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On Wednesday, the USPTO announced its upcoming Nanotechnology Customer Partnership meeting to be held on April 22, 2008, at the South Auditorium of the Madison Building at the USPTO. According to the USPTO announcement (link below), "[t]his Nanotechnology Customer Partnership initiative is designed and developed to be a forum to share ideas, experiences, and insights between individual users and the USPTO." The announcement further notes that "[t]he USPTO does not intend to use these customer partnership groups to arrive at a group consensus," and that "[i[ndividual opinions are sought from varying participants, and the meetings are intended to be informal in nature." These groups are intended not to be Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA) compliant committees. Based upon information available at the USPTO, this series of meetings appear to have occurred on an annual basis from at least as early as 2003. Additional details regarding the meeting, as well as RSVP information, can be found at the link below.

USPTO Announcement: LINK

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