Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council; Public Meeting, 60666-60667 [2023-19002]
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Dated: August 30, 2023.
Rey Israel Marquez,
Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable
Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 2023–19097 Filed 9–1–23; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
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New England Fishery Management
Council; Public Meeting
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of public meeting.
AGENCY:
The New England Fishery
Management Council (Council) is
scheduling a hybrid meeting of its
Scallop Committee to consider actions
affecting New England fisheries in the
exclusive economic zone (EEZ).
Recommendations from this group will
be brought to the full Council for formal
consideration and action, if appropriate.
DATES: This meeting will be held on
Thursday, September 21, 2023, at 9 a.m.
ADDRESSES:
Meeting address: This meeting will be
held at the Radisson Airport Hotel, 2081
Post Road, Warwick, RI 02886;
telephone: (401) 298–2294.
Webinar registration URL
information: https://
attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/
4549480481976411992.
Council address: New England
Fishery Management Council, 50 Water
Street, Mill 2, Newburyport, MA 01950.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Cate
O’Keefe, Ph.D., Executive Director, New
England Fishery Management Council;
telephone: (978) 465–0492.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
SUMMARY:
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Agenda
The Committee will discuss
Framework 38—Review results of 2023
scallop surveys, and preliminary
projections. The primary focus of this
meeting will be to develop input on the
range of potential specification
alternatives for FY 2024 and FY 2025.
The action will set ABC/ACLs, days-atsea, access area allocations, total
allowable landings for the Northern Gulf
of Maine (NGOM) management area,
targets for General Category incidental
catch, General Category access area trips
and trip accounting, and set-asides for
the observer and research programs for
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fishing year 2024 and default
specifications for fishing year 2025.
They also plan to discuss the Northern
Edge Action—Review work in response
to tasking. Discuss possible measures for
development in a Northern Edge Habitat
Scallop Framework. Also on the agenda
is work priorities (Advisory Panel and
Committee Only)—Receive updates on
the progress toward 2023 work priorities
and Committee tasking. Provide input
on the range of possible 2024 scallop
work priorities. Other business will be
discussed, if necessary.
Although non-emergency issues not
contained on the agenda may come
before this Council for discussion, those
issues may not be the subject of formal
action during this meeting. Council
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 Act, provided the public has
been notified of the Council’s intent to
take final action to address the
emergency. The public also should be
aware that the meeting will be recorded.
Consistent with 16 U.S.C. 1852, a copy
of the recording is available upon
request.
Special Accommodations
This meeting is physically accessible
to people with disabilities. Requests for
sign language interpretation or other
auxiliary aids should be directed to Cate
O’Keefe, Ph.D., Executive Director, at
(978) 465–0492, at least 5 days prior to
the meeting date.
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.
Dated: August 30, 2023.
Rey Israel Marquez,
Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable
Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
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Administration
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Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management
Council; Public Meeting
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of a public meeting.
AGENCY:
The Gulf of Mexico Fishery
Management Council (Council) will
hold a one-day in-person meeting of its
Ecosystem Technical Committee (ETC).
SUMMARY:
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The meeting will be held
Thursday, September 21, 2023; 8:30
a.m.–4:30 p.m., EDT.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will take place
at the Gulf Council office. Registration
information will be available on the
Council’s website by visiting
www.gulfcouncil.org and clicking on the
‘‘meeting tab’’.
Council address: Gulf of Mexico
Fishery Management Council, 4107 W.
Spruce Street, Suite 200, Tampa, FL
33607; telephone: (813) 348–1630.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr.
Natasha Mendez, Fishery Biologist, Gulf
of Mexico Fishery Management Council;
email: natasha.mendez@gulfcouncil.org,
telephone: (813) 348–1630.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
DATES:
Thursday, September 21, 2023; 8:30
a.m.–4:30 p.m., EDT
The meeting will begin with
Introductions and Adoption of Agenda,
Approval of Minutes and Meeting
Summary from the April 19–20, 2023
meeting and a review of the Scope of
Work. The ETC will discuss the
development of the Fishery Ecosystem
Plan (FEP) for the Gulf of Mexico,
review the draft updates to the Fishery
Ecosystem Issue (FEI) Loop, and provide
recommendations.
Following, the ETC will discuss the
assignment to develop a method to
prioritize FEIs and provide
recommendations. The ETC will also
revisit the initially identified potential
list of FEIs for the Council to consider.
Lastly, the ETC will receive public
comment at the end of the day, and
discuss any items under Other Business.
—Meeting Adjourns
The meeting will also be broadcast via
webinar. You may register for the
webinar by visiting www.gulfcouncil.org
and clicking on the Technical meeting
on the calendar.
The Agenda is subject to change, and
the latest version along with other
meeting materials will be posted on
www.gulfcouncil.org as they become
available.
Although other non-emergency issues
not on the agenda may come before the
Committee 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 Committee 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
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notified of the Council’s intent to takeaction to address the emergency.
Special Accommodations
The meeting is physically accessible
to people with disabilities. Requests for
sign language interpretation or other
auxiliary aid should be directed to
Kathy Pereira, (813) 348–1630, at least
5 days prior to the meeting date.
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.
Dated: August 29, 2023.
Rey Israel Marquez,
Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable
Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Patent and Trademark Office
[Docket No. PTO–T–2023–0037]
Requiring Identity Verification for
Attorney-Sponsored Accounts
United States Patent and
Trademark Office, U.S. Department of
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The United States Patent and
Trademark Office (USPTO) announces
that beginning on January 20, 2024, all
existing and new attorney support staff
with an attorney-sponsored USPTO.gov
account will be required to verify their
identity to access trademark filing
systems. The USPTO is making this
change after discovering that some U.S.licensed attorneys have sponsored
accounts for individuals who are not
directly supervised attorney support
staff, and that many of these sponsored
accounts appear to be shared by
multiple foreign agents and attorneys.
These actions violate the Trademark
Verified USPTO.gov Account
Agreement (Agreement).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Robert Lavache, Office of the Deputy
Commissioner for Trademark
Examination Policy, USPTO, at 571–
272–5881. You can also send inquiries
to TMFRNotices@uspto.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In late
2019, as part of the USPTO’s continuing
efforts to protect the integrity of the U.S.
trademark register, and to better protect
its customers from scams and other
fraudulent activities related to the
trademark register, the USPTO began
requiring customers to create a
USPTO.gov account to access and
submit electronic trademark forms. This
enabled the USPTO to monitor
trademark filing behavior and aided in
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enforcing the USPTO Trademark Rules
of Practice regarding submissions in
trademark matters. On August 6, 2022,
the USPTO began requiring existing and
new account holders who occupy one of
the appropriate user roles, including
owner, U.S.-licensed attorney, Canadian
attorney, or Canadian agent, to verify
their identity. See Trademarks
USPTO.gov Account ID Verification
Program (87 FR 41114). The USPTO also
offered a user role for sponsored
attorney support staff to establish
USPTO.gov accounts when sponsored
by a supervising U.S.-licensed (or a
reciprocally recognized Canadian)
attorney, and at the time did not require
identity verification for sponsored
support staff accounts. See 87 FR 41114.
Since establishing the sponsored staff
user roles, the USPTO has discovered
that some U.S.-licensed attorneys have
sponsored accounts for individuals who
are not directly supervised attorney
support staff, which violates the
Agreement that applies to all
USPTO.gov account holders. Many of
these sponsored accounts appear to be
used by multiple foreign agents and
attorneys who file thousands of
trademark applications involving
violations of the USPTO’s Trademark
Rules of Practice, including the rules on
signatures and certifications. Because
the sponsored account user role has
been subject to abuse that has
undermined the integrity of the
trademark register and such abuse can
be significantly curtailed by requiring
identity verification of sponsored
account holders, the USPTO will now
require all existing and new attorney
support staff who are USPTO.gov
account holders to verify their identity.
On October 14, 2023, the USPTO will
make identity verification available to
attorney support staff account holders. It
will become mandatory for such
account holders on January 20, 2024.
Requiring identity verification of
sponsored accounts will help enforce
the ‘‘one person, one account’’ rule,
better enable the USPTO to restrict nonattorneys from submitting trademark
filings, and prevent rule violations by
filing entities and other unauthorized
users. It will also allow the USPTO to
better track and eliminate the use of
sponsored accounts created for
unsupervised use by non-attorney
entities.
Trademark applicants and registrants,
or their attorneys and support staff,
must register for and use a USPTO.gov
account to access and submit trademark
application and maintenance filings
with the USPTO. Users of a USPTO.gov
account and any other USPTO web page
or system are required to comply with
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the Terms of Use for USPTO web pages.
Further, to file trademark documents
electronically, users must have their
identities verified, and are further
bound by the Agreement. A verified
account can only be connected to one
USPTO.gov trademark account.
Once qualified U.S.-licensed attorneys
have a trademark verified USPTO.gov
account, they may sponsor the
USPTO.gov accounts of directly
supervised support staff. Attorneys who
abuse the terms of sponsorship may
have their sponsorship privileges—and
potentially their own verified
accounts—revoked. However, under the
current system, support staff can simply
create new accounts using unverified
information and seek attorney
sponsorship again, sometimes by the
same attorney. Requiring identity
verification of sponsored accounts will
allow the USPTO to consistently enforce
the Agreement and ensure that a user of
a sponsored account cannot create
multiple accounts or create a new
account and again be sponsored.
The following examples demonstrate
the impact of the problems caused by
the inappropriate use of sponsored
accounts. In one instance of abuse, an
attorney sponsored more than 30
different accounts used by individuals
not under their direct supervision, and
perhaps not even personally known to
the attorney. In another example, an
attorney sponsored multiple accounts
for use by non-attorney trademark
preparation or filing entities, which are
not authorized to practice law, file
submissions for clients, or represent
parties before the USPTO in trademark
matters. Several of these accounts have
also been connected to known scams
that have defrauded many trademark
applicants. Each of these behaviors
violates the terms of the Agreement to
which each of these attorneys
consented. In addition, some law firms
are creating institutional accounts that
appear to be intended for use by
multiple people under generic names
such as ‘‘Admin Support.’’ This practice
impedes the ability of the USPTO to
maintain an accurate filing history and
violates the Agreement, even if no
improper activities are intended.
Under the revised procedures, both
existing and new sponsored attorney
support staff USPTO.gov account
holders will need to verify their
identity, using either the electronic or
paper process, to access the Trademark
Electronic Application System (TEAS).
Identity verification will become
available on October 14, 2023, for
attorney support staff account holders to
verify their identities. Existing
unverified sponsored attorney support
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[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
[RTID 0648-XD308]
Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council; Public Meeting
AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of a public meeting.
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SUMMARY: The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council (Council) will
hold a one-day in-person meeting of its Ecosystem Technical Committee
(ETC).
DATES: The meeting will be held Thursday, September 21, 2023; 8:30
a.m.-4:30 p.m., EDT.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will take place at the Gulf Council office.
Registration information will be available on the Council's website by
visiting www.gulfcouncil.org and clicking on the ``meeting tab''.
Council address: Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council, 4107 W.
Spruce Street, Suite 200, Tampa, FL 33607; telephone: (813) 348-1630.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. Natasha Mendez, Fishery Biologist,
Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council; email:
[email protected], telephone: (813) 348-1630.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Thursday, September 21, 2023; 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., EDT
The meeting will begin with Introductions and Adoption of Agenda,
Approval of Minutes and Meeting Summary from the April 19-20, 2023
meeting and a review of the Scope of Work. The ETC will discuss the
development of the Fishery Ecosystem Plan (FEP) for the Gulf of Mexico,
review the draft updates to the Fishery Ecosystem Issue (FEI) Loop, and
provide recommendations.
Following, the ETC will discuss the assignment to develop a method
to prioritize FEIs and provide recommendations. The ETC will also
revisit the initially identified potential list of FEIs for the Council
to consider.
Lastly, the ETC will receive public comment at the end of the day,
and discuss any items under Other Business.
--Meeting Adjourns
The meeting will also be broadcast via webinar. You may register
for the webinar by visiting www.gulfcouncil.org and clicking on the
Technical meeting on the calendar.
The Agenda is subject to change, and the latest version along with
other meeting materials will be posted on www.gulfcouncil.org as they
become available.
Although other non-emergency issues not on the agenda may come
before the Committee 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
Committee 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
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notified of the Council's intent to take-action to address the
emergency.
Special Accommodations
The meeting is physically accessible to people with disabilities.
Requests for sign language interpretation or other auxiliary aid should
be directed to Kathy Pereira, (813) 348-1630, at least 5 days prior to
the meeting date.
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.
Dated: August 29, 2023.
Rey Israel Marquez,
Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National
Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 2023-19002 Filed 9-1-23; 8:45 am]
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