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diff --git a/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/dmarti-patent.html b/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/dmarti-patent.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3f036dc --- /dev/null +++ b/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/dmarti-patent.html @@ -0,0 +1,317 @@ +<!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" --> +<!-- Parent-Version: 1.84 --> +<title>Patent Reform Now - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title> +<!--#include virtual="/philosophy/po/dmarti-patent.translist" --> +<!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" --> +<h2>Patent Reform Now! Mail USPTO before 12 April 2001!</h2> + +<p>by Don Marti <a href="mailto:dmarti@ssc.com"><dmarti@ssc.com></a></p> + +<p><em> +[This page remains here for historical interest; we will post the results + of this campaign when we hear who who has been put on the committee.] +</em></p> + +<p> +3 April 2001 +</p> + +<p> +Only six working days remain until the deadline arrives to submit +nominations for the US Patent and Trademark Office's Patent Public +Advisory Committee. If you or someone you know has some helpful advice +for USPTO and is a US citizen willing to serve, please submit a +nomination. A letter and the person's resume is all you need to send. It +doesn't take long, and you can do it by e-mail. +</p> + +<p> +Richard M. Stallman, inventor of notable software innovations +including the Emacs editor and the software distribution model +“copyleft”, is our choice for the committee. Stallman has +shown reasoned opposition not only to the current trends of patenting +other people's work and trivial new developments, but also to the +patentability of mathematical algorithms and business +methods. <a href="http://stallman.org/biographies.html#serious">“A serious +bio”</a> from his web site is the resume he offers; it +summarizes his achievements. +</p> + +<p> +If you a fan of other patent reform advocates, you might consider +nominating one of them instead of, or in addition to, RMS. Lawrence +Lessig, Eben Moglen and Tim O'Reilly might all make good committee +members. Nominate your favorite. Or if you're ready to +help USPTO +fix its broken system, get someone to nominate you. +</p> + +<p> +Last year, Acting Secretary of Commerce Robert L. Mallett appointed <a +href="https://www.uspto.gov/about-us/news-updates/acting-commerce-secretary-robert-l-mallett-names-members-new-uspto-advisory">an initial +complement of nine</a> to the committee: six lawyers, two patent-holding +inventors and two professors. (One of the professors is a professor of +law, so it adds up to nine, if you're counting.) None are patent reform +advocates. +</p> + +<p>Here is the original notice from the Federal Register (converted from the +<a href="http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/com/sol/notices/pubadvcomnom.pdf"> +original PDF file</a> on the USPTO site.) +</p> + +<p> +Mail <a +href="mailto:PPACnomination@uspto.gov"><PPACnomination@uspto.gov></a> +today. +</p> + +<hr /> + +<p> +<b>DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE +</b> +</p> +<br /><b>United States Patent and Trademark +Office +</b> + +<br />[Docket No. 000317075103502] + +<br />RIN 0651 XX22 + +<br /><b>Public Advisory Committees</b> + +<br /><b>AGENCY:</b> United States Patent and Trademark Office, Commerce. + +<br /><b>ACTION:</b> Notice and request for nominations. + +<p><b>SUMMARY +</b> +</p> + +<p>On November 29, 1999, the President signed into law the Patent +and Trademark Office Efficiency Act (the ``Act''), Pub. L. 106113, +Appendix I, Title IV, Subtitle G, 113 Stat. 1501A 572, which, among +other things, established two Public Advisory Committees to review the +policies, goals, performance, budget and user fees of the United States +Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) with respect to patents, in the case +of the Patent Public Advisory Committee, and with respect to trademarks, +in the case of the Trademark Public Advisory Committee, and to advise +the Director in these matters. The USPTO is requesting nominations for +three (3) members to each Public Advisory Committee for terms beginning +on July 13, 2001. +</p> + +<p><b>DATES:</b> Nominations must be postmarked or electronically +transmitted on or before April 12, 2001. +</p> + +<p><b>ADDRESSES:</b> Persons wishing to submit nominations should +send the nominee's resume to Chief of Staff, Office of the +Director of the USPTO, Washington, DC 20231; by electronic mail to +PPACnomination@uspto.gov for the Patent Public Advisory Committee or +TPACnomination@uspto.gov for the Trademark Public Advisory Committee; +by facsimile transmission marked to the Chief of Staff's attention at +(703) 305-8664; or by mail marked to the Chief of Staff's attention and +addressed to the Office of the Director of the USPTO, Washington, DC +20231. +</p> + +<p><b>FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:</b> Chief of Staff by facsimile +transmission marked to his attention at (703) 3058664, or by mail +marked to his attention and addressed to the Office of the Director of +the USPTO, Washington, DC 20231. +</p> + +<p><b>SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:</b> Under the Act, the then-Acting +Secretary of Commerce appointed members to the two Patent and Trademark +Public Advisory Committees on July 13, 2000. The Advisory Committees' +duties include: +</p> + +<ul> +<li>Review and advise the Director of the USPTO on matters relating +to policies, goals, performance, budget, and user fees of the USPTO +relating to patents and trademarks, respectively; and</li> + +<li>Within 60 days after the end of each fiscal year: (1) Prepare an +annual report on the matters listed above; (2) transmit the report +to the Secretary of Commerce, the President, and the Committees on +the Judiciary of the Senate and the House of Representatives; and (3) +publish the report in the Official Gazette of the USPTO. Members of the +Patent and Trademark Public Advisory Committees are appointed by and +serve at the pleasure of the Secretary of Commerce for three (3)-year +terms.</li> + +</ul> + +<p><b>Advisory Committees</b></p> + +<p>The Public Advisory Committees are each composed of nine (9) +voting members who are appointed by the Secretary of Commerce (the +``Secretary'') and who have ``substantial backgrounds and achievement in +finance, management, labor relations, science, technology, and office +automation.'' 35 U.S.C. 5(b)(3). The Public Advisory Committee members +must be United States citizens and represent the interests of diverse +users of the USPTO both large and small entity applicants in proportion +to the number of such applications filed. In the case of the Patent +Public Advisory Committee, at least twenty-five (25) percent of the +members must represent ``small business concerns, independent inventors, +and nonprofit organizations,'' and at least one member must represent +the independent inventors' community. 35 U.S.C. 5(b)(2). Each of the +Public Advisory Committees also includes three (3) non-voting members +representing each labor organization recognized by the USPTO. +</p> + +<p><b>Procedures and Guidelines of the Patent and Trademark Public +Advisory Committees</b></p> + +<p>Each newly appointed member of the Patent and Trademark Public +Advisory Committees will serve for a term of three years. Members +appointed in the current fiscal year shall serve from July 13, 2001, +to July 12, 2004. As required by the Act, members of the Patent and +Trademark Public Advisory Committees will receive compensation for each +day, including travel time, while the member is attending meetings +or engaged in the business of that Advisory Committee. The rate of +compensation is the daily equivalent of the annual rate of basic pay +in effect for level III of the Executive Schedule under section 5314 +of title 5, United States Code. +<span class="gnun-split"></span>While away from home or regular place +of business, each member will be allowed travel expenses, including +per diem in lieu of subsistence, as authorized by Section 5703 of +Title 5, United States Code. The USPTO will provide the necessary +administrative support, including technical assistance, for the +Committees. Applicability of Certain Ethics Laws Members of each Public +Advisory Committee shall be special Government employees within the +meaning of Section 202 of Title 18, United States Code. The following +additional information assumes that members are not engaged in Public +Advisory Committee business more than sixty days during each calendar +year: +</p> + +<ul> +<li>Each member will be required to file a confidential financial +disclosure form within thirty (30) days of appointment. 5 C.F.R. +2634.202(c), 2634.204, 2634.903, and 2634.904(b).</li> + +<li>Each member will be subject to many of the public integrity laws, +including criminal bars against representing a party, 18 U.S.C. 203(c), +or acting where the United States has an interest, 18 U.S.C. 205(c), +in a particular matter that came before the member's committee and +that involved at least one specific party. See also 18 U.S.C. 207 for +post-membership bars. A member also must not act on a matter in which +the member (or any of certain closely related entities) has a financial +interest. 18 U.S.C. 208.</li> + +<li>Representation of foreign interests +may also raise issues. 35 U.S.C. 5(a)(1) +and 18 U.S.C. 219.</li> + +</ul> + +<p><b>Meetings of the Patent and Trademark Public Advisory Committees +</b></p> + +<p>Meetings of each Advisory Committee will take place at the call +of the chair to consider an agenda set by the chair. Meetings may be +conducted in person, electronically through the Internet, or by other +appropriate means. The meetings of each Advisory Committee will be open +to the public except each Advisory Committee may, by majority vote, meet +in executive session when considering personnel or other confidential +matters. Nominees must also have the ability to participate in Committee +business through the Internet.</p> + +<p><b>Procedure for Submitting Nominations</b></p> + +<p>Submit resumes for nominations for the Patent Public Advisory +Committee and the Trademark Public Advisory Committee to the USPTO's +Chief of Staff as provided above.</p> + +<p>Dated: March 7, 2001. +<br />Nicholas P. Godici, +</p> + +<p><i>Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and +Acting Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office.</i></p> + +<p>[FR Doc. 016238 Filed 31201; 8:45 am] +<br /> +BILLING CODE 351016U +</p> + +</div><!-- for id="content", starts in the include above --> +<!--#include virtual="/server/footer.html" --> +<div id="footer"> +<div class="unprintable"> + +<p> +Please send questions and comments regarding this specific page to <a +href="mailto:dmarti@ssc.com">Don Marti <dmarti@ssc.com></a>. +</p> + +<p>Please send general FSF & GNU inquiries to +<a href="mailto:gnu@gnu.org"><gnu@gnu.org></a>. +There are also <a href="/contact/">other ways to contact</a> +the FSF. 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