Status of Office of Public Records Services
The Office of Public Records (OPR) processes and fills orders
for both certified and uncertified copies of Patent and Trademark
Office documents and records assignments and other documents related to
title. This is an update of actual processing times during the month of
May 2001:
Document Services Goal Actual
Processing
Time
Certified Documents
Patent Applications-As-Filed, 7 days 7 days
Expedited
Patent Applications-As-Filed, 17 days 15 days
Regular
Patent Related File Wrappers 25 days 45 days*
Patent Copies 10 days 8 days
Patent Assignments 10 days 10 days
Trademark Applications-As-Filed, 7 days 6 days
Expedited
Trademark Applications-As-Filed, 17 days 10 days
Regular
Trademark Related File Wrappers 25 days 36 days*
Trademark Assignments 10 days 13 days
Trademark Registrations, Expedited 5 days 6 days
Trademark Registrations, Regular 14 days 10 days
Uncertified Documents
Expedited Patent Copies 1 day 2 days
Regular Patent Copies 5 days 4 days
Plant Patents 5 days 6 days
Patent Assignments 10 days 11 days
Patent Related File Wrappers 25 days 21 days*
Expedited Trademark Copies 1 day 0 days**
Regular Trademark Copies 5 days 3 days
Trademark Assignments 10 days 6 days
Trademark Related File Wrappers 25 days 35 days*
*Includes turnaround times for files on Official Search and
File Reconstruction.
**No orders were filled during the reporting month.
During the month of May 2001, a total of 18,600 public orders
(30,506 copies) were filled and closed, or 4,803 orders more (8,050
copies less) than the FY-01 planning number of 13,797 orders (38,556
copies) to be closed for this month.
Please do not submit "follow-up" or duplicate copies of
orders. Customers should use the above actual processing
time for each product as a guide as to when they can expect their
orders to be completed. In cases where an urgent deadline
is approaching, contact OPR Customer Service at (703) 308-9726 or
1(800) 972-6382 for assistance with a particular order.
Customers are encouraged to fax orders for copies directly to the
Document Services Division at (703) 308-9759 and to pay by PTO Deposit
Account, MasterCard, Visa, American Express or Discover. Copy orders
also may be placed through the Internet by accessing the PTO home page
at www.uspto.gov and selecting the "Order Copies"
option. Information on the status of pending orders may be obtained by
calling (703) 308-9726 or 1 (800) 972-6382 (outside the Washington, DC
Metro area), or via E-mail: dsd@uspto.gov.
Assignment Services
The Assignment Division is currently mailing recordation notices
for documents received in the Office of Public Records on March 29,
2001. The cycle time to process, record, and mail notices is 63
calendar days.
June 6, 2001 PATRICK ROWE, Director
Office of Public Records