All Numbers' Are Area Code. 703 Unless Otherwise Noted

Transcription

1 PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFPICE(PTO) INFORMATION CONTACTS TABLEOP CONTENTS General Patents : e.a 7-18 Trademarks - e For additional information, contact: PTO's Public Information Lines (automated) (Requirestouch...tone telephone) (703) 557-INFO TelecoIllIllu.ni.cations Device for the Deat.,.~. (703) For special assistance with service problems not successfully resolved through normal channels, contact: Public Informationsertices Division Public service Branch.~ (703) 305-HELP All Numbers' Are Area Code. 703 Unless Otherwise Noted -1-

2 GENERAL INQUIRY Address Boxes, PTO Special These boxes should be used only for their specified purposes. Qnly material for Which the special boxes have been established. should be enclosed. Address to: Box Wash-:-i-n-g"7"t-o-n-,-;::DC:: C Box No./Name Box Patent Application Box Trademark Application Box 3 Box 4 Box 5, Box 6 Box 7 Box 8 Box 9 Box 10 Box 11 Box 12 Box 13 Box 14 Box 15 Box 16 Box 17 Specified Purpose - New patent applications and associated papers and fees. - New trademark applications and associated papers and fees. - Mail for the Office of Personnel from NFC. - Mail for the Assistant Commissioner for External Affairs and the Office. of Legislation and International Affairs. - "No fee" mail related..to trademarks. Mail for the Office of Procurement: Reissue applications for patents involved in litigation and SUbsequently filed related papers. - All papers for the, Office of the,solicitor except communications relating to pending litigation. Papers relating to penqing litigation must be mailed. to Office of the Solicitor, P.O. Box 15667, Arlington, VA Coupon orders for U.S. patent and trademark copies. - Orders for certified copies of PTO documents except trademark registrations and assignments. - Electronic Ordering Service (EOS). - Contributions 'to the Examiner:E:qucation Program. - Mail for the Employee Relations and Labor Relations Divisions. - Mail directed to the APS (Automated Patent System) Contracts Office. - Mail for the Advisory Commission on Patent Law Reform. - Mail for the Office of Finance from deposit account holders who wish to deposit replenishment checks to their PTO accounts. - Invoices directed to the Office of Finance. -2-

3 INOUIRY Address Boxes, PTO Box No./Name Box 110 Box M Fee Box Non-Fee Amendment Box OED Box Pat. Box PCT Box SN GENERAL special (Continued) Specified Purpose contrary. Assignments must be submitted in a separate envelope and not sent to Box Issue Fee. - All intent-to-use documents except initial applications and amendments to allege use. - Correspondence related to a patent that is SUbject to the payment of a maintenance fee. - Non-fee amendments to patent applications. (Use Box AF for responses after final rejection.) - Mail for the Office of Enrollment and Discipline. Ext. - Applications for patent term extension. - Mail related to applications filed under the Patent Cooperation Treaty. Box Reccmstruction of lost patent files. - Correspondence pertaining to the reconstruction Box Reexam - Requests for Reexamination for original request papers 0Illy. Box Sequence - Submission of diskette for biotechnical applications. - For fees and petitions under 37 CFR to obtain dates received and/or serial numbers for patent applications prior to the Office's standard notifications (return postcard or the official"filingreceipt," "Notice to File l1issing Parts," br":notice of Incomplete Application". ) Box Vacancy Announcement Applications. Box AF - Expedited procedure for processing amendments and other responses after final rejection. Box Assignment- All assignment documents except those filed with new applications. Box DAC - Petitions to revive, petitions to accept late payment of fees, petitions to defer issue, and petitions to withdraw an application from issue. Box DD - Disclosure Documents or materials related to the Disclosure Document Program. BoxEEO - Mail for the Office of civil Rights. Box FWC - Requests for File Wrapper Continuation Applications (under 37 CFR 1.62). Box Interference applications and patents involved in - Communications relating to interferences and interference. Box Issue Fee - All communications following the receipt of a PTOL-85, "Notice of Allowance and Issue Fee Due," and prior to the issuance of a patent should be addressed to Box Issue Fee, unless advised toethe -3-

4 INOUIRY Assiqnment Search Information GENERAL Patent ' '.. e_ Trademark Attorney's Roster... e Automated Search Systems Traininq for Public Patents. ' '.. ' ' : Trademarks '. 308.; Cashier's Windows Patent Search Room Trademark Search,Library '. ~.'. ' Civil Rights, Office of Telecommunications Device for the Deaf (TDD) L' Congress10na 1a1S0n.. ~...., copy Access system Cards Cashier's Office Encoder's Cashier's Encoder's Office Office (Patent Search Room).. (Patent Search Room) ;;;, '" '" '" '" '" '" '" '" '" (Trademark Search Library) (Trademark Search Library) coupon Orders (Patent ilnd Trademark. Copies) Deposit Accounts Balance Inqui~ (Requires Touch-tone Telephone) '" /8746 General Information ' 'Remittances. ' :.,, Deposit Account Remittances only.should be mailed to: Patent and Trademark Office P.O. Box Chicago, IL OR Patent and Trademark Office Deposit Accounts Branch Box 16-4-

5 INOUIRY GENERAL Employment (General Information) Telecommunications Device for the Deaf (TOO) 305~8586 Fees Fee Rates e ' :. '.,;' 305e-8000 Fee Receipts General Information ;,: Refunds or File Information unit Help (To resolve service problems unsuccessfully resolved through normal channels) ' ' ' HELP Information PTO's Automated Public Information Lines 557-INFO (Requires touchmtone telephone) Service Problem Assistance (Public Service Branch) 305-HELP Journal of the Patent and Trademark Office Society (.JPTOS) Note: All questions and correspondence should be addressed to: Box Arlington, VA official Gazette (Government Printing Office) Distribution and/or Subscription Problems.. (202) Official Gazette,..., Notices , Telecommunications Device for the Deaf (TOO) Patents Available for Licensing or Sale patent and Trademark Depository~ibraryProqram For listing of Program Libraries and contact information, see Official Gazette issues (Notices section) procurement ;,,; Telecommunications Device for the Deaf (TOO) project XL. i~i.. _ : Telecommunications Device for the Deaf (TOO)

6 INOUIRY GENERAL PllbliCl Affairs ',_",... ' :,."'.0_.0,.'.. 305~8341 Address mail to: Box 4 Pllblic Search Facilities Patents (Hours: Weekdays, 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p,m.) Patent Assignments (Hours: Weekdays, 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.) T rademarks 0- ' ',. ' :.. :.~,." (Hours: Weekdays, 8:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.) Trademark Assignments.: 308,-9855 (Hours: Weekdays, 8:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.) Pllblic service Branch, Public Information Services Division For help in resolving service problems not successfully resolved through normal channej.s 305-HELP For general information on how to file for a patent or trademark: PTO's Public Information Lines (automated) INFO (Re~~ires touch-tone telephone) Patent$ - (Ext. 11) Trademarks - (Ext. 38) Telecommunications Device for the Deaf (TDD) publications, General Information Reasonable Accommodation Requests ' INFO solicitor,_ ' : ' _,: ' ' For papers for theoffic;:e of the Solicitor, except communications relating to pending litigation, address mail to: Box 8 For papers relating to pending litigation, address mail to: Office of the Solicitor P.O. Box Arlington, VA

7 PATENTS INQUIRY Advance Orders of Patent Soft Copies, Non-Receipt 305~8237 Amendments General Information Specific Pending Applications Appropriate Examining Group Amendments after Final Rejection should be addressed to: Box AF Rule 312 Amendments should be addressed. to: Box Issue Fee All non-fee Amendments except after Final should be addressed to: Box Non-Fee Amendment Applications Address new paterit applications to: Box Patent Application Examination Appropriate Examining Group (Se~ page 10) General Information ';'8000 pet - General Information 603~0465 Post-Examination ;.8283 Pre-Examination... :. "~ii's Re-Examination - General Information Status Inquiry of Pending Applications Appropriate Examining Group or Statutory Invention Registrations (SIR) Group ,

8 INOUIRY Assiqnments PATENTS Changes Affecting Title of Pending Applications and Patented Files 'Information Concerning Pending Patent Assignments Recording Assignment's. ~ ~ Attorneys, Conduct of Attorney's window (See Public Service Window) Cashier's Window (Patent Search Room) CASSIS/CD-ROM (Classification and Search Support Information System/Compact Disc - Read Only.Memory) General Information. '.' -... t.: e, Problem Resolution for Commercial Subscribers Subscriptions..... '~.. ": CD-ROM Products -~ _.'.: '.. e (Also see CASSIS/CD-ROM) certificates of Correction :.".:: :_... :~,., Chanqe of Address Pending Patent Applications Appropriate Examining Group Issued Patents for Maintenance Fee Notification Classification Definitions, changes and Reclassification Orders - (Sale of) Classification of Published Patents Complaints (services) OS-HELP copies Abandoned File Histories (Local Access for Public copying), Abstracts of Title.,,',.,.. ' Advance Orders, Non-Receipt :' ' Applications As Filed* File W~apper and Contents* certified Copies of Patent Documents Except Assignments* certified Copies of Patent Assignment Documents Electronic Ordering Service (Patent Copies) ForeiqnPatents,

9 INQUIRY copies (Continued) PATENTS CONTACT POIN'I' Patented File Histories (Local Access for Public Copying) U. 8. Patents... 's * Address orders for certified or uncertified copies of these products to: Discl.imers... Disclosure Document Drawing Corrections Box 10 ' _. o o o,s," Program 's 's 's.. ' ' '. ' ',_, 0_ : ' Duty of Disclosure Matters El~ctroniclnformationProducts -and:services,office of ' Enrollmentoand Discipline..' Address mail to: Box OED -9-

10 PATENTS INOUIRY Examining Groups Chemical Examining Groups Group 110. Group 120. Group 130 Group 150. Group Electrical Examining Groups Group 210 Group 220 Group 230. Group 240 Group 250 Group Group Mechanical Examining Groups Group 310 Group 320 Group 330 Group 340 Group 350 eo _, File wrapper continuation Applications Address to: commissioner of Patents and Trademarks Box FWC Files (File Information Unit) Abandoned File Histories, Patented File Histories Pending Patent Applications "" _e eo e- e.. _ Filing Receipt corrections Foreign Patents (References) (Hours: Weekdays, 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.)

11 , INOUIRY Forms pet PATENTS. ' Patents Inspection of Interferences Address mail to: Patent Files,s...' ' Box Interference Inventorll Deceased Correction of Error in Joining Inventors PC\,tents Appropriate Group Art Unit supervisor Applications Issue. Fee Address mail to: Box Issue Fee Appropriat~ Examineror Balance of Issue Fee Transmittals Issue Fee Receipt, Incorrect......~ Issue Fee Receipt, Non-Receipt Lapse Notices License (Request to file patent application abroad) Maintenance Fees Address mail to: Box M Fee Manual of Patent classification General Information Index to

12 PATENTS INOUIRY Manual of Patent Classification (continued) Manual of Classification, Sale of Address inquiries to: Superintendent of Documents Government Printing Office Washington, DC (202) Subclass Listing I Sale of, i,j o. o. o Manual of Patent Examining Procedure (MPEP) Notice of Allowance.. Notices of Appeal Appropriate Examining Group Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) Official Searches Patent and Trademark Depository Library Program Patent Grant, Non-Receipt Patent Index ' Index support -_~, ' ";"5951 Use' of Index 0 ' Patent Term Extension Patented Files 308 :27 33 PCT (Patent Cooperation Treaty) Address mail to: Box PCT -12-

13 INQUIRY Petitions PATENTS A1:landonment, withdrawal of Examiner's Holding of CONThCT POINT Appropriate Examining (see page 10) Access to Application Files.;. Office of Special Program Examination Amendment After Payment of Issue Fee. ;. 'Appropriate Examining RefUSal to Enter an Amendment Appeals Appropriate Examining Reinstate, Appeal Dismissed by Group Appropriate Examining. Application Acceptance of When Filed. I::lY Other than Inventor.. Office of Special Program Examination Assignments and Issuance of Patents to Assignees. ; ;. Office of Petitions Attorney, withdrawal of Certificates of Correction, Refusal to Issue... Appropriate Examining Office of Petitions Concurrent Ex Parte and/or Inter Partes Proceedings Appropriate Examining Disclaimers Office of Petitions Divisional Reissue Office of Special Program Examination

14 PATENTS INOUIRY petitions (Continued) CONTACT PQINT Examiner's Requirements or Holdings, Reviewof' eo " Appropriate Examining Ex Parte Questions incases before the CAFe Solicitor Express Abandonment after Issue Fee Payment.... Office of Petitions Expunge Papers.. Extensions of Time Office of Special Program Examination In Court Matters Solicitor ~ During Pendency in Group... During Pendency at Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences. Appropriate Examining Board of p'atent Anneals and Interferences To Appeal to the.cafc or Commence a civil Action... Solicitor Filing Date... Special l\ssistant to Assistant Commissioner for Patents Final Rejection, Premature, Appropriate Examining Interferences Institute an Interference.. Appropriate Examining Access to Applications, Unopened Preliminary Statements Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences From Action by a Primary Examiner or an Interlocutory Action Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences

15 PATENTS INOUIRY CONTACTPO;INT Petitions (Continued) Late Settlement Papers Priority Papers in Patent Application. Reconsideration of Decision on Motion.. Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences Is;suance, Defer '.. '..' '. Office of Petitions Late Payment Issue Fee '.. Office of Petitions Maintenance Fee Office of Petitions License to File in Foreign countries. Director, Group Limited Recognition to Prosecute. committee on Enrollment Specified Application(s) Makelipecial. Prospective Manufacture, Infringement.. within JuriSdiction of Board.of Patent Appeals and Inte:r erences ; Assistant Commissioner for Patents Board of Patent AppealS and Interferences Applicant's Age or Health, Environmental Qualit!( Program, Special Examining Procedure (accelerated examination), Energy Program, Recombinant DNA, Superconductivity Priority'Papers, Return of Appropriate Examining Group.Director Appropriate Examining -15-

16 INQUIRY Petitions (Continued) PATENTS Priority Papers, After Payment 'of'issue Fee Public Use Proceedings Office of Petitions Office of special Program Examination Registration to Practice Before the PTO Enrollment and Discipline H Rehearing, Reconsideration, or Modification of Board Decision... Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences Rejection, Premature Final... Appropriate Examining Reopen Prosecution after Decision by Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences Appropriate Examining Group DirE!ctor Restriction Requirement... Appropriate Examining Revive an Abandoned Application. Office of Petitions Statutory Invention Registration (SIR).,.. Group supervisory Authority of Commissioner, Invoke in Matters Concerning the Office of Public Services and Administration.. Office of Petitions supervisory Authority of Commissioner, Invoke in Matters conc7r~ing the P~tent Exam~n~ng Operat~on,.",... Office of Petitions m _

17 INOUIRY Petitions (Continued) PATENTS Suspension of Action, Second or Subsequent.. Appropriate Examining Suspension of Rules Relating to the Examining of Patent Applications Office of Petitions Suspension of Rules in Patent Matters Administered by the Office of Public Services and Administration... Office of Petitions Withdraw from Issue Office of Petitions Protest Against Pending Patent Applications Public'; Service Window...' ' Reconstruction of- Files '.' , Record Room (Patented and Abandoned Files) (See Files - File Information Unit) Reexaminations Address mail to: commissioner of Patents and Trademarks Box Reexam General Questions Reexamination Examiners Appropriate Examining Group Reexamination Petitions Office of Special Program Examination Reexamination Pre-processing Reissues Specific Applications Appropriate Examining Group Divisional Office of Special Program Examination

18 INOUIRY Reissues (Continued) PATENTS Address reissue applications for patents involved in litigation. and subsequently related papers to: commissioner of Patents and Trademarks Box 7 Washington, OC Search Room, Assignments Patents (Hours: Weekdays, 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.) Trademarks (Hours: Weekdays, 8:00 avm, to 5:30 p.m.) Search Room, Patent Reference to Patents and Indices (Hours: Weekdays, 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.) secrecy Orders 308';;"1720 simultaneous Issuances '.- '. _...,. 3, statutory Invention Registrations (SIRs) General Questions '... e, SIR Examiners 3" Subclass Listings... ',S ' ~5658 SUbscription Information 's> Technology Assessment and Forecast program Patent statistics...: Telecommunications Device for the Deaf (TOO) Terminal Disclaimers

19 INOUIRY Affidavits Of Use (Section 8) TRADEMARES Post Of Incontestability (Section 15) Post Correction to Registration (Section 7) Amendments Post Registration Team Registration Team Registration Team After PUblication or Allowance Quality Review Clerk (Ext. 23) After Registration. Post Registration Team General Information. Public Service Branch Specific Pending Application. Appropriate Law Office (See page. 22) Appeal Trademark Trial and Appeal Board FincH Refusal by Examining Attorney Applications Address new trademark applications to: BOl(:TrademaI::k Wasliington,nC Examination... Appropriate La~,O~fice (See page 22) General Information. Public Service Branch Informal ApplicCi,tiqns......'...,,~.' ~-... ',ti"" (Ext. 22) 'Post Examination Power of AttoJ;"peY re Pending Applications..Appropriate Law Office (See page 22),',J?'re Examinati.on, " (Ext. 22) Status of Pending Application... ; Status of Registered Files ':' ti:",!" :,

20 INOUIRY Assignments TRADEMARKS Changes Affecting Title of Pending Application and Registered Files : Assignment Branch Information Concerning pending Trademarks Assignments cancellations Registration Trademark Trial and Appeal Board Voluntary Surrender of Registration Post Registration Team Cashier's Window (Trademark Search Library) CD-ROM Products certificates of C:()~~Elc:~:L()J1 Classification of Goods and Services Specific Application. Appropriate Law Office (See page 22) General Information,. e, complaints (Services) e,_. 305-HELP Concurrent Use proceeding Trademark Trial and Appeal Board Copies Abandoned File Histories (Local Access for Public Copying) Certified Copy of Assignment Documents ~ Certificates of Non-Registration for Kuwait (Ext. 29) Certified Copies of Registrations (Status Copies) certified Copies of Trademark Related. Documents (except trademark registrations)* Electronic Ordering Service (Trademark Copies) Address requests to: Box

21 INOUIRY Copies (Continued) TRADEMARI<S Pending Application Files* Printed copies of Registration 305-a492 Registered File Histories (Local Access for Public Copying ) Status copies of Registration ' ~9500 Title Records (for applications and registrations) * Address orders for certified or uncertified copies of these products to: Box 10 eo~-e-t4.-qns--m--- m m m ~ ~ _ Pending Applications Appropriate LaWO:ffice (See page 22) Registrations..... ' - ' ~':.--.: Files Pending Trademark Applications Filing Receipts Appropriate LawO.ffice (See page 22) Corrections 308, 9400 (Exts. 44,45,47, & 48) Specific Information Regarding Filing Receipt : ~ ;'.-'.. '.~ '~,~ :. '.;,, (Exts. 45,46,47,48, & 49) Forms, Trademark ,-'. :

22 INQUIRY Law Offices (No Law Offices 1 and 2) Law Office 3 Law Office 4 Law Office 5 Law Office 6 Law Office 7 Law Office 8 Law Office 9 Law Office 10 Law Office 11 Law Office 12 Law Office 13 Law ;Office....'.l.~ Mail Law Office 15 TRADEMARKS...' : _ e'e ' : : ' ~.. ~' ,,,.' ', ' _ , ':, ',w.w,..,. ' , Intent-to-Use Documents, all except initial application~ and amendments to allege use, address to:... Box ITU Non-fee trademark mail, address to: commissioner of Patents and Trademarks Box 5 New certificates Patent-and Trademark Depository Library Program

23 INOUIRY Petitions Abandoned Application, To Revive TRADEMARKS Application Special, To Make All Other Trademark Petitions Petitions and Attorney Petitions and Attorney Trademark Legal Classification (Ext. 29) Classification (Ext. 29) Administrator Post Registration Information Protests, Letters of. Petitions and Attorney Public service Window... Classification (Ext. 29) Reconstruction of Files Renewal, Reqistrations Search Library (Hours: Weekdays, 8:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.) Search Room, Assignments Trademarks (Hours: Weekdays, 8:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.) status of Registrations and Applications.via Automated Voice system (Use touch-tone telephone between 6:30 a.m. and 12:00 midnight, E.S.T., Monday through Friday) Trademark Manual of Examining Procedures (TMEP) through (Ext. 43) -23-

24