MEDIA ADVISORY
                                                  97-3
CONTACT:  Richard Maulsby
          Lisa-Joy Zgorski
          (703)305-8341


            LEHMAN TO ADDRESS PRESS CLUB AUDIENCE
                 IP'S PARAMOUNT IMPORTANCE:
               THE NEXT FOUR YEARS AND BEYOND

ARLINGTON, VA -- Bruce A. Lehman, Assistant Secretary of
Commerce and Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks will
deliver a luncheon address to members of the Intellectual
Property (IP) sections of the American Bar Association, D.C.
Bar Association; and Virginia State Bar at a lunch on
Monday, February 3, 1997 at the National Press Club.

Event:    Luncheon Speech, entitled Intellectual Property in
the 21st Century:
            An Agenda for the Next Four Years and Beyond

Speaker:       Bruce A. Lehman, Assistant Secretary of
Commerce and Commissioner of              Patents and
Trademarks;
          Lehman served as head of the U.S. Delegation to the
World Intellectual
            Property Organization (WIPO) Diplomatic
Conference in Geneva

Date:          February 3, 1997

Time:          12:00 noon (lunch will be served before
Lehman's address)

Venue:    National Press Club; 14th Street, NW; Washington,
D.C.


January 31, 1997
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