United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 04 June 2002
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
April 2002:
Document Services Goal Actual
Processing
Time
Certified Documents
Patent Applications-As-Filed, 7 days 3 days
Expedited
Patent Applications-As-Filed, 17 days 6 days
Regular
Patent Related File Wrappers 25 days 37 days*
Patent Copies 10 days 4 days
Patent Assignments 10 days 4 days
Trademark Applications-As-Filed, 7 days 3 days
Expedited
Trademark Applications-As-Filed, 17 days 5 days
Regular
Trademark Related File Wrappers 25 days 45 days*
Trademark Assignments 10 days 6 days
Trademark Registrations, 5 days 3 days
Expedited
Trademark Registrations, Regular 14 days 5 days
Uncertified Documents
Expedited Patent Copies 1 day 1 day
Regular Patent Copies 5 days 3 days
Plant Patents 5 days 2 days
Patent Assignments 10 days 4 days
Patent Related File Wrappers 25 days 21 days*
Expedited Trademark Copies 1 day 0 day**
Regular Trademark Copies 5 days 3 days
Trademark Assignments 10 days 1 day
Trademark Related File Wrappers 25 days 41 days*
*Includes turnaround times for files on Official Search and File
Reconstruction.
**No orders were filled during the reporting month.
During the month of April 2002, a total of 15,424 public
orders (22,381 copies) were filled and closed, or 4,006 orders more
(1,734 copies less) than the FY-02 planning number of 11,418 orders
(24,115 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 Services Division is currently mailing
recordation notices for paper documents received in the Office of
Public Records on March 6, 2002. The cycle time to process, record, and
mail notices for paper documents is 51 calendar days.
Recordation notices for assignment documents transmitted
electronically to the Assignment Services Division are current through
receipts for April 29, 2002. The cycle time to process, record, and
return notices for electronic documents is 1 calendar day.
May 8, 2002 PATRICK ROWE
Director
Office of Public Records