(314) DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Patent and Trademark Office
[Docket No.: PTO-P-2007-0049]
Change in Publication Format of
Patent and Trademark Office
Notices and Changes in Display of
Patent and Trademark Office Notices in
Electronic Official Gazette
AGENCY: United States Patent and Trademark Office, Commerce.
ACTION: Notice.
SUMMARY: The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is
discontinuing the separate weekly publication in paper form of Patent
and Trademark Office notices, and the annual publication in paper form
of the consolidated listing of notices pertaining to USPTO practices
and procedures. In addition, notice is hereby given that the weekly
electronic Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark
Office - Patents (the eOG:P) will display the Patent and Trademark
Office notices with volume/page numbers, and the last weekly eOG:P of
each calendar year will include the annual publication of consolidated
notices pertaining to USPTO practices and procedures.
DATES: The last separate weekly publication in paper form of Patent and
Trademark Office notices will be December 25, 2007. The last annual
publication in paper form of the consolidated listing of notices
pertaining to USPTO practices and procedures will be December 25, 2007.
Volume/page numbers will be displayed in the notices in the weekly
eOG:P beginning January 1, 2008. The first annual publication in the
eOG:P of the consolidated notices pertaining to USPTO practices and
procedures will be December 30, 2008.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Electronic Information Products
Division at (571) 272-5600 or e-mail at IPD@uspto.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In accordance with 35 U.S.C. 10 and the
Presidential E-Government Initiatives to utilize technology in ways
that will improve how Federal Agencies serve the public, the USPTO will
begin electronically publishing the weekly Patent and Trademark Office
notices in 2008. The separate weekly publication in paper form of the
Patent and Trademark Office notices will be discontinued after December
25, 2007.
In the period since the last paper version of the weekly Official
Gazette on September 24, 2002, the separate weekly paper publication of
the notices has shown the notices with volume/page numbers while the
display of the notices in the weekly eOG:P has not. Beginning January
1, 2008, the volume/page numbers that have been shown in the separate
weekly paper publication of the notices will be carried forward to the
notices as they are displayed in the weekly eOG:P. The presence of
volume/page numbers in the notices as they are displayed in the weekly
eOG:P will enhance the readability of the electronic notices and will
facilitate citations of them.
As with the weekly Patent and Trademark Office notices, the annual
publication of the consolidated listing of notices pertaining to USPTO
practices and procedures will occur electronically, not in paper,
beginning in 2008. The last listing of consolidated notices in paper
form will be published December 25, 2007. Thereafter the last weekly
eOG:P of each calendar year will include the consolidated listing of
notices pertaining to USPTO practices and procedures. The first such
annual publication of the consolidated notices in the eOG:P will take
place December 30, 2008.
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The eOG:P displaying the weekly notices with volume/page numbers
will be available on the USPTO Web site at http://frwebgate.access.gpo.
gov/cgi-bin/leaving.cgi?from=leavingFR.html&log=linklog&to=http://
www.uspto.gov/web/patents/patog each Tuesday beginning January 1, 2008.
The first annual publication in the eOG:P of the consolidated
notices pertaining to USPTO practices and procedures will be available
on the USPTO Web site at http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-
bin/leaving.cgi?from=leavingFR.html&log=linklog&to=http://www.uspto.gov/
web/patents/patog on December 30, 2008.
The eOG:P on CD-ROM with the above-described changes will be
published and distributed close to issue date. The eOG:P CD-ROM product
with the above-described changes will be available from the Information
Products Division, Chief Information Officer, United States Patent and
Trademark Office, as an annual subscription for $460 per year and as
single copies for $20 per issue.
December 18, 2007 JON W. DUDAS
Under Secretary of Commerce for
Intellectual Property and Director of the
United States Patent and Trademark Office
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