[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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