United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 12 August 2003

                            DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
                  United States Patent and Trademark Office
                           [Docket No.: 2003-T-022]

                Notice of Change in Publication Format for the
               Official Gazette of the United States Patent and
                          Trademark Office-Trademarks

AGENCY: United States Patent and Trademark Office, Commerce.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: The United States Patent and Trademark Office
(Office) announces its intention to disseminate all future editions of
the Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark
Office - Trademarks (OG-T) solely in electronic format.

DATES: Beginning on July 15, 2003, the Office will publish all future
editions of the OG-T only in electronic format via the Internet at the
Office Web site (http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-
bin/leaving.cgi?from=leavingFR.html&log=linklog&to=http://www.uspto.gov).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

   The Office has published the Official Gazette of the United
States Patent and Trademark Office - Trademarks in paper format for many
years. In March 2002, the Office also commenced publication of the OG-T
on its Web site. Currently, the Office provides the text of the OG-T to
the Government Printing Office (GPO) for paper publication. Publication
of the OG-T is provided for by 15 U.S.C. 1051, 1062, 1063 and 1092.
The OG-T is published each week, and provides notice of various matters
related to trademark registrations and to applications for trademark
registration, including listings of (1) Marks that the Office has
approved for registration, (2) registrations that have been cancelled,
(3) registrations that have expired, (4) cancelled or expired
registrations that have been reinstated, (5) registrations that have
been amended or corrected, (6) entities that have received
registrations and (7) new certificates that were issued with respect to
existing registrations. The OG-T also includes notices that explain
existing Office practice, as well as notices that announce proposed or
actual changes to Office practice.

   Additionally, the OG-T is used to effect service by publication in
connection with proceedings at the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board,
where notices of proceedings are mailed to a registrant's last known
address but are returned by the postal service as undeliverable. The
OG-T also includes summaries of final decisions issued by the Trademark
Trial and Appeal Board.

New Procedure

   In view of the widespread access to computers and the Internet,
the Office will only publish the OG-T in electronic format effective
July 15, 2003. It is noted that the Office will continue to supply the
GPO with an electronic copy of each issue of the OG-T, and that the GPO
plans to continue to produce paper copies of the OG-T. GPO also plans
to produce CD ROMs that feature searchable versions of the OG-T, if
there is sufficient demand.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mary Hannon, Office
of the Commissioner for Trademarks, by telephone at (703) 306-8910,
ext. 137.

June 19, 2003                                                JAMES E. ROGAN
                                            Under Secretary of Commerce for
                                  Intellectual Property and Director of the
                                  United States Patent and Trademark Office