United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 11 October 2005
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 August 2005:
Actual
Processing
DOCUMENT SERVICES Goal Time
Certified Documents
Patent Applications-As-Filed 7 days 4 days
Patent Related File Wrappers 25 days 21 days
Patent Copies 10 days 6 days
Patent Assignments 10 days 5 days
Trademark Applications-As-Filed 7 days 4 days
Trademark Related File Wrappers 25 days 9 days
Trademark Assignments 10 days 5 days
Trademark Registrations, Expedited 5 days 3 days
Trademark Registrations, Regular 14 days 5 days
Uncertified Documents
Patent Copies 5 days 1 day
Plant Patents 5 days 2 days
Patent Assignments 10 days 2 days
Patent Related File Wrappers 25 days 12 days
Trademark Copies 5 days 1 day
Trademark Assignments 10 days 3 days
Trademark Related File Wrappers 25 days 7 days
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 Document Services
Customer Service at (571) 272-3150 or 1 (800) 972-6382 for assistance with
a particular order.
Customers are encouraged to place orders through the Internet at
http://ebiz1.uspto.gov/oems25p
Orders may also be faxed to the Document Services Division at
(571) 273-3250. Information on the status of pending orders may be
obtained by calling (571) 272-3150 or 1 (800) 972-6382 (outside the
Washington, DC Metro area), or via E-mail to dsd@uspto.gov.
Actual
Processing
ASSIGNMENT SERVICES Goal Time
Submission Method
Internet (EFS, ePAS or eTAS) 2 days 1 day
Fax 10 days 56 days
Paper 90 days 133 days
The Assignment Services Division is currently mailing
recordation notices for paper documents received in the Office of
Public Records on April 15, 2005.
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.
Assignment submissions may be made via the Internet at
http://epas.uspto.gov/ for patent assignments and http://etas.uspto.gov
for trademark assignments. Patent assignment submissions may also 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 (571) 273-0140. 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 (571) 272-3350 or 1 (800) 972-6382 (outside the
Washington, DC Metro area).
September 13, 2005 DOUGLAS A. SALSER
Acting Director, Office of Public Records