United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 03 June 2003
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 for orders filled during the month of
April 2003:
Document Services Goal Actual
Processing
Time
Certified Documents
Patent Applications-As-Filed 7 days 4 days
Patent Related File Wrappers 25 days 23 days*
Patent Copies 10 days 3 days
Patent Assignments 10 days 4 days
Trademark Applications-As-Filed 7 days 4 days
Trademark Related File Wrappers 25 days 13 days*
Trademark Assignments 10 days 6 days
Trademark Registrations, Expedited 5 days 2 days
Trademark Registrations, Regular 14 days 4 days
Uncertified Documents
Patent Copies 5 day 1 day
Plant Patents 5 days 15 days**
Patent Assignments 10 days 3 days
Patent Related File Wrappers 25 days 24 days*
Trademark Copies 5 days 2 days
Trademark Assignments 10 days 2 days
Trademark Related File Wrappers 25 days 9 days*
*Includes turnaround times for files on Official Search and File
Reconstruction.
**Three of the nine Plant Patent orders required reprinting.
During the month of April 2003, a total of 14,990 public orders (22,369
copies) were filled and closed, or 3,793 orders more (1,334 copies less)
than the FY-03 planning number of 11,197 orders (23,703 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
December 26, 2002. The cycle time to process, record, and mail notices for
paper documents is 120 calendar days.
Recordation notices for assignment documents transmitted electronically to
the Assignment Services Division are current through receipts for
April 25, 2003. The cycle time to process, record, and return notices for
electronic documents is 1 calendar day.
May 7, 2003 PATRICEK ROWE
Office of Public Records