United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 26 June 2007
Status of Public Records Division
The Public Records Division (PRD) 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 May 2007:
Document Services Goal Actual
Processing
Time
Certified Documents
Patent Applications-As-Filed 7 days 4 days
Patent Related File Wrappers 25 days 20 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 13 days
Trademark Assignments 10 days 4 days
Trademark Registrations, Expedited 5 days 2 days
Trademark Registrations, Regular 14 days 4 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 17 days
Trademark Copies 5 days 2 days
Trademark Assignments 10 days 1 day
Trademark Related File Wrappers 25 days 10 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 Branch 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.
ASSIGNMENT SERVICES
Goal Actual
Processing
Time
Submission Method
Internet (EFS, ePAS or eTAS) 2 days 1 day
Fax 10 days 1 day
Paper 14 days 1 day
The Assignment Services Branch is currently mailing recordation
notices for paper documents received in the Public Records Division on
May 30, 2007.
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 Branch 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).
June 1, 2007 AMANDA PUTNAM
Manager,
Public Records Division