Federal Register / Vol. 63, No. 143 / Monday, July 27, 1998 / Notices 40105

by e-mail to jane.myers@uspto.gov; or

by mail to Patent and Trademark Office,

Office of Electronic Information

Products, Crystal Park 3, Suite 441,

Washington, DC 20231.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The PTO

has been directed to disseminate patent

and trademark information using

automated methods. See 35 USC

41(i)(2). The PTO currently provides the

public with on-line access, for a fee, to

internal patent and trademark

automated search systems in its public

search facilities located in Crystal City,

VA. Thirty-one Patent and Trademark

Depository Libraries (PTDLs) offer online access to PTO’s automated patent

full-text search system, and three

Partnership PTDLs offer on-line access

to PTO’s automated trademark text and

image search system and to the

automated patent image retrieval

system. The PTO also provides access to

subsets of its patent and trademark

databases on CD-ROMs in the PTO’s

public search facilities and at 83 PTDLs

located throughout the country. The

PTO sells its CD-ROM products to the

public, and the Government Printing

Office makes them available to the

Federal Depository Libraries. Although

the PTO has provided World-Wide Web

access to searchable patent

bibliographic data since November

1995, neither searchable trademark data,

the full text of patents, nor patent and

trademark image data are currently

available on the PTO Web site.

The PTO hereby provides notice to

the public of its plans to expand

searchable patent data and to begin

offering searchable trademark data on its

Web site. In August of this year, the

PTO plans to provide free Web access to

the trademark text data that is currently

available on the PTO’s Cassis CD-ROM

products—Trademarks Registered and

Trademarks Pending—covering active

registered and pending marks. In

November 1998, this trademark offering

will include the ‘‘clipped’’ images

associated with these marks. In the

future, this searchable trademark

database will be expanded to include

inactive (abandoned, cancelled and

expired) marks and some additional

data elements associated with those

inactive marks, and will be updated

more frequently to reflect more current

conditions of the trademark database.

Also in November 1998, the PTO plans

to expand its patent database offering on

the Web to include free access to the full

text of all patents issued since 1976. In

March 1999, the patent offering will

allow users free access to the full page

images of patents identified. On-line

ordering of patent documents issued

since 1976 for electronic delivery, for a

fee, is planned for March 1999. Any

such fee will be established by taking

into consideration applicable

government policy, OMB circular A–

130, the Paperwork Reduction Act, and

any other applicable statutes. The PTO

requests public comments on its plans

to expand its Web site offerings.

Dated: July 21, 1998.

Bruce A. Lehman,

Assistant Secretary of Commerce and

Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks.

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Office of the Secretary of Defense

Meeting of the DOD Advisory Group on

Electron Devices

AGENCY: Department of Defense,

Advisory Group on Electron Devices.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: Working Group B

(Microelectronics) of the DoD Advisory

Group on Electron Devices (AGED)

announces a closed session meeting.

DATES: The meeting will be held at

0900, Friday, September 11, 1998.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held

Palisades Institute for Research Service,

1745 Jefferson Davis Highway, Suite

500, Arlington, VA 22202.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Timothy Doyle, AGED Secretariat, 1745

Jefferson Davis Highway, Crystal Square

Four, Suite 500, Arlington, Virginia

22202.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

mission of the Advisory Group is to

provide advice to the Under Secretary of

Defense for Acquisition and

Technology, to the Director Defense

Research and Engineering (DDR&E), and

through the DDR&E, to the Director

Defense Advanced Research Projects

Agency and the Militaryd Departments

in plannign and managing an effective

research and development program in

the field of electron devices.

The Working Group B meeting will be

limited to review of research and

development programs which the

military proposes to initiate with

industry, universities or in their

laboratories. The microelectronics area

includes such programs on

semiconductor materials, integrated

circuits, charge coupled devices and

memories. The review will include

classified program details throughout.

In accordance with Section 10(d) of

Pub. L. 92–463, as amended, (5 U.S.C.

App. 10(d) (1994)), it has been

determined that this Advisory Group

meeting concerns matters listed in 5

U.S.C. 552b(c)(1) (1994), and that

accordingly, this meeting will be closed

to the public.

Dated: July 21, 1998.

L.M. Bynum,

Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison

Officer, Department of Defense.

[FR Doc. 98–19949 Filed 7–24–98; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Office of the Secretary of Defense

Meeting of the DOD Advisory Group on

Electron Devices

AGENCY: Department of Defense,

Advisory Group on Electron Devices.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: Working Group A (Microwave

Devices) of the DoD Advisory Group on

Electron Devices (AGED) announces a

closed session meeting.

DATES: The meeting will be held at

0900, Wednesday, September 9, 1998.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at

Palisades Institute for Research

Services, 1745 Jefferson Davis Highway,

Suite 500, Arlington, VA 22202.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

David Cox, AGED Secretariat, 1745

Jefferson Davis Highway, Crystal Square

Four, Suite 500, Arlington, Virginia

22202.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

mission of the Advisory Group is to

provide advice to the Under Secretary of

Defense for Acquisition and

Technology, to the Director of Defense

Research and Engineering (DDR&E), and

through the DDR&E to the Director,

Defense Advanced Research Projects

Agency (ARPA) and the Military

Departments in planning and managing

an effective and economical research

and development program in the area of

electron devices.

The Working Group A meeting will be

limited to review of research and

development programs which the

Military Departments propose to initiate

with industry, universities or in their

laboratories. This microwave device

area includes programs on

developments and research related to

microwave tubes, solid state microwave

devices, electronic warfare devices,

millimeter wave devices, and passive

devices. The review will include details

of classified defense programs

throughout.

In accordance with Section 10(d) of

Pub. L. 92–463, as amended, (5 U.S.C.