12/12. Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX), the ranking Republican on the House Commerce Committee (HCC), sent a letter to Eric Schmidt, Ch/CEO of Google, that propounds numerous written interrogatories related to the proposed merger of Google and Doubleclick, protection of consumer privacy, and HR 964, the SPY ACT.

Rep. Barton (at right) asks in this letter about Google's data retention policies (such as for data on consumers' searches), Google's use of that data, including merging of data, Google's privacy policies, Google's use of cookie technology, and behavioral targeting.

The letter also asks about Google's anonymization of data, and whether its practices are consistent with industry-wide practices.

The letter asks Schmidt to "explain how and why information is combined or shared across platforms when consumers opt-in for personalized services and whether Google first requires consent prior to such information-sharing. (For instance, whether search query data is shared with or linked to a user’s Gmail account.)" (Parentheses in original.)

The letter also asks "If the merger of Google and DoubleClick is approved, please describe what use Google plans to make of the data retained and collected by DoubleClick (for example, data from DoubleClick’s tracking cookies or DoubleClick click-stream data), and whether Google plans to combine or merge DoubleClick’s data with data Google retains from individual search queries and other user activity on www.google.com." (Parentheses in original.)

HR 964. The House passed HR 964, the "Securely Protect Yourself Against Cyber Trespass Act", or "SPY ACT", on June 6, 2007. This bill would prohibit certain deceptive acts or practices related to spyware, and prohibit collection of certain information without notice and consent. See, stories titled "House Subcommittee Approves SPY ACT" and "Summary of HR 964, the SPY ACT" in TLJ Daily E-Mail Alert No. 1,568, April 23, 2007, and "House Approves Commerce Committee's Spyware Bill" in TLJ Daily E-Mail Alert No. 1,591, June 6, 2007.

The House also passed a related bill, HR 1525 [LOC | WW], the "Internet Spyware (I-SPY) Prevention Act of 2007", on May 22, 2007. See, story titled "House Approves Spyware Bill" in TLJ Daily E-Mail Alert No. 1,586, May 23, 2007. However, the Senate has not passed either bill.

Rep. Barton wrote in his letter to Schmidt that HR 964 "mandates an opt-in privacy regime by prohibiting the collection of personal information from a computer without a user’s notice and consent prior to the execution of any information collection program. H.R. 964 also demands that a user be able to easily remove or disable the information collection program."

He asked Schmidt to "explain whether Google’s applications are subject to H.R. 964's consent requirements. If the answer is no, please explain why these programs, which collect personal information, are not subject to the consent regime established by H.R. 964."

Rep. Barton's letter propounds 24 numbered questions, many of which include multiple questions. He asked for answers by Tuesday, December 18, 2007.

12/12. The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) and the Center for Digital Democracy (CDD) submitted a filing [PDF] to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) requesting the recusal of FTC Chairman Deborah Majoras from the pending review of the proposed merger of Google and Doubleclick.

The EPIC is a Washington DC based group that advocates privacy interests. It also opposed the merger on the grounds that it would adversely impact individual privacy.

It argued in its April 20, 2007, complaint [11 pages in PDF] to the FTC that "Neither Google nor DoubleClick have taken adequate steps to safeguard the personal data that is collected. Moreover, the proposed acquisition will create unique risks to privacy and will violate previously agreed standards for the conduct of online advertising." See also, supplemental materials [21 pages in PDF] submitted on June 6, 2007. See also, the EPIC's web section on the proposed merger.

The two groups wrote in their just filed recusal request that "Petitioners learned on Monday, December 10, 2007 that Doubleclick, a party to the proceeding, has retained the Washington law firm of Jones Day to represent the company before the Federal Trade Commission in the pending merger review."

They continued that "Majoras is a former equity partner of the law firm Jones Day" and that her husband, John Majoras, "is currently an equity partner with the law firm Jones Day".

They added that Majoras has recused herself in other proceedings in which Jones Day represents a party.

They argued that they "do not accept the premise that the spouse of the Chairman should represent a client in the pending matter and profit from an outcome that is favorable to the client. Such an outcome calls into question the ability of the Commission to render decisions that are fair and just. Ethical guidelines were established to prevent precisely such situations."

Marc Rotenberg of the EPIC and Jeff Chester of the CDD submitted the filing.

12/11. Greg Garcia, the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Assistant Secretary for Cybersecurity and Communications, gave a speech in New York City at the New York Metro Infragard conference titled "Critical Infrastructure Protection in the Financial Services Sector". He discussed cyber threats, federal activities and collaboration with the private sector, criminal investigation and enforcement, telework as response to a flu pandemic, and network capacity to handle an increase in telework.

He stated that "Hackers are becoming more sophisticated and focused in their efforts. Criminal computer code is now written at the PhD level, and sold cheaply on the Internet." He said that "What was once a nuisance committed by various individuals years ago has now progressed into organized efforts by highly skilled professionals."

He added that "Our adversaries are also seeking our intellectual capital and proprietary information".

He advocated securing systems by collaboration and information sharing, through such mechanisms as the DHS's U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT). He also discussed the DHS's EINSTEIN early warning system, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) National Vulnerability Database (NVD).

Garcia said that in March of 2008 there will be a second national cyber exercise, titled "Cyber Storm II". He said that this exercise will examine "our response and coordination mechanisms against a simulated cyber event affecting international, federal, state, and local governments, and the private sector".

He also said that the DHS is working "to prepare for and, if necessary, respond to a national-level cyber incident", such as the "denial of service attack against the government of Estonia".

He also advocated telecommuting. He stated that it "will be a key mechanism to keeping our businesses and government operational during a pandemic flu".

He elaborated on the "potential communications consequences of a pandemic influenza". He said that "while the telecommunications backbone is unlikely to experience congestion, the so-called last mile -- to the home and the enterprise -- could experience disruptive congestion".

12/12. Commissioners Michael Copps and Jonathan Adelstein complained about the inclusion in the agenda [PDF] for the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) event on December 18, 2007, of an item regarding FCC regulation of ownership of media. See also, story titled "FCC Announces Agenda of December 18 Event" in TLJ Daily E-Mail Alert No. 1,687, December 12, 2007.

The FCC has not released a text of any rules to be adopted at the December 18 event. However, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin released a proposal [PDF] on November 13, 2007.

Martin proposed allowing one entity to own a newspaper and one television station or one radio station, in the largest markets, subject to criteria and limitations. See, story titled "Martin Releases Media Ownership Proposal" in TLJ Daily E-Mail Alert No. 1,675, November 13, 2007.

Copps and Adelstein wrote in their joint statement [PDF] that "We are deeply disappointed that the announced agenda for the December 18 open meeting includes media ownership. This is a huge mistake. The FCC should have heeded the calls of Congress and the American people to conduct a credible process on an issue of this importance to our very democracy. That means providing a meaningful opportunity for public input, rather than the callous disregard exhibited thus far -- most recently, the Chairman circulated a draft decision on his proposal two weeks before public comment was even due! And it means taking meaningful action on minority and female ownership and broadcast localism, rather than the mish-mash of half-baked ideas currently before us."

The two added that "We have been engaged in internal discussions to try to get our processes back on track. We wish those discussions had led to better results. At this point, given the lateness of the hour, we hope that either we can turn this around internally, or that Congress can save the FCC from itself."

The Media Access Project (MAP) submitted a comment [PDF] to the FCC on December 11, 2007. It criticized Martin's proposal, criticized the administrative procedure being used by the FCC in this set of proceedings, and called on the Congress to "enact legislation to terminate the FCC’s authority to modify its ownership rules".

The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) also submitted a comment [33 pages in PDF] on December 11. It urged the FCC "to act expeditiously on the November 13 proposal to revise the blanket ban on newspaper/broadcast cross-ownership."

The NAB argued that there "is no empirical or policy justification for retaining this 32-year-old ban, especially given the Commission’s previous determination, subsequently upheld by the court, that the ban was no longer in the public interest. In fact, as discussed in detail above and in numerous prior submissions, a more extensive revision of newspaper cross-ownership restrictions would be entirely appropriate."

12/12. The Copyright Office (CO) published a notice in the Federal Register that announces, describes, and sets comment deadlines for, a Notice of Inquiry (NOI) regarding the meaning of the Copyright Act's term "cable system", and issues related to the phantom signal phenomenon.

The National Cable and Telecommunications Association (NCTA) filed of a petition for rulemaking to address cable copyright royalty issues arising from the current definition of "cable system". The CO has issued a NOI, rather than a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM).

The Copyright Act, at 17 U.S.C. § 106, provides that "the owner of copyright under this title has the exclusive rights to do and to authorize" certain things. However, the Copyright Act also includes numerous limitations on these exclusive rights. 17 U.S.C. § 111 provides that certain secondary transmissions are not an infringement of copyright. It creates for cable systems a statutory license to retransmit a performance or display of a work embodied in a primary transmission made by a television station licensed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Cable systems that retransmit broadcast signals in accordance with the provisions governing the Section 111 statutory license are required to pay royalty fees to the CO. The CO has promulgated rules implementing this statutory license.

Section 111(f) defines "cable system" as "a facility, located in any State, Territory, Trust Territory, or Possession, that in whole or in part receives signals transmitted or programs broadcast by one or more television broadcast stations licensed by the Federal Communications Commission, and makes secondary transmissions of such signals or programs by wires, cables, microwave, or other communications channels to subscribing members of the public who pay for such service. For purposes of determining the royalty fee under subsection (d)(1), two or more cable systems in contiguous communities under common ownership or control or operating from one headend shall be considered one system."

The CO offered its summary of the phantom signal phenomenon. It wrote that "The circumstance usually has occurred when two or more cable systems (large or small) merge and where each of the former systems carried a unique set of distant broadcast signals. Consequently, a portion of the newly merged cable system's subscriber base may not receive certain distant signals for a certain period of time." (Parentheses in original.)

The CO continues that based on its analysis of Statement of Account forms (SOAs) on file, "we find that there are three possible phantom signal scenarios: (1) when two larger cable systems (those that use the Form 3 statement of account form) with different channel line-ups merge; (2) when a larger cable system and a smaller cable system (those that use the Form 1-2 Statement of Account form), with different channel line-ups, merge; and (3) when a smaller cable system merges with another smaller cable system, with different channel line-ups, resulting in a Form-3 cable system."

The CO wrote that "Phantom signals may arise because the systems are not yet technically integrated and thus an operator is incapable of retransmitting the distant signals to all subscribers it serves after a merger. That is, the distant signals cannot be made available to certain subscriber groups. However, if over time, the cable systems become technically integrated, and the signals are apparently available to all subscribers, then the phantom signal problem would disappear. The new integrated system would be considered like any cable system that decides to offer a complement of distant signals to one subscriber group, but not another. In these circumstances, and under present regulations, the operator would be required to pay a statutory royalty based on the gross receipts of all subscribers served by the cable system even if certain subscribers are not offered certain distant signals."

The NCTA stated in its petition that the statutory definition of "cable system" and the phantom signal phenomenon give rise to royalty payment issues. It also proposed solutions. In particular, it proposed the creation of subscriber groups for the purpose of eliminating the phantom signal phenomenon.

The CO's notice summarizes and analyzes the NCTA's petition, and poses questions for public comments. It requests comments on the NCTA's proposals, how the NCTA's proposal would affect royalty collections, among other questions.

Initial comments are due by February 11, 2008. Reply comments are due by March 26, 2008. For more information, contact either Ben Golant, CO Assistant General Counsel, or Tanya Sandros, CO General Counsel. See, Federal Register, December 12, 2007, Vol. 72, No. 238, at Pages 70529-70540.

12/7. The Department of Defense (DOD) published a notice in the Federal Register that announces, describes, recites, and sets the effective date (December 7, 2007) for, a final rule amending the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) to add a clause pertaining to patent rights under contracts awarded to large business concerns for experimental, developmental, or research work. See, Federal Register, December 7, 2007, Vol. 72, No. 235, at Pages 69159-69162.

11/30. The Copyright Royalty Judges published a notice in the Federal Register setting the copyright royalty rates and terms under the Copyright Act for the noncommercial educational broadcasting statutory license for the license period 2008-2012. See, Federal Register, November 30, 2007, Vol. 72, No. 230, at Pages 67646-67652.

11/21. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) published a notice in the Federal Register in which it announces that it has amended its regulations to remove the NASA's Foreign Patent Licensing Regulations. The notice adds that the NASA "no longer follows these regulations, but issues licenses based on Government-wide licensing regulations promulgated by the Department of Commerce that take precedence over
individual agency licensing regulations." See, Federal Register, November 21, 2007, Vol. 72, No. 224, at Pages 65451-65452.

11/27. The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) published a notice in the Federal Register stating that it is removing its Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) regulations because, pursuant to provisions of the Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007, Public Law No. 110-53, the PCLOB as it is currently constituted will be abolished no later than January 30, 2008, and replaced with a new independent agency.

The House will meet at 10:00 AM for legislative business. The agenda includes consideration of the conference report on HR 2082 [LOC | WW], the "Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008", and consideration of HJRes 69, an FY08 continuing appropriations resolution.  See, Rep. Hoyer's schedule for the week and schedule for Thursday.

The Senate will meet at 8:30 AM. It will resume consideration of HR 2419 [LOC | WW], the farm bill.

9:00 AM. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will host an event titled "International Financial Reporting Standards in the U.S. Roundtable". Location: SEC, Auditorium (Room L-002), 100 F St., NE.

10:00 AM. The Senate Commerce Committee (SCC) will hold an oversight hearing regarding the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The witnesses will be the five Commissioners of the FCC. See, notice. Location: Room 253, Russell Building.

10:00 AM. The House Judiciary Committee's (HJC) Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet and Intellectual Property will hold a hearing on HR 4279 [LOC | WW], the "Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property Act of 2007". See, notice. Location: Room 2141, Rayburn Building.

10:00 AM. The Senate Judiciary Committee (SJC) may hold an executive business meeting. The agenda includes consideration of Sen. Arlen Specter's (R-PA) S 2402 [LOC | WW], the "FISA Intelligence Surveillance Substitution Act of 2007", S 1829 [LOC | WW], the "Protect Our Children First Act of 2007", S 431 [LOC | WW], the "Keeping the Internet Devoid of Sexual Predators Act of 2007", S 2344 [LOC | WW], the "Internet Safety Education Act of 2007", S 344 [LOC | WW], a bill to require the Supreme Court to permit television coverage of all open events, and S 1638 [LOC | WW], the "Federal Judicial Salary Restoration Act of 2007". All of these bills were held over at the previous executive business meeting. The SJC rarely follows its published agendas. See, notice. Location: Room 226, Dirksen Building.

2:00 - 5:00 PM. The Information Technology Association of America (ITAA) and the Information Technology -- Information Sharing and Analysis Center (IT-ISAC) will co-host a program titled "Incident Response and Management Roles, Responsibilities, and Planning in the IT Sector". See, notice and agenda. For more information, contact Liesyl Franz at lfranz at itaa dot org. Location: Room HC-5, Capitol Building.

6:00 PM. The Federal Communications Bar Association (FCBA) will host a panel discussion titled "Enforcement Of U.S. Patent Laws: International Activities, Standards For Patentability And Willfulness". This event qualifies for continuing legal education (CLE) credits. The speakers will be Joshua Turner, Karl Renner (Fish & Richardson) and Kevin Anderson (Wiley Rein). Location: Wiley Rein, 1776 K St., NW.

The House will meet at 9:00 AM for legislative business. See, Rep. Hoyer's schedule for the week.

10:00 AM. The Department of State's (DOS) Telecommunication Advisory Committee (ITAC) will meet as ITAC Study Group B to prepare advice on U.S. positions for the meetings of the Study Group of the International Telecommunication Union -- Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T). See, notice in the Federal Register, November 13, 2007, Vol. 72, No. 218, at Page 63951. Location: undisclosed.

12:15 - 1:30 PM. There will be a brown bag lunch titled "Media Ownership". The speakers will be Jane Mago (General Counsel, National Association of Broadcasters), Paul Nagle (Republican Chief Counsel, Senate Commerce Committee), Jennifer Schneider (Legislative Counsel, Rep. Rick Boucher (D-VA)), Neil Fried (Minority Senior Telecommunications Counsel, House Commerce Committee), and Christopher Day (Legislative Assistant, Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL)). Location: NAB, 1771 N St., NW.

3:00 - 6:30 PM. Day one of a two day meeting of the Department of Education's (DOE) National Mathematics Advisory Panel. See, notice in the Federal Register, December 10, 2007, Vol. 72, No. 236, Pages 69677-69678. Location: Baltimore Washington International (BWI) Airport Marriott, 1743 West Nursery Road, Baltimore, MD.

Deadline to submit comments to National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) Computer Security Division (CSD) regarding its DRAFT SP 800-39 [60 pages in PDF], titled "Managing Risk from Information Systems: An Organizational Perspective".

Deadline to submit comments to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regarding its proposed rules changes pertaining to electronic filings with the SEC. The SEC proposes that mutual funds and other companies seeking exemptions under the Investment Company Act of 1940 submit their applications electronically, thus making them available to the public on the internet via the SEC's Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval (EDGAR) system. See, SEC notice [41 pages in PDF] and notice in the Federal Register, November 9, 2007, Vol. 72, No. 217, at Pages 63513-63523.

8:00 AM - 3:00 PM. Day two of a two day meeting of the Department of Education's (DOE) National Mathematics Advisory Panel. See, notice in the Federal Register, December 10, 2007, Vol. 72, No. 236, Pages 69677-69678. Location: Baltimore Washington International (BWI) Airport Marriott, 1743 West Nursery Road, Baltimore, MD.

8:30 AM - 5:00 PM. Day one of a two day workshop hosted by the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Privacy Office titled "Closed Circuit Television: Developing Privacy Best Practices". See, notice in the Federal Register, November 13, 2007, Vol. 72, No. 218, at Pages 63918-63919. Location: Gallery Ballroom, Hilton Arlington Hotel, Arlington, VA.

9:00 AM. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will host an event titled "International Financial Reporting Standards in the U.S. Roundtable". Location: SEC, Auditorium (Room L-002), 100 F St., NE.

Deadline to submit reply comments to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in response to its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) regarding the Emergency Alert System (EAS). The FCC adopted this NPRM on May 31, 2007, and released text [75 pages in PDF] on July 12, 2007. It is FCC 07-109 in EB Docket No. 04-296. See, notice in the Federal Register, November 2, 2007, Vol. 72, No. 212, at Pages 62195-62198. See also, story titled "FCC Expands EAS Program" in TLJ Daily E-Mail Alert No. 1,589, May 31, 2007.

Deadline to submit reply comments to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in response to its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) regarding its program access and retransmission consent rules and whether it may be appropriate to preclude the practice of programmers to tie desired programming with undesired programming. The FCC adopted this NPRM on September 11, 2007, and released the text [144 pages in PDF] on October 1, 2007. It is FCC 07-169, in MB Docket No. 07-198. See, notice in the Federal Register, October 31, 2007, Vol. 72, No. 210, at Pages 61590-61603. See also, story titled "FCC Adopts R&O and NPRM Regarding Program Access Rules" in TLJ Daily E-Mail Alert No. 1,640, September 17, 2007.

8:30 AM - 12:30 PM. Day two of a two day workshop hosted by the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Privacy Office titled "Closed Circuit Television: Developing Privacy Best Practices". See, notice in the Federal Register, November 13, 2007, Vol. 72, No. 218, at Pages 63918-63919. Location: Gallery Ballroom, Hilton Arlington Hotel, Arlington, VA.

9:00 AM - 12:30 PM. The Heritage Foundation will host an event titled "Taiwan's United Nations Bid: Domestic Democracy or International Crisis?". The event will include a speech by Jaushieh Joseph Wu (Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative's Office) and two panel discussions. See, notice. Location: Heritage, 214 Massachusetts Ave., NE.

10:00 AM. The Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration's (NTIA) Joint Advisory Committee on Communications Capabilities of Emergency Medical and Public Health Care Facilities will hold a meeting. See, FCC notice [PDF]. Location: AT&T, North Tower, Suite 1000 (10th Floor), 1120 20th St., NW.

12:30 - 2:00 PM. The Federal Communications Bar Association (FCBA) will host a brown bag lunch titled "Copyright and User Generated Content". The speakers will be Johanna Shelton (Policy Counsel & Legislative Strategist, Google) and Rick Lane (SVP Government Affairs, Newscorp). Location: Dow Lohnes, 1200 New Hampshire Ave., NW.

1:00 - 3:00 PM. The Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board's (ATBCB) Telecommunications and Electronic and Information Technology Advisory Committee will meet by teleconference. See, notice in the Federal Register, November 1, 2007, Vol. 72, No. 211, at Pages 61827-61828.

2:00 - 3:45 PM. The Department of State's (DOS) Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy will meet. The agenda includes discussion of free trade agreements with Korea and other nations. See, notice in the Federal Register, December 6, 2007, Vol. 72, No. 234, at Page 68947. Location: Room 1107, DOS, 2201 C St., NW.

Deadline to submit comments to the Department of Commerce's (DOC) Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) regarding its proposed rules changes that would require that export and reexport license applications, classification requests, encryption review requests, License Exception AGR notifications and related documents be submitted to the BIS via its Simplified Network Application Process (SNAP-R) system. See, notice in the Federal Register, October 19, 2007, Vol. 72, No. 202, at Pages 59231-59238.

Deadline to submit reply comments to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in response to its Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (FNPRM) regarding post-reconfiguration 800 MHz band plans for the U.S.-Canada border regions. This FNPRM is DA 07-4489 in WT Docket No. 02-55. See, notice in the Federal Register, November 13, 2007, Vol. 72, No. 218, at Pages 63869-63871.

10:00 AM. The Senate Judiciary Committee (SJC) will hold a hearing on the nomination of Judge Mark Filip to be the Deputy Attorney General. See, Sen. Patrick Leahy's (D-VT) release. Location: Room 226, Dirksen Building.

6:00 - 9:15 PM. The DC Bar Association will host a continuing legal education (CLE) program titled "2007 Intellectual Property Law: Year in Review Series - Part I". Part I will address developments in copyright, trademark, and internet law. The speakers will be Brian Banner, Justyna Burr, and Terence Ross. The price to attend ranges from $80 to $115. For more information, call 202-626-3488. See, notice. Location: DC Bar Conference Center, B-1 Level, 1250 H St., NW.

Deadline to submit initial comments to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in response to its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) regarding ancillary terrestrial components (ATC), which allow mobile satellite service (MSS) operators to integrate terrestrial services into their satellite networks in order to augment coverage in areas where their satellite signals are largely unavailable due to blocking, by re-using their assigned MSS frequencies. This item is FCC 07-194 in IB Docket No. 07-253. See, notice in the Federal Register, November 19, 2007, Vol. 72, No. 222, at Pages 64979-64980.

10:00 AM - 12:00 NOON. The Department of State's (DOS) International Telecommunication Advisory Committee (ITAC) will meet to prepare advice on U.S. positions on the restructuring of the Radiocommunication Sector of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU-R). See, notice in the Federal Register, December 7, 2007, Vol. 72, No. 235, at Page 69279. Location: Boeing Company, 1200 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA.

1:00 PM. The National Science Foundation's (NSF) National Science Board's (NSB) Public Service Award Committee will hold a closed meeting by teleconference. See, notice in the Federal Register, November 30, 2007, Vol. 72, No. 230, at Page 67761. Location: NSF, 4201 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA.

6:00 - 8:15 PM. The DC Bar Association will host a continuing legal education (CLE) program titled "2007 Intellectual Property Law: Year in Review Series - Part II". Part II will address developments in patent law. The speakers will be Bradley Wright and Eric Wright. The price to attend ranges from $80 to $115. For more information, call 202-626-3488. See, notice. Location: DC Bar Conference Center, B-1 Level, 1250 H St., NW.

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