Public Meeting Planned on Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement
September 8, 2008The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR), together with key trading partners, is negotiating an Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) with the objective of strengthening international cooperation, enforcement practices, and participants’ legal frameworks to address counterfeiting and piracy. As part of this effort, USTR, together with the U.S. Department of Commerce, is organizing a public meeting on the initiative. The purposes of the meeting will be to inform stakeholders about ACTA and to receive comments from stakeholders about their views regarding this initiative. For further details, see the notice published in the Federal Register.
The meeting will be held on Monday, September 22, 2008, from 10 a.m. to 12 noon.
For further information, contact: Rachel S. Bae, Director for Intellectual Property and Innovation, Office of the United States Trade Representative; Phone: (202) 395-4510.
