Excerpt from Oversight of the Patent and Trademark Office: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, Second Session I'm certain that t e agreement that we reach with the Japan Patent Office will go a long way to lowering one of the administra tive obstacles that we've faced in Japan. We still have a lot further to go, however, and I would be happy to explain that more if you would like in questions. The pto has also taken an active role to implement the Madrid Protocol in the trademark area. The Administration supports suc cession to the Madrid Protocol, and, in fact, I think probably next week the State Department will clear the treaty to be sent over to the White House and then u to the Senate. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.