United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 01 October 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
August 2002:
Document Services Goal Actual
Processing
Time
Certified Documents
Patent Applications-As-Filed, 7 days 3 days
Expedited
Patent Applications-As-Filed, 17 days 5 days
Regular
Patent Related File Wrappers 25 days 44 days*
Patent Copies 10 days 3 days
Patent Assignments 10 days 4 days
Trademark Applications-As-Filed, 7 days 3 days
Expedited
Trademark Applications-As-Filed, 17 days 4 days
Regular
Trademark Related File Wrappers 25 days 17 days*
Trademark Assignments 10 days 3 days
Trademark Registrations, Expedited 5 days 2 days
Trademark Registrations, Regular 14 days 4 days
Uncertified Documents
Expedited Patent Copies 1 day 1 day
Regular Patent Copies 5 days 2 days
Plant Patents 5 days 4 days
Patent Assignments 10 days 3 days
Patent Related File Wrappers 25 days 24 days*
Expedited Trademark Copies 1 day 1 day
Regular Trademark Copies 5 days 2 days
Trademark Assignments 10 days 3 days
Related File Wrappers 25 days 14 days*
*Includes turnaround times for files on Official Search and
File Reconstruction.
**No orders were filled during the reporting month.
During the month of August 2002, a total of 16,574 public orders
(24,079 copies) were filled and closed, or 5,156 orders more (36 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
July 3, 2002. The cycle time to process, record, and mail notices for
paper documents is 58 calendar days.
Recordation notices for assignment documents transmitted
electronically to the Assignment Services Division are current through
receipts for August 30, 2002. The cycle time to process, record, and
return notices for electronic documents is 1 calendar day.
PATRICK ROWE, Director
Office of Public Records