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3 1 (1) DIRECTOR.—The term ‘‘Director’’ means 2 the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual 3 Property and Director of the United States Patent 4 and Trademark Office. 5 (2) OFFICE.—The term ‘‘Office’’ means the 6 United States Patent and Trademark Office. 7 (3) PATENT PUBLIC ADVISORY COMMITTEE.— 8 The term ‘‘Patent Public Advisory Committee’’ 9 means the Patent Public Advisory Committee estab- 10 lished under section 5(a) of title 35, United States 11 Code. 12 (4) TRADEMARK ACT OF 1946.—The term 13 ‘‘Trademark Act of 1946’’ means the Act entitled 14 ‘‘An Act to provide for the registration and protec- 15 tion of trademarks used in commerce, to carry out 16 the provisions of certain international conventions, 17 and for other purposes’’, approved July 5, 1946 (15 18 U.S.C. 1051 et seq.) (commonly referred to as the 19 ‘‘Trademark Act of 1946’’ or the ‘‘Lanham Act’’). 20 (5) TRADEMARK PUBLIC ADVISORY COM- 21 MITTEE.—The term ‘‘Trademark Public Advisory 22 Committee’’ means the Trademark Public Advisory 23 Committee established under section 5(a) of title 35, 24 United States Code. •HR 1249 EH