United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 03 February 2004
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
December 2003:
Document Services Goal Actual
Processing
Time
Certified Documents
Patent Applications-As-Filed 7 days 4 days
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 4 days
Trademark Related File Wrappers 25 days 18 days*
Trademark Assignments 10 days 4 days
Trademark Registrations, Expedited 5 days 3 days
Trademark Registrations, Regular 14 days 4 days
Uncertified Documents
Patent Copies 5 days 1 day
Plant Patents 5 days 1 day
Patent Assignments 10 days 2 days
Patent Related File Wrappers 25 days 36 days*
Trademark Copies 5 days 2 days
Trademark Assignments 10 days 1 day
Trademark Related File Wrappers 25 days 8 days
Customers should use the above actual processing time
for each product as a guide to when they can expect their orders to be
completed. In cases where an urgent deadline is
approaching, contact Document Services Customer Service at (703)
308-9726 or 1 (800) 972-6382 for assistance with a particular order.
Customers are encouraged to place orders through the Internet by
selecting the "Order Copies & Publications" option at
http://www.uspto.gov/ebc.
Orders may also be faxed to the Document Services Division at
(703) 308-9759. 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 to dsd@uspto.gov.
ASSIGNMENT SERVICES
Goal Actual
Processing
Time
Submission Method
Internet (EFS or eTAS) 2 days 2 days
Fax 5 days 3 days
Paper 30 days 179 days
The Assignment Services Division is currently mailing recordation
notices for paper documents received in the Office of Public Records on
July 3, 2003.
Customers should use the above actual processing
times as a guide as to when they can expect their assignment
submissions to be processed. For fastest service customers are
encouraged to file assignments via the Internet.
Trademark assignment submissions may be made via the Internet at
http://etas.uspto.gov. Patent assignment
submissions may be made by selecting the "Electronic Filing (EFS)"
option at http://www.uspto.gov/ebc.
Assignment submissions may also be faxed to the Assignment
Services Division at (703) 306-5995. Trademark assignment recordations
may be reviewed online at http://assignments.uspto.gov/assignments.
Information on the status of pending assignment recordations may be
obtained by calling (703) 308-9723 or 1 (800) 972-6382 (outside the
Washington, DC Metro area).
January 6, 2004 TED PARR
Director, Office of Public Records