’s Internet Web site at https://
www.uspto.gov. The number of speakers
and time allotted to each speaker may
be limited to ensure that all persons
speaking will have a meaningful chance
to do so.
Members of the public who wish to
attend solely to observe need not submit
a request to attend. In addition, the
public is welcome to submit written
comments in response to the proposed
changes in addition to, or lieu of,
presenting oral testimony at these
public hearings.
The Office also plans to make the
public hearings available via Web cast.
Web cast information will be available
on the Office’s Internet Web site closer
to the public hearing dates. A transcript
of the public hearings will be available
for viewing via the Office’s Internet Web
site at https://www.uspto.gov, and will be
available for public inspection at the
Office of the Commissioner for Patents,
currently located in Madison East,
Tenth Floor, 600 Dulany Street,
Alexandria, Virginia 22314, upon
request.
Dated: March 6, 2014.
Michelle K. Lee,
Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for
Intellectual Property and Deputy Director of
the United States Patent and Trademark
Office.
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AGENCY
40 CFR Part 52
[EPA–R06–OAR–2010–0332; FRL–9907–74–
Region 6]
Approval and Promulgation of
Implementation Plans; Texas;
Reasonably Available Control
Technology for the 1997 8-Hour Ozone
National Ambient Air Quality Standard
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Proposed rule.
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AGENCY:
The Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) is proposing to approve
rule revisions to the Texas State
Implementation Plan (SIP) for the
Volatile Organic Compound (VOC)
Control Techniques Guidelines (CTG)
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category for Offset Lithographic
Printing, including the Reasonably
Available Control Technologies (RACT)
requirements for this CTG category for
the Houston-Galveston-Brazoria (HGB)
and the Dallas-Fort-Worth (DFW) 1997
8-hour ozone nonattainment areas. This
rulemaking addresses the 2006 CTG
entitled, ‘‘Lithographic Printing
Materials and Letterpress Printing
Materials,’’ as well as the corresponding
RACT analysis for both the HGB and
DFW 1997 8-hour ozone nonattainment
areas. This action is in accordance with
sections 110, 172(c) and 182 of the
federal Clean Air Act (the Act, CAA).
DATES: Comments must be received on
or before April 11, 2014.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments,
identified by Docket No. [EPA–R06–
OAR–2010–0332], by one of the
following methods:
• www.regulations.gov. Follow the
on-line instructions.
• Email: Mr. Guy Donaldson at
donaldson.guy@epa.gov. Please also
send a copy by email to the person
listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT section below.
• Mail or delivery: Mr. Guy
Donaldson, Chief, Air Planning Section
(6PD–L), Environmental Protection
Agency, 1445 Ross Avenue, Suite 1200,
Dallas, Texas 75202–2733.
Instructions: Direct your comments to
Docket ID No. [EPA–R06–OAR–2010–
0332]. EPA’s policy is that all comments
received will be included in the public
docket without change and may be
made available online at https://
www.regulations.gov, including any
personal information provided, unless
the comment includes information
claimed to be Confidential Business
Information (CBI) or other information
the disclosure of which is restricted by
statute. Do not submit information
through https://www.regulations.gov or
email, if you believe that it is CBI or
otherwise protected from disclosure.
The https://www.regulations.gov Web
site is an ‘‘anonymous access’’ system,
which means that EPA will not know
your identity or contact information
unless you provide it in the body of
your comment. If you send an email
comment directly to EPA without going
through https://www.regulations.gov,
your email address will be
automatically captured and included as
part of the comment that is placed in the
public docket and made available on the
Internet. If you submit an electronic
comment, EPA recommends that you
include your name and other contact
information in the body of your
comment along with any disk or CD–
ROM submitted. If EPA cannot read
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your comment due to technical
difficulties and cannot contact you for
clarification, EPA may not be able to
consider your comment. Electronic files
should avoid the use of special
characters and any form of encryption
and should be free of any defects or
viruses. For additional information
about EPA’s public docket, visit the EPA
Docket Center homepage at https://
www.epa.gov/epahome/dockets.htm.
Docket: The index to the docket for
this action is available electronically at
www.regulations.gov and in hard copy
at EPA Region 6, 1445 Ross Avenue,
Suite 700, Dallas, Texas. While all
documents in the docket are listed in
the index, some information may be
publicly available only at the hard copy
location (e.g., copyrighted material), and
some may not be publicly available at
either location (e.g., CBI). To inspect the
hard copy materials, please schedule an
appointment with the person listed in
the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT
paragraph below or Mr. Bill Deese at
214–665–7253.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms.
Ellen Belk, Air Planning Section (6PD–
L), Environmental Protection Agency,
Region 6, 1445 Ross Avenue, Suite
1200, Dallas, Texas 75202–2733,
telephone (214) 665–2164, fax (214)
665–6762, email address belk.ellen@
epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Throughout this document ‘‘we,’’ ‘‘us,’’
and ‘‘our’’ refer to EPA.
Outline
I. Background
A. What actions are we proposing?
B. What is RACT?
II. Evaluation
A. Which CTG source category is
addressed in this action, and how do
Texas’ Rule Revisions compare to the
CTG?
B. What is Texas’ approach and analysis
for RACT for HGB and DFW for this CTG
source category, and do the Revisions
meet RACT Requirements?
III. Proposed Action
IV. Statutory and Executive Order Reviews
I. Background
A. What actions are we proposing?
The three submittals sent to the EPA
from the TCEQ which are addressed in
this action are: (a) VOC CTG Update:
CTG Category Offset Lithographic
Rulemaking, submitted April 5, 2010,
(b) the 2010 HGB Attainment
Demonstration SIP Revision for the 1997
8-hour Ozone Nonattainment Area,
RACT Analysis for this CTG Category,
submitted April 6, 2010, and (c) the
2010 DFW RACT, Rule, and
Contingency SIP Revision for the 1997
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Patent and Trademark Office
37 CFR Part 1
[Docket No.: PTO-P-2014-0004]
Extension of Deadline for Requesting To Testify at the Public
Hearings on the Proposed Changes To Require Identification of
Attributable Owner
AGENCY: United States Patent and Trademark Office, Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of public hearings and extension of period for
requesting to testify.
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SUMMARY: The United States Patent and Trademark Office (Office)
published a notice on January 24, 2014, proposing changes to the rules
of practice to require that the attributable owner, including the
ultimate parent entity, be identified during the pendency of a patent
application and at specified times during the life of a patent, and
seeking written comments on the proposed changes. This initiative is
one of a number of executive actions issued by the Administration that
are designed to ensure issuance of the highest-quality patents, enhance
competition by providing the public with more complete information
about the competitive environment in which innovators operate, improve
market efficiency for patent rights by making patent ownership
information more readily and easily available, reduce abusive patent
litigation by helping the public defend itself against frivolous
litigation, and level the playing field for innovators. The Office
published a notice on February 20, 2014 indicating that it was
conducting two public hearings to introduce the proposed changes and
directly receive feedback from the public. The notice published on
February 20, 2014 also extended the period for comment on the proposed
rules until April 24, 2014. The Office is now extending the deadline
for requesting to testify at either public hearing until March 12,
2014.
DATES: Public Hearing Dates: The first public hearing will take place
on March 13, 2014, from 1 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) until 4 p.m.
EDT, in Alexandria, Virginia.
The second public hearing will take place on March 26, 2014, from 9
a.m. Pacific Daylight Time (PDT) until noon PDT, in San Francisco,
California.
Requests To Provide Oral Testimony: Those wishing to provide oral
testimony must submit a request to do so in writing no later than March
12, 2014. Members of the public who wish to attend solely to observe
need not submit a request to attend.
ADDRESSES: Public Hearings: The first public hearing will take place
at: Madison Auditorium North, Concourse Level, United States Patent and
Trademark Office Headquarters, 600 Dulany Street, Alexandria, Virginia
22314.
The second public hearing will take place at: The University of
California Hastings College of the Law, Louis B. Mayer Lounge, 198
McAllister Street, San Francisco, California 94102.
Requests To Provide Oral Testimony: Requests to provide oral
testimony at either public hearing must be sent by electronic mail
message over the Internet addressed to: aohearingrequest@uspto.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: James Engel, Senior Legal Advisor
(571) 272-7725), or Erin M. Harriman, Legal Advisor (571) 272-7747),
Office of Patent Legal Administration, Office of the Deputy
Commissioner for Patent Examination Policy.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Office recently published a notice of
proposed rulemaking proposing to require the disclosure of ownership
information about patents and applications and requesting comments
about the voluntary reporting of licensing offers and commitments and
making them available online. See Changes to Require Identification of
Attributable Owner, 79 FR 4105 (Jan. 24, 2014). Under the proposed
rulemaking, the Office plans to collect information on the
``attributable owner'' of a patent or application, which includes the
titleholders, entities with rights to enforce the patent, and entities
with effective control over anyone reported in the first two
categories, called the ``ultimate parent entities.''
The Office also published a notice that it was conducting two
public hearings (the first in Alexandria, Virginia, and the second in
San Francisco, California) to introduce the proposed changes and
directly receive feedback from the public. See Notice of Public
Hearings and Extension of Comment Period on the Proposed Changes to
Require Identification of Attributable Owner, 79 FR 9677 (Feb. 20,
2014). The notice palso extended the period for comment on the proposed
rules until April 24, 2014. The Office is now extending the deadline
for requesting to testify at either public hearing until March 12,
2014, to provide interested members of the public with additional time
to request to provide testimony at this public hearing.
Members of the public who wish to provide oral testimony at either
public hearing must submit a timely request (i.e., must submit a
request to provide oral testimony no later than March 12, 2014).
Requests to provide oral testimony at either public hearing must
indicate the following information: (1) The name of the person desiring
to speak; (2) the person's contact information (telephone number and
electronic mail address); (3) the organization(s) the person
represents, if any; and (4) the hearing location where the person
prefers to speak. A person
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must be physically present at the hearing location to provide oral
testimony; virtual testimony via telephone or webcast is not available.
Based on the requests received, an agenda of scheduled speakers will be
sent to those speaking and posted on the Office's Internet Web site at
https://www.uspto.gov. The number of speakers and time allotted to each
speaker may be limited to ensure that all persons speaking will have a
meaningful chance to do so.
Members of the public who wish to attend solely to observe need not
submit a request to attend. In addition, the public is welcome to
submit written comments in response to the proposed changes in addition
to, or lieu of, presenting oral testimony at these public hearings.
The Office also plans to make the public hearings available via Web
cast. Web cast information will be available on the Office's Internet
Web site closer to the public hearing dates. A transcript of the public
hearings will be available for viewing via the Office's Internet Web
site at https://www.uspto.gov, and will be available for public
inspection at the Office of the Commissioner for Patents, currently
located in Madison East, Tenth Floor, 600 Dulany Street, Alexandria,
Virginia 22314, upon request.
Dated: March 6, 2014.
Michelle K. Lee,
Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Deputy
Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
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