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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Patent and Trademark Office 

[Docket No.: PTO–C–2017–0030] 

Notice of Roundtable on Intellectual 

Property and Trade Shows 

AGENCY: United States Patent and 

Trademark Office, Department of 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of public roundtable. 

SUMMARY: The United States Patent and 

Trademark Office (USPTO) will host a 

roundtable discussion at its 

headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia, on 

October 18, 2017, on addressing 

intellectual property infringements at 

trade shows. 

DATES: The public roundtable will be 

held on Wednesday, October 18, 2017, 

from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. 

ADDRESSES: The public roundtable will 

be held at the United States Patent and 

Trademark Office, Global Intellectual 

Property Academy, Madison Building 

(East), Second Floor, 600 Dulany Street, 

Alexandria, Virginia 22314. All major 

entrances to the building are accessible 

to people with disabilities. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

further information regarding the public 

meeting, please contact Peter N. Fowler 

or Kortney Hammonds at the Office of 

Policy and International Affairs, by 

telephone at (571) 272–9300, by email at 

peter.fowler@uspto.gov, or 

kortney.hammonds@uspto.gov, or by 

postal mail addressed to: Mail Stop 

OPIA, United States Patent and 

Trademark Office, P.O. Box 1450, 

Alexandria, VA 22313–1450, ATTN: 

Peter Fowler or Kortney Hammonds. 

Please direct all media inquiries to the 

Office of the Chief Communications 

Officer, USPTO, at (571) 272–8400. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Trade 

shows can provide opportunities for 

both the willful and unintentional 

infringement of intellectual property 

rights. The transient nature of these 

events presents challenges for 

intellectual property rights holders to 

address an infringement, discover the 

infringement, take action against it, or, 

in some cases, even determine against 

whom to assert their legal rights. 

The USPTO is hosting a public 

roundtable to discuss approaches, 

strategies, and effective practices for 

addressing the kinds of infringement 

that most often occur at trade fairs and 

shows, including the infringement of 

copyright, design, patent, and 

trademark. Topics to be explored will 

include: How U.S. Government agencies 

and the courts can be used effectively 

when intellectual property rights are 

infringed at trade shows; legal measures 

and strategies available to rights holders 

before, during, and after a trade show; 

and recent and anticipated trends and 

challenges faced by rights holders and 

trade show operators. Speakers drawn 

from academia, civil and criminal 

litigation practice, rights holders and 

industry associations, and the U.S. 

Government will offer insights, 

observations, and experiences, on 

intellectual property infringements at 

trade shows. They will discuss how to 

deal with the challenges presented at 

trade shows, including legal strategies 

employed in removing allegedly 

infringing goods from a trade show 

venue. 

Instructions and Information on the 

Public Roundtable 

The public roundtable will be held at 

the United States Patent and Trademark 

Office, Global Intellectual Property 

Academy, Madison Building (East), 

Second Floor, 600 Dulany Street, 

Alexandria, Virginia 22314, and will 

begin at 9 a.m. and end at 4:30 p.m. The 

event will also be webcast and offered 

via interactive viewing at USPTO 

satellite offices in Dallas, Denver, 

Detroit, and San Jose. The agenda will 

be available a week before the meeting 

on the USPTO Web site, https://

www.uspto.gov/learning-and-resources/ 

ip-policy/enforcement/intellectualproperty-and-trade-shows. Registration 

will be available at the same URL. 

Attendees may also register at the door 

thirty (30) minutes prior to the 

beginning of the meeting, however 

seating will be limited to no more than 

90 persons, and priority will be given to 

those who preregister. Attendees at all 

locations, as well as those online, will 

have an opportunity to submit questions 

to the speakers, which will be 

addressed, time permitting, during the 

question and answer period of each 

panel session. 

The public roundtable will be 

physically accessible to people with 

disabilities. Individuals requiring 

accommodation, such as sign language 

interpretation or other ancillary aids, 

should communicate their needs to 

Kortney Hammonds in the Office of 

Policy and International Affairs, by 

telephone at (571) 272–1500, by email at 

kortney.hammonds@uspto.gov, or by 

postal mail addressed to: Mail Stop 

OPIA, United States Patent and 

Trademark Office, P.O. Box 1450, 

Alexandria, VA 22313–1450, ATTN: 

Kortney Hammonds, at least seven (7) 

business days prior to the date of the 

public roundtable. 

Dated: September 8, 2017. 

Joseph Matal, 

Performing the Functions and Duties of the 

Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual 

Property and Director of the United States 

Patent and Trademark Office. 

[FR Doc. 2017–19488 Filed 9–13–17; 8:45 am] 

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COUNCIL ON ENVIRONMENTAL 

QUALITY 

Initial List of Actions To Enhance and 

Modernize the Federal Environmental 

Review and Authorization Process 

AGENCY: Council on Environmental 

Quality. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Council on 

Environmental Quality (CEQ) is 

publishing its initial list of actions 

pursuant to Executive Order 13807 of 

August 15, 2017, titled ‘‘Establishing 

Discipline and Accountability in the 

Environmental Review and Permitting 

Process for Infrastructure Projects,’’ and 

published on August 24, 2017. 

ADDRESSES: This Initial List of Actions 

will be available at https://

www.whitehouse.gov/ceq and on the 

National Environmental Policy Act 

(NEPA) Web site at 

https://ceq.doe.gov/. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Council on Environmental Quality 

(Attn: Ted Boling, Associate Director for 

the National Environmental Policy Act), 

730 Jackson Place NW., Washington, DC 

20503. Telephone: (202) 395–5750. 

Email: NEPA@ceq.eop.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On August 

15, 2017, the President signed Executive 

Order 13807 titled ‘‘Establishing 

Discipline and Accountability in the 

Environmental Review and Permitting 

Process for Infrastructure Projects,’’ 

which was published on August 24, 

2017. 82 FR 40463. The Executive Order 

directs the Council on Environmental 

Quality (CEQ) to undertake a number of 

actions. In particular, Section 5(e)(i) of 

Executive Order 13807 provides that 

‘‘[w]ithin 30 days of the date of this 

order, the CEQ shall develop an initial 

list of actions it will take to enhance and 

modernize the Federal environmental 

review and authorization process. Such 

actions should include issuing such 

regulations, guidance, and directives as 

CEQ may deem necessary to: 

(A) Ensure optimal interagency 

coordination of environmental review and 

authorization decisions, including by 

providing for an expanded role and 

authorities for lead agencies, more clearly 

defined responsibilities for cooperating and 


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participating agencies, and Government-wide 

applicability of NEPA decisions and 

analyses; 

(B) ensure that environmental reviews and 

authorization decisions involving multiple 

agencies are conducted in a manner that is 

concurrent, synchronized, timely, and 

efficient; 

(C) provide for agency use, to the 

maximum extent permitted by law, of 

environmental studies, analysis, and 

decisions conducted in support of earlier 

Federal, State, tribal, or local environmental 

reviews or authorization decisions; and 

(D) ensure that agencies apply NEPA in a 

manner that reduces unnecessary burdens 

and delays as much as possible, including by 

using CEQ’s authority to interpret NEPA to 

simplify and accelerate the NEPA review 

process.’’ 

Pursuant to Section 5(e)(i) of Executive 

Order 13807, CEQ identifies the 

following initial list of actions that it 

intends to undertake to enhance and 

modernize the Federal environmental 

review and authorization process: 

1. To comply with Section 5(b)(iv) of 

Executive Order 13807, CEQ intends to 

develop with the Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB), and in consultation 

with the Federal Permitting 

Improvement Steering Council 

(Permitting Council), a framework 

providing for the implementation of 

One Federal Decision. This framework 

may be supplemented with additional 

guidance and directives as needed. 

2. To comply with Section 5(d) of 

Executive Order 13807, CEQ will refer 

various requests for designation of State 

projects pursuant to Executive Order 

13766 to the Permitting Council, 

Department of Transportation and U.S. 

Army Corps of Engineers as appropriate. 

CEQ will, as appropriate in response to 

any additional requests from States, 

refer projects that qualify for 

designation as high priority projects in 

accordance with Section 5(d) of 

Executive Order 13807. 

3. To comply with Section 5(e)(i) of 

the Executive Order, CEQ intends to 

(a) revise, modify or supplement its 

existing guidance regarding: 

i. Establishing, Applying, and 

Revising Categorical Exclusions under 

NEPA, with supporting information 

regarding established Categorical 

Exclusions; 

ii. Preparing Environmental 

Assessments; 

iii. Improving the Process for 

Preparing Efficient and Timely 

Environmental Reviews under NEPA; 

iv. Appropriate Use of Mitigation and 

Monitoring and Appropriate Use of 

Mitigated Findings of No Significant 

Impact; and 

v. Environmental Collaboration and 

Conflict Resolution; 

(b) review existing CEQ Regulations 

implementing the procedural provisions 

of NEPA in order to identify changes 

needed to update and clarify those 

regulations; and 

(c) issue such additional guidance to 

agency heads as CEQ may deem 

necessary to simplify and accelerate the 

NEPA process for infrastructure 

projects, including infrastructurespecific guidance to be compiled in a 

NEPA practitioners’ handbook for 

infrastructure project proposals, to 

address issues including but not limited 

to the following: 

i. public involvement, including 

meetings and sufficiency of notice; 

ii. deference to the lead Federal 

agency with regard to key NEPA 

elements such as the development of the 

statement of purpose and need and 

range of alternatives; 

iii. appropriate cumulative impacts 

analysis methodologies or tools for 

infrastructure projects; 

iv. sources of information that may be 

relied upon in analyzing impacts; 

v. reliance on prior studies, analyses 

or decisions for projects within the same 

general locations; and 

vi. reliance on State, local and tribal 

environmental impacts analyses for 

purposes of NEPA. 

4. To comply with Section 5(e)(iii), 

CEQ will convene an interagency 

Executive Order 13807 Working Group, 

consisting of agency Chief 

Environmental Review and Permit 

Officers, the OMB Director, and 

representatives of other such Federal 

agencies as CEQ shall deem appropriate. 

The working group shall review the 

NEPA implementing regulations and 

other environmental review and 

authorization procedures and policies of 

Federal agencies that are members of the 

Permitting Council to identify 

impediments to the efficient and 

effective processing of environmental 

reviews and authorizations for 

infrastructure projects and to identify 

agencies that require an action plan to 

address the identified impediments. 

Based on this review, involved Federal 

agencies shall develop their action plans 

setting forth the actions they will take 

as well as timelines for completing 

those actions, and submit their action 

plans to CEQ and OMB for comment. 

Each agency’s action plan shall, at a 

minimum, establish procedures for a 

regular review and update of categorical 

exclusions, where appropriate. CEQ 

anticipates that the working group will 

address a number of issues relating to 

environmental reviews, including but 

not limited to consultations pursuant to 

Section 7 of the Endangered Species 

Act, compliance with Section 106 of the 

National Historic Preservation Act, and 

permitting and certifications pursuant to 

the Clean Water Act. 

(Authority: 42 U.S.C. 4332, 4342, 4344; 40 

CFR Parts 1500, 1501, 1502, 1503, 1505, 

1506, 1507, and 1508; E.O. 13807, 82 FR 

40463.) 

Issued in Washington, DC, on September 8, 

2017. 

Mary B. Neumayr, 

Chief of Staff. 

[FR Doc. 2017–19425 Filed 9–13–17; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3225–F5–P 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Office of the Secretary 

[Docket ID: DOD–2015–OS–0080] 

Proposed Collection; Comment 

Request 

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant 

Secretary of Defense for Manpower and 

Reserve Affairs, DoD. 

ACTION: 60-Day information collection 

notice. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the 

Office of the Assistant Secretary of 

Defense for Manpower and Reserve 

Affairs announces a proposed public 

information collection and seeks public 

comment on the provisions thereof. 

Comments are invited on: Whether the 

proposed collection of information is 

necessary for the proper performance of 

the functions of the agency, including 

whether the information shall have 

practical utility; the accuracy of the 

agency’s estimate of the burden of the 

proposed information collection; ways 

to enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and ways to minimize the 

burden of the information collection on 

respondents, including through the use 

of automated collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology. 

DATES: Consideration will be given to all 

comments received by November 13, 

2017. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by docket number and title, 

by any of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• Mail: Department of Defense, Office 

of the Deputy Chief Management 

Officer, Directorate for Oversight and 

Compliance, Regulatory and Advisory 

Committee Division, 4800 Mark Center 

Drive, Mailbox #24, Suite 08D09B, 

Alexandria, VA 22350–1700. 


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