National Operating Committee on

Licensing and standards: Licensing involves maintaining and issuing license agreements to control the use of trademarks and intellectual property used in the certification of equipment as compliant with our standards, investigating complaints of violations of standards, and investigating unauthorized use of trademarked properties by licensees and non-licensees. It also involves surveillance of available national and international shipping and import data for counterfeit athletic equipment to prevent dilution of standards and protection of the public for deficient equipment falsely claiming compliance with the NOCSAE standards.Standards program services involves the development and implementation of new standards, calibration and coordination of inter-lab validation testing and analysis, review and maintenance of existing standards, public announcement of proposed standards activities, investigating and addressing issues of standards interpretation, application, and compliance. This Program Service also includes maintaining third party certification relationship, regular meetings with third party certifier, managing reimbursement programs for certification fees, managing non-compliance issues, and coordinating publicly available information as to currently certified equipment.