United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 30 November 2004
SPECIAL MAIL STOPS FOR PATENT MAIL
For most correspondence (e.g., new patent applications) no mail stop
is required because the processing of the correspondence is routine.
If NO mail stop is included on the list below, no mail stop is
required for the correspondence. See the listing under "Special Mail Stops
Applicable To Both Patent And Trademark Mail" for additional mail stops
for patent-related correspondence. Only the specified type of document
should be placed in an envelope addressed to one of these
special mail stops. If any documents other than the specified type
identified for each special mail stop are addressed to that mail stop,
they will be significantly delayed in reaching the appropriate area for
which they are intended. The mail stop should generally appear as the
first line in the address.
Petitions for a foreign filing license may be faxed to: 703-305-7658.
Some correspondence may be submitted electronically. See the Office's
Internet Web site http://www.uspto.gov for additional information.
Please address mail to be delivered by the United States Postal Service
(USPS) as follows:
Mail Stop _______
Commissioner for Patents
P.O. Box 1450
Alexandria, VA 22313-1450
If no Mail Stop is indicated below, the line beginning Mail Stop should be
omitted from the address.
Except correspondence for Maintenance Fee payments, Deposit Account
Replenishments (see 1.25(c)(4)), and Licensing and Review (see CFR 5.1(c)
and 5.2(c)), please address correspondence to be delivered by other
delivery services (Federal Express (Fed Ex), UPS, DHL, Laser, Action,
Purolater, etc.) as follows:
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
220 20th Street South
Customer Window, Mail Stop _______
Crystal Plaza Two, Lobby, Room 1B03
Arlington, VA 22202
Mail Stop Designations Explanation
Mail Stop 12 Contributions to the Examiner Education Program.
Mail Stop 313(c) Petitions under 37 CFR 1.313(c) to withdraw a
patent application from issue after payment of the
issue fee and any papers associated with the
petition, including papers necessary for a
continuing application or a request for continued
examination (RCE).
Mail Stop AF Amendments and other responses after final
rejection, other than an appeal brief.
Mail Stop Information disclosure statments, drawings
Amendment and replies to Office actions in patent
applications with or without an amendment to the
application or a terminal disclaimer. (Use Mail
Stop AF for replies after final rejection.).
Mail Stop Appeal For appeal briefs or other briefs under part 41
Brief-Patents of title 37 of the Code of Federal Regulations
(e.g., former 37 CFR 1.192).
Mail Stop Public comments regarding patent related
Comments-Patents regulations and procedures.
Mail Stop Conversion Requests under 37 CFR 1.53(c)(2) to convert a
nonprovisional application to a provisional
application and requests under 37 CFR 1.53(c)(3)
to convert a provisional application to a
nonprovisional application.
Mail Stop DD Disclosure Documents or materials related to the
Disclosure Document Program. (A disclosure document
is NOT an information disclosure statement.)
Instead of filing a disclosure document, inventors
are encouraged to file a provisional patent
application.
Mail Stop EBC Mail for the Electronic Business Center including:
Certificate Action Forms, Request for Customer
Numbers, and Requests for Customer Number Data
Change (USPTO Forms PTO-2042, PTO/SB/124A and 125A,
respectively) and Customer Number Upload
Spreadsheets and Cover Letters.
Mail Stop Expedited Only to be used for the initial filing of design
Design applications accompanied by a request for expedited
examination under 37 CFR 1.155. (Design applicants
seeking expedited examination may alternatively
file a design application and corresponding request
under 37 CFR 1.155 by hand-delivering the
application papers and request directly to the
Design Group Director's office.)
Mail Stop Express Requests for abandonment of a patent application
Abandonment pursuant to 37 CFR 1.138, including any petitions
under 37 CFR 1.138(c) to expressly abandon an
application to avoid publication of the
application. (This new mail stop should be used
instead of Mail Stop PGPUB-ABD. Applicants are
encouraged to transmit the requests by facsimile to
703-305-8568.)
Mail Stop ILS Correspondence relating to international patent
classification, exchanges and standards.
Mail Stop Issue Fee All communications following the receipt of a
PTOL-85, "Notice of Allowance and Fee(s) Due", and
prior to the issuance of a patent should be
addressed to Mail Stop Issue Fee, unless advised to
the contrary.
Assignments are the exception. Assignments (with
cover sheets) should be faxed to 703-306-5995,
electronically submitted, or submitted in a
separate envelope and sent to Mail Stop
Assignment Recordation Services, Director -
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office as shown below.
Mail Stop L&R All documents pertaining to applications subject to
secrecy order pursuant to 35 U.S.C. 181, or
national-security classified and required to be
processed accordingly.
Such papers may also be hand carried to:
Technology Center 3600, Office of the Director
2451 Crystal Drive, Room 3D07
Arlington, VA 22202
Mail Stop Missing Requests for a corrected filing receipt and
Parts replies to OIPE notices such as the Notice of
Omitted Items, Notice to File Corrected Application
Papers, Notice of Incomplete Application, Notice to
Comply with Nucleotide Sequence Requirements, and
Notice to File Missing Parts of Application, and
associated papers and fees.
Mail Stop MPEP Submissions concerning the Manual of Patent
Examining Procedure.
Mail Stop Patent Ext. Applications for patent term extension and any
communications relating thereto.
Mail Stop PCT Mail related to international applications filed
under the Patent Cooperation Treaty in the
international phase and in the national phase under
35 U.S.C. 371 prior to mailing of a Notification of
Acceptance of Application Under 35 U.S.C. 371 and
37 CFR 1.495 (Form PCT/DO/EO/903).
Mail Stop Petition Petitions to be decided by the Office of Petitions
including petitions to revive and petitions to
accept late payment of issue fees or maintenance
fees.
Mail Stop PGPUB Correspondence regarding publication of patent
applications not otherwise provided, including
requests for early publication made after filing,
rescission of non-publication request, corrected
patent application publication, refund of
publication fee.
Mail Stop Post Issue In patented files: requests for changes of
correspondence address, powers of attorney,
revocations of powers of attorney, withdrawal
of attorney and submissions under 37 CFR 1.501.
Designation of, or changes to, a fee address should
be addressed to Mail Stop M Correspondence.
Requests for Certificate of Correction need no
special mail stop, but should be made to the
attention of Certificate of Correction Branch.
Mail Stop RCE Requests for continued examination under 37 CFR
1.114.
Mail Stop Correspondence pertaining to the reconstruction of
Reconstruction lost patent files.
Mail Stop Ex Parte Requests for Reexamination for original request
Reexam papers only.
Mail Stop Inter Requests for Inter Partes Reexamination for
Partes Reexam original request papers and for all subsequent
correspondence other than correspondence to the
Office of the Solicitor (see 37 CFR 1.1(a)(3) and
1.302(c)).
Mail Stop Reissue All new and continuing reissue application filings.
Mail Stop Sequence Submission of the computer readable form (CRF) for
applications with sequence listings, when the CRF
is not being filed with the patent application.
ADDRESS FOR TRADEMARK MAIL
Please address trademark-related mial to be delivered by the United
States Postal Service (USPS), except documents sent to the Assignment
Services Division for recordation, requests for copies of trademark
documents and documents directed to the Madrid Processing Unit, as follows:
Commissioner for Trademarks
P.O. Box 1451
Alexandria, VA 22313-1451
Mail to be delivered by the USPS to the Office's Madrid Processing
Unit, must be mailed to:
Commissioner for Trademarks
P.O. Box 16471
Arlington, VA 22215-1471
Attention MPU
Trademark-related mail to be delivered by courier or by hand to the
Trademark Operation, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, or the Office's
Madrid Processing Unit, must be delivered to:
Trademark Assistance Center
Madison East, Concourse Level Room C 55
600 Dulany Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
SPECIAL MAIL STOPS APPLICABLE TO
BOTH PATENT AND TRADEMARK MAIL
Please address mail to be directed to a mail stop identified below to be
delivered by the United States Postal Service (USPS) as follows (unless
otherwise instructed):
Mail Stop _______
Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
P.O. Box 1450
Alexandria, VA 22313-1450
Mail Stop
Designations Explanation
Mail Stop 3 Mail for the Office of Personnel from NFC.
Mail Stop 6 Mail for the Office of Procurement.
Mail Stop 8 All papers for the Office of the Solicitor except
communications relating to pending litigation and
disciplinary proceedings; papers relating to
pending litigation in court cases shall be mailed
only to Office of the Solicitor, P.O. Box 15667,
Arlington, VA 22215 and papers related to pending
disciplinary proceedings before the Administrative
Law Judge or the Director shall be mailed only to
the Office of the Solicitor, P.O. Box 16116,
Arlington, VA 22215.
Mail Stop 11 Mail for the Electronic Ordering Service (EOS).
Mail Stop 13 Mail for the Employee and Labor Relations Division.
Mail Stop 16 Mail related to refund requests, other than
requests for refund of a patent application
publication fee. Such requests should be directed
to Mail Stop PGPub.
Mail Stop 17 Invoices directed to the Office of Finance.
Mail Stop 24 Mail for the Inventor's Assistance Program,
including complaints about Invention Promoters.
Mail Stop 171 Vacancy Announcement Applications.
Mail Stop All assignment documents, security interests, and
Assignment other documents to be recorded in the Assignment
Recordation records. Note that documents with cover sheets that
Services are faxed to 703-306-5995 or submitted
electronically are processed much more quickly than
those submitted by mail.
Mail Stop Mail for the Office of Congressional Relations.
Congressional
Relations
Mail Stop Document All requests for certified or uncertified copies of
Services patent or trademark documents.
Mail Stop EEO Mail for the Office of Civil Rights.
Mail Stop Mail for the Office of Enforcement.
Enforcement
Mail Stop Communications relating to interferences and
Interference applications and patents involved in interference.
Mail Stop Mail for the Office of International Relations.
International
Relations
Mail Stop M Correspondence related to maintenance fees other
Correspondence than payments of maintenance fees in patents is
not to be mailed to P.O. Box 371611, Pittsburgh,
PA 15250-1611, but must be mailed to "Box M
Correspondence, Director of the U.S. Patent and
Trademark Office, P.O. Box 1450, Alexandria, VA
22313-1450".
Mail Stop OED Mail for the Office of Enrollment and Discipline.
Maintenance Fee Payments
Unless submitted electronically over the Internet at www.uspto.gov,
payment of maintenance fees in patents should be mailed through the United
States Postal Service to:
Box M Correspondence
Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
P.O. Box 1450
Alexandria, VA 22313-1450
Alternatively, payment of maintenance fees in patents (Attn: Maintenance
Fee) using hand-delivery and delivery by private courier may be made to:
Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office
Attn:_______
One Crystal Park
2011 Crystal Drive, Suite 307
Arlington, Virginia 22202
Deposit Account Replenishments
To send payment to replenish deposit accounts, send the payments through
the United States Postal Service to:
Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office
P.O. Box 70541
Chicago, IL 60673
Alternatively, deposit account replenishments (Attn: Deposit Accounts)
using hand-delivery and delivery by private courier may be delivered to:
Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office
Attn: _______
One Crystal Park
2011 Crystal Drive, Suite 307
Arlington, Virginia 22202