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
June 2001:

Document Services                       Goal            Actual
                                                        Processing
                                                        Time
Certified Documents

Patent Applications-As-Filed,            7 days          5 days
   Expedited
Patent Applications-As-Filed,           17 days         10 days
   Regular
Patent Related File Wrappers            25 days         47 days*
Patent Copies                           10 days          7 days
Patent Assignments                      10 days          7 days
Trademark Applications-As-Filed,         7 days          5 days
   Expedited
Trademark Applications-As-Filed,        17 days          7 days
   Regular
Trademark Related File Wrappers         25 days         48 days*
Trademark Assignments                   10 days          9 days
Trademark Registrations,                 5 days          5 days
   Expedited
Trademark Registrations, Regular        14 days          8 days

Uncertified Documents Expedited

Patent Copies                            1 day           2 days
Regular Patent Copies                    5 days          4 days
Plant Patents                            5 days         14 days**
Patent Assignments                      10 days          6 days
Patent Related File Wrappers            25 days         19 days*
Expedited Trademark Copies               1 day           0 days***
Regular Trademark Copies                 5 days          4 days
Trademark Assignments                   10 days          5 days
Trademark Related File Wrappers         25 days         28 days*


*Includes turnaround times for files on Official Search and File
Reconstruction.
**One plant patent order required reprinting and took 75 days to process.
*** No orders were filled during the reporting month.


During the month of June 2001, a total of 17,081 public orders
(26,767 copies) were filled and closed, or 3,284 orders more (11,789
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 April 20,
2001. The cycle time to process, record, and mail notices is 65
calendar days.

July 9, 2001                                                   PATRICK ROWE
                                                                   Director
                                                   Office of Public Records