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 January 10, 2012 US PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE Print Table of Contents 1374 OG 56 

OFFICIAL GAZETTE of the UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE

January 10, 2012 Volume 1374 Number 2

CONTENTS

 Patent and Trademark Office NoticesPage 
• Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) Information1374 OG 57
• Notice of Maintenance Fees Payable1374 OG 60
• Notice of Expiration of Patents Due to Failure to Pay Maintenance Fee1374 OG 61
• Patents Reinstated Due to the Acceptance of a Late Maintenance Fee from 12/12/20111374 OG 89
• Reissue Applications Filed1374 OG 90
• Requests for Ex Parte Reexamination Filed1374 OG 92
• Requests for Inter Partes Reexamination Filed1374 OG 94
• Notice of Expiration of Trademark Registrations Due to Failure to Renew1374 OG 96
• Service by Publication1374 OG 101
• 37 CFR 1.47 Notice by Publication1374 OG 102
• Registration to Practice1374 OG 105
• Changes To Implement the Prioritized Examination for Requests for Continued Examination1374 OG 107
• Extension of the Extended Missing Parts Pilot Program1374 OG 113
• Notice of Suspension and Probation1374 OG 117
• Patent Prosecution Highway Pilot Program between the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the State Intellectual Property Office of the People's Republic of China1374 OG 118
• Patent Prosecution Highway Pilot Program between the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the State Intellectual Property Office of the People's Republic of China based on Patent Cooperation Treaty Work Products1374 OG 119
• Patent Prosecution Highway Pilot Program between the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the Icelandic Patent Office1374 OG 120
• Patents and Serial Numbers Available for License or Sale1374 OG 121
• Revision of Patent Term Adjustment Provisions Relating to Information Disclosure Statements1374 OG 122
• Sunset of the Patent Application Backlog Reduction Stimulus Plan and a Limited Extension of the Green Technology Pilot Program1374 OG 128
• Disclaimers and Dedications1374 OG 130
• Disclaimers1374 OG 131
• Erratum1374 OG 133
• Certificates of Correction1374 OG 134
• Summary of Final Decisions Issued by the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board1374 OG 136

• Mailing and Hand Carry Addresses for Mail to the United States Patent and Trademark Office
• Reference Collections of U.S. Patents Available for Public Use in Patent and Trademark Resource Centers
• Patent Technology Centers


COPIES OF PATENTS are furnished by the Patent and Trademark Office at $3.00 each; PLANT PATENTS in color, $15.00 each; copies of TRADEMARKS at $3.00 each. Address orders to the Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks, P.O. Box 1450, Alexandria, VA., 22313-1450, or click here for online ordering.

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Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) Information 
                  Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) Information

   For information concerning PCT member countries, see the notice
appearing in the Official Gazette at 1369 O.G. 5, on August 2, 2011.

   For information on subject matter under Rule 39 that a particular
International Searching Authority will not search, see Annex D of the PCT
Applicants' Guide.

European Patent Office as Searching and Examining Authority

   The European Patent Office (EPO) may act as the International Searching
Authority (ISA) for an international application filed with the United
States Receiving Office or the International Bureau (IB) as Receiving
Office where at least one of the applicants is either a national or
resident of the United States of America. However, the EPO is no longer
a competent ISA, within the meaning of PCT Article 16(3), for
international applications filed by U.S. residents or nationals on or
after March 1, 2002, in the USPTO or IB as a Receiving Office, and where
the application contains one or more claims directed to the field of
business methods. For the definition of what the EPO considers to be
precluded subject matter in the field of business methods, applicants
should see the "Notice from the President of the European Patent
Office", dated November 26, 2001, and which was published as Annex A in
the "Notice Concerning EPO Competence to Act as PCT Authority" in
the Official Gazette at 1255 O.G. 878, on February 19, 2002.

   The European Patent Office may act as the International Preliminary
Examining Authority (IPEA) for an international application filed in the
United States Receiving Office or the International Bureau as Receiving
Office where at least one of the applicants is either a national or
resident of the United States of America, provided that the European
Patent Office acted as the International Searching Authority. However,
the EPO is no longer a competent IPEA, within the meaning of PCT Article
32(3), for international applications filed by U.S. residents or nationals
in the USPTO or IB as a Receiving Office where the corresponding demand is
filed with the EPO on or after March 1, 2002, and where the application
contains one or more claims directed to the field of business methods.

   The search fee of the European Patent Office was increased, effective
January 1, 2011, and was announced in the Official Gazette at 1361 O.G.
180, on December 28, 2010.

Korean Intellectual Property Office as Searching and Examining Authority

   For use of the Korean Intellectual Property Office as an International
Searching Authority and International Preliminary Examining Authority for
international applications filed in the United States Receiving Office,
see the notice appearing in the Official Gazette at 1302 O.G. 1261 on
January 17, 2006.

   The search fee of the Korean Intellectual Property Office was increased,
effective November 1, 2011, and was announced in the Official Gazette at
1372 O.G. 71, on November 8, 2011.

Australian Patent Office as Searching and Examining Authority

   The Australian Patent Office (IP Australia) may act as the International
Searching Authority (ISA) for an international application filed with the
United States Receiving Office or the International Bureau (IB) as
Receiving Office where at least one of the applicants is either a national
or resident of the United States of America. However, IP Australia is not a
competent ISA, within the meaning of PCT Artical 16(3), for international
applications filed by U.S. residents or nationals in the USPTO or IB as a
Receiving Office, and where the application contains one or more claims
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directed to the field of business methods or mechanical inventions.

   IP Australia may act as the International Preliminary Examining
Authority (IPEA) for an international application filed in the United
States Receiving Office or the International Bureau as Receiving Office
where at least one of the applicants is either a national or resident of
the United States of America, provided that IP Australia acted as the
International Searching Authority. However, IP Australia is not a competent
IPEA, within the meaning of PCT Article 32(3), for international
applications filed by U.S. residents or nationals in the USPTO or IB as a
Receiving Office where the corresponding demand is filed with IP Australia
and where the application contains one or more claims directed to the
fields of business methods or mechanical engineering or analogous fields of
technology as defined by specified areas of the International Patent
Classification System, as indicated in Annex A to the agreement between the
USPTO and IP Australia. See the notice appearing in the Official Gazette
at 1337 O.G. 261 on December 23, 2008.

   For use of IP Australia as an International Searching Authority and
International Preliminary Examining Authority for international
applications filed in the United States Receiving Office, see the notice
appearing in the Official Gazette at 1337 O.G. 265 on December 23, 2008.

   The search fee of IP Australia was increased, effective August 1, 2011,
and was announced in the Official Gazette at 1369 O.G. 184, on August 23,
2011.

Fees

   The transmittal fee for the USPTO was changed to include a basic portion
and a non-electronic filing fee portion, effective November 15, 2011, and
was announced in the Federal Register on November 15, 2011. Search fees for
the USPTO were changed, effective January 12, 2009, and were announced in
the Federal Register on November 12, 2008. The fee for filing a request for
the restoration of the right of priority was established, effective
November 9, 2007, and was announced in the Federal Register on September 10,
2007.

   International filing fees were increased, effective November 1, 2011,
and were announced in the Official Gazette at 1372 O.G. 71, on November 8,
2011.

   The schedule of PCT fees (in U.S. dollars), as of November 15, 2011, is
as follows:

International Application (PCT Chapter I) fees:

   Transmittal fee
      Basic Portion                                                 $240.00
      Non-electronic filing fee portion for international
       applications (other than plant applications) filed
       on or after 15 November 2011 other than by the
       Office electronic filing system (other than a
       small entity)                                                 $400.00
      Non-electronic filing fee portion for international
       applications (other than plant applications) filed
       on or after 15 November 2011 other than by the
       Office electronic filing system (small entity)               $200.00

   Search fee

      U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) as
      International Searching Authority (ISA)
         - Search fee                                             $2,080.00
         - Supplemental search fee, per additional
            invention (payable only upon invitation)              $2,080.00
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      European Patent Office as ISA                               $2,443.00
      Korean Intellectual Property Office as ISA
         - for international applications filed in English        $1,233.00
      IP Australia as ISA                                         $2,084.00

   International fees

      International filing fee                                    $1,758.00
      International filing fee-filed in paper
         with PCT EASY zip file or
         electronically without PCT EASY zip file                 $1,626.00
      International filing fee-filed
         electronically with PCT EASY zip files                   $1,494.00
      Supplemental fee for each page over 30                         $20.00

   Restoration of Priority

      Filing a request for the restoration of the
      right of priority under § 1.452                             $1,410.00

   International Application (PCT Chapter II) fees associated
   with filing a Demand for Preliminary Examination:

      Handling fee                                                  $264.00
      Handling fee-90% reduction, if applicants meet criteria
      specified at:
        http://www.wipo.int/pct/en/fees/fee_reduction.pdf            $26.40
      Preliminary Examination Fee
         USPTO as International Preliminary
         Examining Authority (IPEA)
            - USPTO was ISA in PCT Chapter I                        $600.00
            - USPTO was not ISA in PCT Chapter I                    $750.00
            - Additional preliminary examination fee,
              per additional invention
              (payable only upon invitation)                        $600.00

   U.S. National Stage fees (for international applications entering
the U.S. national phase under 35 U.S.C. 371) can be found on the USPTO's
Web site (www.uspto.gov).

November 30, 2011                                       ANDREW H. HIRSHFELD
                                                 Associate Commissioner for
                                                  Patent Examination Policy
                                  United States Patent and Trademark Office
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Notice of Maintenance Fees Payable 
                   Notice of Maintenance Fees Payable

   Title 37 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), Section 1.362(d) provides
that maintenance fees may be paid without surcharge for the six-month
period beginning 3, 7, and 11 years after the date of issue of patents
based on applications filed on or after Dec. 12, 1980. An additional
six-month grace period is provided by 35 U.S.C. 41(b) and 37 CFR 1.362(e)
for payment of the maintenance fee with the surcharge set forth in 37 CFR
1.20(h), as amended effective Dec. 16, 1991. If the maintenance fee is
not paid in the patent requiring such payment the patent will expire on
the 4th, 8th, or 12th anniversary of the grant.

   Attention is drawn to the patents that were issued on December 30, 2008
for which maintenance fees due at 3 years and six months may now be paid
The patents have patent numbers within the following ranges:

        Utility Patents 7,469,423 through 7,472,427
        Reissue Patents based on the above identified patents.

   Attention is drawn to the patents that were issued on December 28, 2004
for which maintenance fees due at 7 years and six months may now be paid
The patents have patent numbers within the following ranges:

        Utility Patents 6,834,394 through 6,836,898
        Reissue Patents based on the above identified patents.

   Attention is drawn to the patents that were issued on December 26, 2000
for which maintenance fees due at 11 years and six months may now be paid.
The patents have patent numbers within the following ranges:

        Utility Patents 6,163,883 through 6,167,568
        Reissue Patents based on the above identified patents.

   No maintenance fees are required for design or plant patents.

   Payments of maintenance fees in patents may be submitted electronically
over the Internet at www.uspto.gov. Click on the "Site Index" link at the
top of the homepage (www.uspto.gov), and then scroll down and click on the
"Maintenance Fees" link for more information.

   Payments of maintenance fees in patents not submitted electronically
over the Internet should be mailed to "United States Patent and Trademark
Office, P.O. Box 979070, St. Louis, MO 63197-9000".

   Correspondence related to maintenance fees other than payments of
maintenance fees in patents is not to be mailed to P.O. Box 979070,
St. Louis, MO 63197-9000, but must be mailed to "Mail Stop M
Correspondence, Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, P.O.
Box 1450, Alexandria, VA 22313-1450".

   Patent owners must establish small entity status according to 37 CFR
1.27 if they have not done so and if they wish to pay the small entity
amount.

   The current amounts of the maintenance fees due at 3 years and six
months, 7 years and six months, and 11 years and six months are set forth
in the most recently amended provisions in 37 CFR 1.20(e)-(g). To obtain
the current maintenance fee amounts, please call the USPTO Contact Center
at (800)-786-9199 or see the current USPTO fee schedule posted on the USPTO
Internet web site. At the top of the USPTO homepage at www.uspto.gov, click
on the "Site Index" link and then scroll down and click on the "Fees,
USPTO" link to find the current USPTO fee schedule.
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Notice of Expiration of Patents Due to Failure to Pay Maintenance Fee 
                        Notice of Expiration of Patents
                     Due to Failure to Pay Maintenance Fee

   35 U.S.C. 41 and 37 CFR 1.362(g) provide that if the required
maintenance fee and any applicable surcharge are not paid in a patent
requiring such payment, the patent will expire at the end of the 4th, 8th
or 12th anniversary of the grant of the patent depending on the first
maintenance fee which was not paid.
   According to the records of the Office, the patents listed below have
expired due to failure to pay the required maintenance fee and any
applicable surcharge.

                  PATENTS WHICH EXPIRED ON November 23, 2011
                    DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEES

Patent                          Application                         Issue
Number                             Number                            Date

5,987,645                        09/183,681                      11/23/99
5,987,655                        09/133,598                      11/23/99
5,987,657                        09/140,850                      11/23/99
5,987,658                        09/163,486                      11/23/99
5,987,659                        09/042,563                      11/23/99
5,987,661                        09/104,468                      11/23/99
5,987,662                        08/977,692                      11/23/99
5,987,663                        09/176,122                      11/23/99
5,987,670                        09/065,659                      11/23/99
5,987,672                        08/880,375                      11/23/99
5,987,683                        09/102,591                      11/23/99
5,987,701                        09/088,815                      11/23/99
5,987,708                        09/045,969                      11/23/99
5,987,712                        08/995,348                      11/23/99
5,987,717                        08/874,237                      11/23/99
5,987,721                        08/556,915                      11/23/99
5,987,723                        08/782,319                      11/23/99
5,987,725                        08/918,323                      11/23/99
5,987,727                        09/155,438                      11/23/99
5,987,729                        08/570,835                      11/23/99
5,987,731                        08/473,950                      11/23/99
5,987,735                        09/070,514                      11/23/99
5,987,736                        08/609,774                      11/23/99
5,987,745                        08/569,073                      11/23/99
5,987,753                        09/085,813                      11/23/99
5,987,760                        08/993,992                      11/23/99
5,987,768                        08/809,033                      11/23/99
5,987,770                        08/849,516                      11/23/99
5,987,779                        08/632,800                      11/23/99
5,987,790                        08/917,656                      11/23/99
5,987,793                        09/008,262                      11/23/99
5,987,796                        09/118,587                      11/23/99
5,987,802                        09/185,135                      11/23/99
5,987,804                        08/994,487                      11/23/99
5,987,811                        09/126,245                      11/23/99
5,987,824                        09/191,083                      11/23/99
5,987,826                        08/947,904                      11/23/99
5,987,841                        08/746,480                      11/23/99
5,987,846                        09/007,951                      11/23/99
5,987,847                        08/950,538                      11/23/99
5,987,857                        08/923,594                      11/23/99
5,987,864                        09/179,346                      11/23/99
5,987,870                        09/065,777                      11/23/99
5,987,872                        09/208,686                      11/23/99
5,987,877                        08/983,115                      11/23/99
5,987,878                        09/115,521                      11/23/99
5,987,882                        08/635,345                      11/23/99
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5,987,886                        08/967,457                      11/23/99
5,987,896                        08/911,874                      11/23/99
5,987,908                        09/229,051                      11/23/99
5,987,910                        08/982,657                      11/23/99
5,987,911                        09/097,696                      11/23/99
5,987,912                        09/179,228                      11/23/99
5,987,917                        09/043,430                      11/23/99
5,987,921                        09/059,341                      11/23/99
5,987,923                        09/048,633                      11/23/99
5,987,930                        09/023,482                      11/23/99
5,987,946                        08/911,647                      11/23/99
5,987,948                        08/868,917                      11/23/99
5,987,957                        09/030,272                      11/23/99
5,987,958                        08/980,301                      11/23/99
5,987,963                        08/988,896                      11/23/99
5,987,971                        09/226,729                      11/23/99
5,987,973                        08/893,321                      11/23/99
5,987,974                        09/006,852                      11/23/99
5,987,976                        09/041,557                      11/23/99
5,987,992                        09/006,286                      11/23/99
5,987,994                        09/048,606                      11/23/99
5,988,005                        09/062,818                      11/23/99
5,988,014                        08/874,552                      11/23/99
5,988,022                        09/108,227                      11/23/99
5,988,027                        08/856,135                      11/23/99
5,988,029                        08/939,173                      11/23/99
5,988,042                        08/957,061                      11/23/99
5,988,045                        09/163,502                      11/23/99
5,988,046                        09/019,283                      11/23/99
5,988,054                        09/130,190                      11/23/99
5,988,071                        09/071,088                      11/23/99
5,988,072                        08/875,301                      11/23/99
5,988,074                        08/997,075                      11/23/99
5,988,088                        09/174,460                      11/23/99
5,988,092                        08/835,877                      11/23/99
5,988,096                        09/165,018                      11/23/99
5,988,097                        09/197,987                      11/23/99
5,988,100                        08/960,849                      11/23/99
5,988,105                        09/117,674                      11/23/99
5,988,106                        08/991,747                      11/23/99
5,988,107                        09/119,497                      11/23/99
5,988,108                        08/997,336                      11/23/99
5,988,129                        09/157,873                      11/23/99
5,988,130                        08/918,188                      11/23/99
5,988,141                        09/122,649                      11/23/99
5,988,143                        09/079,391                      11/23/99
5,988,144                        09/008,500                      11/23/99
5,988,145                        09/033,677                      11/23/99
5,988,150                        08/984,326                      11/23/99
5,988,151                        08/998,004                      11/23/99
5,988,156                        08/860,839                      11/23/99
5,988,171                        08/883,220                      11/23/99
5,988,185                        08/953,320                      11/23/99
5,988,186                        08/951,424                      11/23/99
5,988,194                        09/014,024                      11/23/99
5,988,195                        08/986,944                      11/23/99
5,988,201                        09/127,047                      11/23/99
5,988,215                        09/050,838                      11/23/99
5,988,227                        09/045,230                      11/23/99
5,988,229                        09/137,384                      11/23/99
5,988,233                        09/049,461                      11/23/99
5,988,242                        09/268,094                      11/23/99
5,988,247                        08/971,360                      11/23/99
5,988,248                        08/806,576                      11/23/99
5,988,250                        09/009,250                      11/23/99
5,988,251                        08/945,866                      11/23/99
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5,988,260                        08/812,310                      11/23/99
5,988,263                        08/889,247                      11/23/99
5,988,286                        08/873,980                      11/23/99
5,988,295                        09/250,835                      11/23/99
5,988,296                        09/116,674                      11/23/99
5,988,298                        08/931,678                      11/23/99
5,988,305                        08/942,916                      11/23/99
5,988,306                        08/949,856                      11/23/99
5,988,311                        08/641,373                      11/23/99
5,988,314                        08/166,984                      11/23/99
5,988,322                        08/790,998                      11/23/99
5,988,339                        08/975,052                      11/23/99
5,988,340                        08/895,770                      11/23/99
5,988,341                        08/905,029                      11/23/99
5,988,342                        09/093,393                      11/23/99
5,988,343                        08/833,073                      11/23/99
5,988,347                        08/996,972                      11/23/99
5,988,349                        07/887,629                      11/23/99
5,988,358                        09/038,852                      11/23/99
5,988,362                        08/852,286                      11/23/99
5,988,363                        08/865,763                      11/23/99
5,988,365                        09/076,540                      11/23/99
5,988,368                        09/094,490                      11/23/99
5,988,371                        09/033,345                      11/23/99
5,988,372                        09/034,326                      11/23/99
5,988,374                        09/246,809                      11/23/99
5,988,376                        09/018,505                      11/23/99
5,988,383                        08/885,020                      11/23/99
5,988,388                        08/756,519                      11/23/99
5,988,393                        09/129,056                      11/23/99
5,988,394                        08/979,934                      11/23/99
5,988,413                        09/099,069                      11/23/99
5,988,415                        08/200,420                      11/23/99
5,988,420                        09/229,211                      11/23/99
5,988,427                        09/059,015                      11/23/99
5,988,429                        08/950,046                      11/23/99
5,988,430                        09/000,051                      11/23/99
5,988,439                        09/032,186                      11/23/99
5,988,450                        09/262,178                      11/23/99
5,988,453                        08/748,918                      11/23/99
5,988,454                        09/285,246                      11/23/99
5,988,457                        09/058,246                      11/23/99
5,988,459                        08/895,408                      11/23/99
5,988,460                        09/049,913                      11/23/99
5,988,465                        09/092,026                      11/23/99
5,988,468                        09/007,245                      11/23/99
5,988,469                        08/654,229                      11/23/99
5,988,476                        09/103,616                      11/23/99
5,988,477                        09/089,902                      11/23/99
5,988,482                        09/028,528                      11/23/99
5,988,483                        08/750,690                      11/23/99
5,988,486                        09/028,459                      11/23/99
5,988,495                        08/917,645                      11/23/99
5,988,508                        08/871,615                      11/23/99
5,988,511                        08/999,032                      11/23/99
5,988,512                        09/092,003                      11/23/99
5,988,524                        09/025,242                      11/23/99
5,988,535                        09/018,294                      11/23/99
5,988,543                        09/212,298                      11/23/99
5,988,557                        08/807,485                      11/23/99
5,988,574                        09/144,888                      11/23/99
5,988,580                        08/766,245                      11/23/99
5,988,596                        09/075,482                      11/23/99
5,988,600                        08/974,086                      11/23/99
5,988,602                        08/992,531                      11/23/99
5,988,603                        09/038,862                      11/23/99
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5,988,606                        09/005,492                      11/23/99
5,988,613                        09/202,527                      11/23/99
5,988,616                        08/883,397                      11/23/99
5,988,621                        08/998,817                      11/23/99
5,988,650                        08/898,002                      11/23/99
5,988,651                        08/936,194                      11/23/99
5,988,652                        09/050,839                      11/23/99
5,988,653                        09/099,426                      11/23/99
5,988,655                        08/964,280                      11/23/99
5,988,656                        09/039,589                      11/23/99
5,988,657                        09/281,216                      11/23/99
5,988,661                        08/807,056                      11/23/99
5,988,676                        08/942,227                      11/23/99
5,988,677                        08/836,496                      11/23/99
5,988,684                        08/924,962                      11/23/99
5,988,694                        09/191,695                      11/23/99
5,988,695                        09/140,253                      11/23/99
5,988,697                        08/881,656                      11/23/99
5,988,698                        09/081,165                      11/23/99
5,988,705                        08/064,907                      11/23/99
5,988,711                        09/022,534                      11/23/99
5,988,715                        09/178,233                      11/23/99
5,988,716                        09/264,223                      11/23/99
5,988,721                        08/894,079                      11/23/99
5,988,724                        08/911,966                      11/23/99
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5,988,907                        08/975,320                      11/23/99
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 January 10, 2012 US PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE 1374 OG 66  

5,989,253                        09/051,021                      11/23/99
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 January 10, 2012 US PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE 1374 OG 67  

5,989,589                        08/956,117                      11/23/99
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 January 10, 2012 US PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE 1374 OG 68  

5,989,850                        09/140,047                      11/23/99
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 January 10, 2012 US PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE 1374 OG 69  

5,990,167                        08/909,492                      11/23/99
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 January 10, 2012 US PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE 1374 OG 70  

5,990,487                        08/935,707                      11/23/99
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5,990,680                        08/765,119                      11/23/99
5,990,681                        08/950,946                      11/23/99
5,990,682                        09/059,246                      11/23/99
5,990,683                        09/059,617                      11/23/99
5,990,684                        08/984,256                      11/23/99
5,990,688                        09/005,036                      11/23/99
5,990,689                        08/872,826                      11/23/99
5,990,694                        08/965,163                      11/23/99
5,990,698                        08/796,122                      11/23/99
5,990,737                        09/066,933                      11/23/99
5,990,740                        08/982,752                      11/23/99
5,990,741                        09/064,831                      11/23/99
5,990,747                        09/026,721                      11/23/99
5,990,754                        09/098,698                      11/23/99
5,990,755                        09/068,118                      11/23/99
5,990,764                        09/012,686                      11/23/99
5,990,765                        08/974,997                      11/23/99
5,990,774                        09/186,740                      11/23/99
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5,990,783                        09/064,170                      11/23/99
5,990,787                        08/932,414                      11/23/99
5,990,790                        09/137,090                      11/23/99
5,990,791                        08/956,138                      11/23/99
5,990,801                        09/103,311                      11/23/99
5,990,802                        09/080,687                      11/23/99
 January 10, 2012 US PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE 1374 OG 71  

5,990,805                        08/799,263                      11/23/99
5,990,811                        09/007,076                      11/23/99
5,990,823                        08/852,290                      11/23/99
5,990,855                        08/813,465                      11/23/99
5,990,873                        08/614,259                      11/23/99
5,990,878                        08/648,703                      11/23/99
5,990,881                        08/840,199                      11/23/99
5,990,889                        09/169,227                      11/23/99
5,990,891                        08/976,511                      11/23/99
5,990,897                        08/928,831                      11/23/99
5,990,914                        08/926,425                      11/23/99
5,990,916                        09/057,933                      11/23/99
5,990,919                        09/028,739                      11/23/99
5,990,937                        08/639,912                      11/23/99
5,990,948                        08/808,419                      11/23/99
5,990,951                        08/904,283                      11/23/99
5,990,970                        09/075,934                      11/23/99
5,990,978                        08/822,342                      11/23/99
5,990,985                        08/995,553                      11/23/99
5,990,989                        09/108,304                      11/23/99
5,991,005                        08/826,380                      11/23/99
5,991,009                        09/127,625                      11/23/99
5,991,010                        09/137,818                      11/23/99
5,991,013                        09/179,601                      11/23/99
5,991,018                        08/973,459                      11/23/99
5,991,024                        09/087,395                      11/23/99
5,991,031                        09/179,821                      11/23/99
5,991,041                        09/189,857                      11/23/99
5,991,049                        09/120,142                      11/23/99
5,991,053                        09/055,681                      11/23/99
5,991,062                        08/898,484                      11/23/99
5,991,072                        08/788,493                      11/23/99
5,991,076                        08/942,496                      11/23/99
5,991,080                        08/815,120                      11/23/99
5,991,081                        08/990,003                      11/23/99
5,991,097                        09/037,506                      11/23/99
5,991,101                        09/209,911                      11/23/99
5,991,102                        08/562,827                      11/23/99
5,991,106                        08/822,062                      11/23/99
5,991,108                        08/804,592                      11/23/99
5,991,109                        08/751,328                      11/23/99
5,991,112                        08/812,998                      11/23/99
5,991,113                        08/833,590                      11/23/99
5,991,114                        08/855,678                      11/23/99
5,991,115                        09/211,138                      11/23/99
5,991,118                        08/782,737                      11/23/99
5,991,119                        08/962,759                      11/23/99
5,991,121                        08/905,327                      11/23/99
5,991,124                        09/108,742                      11/23/99
5,991,127                        09/015,868                      11/23/99
5,991,128                        08/972,714                      11/23/99
5,991,132                        08/937,998                      11/23/99
5,991,136                        08/980,961                      11/23/99
5,991,142                        08/916,823                      11/23/99
5,991,144                        08/775,959                      11/23/99
5,991,145                        09/138,791                      11/23/99
5,991,148                        09/058,209                      11/23/99
5,991,149                        09/197,861                      11/23/99
5,991,153                        09/183,165                      11/23/99
5,991,164                        09/049,961                      11/23/99
5,991,171                        09/018,935                      11/23/99
5,991,190                        09/163,879                      11/23/99
5,991,198                        09/054,423                      11/23/99
5,991,201                        09/067,026                      11/23/99
5,991,211                        09/181,977                      11/23/99
5,991,218                        09/116,145                      11/23/99
 January 10, 2012 US PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE 1374 OG 72  

5,991,219                        08/982,339                      11/23/99
5,991,222                        09/001,004                      11/23/99
5,991,223                        09/061,254                      11/23/99
5,991,230                        09/044,093                      11/23/99
5,991,238                        09/095,348                      11/23/99
5,991,245                        08/809,081                      11/23/99
5,991,248                        08/941,342                      11/23/99
5,991,251                        08/937,587                      11/23/99
5,991,254                        08/903,063                      11/23/99
5,991,266                        08/820,554                      11/23/99
5,991,267                        08/760,681                      11/23/99
5,991,280                        08/764,252                      11/23/99
5,991,283                        08/784,974                      11/23/99
5,991,303                        08/901,112                      11/23/99
5,991,316                        09/184,555                      11/23/99
5,991,321                        08/991,236                      11/23/99
5,991,341                        09/027,195                      11/23/99
5,991,344                        08/874,283                      11/23/99
5,991,346                        08/825,779                      11/23/99
5,991,349                        08/943,359                      11/23/99
5,991,350                        08/808,685                      11/23/99
5,991,360                        09/018,316                      11/23/99
5,991,367                        09/172,565                      11/23/99
5,991,368                        08/869,805                      11/23/99
5,991,374                        08/694,854                      11/23/99
5,991,377                        08/909,417                      11/23/99
5,991,388                        08/827,135                      11/23/99
5,991,413                        08/873,653                      11/23/99
5,991,428                        08/912,172                      11/23/99
5,991,435                        08/657,785                      11/23/99
5,991,443                        08/721,916                      11/23/99
5,991,452                        08/889,047                      11/23/99
5,991,459                        07/823,723                      11/23/99
5,991,464                        09/054,385                      11/23/99
5,991,467                        08/891,130                      11/23/99
5,991,472                        08/991,541                      11/23/99
5,991,480                        08/817,993                      11/23/99
5,991,485                        09/057,374                      11/23/99
5,991,486                        08/962,371                      11/23/99
5,991,487                        08/934,891                      11/23/99
5,991,490                        09/187,792                      11/23/99
5,991,494                        09/116,944                      11/23/99
5,991,497                        09/049,078                      11/23/99
5,991,499                        08/697,794                      11/23/99
5,991,501                        08/671,335                      11/23/99
5,991,508                        08/806,678                      11/23/99
5,991,511                        08/871,487                      11/23/99
5,991,512                        08/904,026                      11/23/99
5,991,517                        08/771,708                      11/23/99
5,991,522                        08/917,272                      11/23/99
5,991,526                        08/965,525                      11/23/99
5,991,529                        08/857,154                      11/23/99
5,991,541                        08/695,637                      11/23/99
5,991,550                        08/887,252                      11/23/99
5,991,554                        09/093,715                      11/23/99
5,991,574                        09/185,599                      11/23/99
5,991,583                        09/042,743                      11/23/99
5,991,585                        09/160,595                      11/23/99
5,991,591                        09/035,250                      11/23/99
5,991,598                        08/907,866                      11/23/99
5,991,612                        08/821,446                      11/23/99
5,991,623                        08/773,915                      11/23/99
5,991,624                        08/796,618                      11/23/99
5,991,632                        08/826,564                      11/23/99
5,991,643                        09/005,528                      11/23/99
5,991,646                        08/946,697                      11/23/99
 January 10, 2012 US PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE 1374 OG 73  

5,991,651                        08/910,276                      11/23/99
5,991,655                        09/031,335                      11/23/99
5,991,657                        09/130,385                      11/23/99
5,991,660                        09/094,199                      11/23/99
5,991,665                        08/933,479                      11/23/99
5,991,672                        08/819,383                      11/23/99
5,991,675                        08/218,136                      11/23/99
5,991,679                        09/000,352                      11/23/99
5,991,681                        08/945,197                      11/23/99
5,991,682                        08/802,109                      11/23/99
5,991,684                        08/966,358                      11/23/99
5,991,698                        08/852,434                      11/23/99
5,991,706                        08/812,863                      11/23/99
5,991,707                        09/036,711                      11/23/99
5,991,709                        08/872,449                      11/23/99
5,991,710                        08/859,586                      11/23/99
5,991,711                        08/805,266                      11/23/99
5,991,720                        08/834,358                      11/23/99
5,991,736                        08/806,166                      11/23/99
5,991,755                        08/755,929                      11/23/99
5,991,771                        08/700,487                      11/23/99
5,991,774                        08/995,711                      11/23/99
5,991,805                        08/682,989                      11/23/99
5,991,810                        08/905,150                      11/23/99
5,991,821                        08/640,220                      11/23/99
5,991,828                        08/954,994                      11/23/99
5,991,840                        08/902,634                      11/23/99
5,991,857                        08/360,612                      11/23/99
5,991,858                        08/913,280                      11/23/99
5,991,870                        08/710,260                      11/23/99
5,991,872                        08/947,750                      11/23/99
5,991,873                        08/337,196                      11/23/99
5,991,894                        08/870,611                      11/23/99
5,991,901                        08/292,700                      11/23/99
5,991,906                        09/009,257                      11/23/99

                  PATENTS WHICH EXPIRED ON November 18, 2011
                    DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEES

Patent                          Application                         Issue
Number                             Number                            Date

6,647,551                        09/977,452                      11/18/03
6,647,553                        10/116,976                      11/18/03
6,647,558                        10/323,634                      11/18/03
6,647,561                        10/149,581                      11/18/03
6,647,564                        10/273,671                      11/18/03
6,647,567                        10/229,892                      11/18/03
6,647,569                        10/016,804                      11/18/03
6,647,571                        09/954,401                      11/18/03
6,647,574                        10/169,276                      11/18/03
6,647,580                        09/993,760                      11/18/03
6,647,587                        09/630,698                      11/18/03
6,647,595                        10/189,143                      11/18/03
6,647,601                        10/095,761                      11/18/03
6,647,607                        10/074,953                      11/18/03
6,647,609                        10/228,001                      11/18/03
6,647,611                        09/901,841                      11/18/03
6,647,614                        09/693,765                      11/18/03
6,647,616                        09/446,031                      11/18/03
6,647,622                        09/998,353                      11/18/03
6,647,626                        09/759,470                      11/18/03
6,647,635                        10/244,935                      11/18/03
6,647,636                        10/343,421                      11/18/03
6,647,638                        10/068,741                      11/18/03
6,647,641                        09/367,683                      11/18/03
 January 10, 2012 US PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE 1374 OG 74  

6,647,644                        10/117,658                      11/18/03
6,647,650                        10/173,989                      11/18/03
6,647,651                        09/933,286                      11/18/03
6,647,657                        10/100,836                      11/18/03
6,647,660                        09/665,907                      11/18/03
6,647,661                        10/009,065                      11/18/03
6,647,663                        10/195,595                      11/18/03
6,647,666                        09/986,753                      11/18/03
6,647,671                        09/952,179                      11/18/03
6,647,673                        09/954,683                      11/18/03
6,647,675                        10/045,456                      11/18/03
6,647,676                        09/647,715                      11/18/03
6,647,677                        10/073,642                      11/18/03
6,647,680                        10/045,868                      11/18/03
6,647,688                        09/945,457                      11/18/03
6,647,691                        09/883,006                      11/18/03
6,647,693                        10/099,837                      11/18/03
6,647,695                        09/981,022                      11/18/03
6,647,696                        10/154,317                      11/18/03
6,647,698                        09/889,008                      11/18/03
6,647,699                        09/442,045                      11/18/03
6,647,708                        10/091,684                      11/18/03
6,647,709                        10/054,501                      11/18/03
6,647,714                        10/159,357                      11/18/03
6,647,719                        10/056,138                      11/18/03
6,647,725                        10/165,722                      11/18/03
6,647,733                        10/227,762                      11/18/03
6,647,737                        09/859,278                      11/18/03
6,647,757                        09/869,945                      11/18/03
6,647,759                        10/110,065                      11/18/03
6,647,762                        09/259,088                      11/18/03
6,647,763                        10/103,747                      11/18/03
6,647,767                        10/060,938                      11/18/03
6,647,771                        09/927,736                      11/18/03
6,647,773                        10/193,418                      11/18/03
6,647,776                        10/139,244                      11/18/03
6,647,779                        10/156,516                      11/18/03
6,647,790                        09/999,594                      11/18/03
6,647,793                        09/994,204                      11/18/03
6,647,797                        10/158,552                      11/18/03
6,647,799                        10/050,486                      11/18/03
6,647,808                        10/157,242                      11/18/03
6,647,809                        10/233,182                      11/18/03
6,647,810                        09/403,365                      11/18/03
6,647,822                        09/793,204                      11/18/03
6,647,825                        10/347,775                      11/18/03
6,647,835                        10/274,240                      11/18/03
6,647,875                        09/835,227                      11/18/03
6,647,880                        09/977,571                      11/18/03
6,647,888                        09/565,509                      11/18/03
6,647,889                        09/980,944                      11/18/03
6,647,905                        10/410,467                      11/18/03
6,647,906                        10/152,693                      11/18/03
6,647,908                        10/375,234                      11/18/03
6,647,909                        10/262,018                      11/18/03
6,647,910                        09/951,603                      11/18/03
6,647,911                        10/211,511                      11/18/03
6,647,917                        10/165,833                      11/18/03
6,647,923                        10/168,532                      11/18/03
6,647,927                        10/154,540                      11/18/03
6,647,928                        09/716,341                      11/18/03
6,647,930                        10/358,095                      11/18/03
6,647,936                        10/294,277                      11/18/03
6,647,943                        09/919,416                      11/18/03
6,647,945                        10/058,697                      11/18/03
6,647,948                        09/978,092                      11/18/03
 January 10, 2012 US PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE 1374 OG 75  

6,647,949                        09/983,280                      11/18/03
6,647,953                        09/943,231                      11/18/03
6,647,954                        09/986,617                      11/18/03
6,647,961                        09/905,939                      11/18/03
6,647,968                        10/238,280                      11/18/03
6,647,978                        10/163,558                      11/18/03
6,647,980                        09/446,931                      11/18/03
6,647,996                        10/359,507                      11/18/03
6,647,997                        09/859,074                      11/18/03
6,648,003                        09/921,399                      11/18/03
6,648,004                        09/784,460                      11/18/03
6,648,005                        10/021,796                      11/18/03
6,648,011                        10/267,073                      11/18/03
6,648,014                        10/069,789                      11/18/03
6,648,024                        09/976,795                      11/18/03
6,648,038                        10/194,086                      11/18/03
6,648,045                        10/148,444                      11/18/03
6,648,051                        09/950,896                      11/18/03
6,648,052                        09/870,477                      11/18/03
6,648,056                        10/140,550                      11/18/03
6,648,057                        10/351,803                      11/18/03
6,648,058                        10/166,930                      11/18/03
6,648,078                        09/618,676                      11/18/03
6,648,079                        09/809,136                      11/18/03
6,648,080                        10/414,108                      11/18/03
6,648,085                        09/988,769                      11/18/03
6,648,091                        09/968,205                      11/18/03
6,648,094                        09/837,419                      11/18/03
6,648,097                        09/902,958                      11/18/03
6,648,105                        10/206,266                      11/18/03
6,648,112                        09/986,747                      11/18/03
6,648,118                        10/187,913                      11/18/03
6,648,120                        09/813,478                      11/18/03
6,648,123                        10/048,386                      11/18/03
6,648,125                        10/313,535                      11/18/03
6,648,126                        10/008,225                      11/18/03
6,648,127                        10/086,659                      11/18/03
6,648,133                        09/908,151                      11/18/03
6,648,134                        09/950,846                      11/18/03
6,648,139                        10/100,868                      11/18/03
6,648,150                        09/918,480                      11/18/03
6,648,152                        09/906,563                      11/18/03
6,648,165                        09/635,634                      11/18/03
6,648,175                        10/261,386                      11/18/03
6,648,177                        10/028,166                      11/18/03
6,648,178                        09/997,256                      11/18/03
6,648,180                        10/142,056                      11/18/03
6,648,185                        09/631,077                      11/18/03
6,648,188                        09/776,434                      11/18/03
6,648,189                        10/074,123                      11/18/03
6,648,190                        09/857,251                      11/18/03
6,648,196                        10/241,938                      11/18/03
6,648,205                        10/160,974                      11/18/03
6,648,212                        09/997,483                      11/18/03
6,648,216                        09/924,555                      11/18/03
6,648,217                        09/783,883                      11/18/03
6,648,229                        10/165,376                      11/18/03
6,648,230                        10/154,241                      11/18/03
6,648,244                        10/025,720                      11/18/03
6,648,245                        09/856,344                      11/18/03
6,648,249                        09/878,995                      11/18/03
6,648,256                        10/174,897                      11/18/03
6,648,261                        09/945,976                      11/18/03
6,648,262                        09/955,786                      11/18/03
6,648,264                        09/831,520                      11/18/03
6,648,265                        10/199,083                      11/18/03
 January 10, 2012 US PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE 1374 OG 76  

6,648,275                        09/829,043                      11/18/03
6,648,276                        10/135,858                      11/18/03
6,648,282                        08/651,759                      11/18/03
6,648,284                        09/945,680                      11/18/03
6,648,295                        09/970,057                      11/18/03
6,648,301                        10/067,245                      11/18/03
6,648,308                        09/683,639                      11/18/03
6,648,309                        10/061,994                      11/18/03
6,648,310                        09/867,808                      11/18/03
6,648,311                        10/107,924                      11/18/03
6,648,314                        09/979,963                      11/18/03
6,648,323                        09/905,788                      11/18/03
6,648,324                        10/004,711                      11/18/03
6,648,335                        09/185,220                      11/18/03
6,648,336                        09/628,402                      11/18/03
6,648,341                        09/938,779                      11/18/03
6,648,346                        09/779,843                      11/18/03
6,648,351                        10/006,327                      11/18/03
6,648,355                        10/118,695                      11/18/03
6,648,356                        09/929,004                      11/18/03
6,648,358                        10/082,381                      11/18/03
6,648,359                        10/205,465                      11/18/03
6,648,366                        10/097,892                      11/18/03
6,648,372                        10/081,679                      11/18/03
6,648,376                        10/109,831                      11/18/03
6,648,377                        09/730,022                      11/18/03
6,648,384                        09/964,914                      11/18/03
6,648,387                        10/036,195                      11/18/03
6,648,388                        09/811,154                      11/18/03
6,648,389                        09/550,789                      11/18/03
6,648,391                        10/135,587                      11/18/03
6,648,392                        09/780,563                      11/18/03
6,648,394                        10/227,918                      11/18/03
6,648,401                        10/187,871                      11/18/03
6,648,403                        10/173,166                      11/18/03
6,648,409                        09/831,939                      11/18/03
6,648,410                        09/969,577                      11/18/03
6,648,411                        09/968,719                      11/18/03
6,648,416                        09/932,587                      11/18/03
6,648,418                        09/927,228                      11/18/03
6,648,429                        10/085,392                      11/18/03
6,648,433                        10/067,964                      11/18/03
6,648,441                        09/984,750                      11/18/03
6,648,449                        09/920,019                      11/18/03
6,648,471                        10/238,481                      11/18/03
6,648,474                        10/232,301                      11/18/03
6,648,486                        09/837,938                      11/18/03
6,648,488                        10/173,232                      11/18/03
6,648,489                        10/122,686                      11/18/03
6,648,490                        10/115,570                      11/18/03
6,648,496                        09/604,467                      11/18/03
6,648,499                        09/881,540                      11/18/03
6,648,500                        09/876,511                      11/18/03
6,648,506                        09/949,281                      11/18/03
6,648,509                        09/930,085                      11/18/03
6,648,515                        10/085,909                      11/18/03
6,648,521                        10/080,320                      11/18/03
6,648,526                        10/202,384                      11/18/03
6,648,529                        09/932,985                      11/18/03
6,648,532                        09/951,896                      11/18/03
6,648,549                        10/111,277                      11/18/03
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6,648,618                        10/055,903                      11/18/03
6,648,637                        09/993,490                      11/18/03
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 January 10, 2012 US PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE 1374 OG 77  

6,648,663                        10/117,294                      11/18/03
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6,648,900                        09/997,619                      11/18/03
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6,648,997                        09/909,637                      11/18/03
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 January 10, 2012 US PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE 1374 OG 78  

6,649,012                        09/733,560                      11/18/03
6,649,029                        09/995,968                      11/18/03
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6,649,380                        10/373,038                      11/18/03
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 January 10, 2012 US PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE 1374 OG 79  

6,649,384                        09/900,466                      11/18/03
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 January 10, 2012 US PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE 1374 OG 80  

6,649,762                        09/914,090                      11/18/03
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 January 10, 2012 US PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE 1374 OG 81  

6,650,183                        10/120,322                      11/18/03
6,650,186                        10/129,051                      11/18/03
6,650,198                        10/036,693                      11/18/03
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6,650,635                        09/299,207                      11/18/03
6,650,647                        09/391,334                      11/18/03
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 January 10, 2012 US PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE 1374 OG 82  

6,650,653                        09/487,095                      11/18/03
6,650,655                        09/536,213                      11/18/03
6,650,663                        09/574,824                      11/18/03
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6,650,718                        09/926,091                      11/18/03
6,650,729                        10/160,310                      11/18/03
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6,650,772                        09/618,569                      11/18/03
6,650,780                        09/989,934                      11/18/03
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6,650,793                        09/541,798                      11/18/03
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6,650,843                        09/068,932                      11/18/03
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6,650,897                        09/990,192                      11/18/03
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6,650,970                        09/972,040                      11/18/03
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6,651,231                        09/938,482                      11/18/03
6,651,247                        09/567,188                      11/18/03
6,651,253                        09/991,741                      11/18/03

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                    DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEES

Patent                          Application                         Issue
Number                             Number                            Date
 January 10, 2012 US PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE 1374 OG 83  

7,296,303                        11/113,924                      11/20/07
7,296,310                        11/208,993                      11/20/07
7,296,316                        11/472,672                      11/20/07
7,296,320                        10/641,051                      11/20/07
7,296,321                        10/981,774                      11/20/07
7,296,332                        10/783,942                      11/20/07
7,296,338                        10/903,983                      11/20/07
7,296,344                        10/795,978                      11/20/07
7,296,350                        11/079,783                      11/20/07
7,296,362                        11/308,139                      11/20/07
7,296,366                        11/335,673                      11/20/07
7,296,368                        11/133,853                      11/20/07
7,296,373                        11/075,145                      11/20/07
7,296,387                        10/641,794                      11/20/07
7,296,389                        11/091,033                      11/20/07
7,296,391                        11/339,911                      11/20/07
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7,296,598                        10/833,537                      11/20/07
7,296,612                        11/554,758                      11/20/07
7,296,617                        11/221,285                      11/20/07
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7,296,705                        11/202,773                      11/20/07
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7,296,716                        10/729,933                      11/20/07
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7,297,232                        10/380,766                      11/20/07
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7,297,702                        10/891,180                      11/20/07
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7,298,262                        10/536,041                      11/20/07
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7,298,925                        10/675,094                      11/20/07
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7,298,926                        11/203,897                      11/20/07
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7,299,499                        10/005,012                      11/20/07
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Patent           Application       Filing          Issue           Granted
Number           Number            Date            Date            Date


5,747,088        08/675,538        07/03/96        05/05/98        12/15/11
5,872,589        08/214,414        03/18/94        02/16/99        12/14/11
5,893,400        08/989,335        12/11/97        04/13/99        12/12/11
5,931,472        08/944,804        10/06/97        08/03/99        12/13/11
5,956,763        09/152,506        09/14/98        09/28/99        12/13/11
5,973,112        08/918,223        08/25/97        10/26/99        12/12/11
6,145,719        09/373,205        08/12/99        11/14/00        12/15/11
6,308,887        09/347,069        07/02/99        10/30/01        12/15/11
6,313,992        09/465,428        12/21/99        11/06/01        12/12/11
6,315,180        09/527,665        03/17/00        11/13/01        12/15/11
6,336,736        09/519,759        03/06/00        01/08/02        12/13/11
6,341,447        09/518,983        03/03/00        01/29/02        12/15/11
6,414,455        09/542,032        04/03/00        07/02/02        12/14/11
6,442,527        08/405,964        03/17/95        08/27/02        12/15/11
6,496,857        09/499,996        02/08/00        12/17/02        12/16/11
6,580,506        09/781,138        02/10/01        06/17/03        12/15/11
6,588,632        10/232,345        08/30/02        07/08/03        12/12/11
6,588,802        09/887,943        06/22/01        07/08/03        12/17/11
6,640,846        10/097,149        03/12/02        11/04/03        12/16/11
6,977,375        09/789,180        02/19/01        12/20/05        12/16/11
6,980,965        09/784,692        02/15/01        12/27/05        12/15/11
7,105,979        10/615,758        07/08/03        09/12/06        12/15/11
7,131,785        10/898,915        07/26/04        11/07/06        12/15/11
7,195,158        10/956,390        10/01/04        03/27/07        12/13/11
7,209,045        10/825,183        04/16/04        04/24/07        12/16/11
7,210,683        10/974,112        10/27/04        05/01/07        12/13/11
7,235,245        10/608,538        06/30/03        06/26/07        12/13/11
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Reissue Applications Filed 
                           Reissue Applications Filed

   Notice under 37 CFR 1.11(b). The reissue applications listed below are
open to public inspection by the general public through the Image File
Wrapper (IFW) system (http://portal.uspto.gov/external/portal/pair) on the
USPTO internet web site (www.uspto.gov), and copies may be obtained by
paying the fee therefor (37 CFR 1.19).

   RE. 42,904, Re. S.N. 13/290,813, Nov. 07, 2011, Cl. 704, SYSTEM AND
APPARATUS FOR DYNAMICALLY GENERATING AUDIBLE NOTICES FROM AN INFORMATION
NETWORK, James H. Stephens, Jr., Austin, TX, Owner of Record: FREDERICK
MONOCACY LLC, Las Vegas, NV. Attorney or Agent: Alex A. Courtade, Ex. Gp.:
2626

   RE. 42,927, Re. S.N. 13/295,960, Nov. 14, 2011, Cl. 455, SYSTEM AND
METHOD FOR OBTAINING AND USING LOCATION SPECIFIC INFORMATION, Roy Want,
Owner of Record: Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA, Attorney or Agent: Kirk A.
Gottlieb, Ex. Gp.: 2617

   6,083,110, Re. S.N.: 13/324,720, Dec. 13, 2011, Cl.: 472/049, VERTICAL
WIND TUNNEL TRAINING DEVICE, William J. Kitchen, et. al., Owner of Record:
SkyVenture, LLC, Attorney or Agent: Margaret Polson, Ex. Gp.: 3711

   6,136,707, Re. S.N. 13/294,418, Nov. 11, 2011, Cl. 438, SEED LAYERS FOR
INTERCONNECTS AND METHODS FOR FABRICATING SUCH SEED LAYERS, Uri Cohen, Palo
Alto, CA, Owner of Record: SEED LAYERS TECHNOLOGY LLC, Attorney or Agent:
Richard Neifeld, Ex. Gp.: 2812

   6,160,481, Re. S.N. 13/168,387, Jun. 24, 2011, Cl. 340/573, MONITORING
SYSTEM, John E. Taylor, Jr., Owner of Record: Michelle Enterprises, LLC,
Attorney or Agent: Scott Watkins, Ex. Gp.: 2612

   6,357,893, Re. S.N. 13/297,316, Nov. 16, 2011, Cl. 362/285, LIGHTING
DEVICES USING A PLURALITY OF LIGHT SOURCES, Richard S. Belliveau, Owner of
Record: Inventor, Attorney or Agent: Walter J. Tencza Jr., Ex. Gp.: 2875

   6,605,907, Re. S.N. 13/292,162, Nov. 09, 2011, Cl. 315/294, METHOD,
APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR IMAGE PROJECTION LIGHTING, Richard S.
Belliveau, Owner of Record: Inventor, Attorney or Agent: Walter J. Tencza
Jr., Ex. Gp.: 2821

   6,937,535, Re. S.N.: 13/276,804, Oct. 06, 2011, Cl.: 365/222,
SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE WITH REDUCED DATA ACCESS TIME, Jin-Hong Ahn,
et. al., Owner of Record: Hynix Semiconductor, Attorney or Agent: Eric S.
Hyman, Ex. Gp.: 2827

   6,980,933, Re. S.N. 13/297,256, Nov. 15, 2011, Cl. 702/190, CODING
TECHNIQUES USING ESTIMATED SPECTRAL MAGNITUDE AND PHASE DERIVED FROM MDCT
COEFFICIENTS, Corey I. Cheng, et al., Owner of Record: Dolby Laboratories
Licensing Corporation, San Francisco, CA, Attorney or Agent: Kirk D. Wong,
Ex. Gp.: 2857

   7,034,683, Re. S.N.: 13/304,601, Nov. 25, 2011, Cl.: 340/568,
ELECTRONIC VEHICLE PRODUCT AND PERSONNEL MONITORING, Inventor: Ohanes
Ghazarian, Owner of Record: Loran Technologies, Inc, Attorney or Agent:
Sheetal S. Patel, Ex. Gp.: 2612

   7,549,378, Re. S.N. 13/067,731, Jun. 22, 2011, Cl. 105/003,
LARGE-CAPACITY VEHICLE FOR TRANSPORTING PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY A RAIL VEHICLE,
COMPRISING CARRIAGES THAT ARE CONNECTED IN AN ARTICULATED MANNER, Volker
Albert, et al., Owner of Record: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE,
Attorney or Agent: John W. Fitzpatrick, Ex. Gp.: 3617

   7,610,249, Re. S.N. 13/283,121, Oct. 27, 2011, Cl. 706/013, METHOD AND
APPARATUS FOR EVOLUTIONARY DESIGN, Noubar B. Afeyan, et al., Owner of
 January 10, 2012 US PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE 1374 OG 91  

Record: Affinnova, Inc., Waltham, MA, Attorney or Agent: Mark H.
Whittenberger, Ex. Gp.: 2129

   7,618,827, Re. S.N. 13/298,663, Nov. 17, 2011, Cl. 436, THYROID HORMONE
ANALYSUS BY MASS SPECTROMETRY, Steven J. Soldin, Bethesda, MD, Owner of
Record: GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY, Attorney or Agent: Mark E. Nikalsky, Ex.
Gp.: 1641

   7,640,441, Re. S.N.: 13/292,856, Dec. 14, 2011, Cl: 713/322,
COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, Tadaaki Maeda, Owner of Record: Canon Kabushiki
Kaisha, Tokyo, JP, Attorney or Agent: Michael Nornberg, Ex. Gp.: 2115

   7,696,554, Re. S.N. 13/324,108, Dec. 13, 2011, Cl. 257/304, FLASH MEMORY
DEVICE, Sang Hyun Oh, et. al., Owner of Record: Hynix Semiconductor Inc,
Icheon-si, KR, Attorney or Agent: Woochoon William Park, Ex. Gp.: 2823

   7,818,002, Re. S.N. 13/251,071, Sep. 30, 2011, Cl. 455, SUBSCRIBER
REGISTRACTIONS IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, Gabor Bajko, et al, Owner
of Record: Nokia Corporation, Attorney or Agent: David C. Loney, Ex. Gp.:
2617

   7,828,395, Re. S.N. 13/324,570, Dec. 13, 2011, Cl. 303/152, REGENERATIVE
BRAKE SYSTEM AND HYDRAULIC PUMP/MOTOR FOR USE THEREIN, Antonio Cannata,
Owner of Record: Tonand Brakes, Inc, London, CA, Attorney or Agent:
Faustino A. Lichauco, Ex. Gp.: 3657

   7,829,954, Re. S.N. 13/291,302, Nov. 08, 2011, Cl. 528, PMOS DEPLETABLE
DRAIN EXTENSION MADE FROM NMOS DUAL DEPLETABLE DRAIN EXTENSIONS, James D.
Beasom, Melbourne Village, FL, Owner of Record: INTERSIL AMERICAS INC.,
Milpitas, CA, Attorney or Agent: J. Patrick Kendrick, Ex. Gp.: 1765

   7,898,506, Re. S.N. 13/295,290, Nov. 14, 2011, Cl. 345, PLASMA DISPLAY
DEVICE CAPABLE OF REDUCING UNWANTED RADIANT NOISES, Yasuhito Fukui, Osaka,
Japan, Owner of Record: PANASONIC CORPORATION, Attorney or Agent: Jeffrey
J. Howell, Ex. Gp.: 2629

   7,979,092, Re. S.N. 13/304,033, Nov. 23, 2011, Cl. 455, APPARATUS AND
METHOD FOR DISPLAY CONTROL IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, Eung-Seo
Shin, et al, Owner of Record: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD. Attorney or
Agent: Paul J. Farrell, Ex. Gp.: 2617

   8,030,302, Re. S.N. 13/374,053, Dec. 08, 2011, Cl. 514/232,
AMIDOPHENOXYINDAZOLES USEFUL AS INHIBITORS OF C-MET, Tiechao Li, et. al.,
Owner of Record: Eli Lily and Company, Attorney or Agent: Tina M. Tucker,
Ex. Gp.: 1629
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Requests for Ex Parte Reexamination Filed 
                   Requests for Ex Parte Reexamination Filed

   5,931,160, Reexam. C.N. 90/012,008, Requested Date: Nov. 15, 2011, Cl.
128/204, Title: VENTILATOR CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD, Inventor: Don Gilmore
et al., Owners of Record: Ventronics Systems, LLC., Milford, CT, Attorney
or Agent: K&L Gates, LLP., Boston, MA, Ex. Gp.: 3993, Requester: Andrej
Barbic, Ph.D., Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, LLP., Boston, MA

   5,995,947, Reexam. C.N. 90/009,970, Requested Date: Nov. 9, 2011, Cl.
705/038, Title: INTERACTIVE MORTGAGE AND LOAN INFORMATION AND REAL-TIME
TRADING SYSTEM, Inventor: Stephen K. Fraser et al., Owners of Record: IMX,
Inc., San Jose, CA, Attorney or Agent: Davidson Berquist Jackson & Gowdey,
LLP., Arlington, VA, Ex. Gp.: 3992, Requester: Jorge I. Negron-Garcia,
O'Brien Jones, PLLC., Tysons Corner, VA

   6,488,034, Reexam. C.N. 90/011,944, Requested Date: Nov. 14, 2011, Cl.
132/076, Title: FILE, PARTICULARLY NAIL FILE, Inventor: Dalibor Blazek,
Owners of Record: Dalibor Blazek, Czech Republic, Attorney or Agent:
Merchant & Gould, PC., Minneapolis, MN, Ex. Gp.: 3993, Requester: Andrew L.
Reibman, K&L Gates, LLP., New York, NY

   6,754,400, Reexam. C.N. 90/011,974, Requested Date: Nov. 21, 2011, Cl.
382/285, Title: SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATION, PROCESSING AND
VISUALIZATION OF OMNI-DIRECTIONAL IMAGES, Inventor: Rusu Mihai Florin et
al., Owners of Record: Tour Technology Systems, LLC., Queens Village, NY,
Attorney or Agent: Handal & Morofsky, LLC., Fairfield, CT, Ex. Gp.: 3992,
Requester: International VR Photography Association (IVRPA), Richard C.
Vershave, Foster Pepper, PLLC., Seattle, WA

   6,835,084, Reexam. C.N. 90/012,027, Requested Date: Nov. 29, 2011, Cl.
439/349, Title: MEDICALLY IMPLANTABLE ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR WITH CONSTANT
CONDUCTIVITY, Inventor: Daniel Poon et al., Owners of Record: Bal Seal
Engineering, Co., Inc., Foothill Ranch, CA, Attorney or Agent: Walter A.
Hackler, Ph.D., Newport Beach, CA, Ex. Gp.: 3992, Requester: Michael K.
Levy, Kenyon & Kenyon, LLP., Washington, DC

   7,163,405, Reexam. C.N. 90/012,018, Requested Date: Nov. 21, 2011, Cl.
439/063, Title: CONNECTOR ASSEMBLY APPARATUS FOR ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT AND
METHOD FOR USING SAME, Inventor: Jacob Geil et al., Owners of Record: RGB
Systems, Inc., Anaheim, CA, Attorney or Agent: The Hecker Law Group, Los
Angeles, CA, Ex. Gp.: 3992, Requester: Sierra Video Systems, David B.
Abel, DLA Piper US, LLP., Los Angeles, CA

   7,287,524, Reexam. C.N. 90/012,021, Requested Date: Nov. 22, 2011, Cl.
123/634, Title: INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE IGNITION DEVICE, Inventor:
Kazuya Hamada et al., Owners of Record: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha,
Japan, Attorney or Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC., Washington, DC, Ex. Gp.:
3993, Requester: PATENT OWNER

   7,403,192, Reexam. C.N. 90/012,019, Requested Date: Nov. 22, 2011, Cl.
345/173, Title: PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE, Inventor: Lai Chen Lai, Owners
of Record: Getac Technology, Corp., Taiwan, Attorney or Agent: Quintero Law
Office, PC., Venice, CA, Ex. Gp.: 3992, Requester: Gerald E. Hespos, Hespos
& Porco, LLP., New York, NY

   7,465,097, Reexam. C.N. 90/012,026, Requested Date: Nov. 28, 2011, Cl.
384/114, Title: FLUID DYNAMIC BEARING SYSTEM, Inventor: Andreas Kull,
Owners of Record: Minebea, Co., LTD., Japan, Attorney or Agent: Cooper &
Dunham, LLP., New York, NY, Ex. Gp.: 3993, Requester: PATENT OWNER

   7,583,990, Reexam. C.N. 90/012,006, Requested Date: Nov. 11, 2011, Cl.
600/365, Title: SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING ANALYTE SENSOR DATA,
Inventor: Paul V. Goode, Jr. et al., Owners of Record: DexCom, Inc., San
Diego, CA, Attorney or Agent: Knobbe Martens Olsen & Bear, LLP., Irvine,
CA, Ex. Gp.: 3993, Requester: Abbott Diabetes Care, Inc., Seong-Kun Oh,
 January 10, 2012 US PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE 1374 OG 93  

Jackson & Co., LLP., Oakland, CA

   7,685,077, Reexam. C.N. 90/011,938, Requested Date: Nov. 10, 2011, Cl.
706/012, Title: RECURSIVE FEATURE ELIMINATING METHOD BASED ON A SUPPORT
VECTOR MACHINE, Inventor: Eric Q. Li et al., Owners of Record: Intel
Corporation, Santa Clara, CA, Attorney or Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor &
Zafman, LLP., Sunnyvale, CA, Ex. Gp.: 3992, Requester: Eleanor M. Musick,
Procopio Cory Hargreaves & Savitch, LLP., San Diego, CA

   7,745,008, Reexam. C.N. 90/009,968, Requested Date: Nov. 8, 2011, Cl.
426/432, Title: PROCESSING SOLUTION FOR FORMING HEXAVALENT CHROMIUM FREE
AND CORROSION RESISTANT CONVERSION FILM ON ZINC OR ZINC ALLOY PLATING
LAYERS, HEXAVALENT CHROMIUM FREE AND CORROSION RESISTANT CONVERSION FILM,
METHOD FOR FORMING THE SAME, Inventor: Katsuhide Oshima et al., Owners of
Record: Dipsol Chemicals, Co., LTD., Japan, Attorney or Agent: Oblon Spivak
McClelland Maier & Neustadt, LLP., Alexandria, VA, Ex. Gp.: 3991,
Requester: Jennifer A. Calcagni, Berling, CT

   7,861,865, Reexam. C.N. 90/012,024, Requested Date: Nov. 23, 2011, Cl.
206/600, Title: PACKAGING ASSEMBLY, Inventor: Jeffrie Green, Owners of
Record: Timely Inventions, LLC., Los Angeles, CA, Attorney or Agent:
Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton, LLP., San Diego, CA, Ex. Gp.: 3993,
Requester: Joseph Baksha, Irvine, CA, Robert J. Lambrechts, Lathrop & Cage,
LLP., Overland Park, KS

   7,914,627, Reexam. C.N. 90/009,969, Requested Date: Nov. 8, 2011, Cl.
426/432, Title: PROCESSING SOLUTION FOR FORMING HEXAVALENT CHROMIUM FREE
AND CORROSION RESISTANT CONVERSION FILM ON ZINC OR ZINC ALLOY PLATING
LAYERS, HEXAVALENT CHROMIUM FREE AND CORROSION RESISTANT CONVERSION FILM,
METHOD FOR FORMING THE SAME, Inventor: Katsuhide Oshima et al., Owners of
Record: Dipsol Chemicals, Co., LTD., Japan, Attorney or Agent: Oblon Spivak
McClelland Maier & Neustadt, LLP., Alexandria, VA, Ex. Gp.: 3991,
Requester: Jennifer A. Calcagni, Berling, CT

   7,935,410, Reexam. C.N. 90/011,942, Requested Date: Dec. 1, 2011, Cl.
428/212, Title: METALLIZED POLYMERIC FILM REFLECTIVE INSULATION MATERIAL,
Inventor: Furio Orologio, Owners of Record: Furio Orologio, King City, CA,
Attorney or Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius, LLP., Washington, DC, Ex. Gp.:
3991, Requester: PATENT OWNER

   7,949,263, Reexam. C.N. 90/012,020, Requested Date: Nov. 22, 2011, Cl.
399/009, Title: IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS HAVING MAINTENANCE METHOD SETTING
FUNCTION, Inventor: Hiroaki Nakamura, Owners of Record: Sharp Kabushiki
Kaisha, Japan, Attorney or Agent: Edwards Wildman Palmer, LLP., Boston, MA,
Ex. Gp.: 3992, Requester: PATENT OWNER

   8,038,524, Reexam. C.N. 90/011,966, Requested Date: Nov. 22, 2011, Cl.
463/020, Title: GAMING MACHINE WITH BUY FEATURE GAMES, Inventor: Natalie
Bryant et al., Owners of Record: Aristocrat Technologies Australia, PTY,
LTD., Australia, Attorney or Agent: McAndrews Held & Malloy, LTD., Chicago,
IL, Ex. Gp.: 3992, Requester: Kevin T. Cuenot, Ceunot Forsythe & Kim, LLC.,
Wellington, FL
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Requests for Inter Partes Reexamination Filed 
                 Requests for Inter Partes Reexamination Filed

   6,313,077, Reexam. C.N.: 95/001,820, Requested Date: Nov. 16, 2011, Cl.:
508/591, Title: USE OF POLYALPHAOLEFINS (PAO) DERIVED FROM DODECENE OR
TETRADECENE TO IMPROVE THERMAL STABILITY IN ENGINE OIL IN AN INTERNAL
COMBUSTION ENGINE, Inventor: Frank Stunnenberg et al., Owners of Record:
Frank Stunnenberg, Netherlands; Perla Duchesne, France; Jurgen H. Raddatz,
Denmark, Attorney or Agent: Chevron Phillips Chemical Co., LP., The
Woodlands, TX, Ex. Gp.: 3991, Requester: Third Party Requester: Ineos USA,
LLC.; (Att'y Is: Matthew A. Smith, Foley & Lardner, LLP., Washington, DC),
Real Party in Interest: Same As Third Party Requester

   6,636,894, Reexam. C.N.: 95/001,831, Requested Date: Nov. 18, 2011, Cl.:
709/225, Title: SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REDIRECTING USERS HAVING
TRANSPARENT COMPUTER ACCESS TO A NETWORK USING A GATEWAY DEVICE HAVING
REDIRECTION CAPABILITY, Inventor: Joel E. Short et al., Owners of Record:
Nomadix, Inc., Westlake Village, CA, Attorney or Agent: Knobbe Martens
Olson & Bear, LLP., Irvine, CA, Ex. Gp.: 3992, Requester: Third Party
Requester: Hewlett-Packard, Co.; (Att'y Is: Tracy W. Druce, Novak Druce &
Quigg, LLP., Houston, TX), Real Party in Interest: Same As Third Party
Requester

   6,734,926, Reexam. C.N.: 95/001,825, Requested Date: Nov. 17, 2011, Cl.:
349/059, Title: DISPLAY APPARATUS WITH A REDUCED THICKNESS, Inventor:
Kuo-Shu Fan et al., Owners of Record: Chi Mei Innolux Corporation, Taiwan,
Attorney or Agent: Irell & Manella, LLP., Newport Beach, CA, Ex. Gp.: 3992,
Requester: Third Party Requester: LG Display, Co., LTD., (Att'y Is:
Elizabeth M. Burke, Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner, LLP.,
Washington, DC), Real Party in Interest: Same As Third Party Requester

   7,591,801, Reexam. C.N.: 95/001,818, Requested Date: Nov. 11, 2011, Cl.:
604/161, Title: INTEGRATED DELIVERY DEVICE FOR CONTINUOUS GLUCOSE SENSOR,
Inventor: James H. Brauker et al., Owners of Record: DexCom, Inc., San
Diego, CA, Attorney or Agent: Knobbe Martens Olsen & Bear, LLP., Irvine,
CA, Ex. Gp.: 3993, Requester: Third Party Requester: Abbott Diabetes Care,
Inc.; (Att'y Is: Seong-Kun Oh, Jackson & Co., LLP., Oakland, CA), Real
Party in Interest: Same As Third Party Requester

   7,657,629, Reexam. C.N.: 95/001,824, Requested Date: Nov. 17, 2011, Cl.:
709/226, Title: GLOBAL SERVER LOAD BALANCING, Inventor: Sunanda L. Kommula,
Owners of Record: Brocade Communications Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA,
Attorney or Agent: Novak Druce & Quigg, LLP., Houston, TX, Ex. Gp.: 3992,
Requester: Third Party Requester: A 10 Networks, Inc.; (Att'y Is: Timothy
J. May, Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner, LLP., Washington, DC),
Real Party in Interest: Same As Third Party Requester

   7,756,965, Reexam. C.N.: 95/001,827, Requested Date: Nov. 18, 2011, Cl.:
709/245, Title: CONFIGURABLE GEOGRAPHIC PREFIXES FOR GLOBAL SERVER LOAD
BALANCING, Inventor: Prajakta S. Joshi, Owners of Record: Brocade
Communications Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA, Attorney or Agent: Novak Druce
& Quigg, LLP., Houston, TX, Ex. Gp.: 3992, Requester: Third Party
Requester: A10 Networks, Inc.; (Att'y Is: Timothy J. May, Finnegan
Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner, LLP., Washington, DC), Real Party in
Interest: Same As Third Party Requester

   7,840,678, Reexam. C.N.: 95/001,822, Requested Date: Nov. 17, 2011, Cl.:
455/003, Title: HOST-LEVEL POLICIES FOR GLOBAL SERVER LOAD BALANCING,
Inventor: Prajakta S. Joshi, Owners of Record: Brocade Communications
Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA, Attorney or Agent: Novak Druce & Quigg, LLP.,
Houston, TX, Ex. Gp.: 3992, Requester: Third Party Requester:  A10
Networks, Inc.; (Att'y Is: Timothy J. May, Finnegan Henderson Farabow
Garrett & Dunner, LLP., Washington, DC), Real Party in Interest: Same As
Third Party Requester

   7,882,886, Reexam. C.N.: 95/001,830, Requested Date: Nov. 18, 2011, Cl.:
 January 10, 2012 US PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE 1374 OG 95  

164/137, Title: CORING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A ONE-PIECE DIE
CAST ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR BODY, Inventor: Thomas J. Gretz, Owners of
Record: Arlington Industries, Inc., Scranton, PA, Attorney or Agent: The
Jackson Patent Group, Richmond, VA, Ex. Gp.: 3991, Requester: Third Party
Requester: Bridgeport Fittings, Inc.; (Att'y Is: Bradley J. Meier, Morrison
& Foerster, LLP., McLean, VA), Real Party in Interest: Same As Third Party
Requester

   7,899,899, Reexam. C.N.: 95/001,826, Requested Date: Nov. 18, 2011, Cl.:
709/223, Title: CONFIGURABLE GEOGRAPHIC PREFIXES FOR GLOBAL SERVER LOAD
BALANCING, Inventor: Prajakta S. Joshi, Owners of Record: Brocade
Communications Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA, Attorney or Agent: Novak Druce
& Quigg, LLP., Houston, TX, Ex. Gp.: 3992, Requester: Third Party
Requester: A10 Networks, Inc.; (Att'y Is: Timothy J. May, Finnegan
Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner, LLP., Washington, DC), Real Party in
Interest: Same As Third Party Requester

   7,945,146, Reexam. C.N.: 95/001,823, Requested Date: Nov. 17, 2011, Cl.:
392/466, Title: TANKLESS HOT WATER HEATER WITH POWER MODULATION, Inventor:
Carlos Antonio Cabrera, Owners of Record: Ecosmart US, LLC., Miami Lakes,
FL, Attorney or Agent: McNeely Hare & War, LLP., Princeton, NJ, Ex. Gp.:
3993, Requester: Third Party Requester: American Heat Manufacture, LLC.,
(Att'y Is: Daniel S. Polley, Boca Raton, FL), Real Party in Interest: Same
As Third Party Requester
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Notice of Expiration of Trademark Registrations Due to Failure to Renew 
                Notice of Expiration of Trademark Registrations
                            Due to Failure to Renew

   15 U.S.C. 1059 provides that each trademark registration may be
renewed for periods of ten years from the end of the expiring period
upon payment of the prescribed fee and the filing of an acceptable
application for renewal. This may be done at any time within one year
before the expiration of the period for which the registration was
issued or renewed, or it may be done within six months after such
expiration on payment of an additional fee.
   According to the records of the Office, the trademark registrations
listed below are expired due to failure to renew in accordance with 15
U.S.C. 1059.

                     TRADEMARK REGISTRATIONS WHICH EXPIRED
                               December 16, 2011
                            DUE TO FAILURE TO RENEW

Reg. Number                   Serial Number                     Reg. Date

2,450,679                      75/826,753                      05/15/2001
2,948,121                      79/000,450                      05/10/2005
2,948,123                      79/000,877                      05/10/2005
2,948,124                      79/000,882                      05/10/2005
2,948,125                      79/001,053                      05/10/2005
2,948,126                      79/001,175                      05/10/2005
2,938,367                      79/001,478                      04/05/2005
2,942,237                      79/001,578                      04/19/2005
2,942,238                      79/001,586                      04/19/2005
2,938,371                      79/001,645                      04/05/2005
2,938,372                      79/001,649                      04/05/2005
2,938,374                      79/001,653                      04/05/2005
1,644,735                      74/034,308                      05/14/1991
2,450,375                      74/379,752                      05/15/2001
2,451,122                      74/522,714                      05/15/2001
2,451,124                      74/594,767                      05/15/2001
2,451,125                      74/629,610                      05/15/2001
2,451,130                      75/033,047                      05/15/2001
2,452,217                      75/074,038                      05/15/2001
2,451,143                      75/122,837                      05/15/2001
2,451,144                      75/126,317                      05/15/2001
2,451,149                      75/142,781                      05/15/2001
2,450,378                      75/158,112                      05/15/2001
2,451,158                      75/161,655                      05/15/2001
2,451,169                      75/204,071                      05/15/2001
2,451,179                      75/217,142                      05/15/2001
2,451,182                      75/223,507                      05/15/2001
2,451,183                      75/224,451                      05/15/2001
2,451,186                      75/235,663                      05/15/2001
2,451,190                      75/243,294                      05/15/2001
2,452,219                      75/282,922                      05/15/2001
2,451,205                      75/284,714                      05/15/2001
2,451,209                      75/299,369                      05/15/2001
2,451,218                      75/311,870                      05/15/2001
2,451,219                      75/314,061                      05/15/2001
2,451,221                      75/326,765                      05/15/2001
2,451,222                      75/328,629                      05/15/2001
2,451,226                      75/341,755                      05/15/2001
2,451,228                      75/342,937                      05/15/2001
2,451,233                      75/353,783                      05/15/2001
2,451,236                      75/361,384                      05/15/2001
2,451,240                      75/370,514                      05/15/2001
2,451,243                      75/372,324                      05/15/2001
2,451,244                      75/372,646                      05/15/2001
2,451,246                      75/373,634                      05/15/2001
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2,451,247                      75/374,891                      05/15/2001
2,451,254                      75/380,914                      05/15/2001
2,450,395                      75/384,024                      05/15/2001
2,451,259                      75/389,984                      05/15/2001
2,451,270                      75/407,068                      05/15/2001
2,450,396                      75/409,310                      05/15/2001
2,450,400                      75/426,752                      05/15/2001
2,451,289                      75/432,855                      05/15/2001
2,452,223                      75/439,007                      05/15/2001
2,451,299                      75/442,349                      05/15/2001
2,450,408                      75/452,247                      05/15/2001
2,451,318                      75/460,143                      05/15/2001
2,451,319                      75/460,888                      05/15/2001
2,451,323                      75/462,806                      05/15/2001
2,451,324                      75/462,904                      05/15/2001
2,451,333                      75/470,005                      05/15/2001
2,451,334                      75/471,266                      05/15/2001
2,451,340                      75/475,381                      05/15/2001
2,450,414                      75/475,693                      05/15/2001
2,451,352                      75/480,680                      05/15/2001
2,451,362                      75/487,350                      05/15/2001
2,451,366                      75/490,409                      05/15/2001
2,451,367                      75/490,538                      05/15/2001
2,451,368                      75/490,800                      05/15/2001
2,451,381                      75/500,726                      05/15/2001
2,451,383                      75/501,296                      05/15/2001
2,451,388                      75/503,975                      05/15/2001
2,451,397                      75/513,767                      05/15/2001
2,451,398                      75/514,361                      05/15/2001
2,451,405                      75/521,159                      05/15/2001
2,450,425                      75/521,705                      05/15/2001
2,452,227                      75/529,262                      05/15/2001
2,451,414                      75/529,938                      05/15/2001
2,451,415                      75/531,001                      05/15/2001
2,451,426                      75/536,987                      05/15/2001
2,451,431                      75/540,966                      05/15/2001
2,451,434                      75/544,459                      05/15/2001
2,451,441                      75/545,549                      05/15/2001
2,451,442                      75/545,612                      05/15/2001
2,451,468                      75/556,142                      05/15/2001
2,451,476                      75/559,725                      05/15/2001
2,450,455                      75/561,248                      05/15/2001
2,450,456                      75/561,679                      05/15/2001
2,451,483                      75/561,837                      05/15/2001
2,451,492                      75/563,966                      05/15/2001
2,451,493                      75/564,085                      05/15/2001
2,451,500                      75/566,264                      05/15/2001
2,451,502                      75/568,311                      05/15/2001
2,451,508                      75/571,805                      05/15/2001
2,451,516                      75/576,457                      05/15/2001
2,451,517                      75/576,542                      05/15/2001
2,451,519                      75/578,173                      05/15/2001
2,451,520                      75/579,381                      05/15/2001
2,451,525                      75/581,667                      05/15/2001
2,452,230                      75/582,609                      05/15/2001
2,451,528                      75/583,150                      05/15/2001
2,450,464                      75/586,200                      05/15/2001
2,451,545                      75/589,821                      05/15/2001
2,451,546                      75/590,044                      05/15/2001
2,451,549                      75/591,327                      05/15/2001
2,451,552                      75/594,722                      05/15/2001
2,451,576                      75/601,595                      05/15/2001
2,451,578                      75/603,344                      05/15/2001
2,450,468                      75/605,152                      05/15/2001
2,451,587                      75/607,697                      05/15/2001
2,450,470                      75/607,993                      05/15/2001
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2,450,472                      75/609,577                      05/15/2001
2,451,596                      75/610,541                      05/15/2001
2,451,597                      75/611,024                      05/15/2001
2,451,624                      75/619,004                      05/15/2001
2,452,233                      75/624,228                      05/15/2001
2,451,634                      75/624,592                      05/15/2001
2,450,485                      75/626,847                      05/15/2001
2,451,640                      75/627,378                      05/15/2001
2,451,643                      75/628,291                      05/15/2001
2,451,646                      75/629,694                      05/15/2001
2,451,651                      75/630,832                      05/15/2001
2,450,490                      75/631,550                      05/15/2001
2,451,655                      75/633,366                      05/15/2001
2,450,491                      75/633,966                      05/15/2001
2,451,661                      75/634,932                      05/15/2001
2,451,666                      75/636,437                      05/15/2001
2,451,668                      75/637,246                      05/15/2001
2,451,678                      75/640,432                      05/15/2001
2,450,493                      75/642,049                      05/15/2001
2,451,688                      75/644,742                      05/15/2001
2,451,689                      75/646,476                      05/15/2001
2,451,692                      75/647,011                      05/15/2001
2,450,500                      75/652,209                      05/15/2001
2,450,502                      75/653,057                      05/15/2001
2,450,503                      75/653,874                      05/15/2001
2,451,709                      75/657,079                      05/15/2001
2,451,718                      75/660,698                      05/15/2001
2,451,719                      75/660,810                      05/15/2001
2,450,513                      75/660,924                      05/15/2001
2,451,753                      75/671,609                      05/15/2001
2,451,754                      75/671,610                      05/15/2001
2,451,759                      75/672,564                      05/15/2001
2,450,523                      75/672,926                      05/15/2001
2,451,762                      75/673,978                      05/15/2001
2,450,524                      75/674,865                      05/15/2001
2,451,766                      75/676,132                      05/15/2001
2,451,769                      75/677,020                      05/15/2001
2,451,774                      75/679,108                      05/15/2001
2,451,776                      75/679,948                      05/15/2001
2,451,783                      75/683,256                      05/15/2001
2,450,530                      75/688,777                      05/15/2001
2,451,806                      75/698,139                      05/15/2001
2,451,813                      75/700,361                      05/15/2001
2,451,821                      75/702,966                      05/15/2001
2,451,827                      75/705,004                      05/15/2001
2,451,845                      75/710,328                      05/15/2001
2,451,846                      75/711,756                      05/15/2001
2,451,858                      75/715,474                      05/15/2001
2,451,863                      75/716,976                      05/15/2001
2,451,878                      75/720,751                      05/15/2001
2,452,239                      75/724,939                      05/15/2001
2,451,898                      75/729,581                      05/15/2001
2,451,901                      75/730,239                      05/15/2001
2,451,903                      75/730,668                      05/15/2001
2,451,917                      75/734,885                      05/15/2001
2,451,925                      75/736,220                      05/15/2001
2,451,933                      75/738,688                      05/15/2001
2,451,936                      75/739,718                      05/15/2001
2,451,949                      75/743,809                      05/15/2001
2,450,566                      75/748,199                      05/15/2001
2,451,965                      75/748,997                      05/15/2001
2,451,966                      75/749,039                      05/15/2001
2,451,970                      75/749,972                      05/15/2001
2,450,568                      75/750,630                      05/15/2001
2,451,973                      75/751,562                      05/15/2001
2,451,980                      75/753,492                      05/15/2001
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2,451,988                      75/756,440                      05/15/2001
2,450,577                      75/759,383                      05/15/2001
2,452,008                      75/764,348                      05/15/2001
2,452,015                      75/768,358                      05/15/2001
2,452,023                      75/769,859                      05/15/2001
2,452,026                      75/770,662                      05/15/2001
2,450,584                      75/771,576                      05/15/2001
2,452,037                      75/772,091                      05/15/2001
2,452,040                      75/772,530                      05/15/2001
2,452,041                      75/773,234                      05/15/2001
2,450,586                      75/774,309                      05/15/2001
2,452,047                      75/775,741                      05/15/2001
2,452,049                      75/776,475                      05/15/2001
2,452,055                      75/778,548                      05/15/2001
2,452,059                      75/780,654                      05/15/2001
2,452,060                      75/780,655                      05/15/2001
2,450,595                      75/783,868                      05/15/2001
2,452,072                      75/786,142                      05/15/2001
2,450,600                      75/786,711                      05/15/2001
2,450,604                      75/788,612                      05/15/2001
2,450,605                      75/788,647                      05/15/2001
2,452,086                      75/797,450                      05/15/2001
2,452,087                      75/797,463                      05/15/2001
2,450,620                      75/798,031                      05/15/2001
2,452,090                      75/801,443                      05/15/2001
2,452,104                      75/809,262                      05/15/2001
2,452,107                      75/811,580                      05/15/2001
2,452,115                      75/815,569                      05/15/2001
2,450,649                      75/815,734                      05/15/2001
2,450,653                      75/817,025                      05/15/2001
2,450,664                      75/822,758                      05/15/2001
2,450,665                      75/822,759                      05/15/2001
2,452,120                      75/823,165                      05/15/2001
2,450,671                      75/824,178                      05/15/2001
2,450,672                      75/824,180                      05/15/2001
2,450,678                      75/826,315                      05/15/2001
2,450,685                      75/828,977                      05/15/2001
2,450,698                      75/836,223                      05/15/2001
2,452,250                      75/836,553                      05/15/2001
2,452,142                      75/840,032                      05/15/2001
2,450,709                      75/842,696                      05/15/2001
2,452,251                      75/842,705                      05/15/2001
2,452,148                      75/843,926                      05/15/2001
2,452,155                      75/848,929                      05/15/2001
2,450,726                      75/851,069                      05/15/2001
2,450,729                      75/852,455                      05/15/2001
2,450,731                      75/854,241                      05/15/2001
2,450,733                      75/854,600                      05/15/2001
2,452,252                      75/858,954                      05/15/2001
2,452,169                      75/859,175                      05/15/2001
2,452,171                      75/864,886                      05/15/2001
2,450,771                      75/867,843                      05/15/2001
2,450,773                      75/869,872                      05/15/2001
2,450,779                      75/874,624                      05/15/2001
2,452,183                      75/881,536                      05/15/2001
2,450,789                      75/881,887                      05/15/2001
2,452,256                      75/882,778                      05/15/2001
2,450,800                      75/886,772                      05/15/2001
2,450,801                      75/886,793                      05/15/2001
2,452,187                      75/887,070                      05/15/2001
2,452,190                      75/888,743                      05/15/2001
2,450,807                      75/890,703                      05/15/2001
2,452,194                      75/902,145                      05/15/2001
2,450,823                      75/905,680                      05/15/2001
2,450,826                      75/907,750                      05/15/2001
2,450,830                      75/908,502                      05/15/2001
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2,452,195                      75/912,833                      05/15/2001
2,450,841                      75/918,503                      05/15/2001
2,450,848                      75/921,635                      05/15/2001
2,450,849                      75/922,177                      05/15/2001
2,450,863                      75/932,963                      05/15/2001
2,450,864                      75/932,965                      05/15/2001
2,450,865                      75/934,883                      05/15/2001
2,450,874                      75/939,847                      05/15/2001
2,452,203                      75/980,006                      05/15/2001
2,450,894                      76/005,618                      05/15/2001
2,450,900                      76/008,083                      05/15/2001
2,450,903                      76/009,100                      05/15/2001
2,450,904                      76/009,631                      05/15/2001
2,450,906                      76/009,755                      05/15/2001
2,450,910                      76/012,444                      05/15/2001
2,450,911                      76/013,351                      05/15/2001
2,450,922                      76/016,092                      05/15/2001
2,450,934                      76/024,845                      05/15/2001
2,450,937                      76/025,690                      05/15/2001
2,450,939                      76/025,994                      05/15/2001
2,450,942                      76/028,130                      05/15/2001
2,450,961                      76/032,795                      05/15/2001
2,450,964                      76/035,441                      05/15/2001
2,450,968                      76/038,109                      05/15/2001
2,450,978                      76/042,413                      05/15/2001
2,450,988                      76/047,072                      05/15/2001
2,450,996                      76/048,200                      05/15/2001
2,450,998                      76/048,344                      05/15/2001
2,451,004                      76/049,723                      05/15/2001
2,451,005                      76/049,848                      05/15/2001
2,451,010                      76/050,850                      05/15/2001
2,451,013                      76/051,467                      05/15/2001
2,451,017                      76/052,010                      05/15/2001
2,451,023                      76/053,184                      05/15/2001
2,451,051                      76/058,623                      05/15/2001
2,451,060                      76/060,354                      05/15/2001
2,451,063                      76/060,673                      05/15/2001
2,451,071                      76/061,392                      05/15/2001
2,451,075                      76/062,674                      05/15/2001
2,451,078                      76/062,903                      05/15/2001
2,451,104                      76/068,116                      05/15/2001
2,451,108                      76/069,105                      05/15/2001
2,451,112                      76/070,716                      05/15/2001
2,451,113                      76/073,500                      05/15/2001
2,451,118                      78/000,313                      05/15/2001
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Service by Publication 
                            Service by Publication

   A notice of opposition to the registration of the mark in the
application identified below having been filed, and the notice of such
proceeding sent to applicant at the last known address having been returned
by the Postal Service as undeliverable, notice is hereby given that unless
the applicant listed herein, its assigns or legal representatives, shall
enter an appearance within thirty days of this publication, the opposition
will proceed as in the case of default.

Linda Parrotta, Cooper City, FL, Application Serial No. 85183374 for the
mark "CRUISEVILLE", Opposition No. 91201108.

                                                              TYRONE CRAVEN
                                                       Paralegal Specialist
                                      Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, for
                                                            DEBORAH S. COHN
                                                Commissioner for Trademarks

                            Service by Publication

   A petition to cancel the registration identified below having been
filed, and the notice of such proceeding sent to registrant at the last
known address having been returned by the Postal Service as undeliverable,
notice is hereby given that unless the registrant listed herein, its
assigns or legal representatives, shall enter an appearance within thirty
days of this publication, the cancellation will proceed as in the case of
default.

The Pinax Group, Inc., New Orleans, LA, Registration No. 3504658 for the
mark "CLIO", Cancellation No. 92054618.

                                                            LALITA R. GREER
                                                       Paralegal Specialist
                                      Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, for
                                                            DEBORAH S. COHN
                                                Commissioner for Trademarks

                            Service by Publication

   A petition to cancel the registration identified below having been
filed, and the notice of such proceeding sent to registrant at the last
known address having been returned by the Postal Service as undeliverable,
notice is hereby given that unless the registrant listed herein, its
assigns or legal representatives, shall enter an appearance within thirty
days of this publication, the cancellation will proceed as in the case of
default.

Masters Wines, Inc., New York, NY, Registration No. 3349421 for the mark
"VING", Cancellation No. 92054399.

                                                            ERIC MCWILLIAMS
                                                      Supervisory Paralegal
                                      Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, for
                                                            DEBORAH S. COHN
                                                Commissioner for Trademarks

                            Service by Publication

   A petition to cancel the registration identified below having been
filed, and the notice of such proceeding sent to registrant at the last
known address having been returned by the Postal Service as undeliverable,
notice is hereby given that unless the registrant listed herein, its
assigns or legal representatives, shall enter an appearance within thirty
days of this publication, the cancellation will proceed as in the case of
default.

Accessory Time Inc, Ocean, NJ, Registration No. 2489333 for the mark
"ENVY", Cancellation No. 92054775.

                                                              MONIQUE TYSON
                                                       Paralegal Specialist
                                      Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, for
                                                            DEBORAH S. COHN
                                                Commissioner for Trademarks
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37 CFR 1.47 Notice by Publication 
                       37 CFR 1.47 Notice by Publication

   Notice is hereby given of the filing of a national stage application
with a petition under 37 CFR 1.47 requesting acceptance of the application
without the signature of all of the inventors.  The petition has been
granted.  A notice has been sent to the last known address of the
non-signing inventors, Cristina Goellner and Newton Sako.  The inventors
whose signatures are missing may join in the application by promptly filing
an appropriate oath or declaration complying with 37 CFR 1.63.  The
application number is PCT/US2009/049582 and was filed on 02 July 2009 in
the names of Katia Weber, Cristina Goellner and Newton Sako for the
invention entitled System and Method of Providing Enhanced Transaction
Data.  The national stage application is assigned number 12/999,705 and has
a 35 U.S.C. 371(c)(1), (c)(2) and (c)(4) date of 15 June 2011.

                       37 CFR 1.47 Notice by Publication

   Notice is hereby given of the filing of a national stage application
with a petition under 37 CFR 1.47 requesting acceptance of the application
without the signature of all of the inventors.  The petition has been
granted.  A notice has been sent to the last known address of the
non-signing inventor, Elton Strauss.  The inventor whose signature is
missing may join in the application by promptly filing an appropriate oath
or declaration complying with 37 CFR 1.63.  The international application
number is PCT/US2009/053670 and was filed on 13 August 2009 in the names of
Seth M. Manoach and Elton Strauss for the invention entitled Semi-Rigid
Compression Splint for Application of Three-Dimensional Force.  The
national stage application is assigned number 13/058,955 and has a 35
U.S.C. 371(c)(1), (c)(2) and (c)(4) date of 01 July 2011.

                       37 CFR 1.47 Notice by Publication

   Notice is hereby given of the filing of an application with a petition
under 37 CFR 1.47 requesting acceptance of the application without the
signature of all inventors.  The petition has been granted.  A notice has
been sent to the last known addresses of the non-signing inventors.  The
inventors whose signatures are missing (Roger WESTER and Patrick MEIJERS)
may join in the application by promptly filing an appropriate oath or
declaration complying with 37 CFR 1.63.  The international application
number is PCT/IB2009/053110 and was filed 17 July 2009 in the names of
Rogier WESTER and Patrick MEIJERS for the invention entitled FRAME RATE-UP
CONVERSION.  The national stage application number is 13/060,389 and has a
35 U.S.C. 371(c)(1), (c)(2) and (c)(4) date of 05 October 2011.

                       37 CFR 1.47 Notice by Publication

   Notice is hereby given of the filing of an application with a petition
under 37 CFR 1.47 requesting acceptance of the application without the
signature of all the inventors.  The petition has been granted.  A notice
has been sent to the last known address of the non-signing inventor. The
inventor whose signature is missing (Wensheng Ren) may join in the
application by promptly filing an appropriate oath or declaration complying
with 37 CFR 1.63.  The international application number is PCT/US2007/074340
and was filed 25 July 2007 in the names of Brian Baird, David Hemenway,
Xiaoyuan Peng and Wensheng Ren for the invention entitled TANDEM PHOTONIC
AMPLIFIER.  The national stage number is 12/374,989 and has a 35 U.S.C.
371(c) date of 18 November 2011.

                       37 CFR 1.47 Notice by Publication

   Notice is hereby given of the filing of an application with a petition
under 37 CFR 1.47 requesting acceptance of the application without the
signature of two of the joint inventors.  The petition has been granted.  A
notice has been sent to the last known addresses of the non-signing
inventors.  The inventors whose signatures are missing (Darlene Garmann and
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Melissa Langtim) may join in the application by promptly filing an
appropriate oath or declaration complying with 37 CFR 1.63.  The
international application number is PCT/AU2007/001880 and was filed on 05
December 2007 in the name of Donald Fisher et al for the invention entitled
"Syllabic Roulette Game with Solmization, and Method".  The national stage
application number is 12/746,408 and has a date of 15 November 2011 under
35 U.S.C. 371(c)(1), (c)(2), and (c)(4).

                       37 CFR 1.47 Notice by Publication

   Notice is hereby given of the filing of an application with a petition
under 37 CFR 1.47 requesting acceptance of the application without the
signature of the sole inventor.  The petition has been granted.  A notice
has been sent to the last known address of the non-signing inventor. The
inventor whose signature is missing (Konstantin GORANOV) may join in the
application by promptly filing an appropriate oath or declaration complying
with 37 CFR 1.63.  The international application number is PCT/CA2008/001550
and was filed on August 29, 2008 in the name of Konstantin GORANOV for the
invention entitled ANTIMICROBIAL COMPOSITIONS AND FIBERS INCORPORATING THE
SAME.  The national stage application number is 12/675,336 and has a 35
U.S.C. 371(c)(1), (2) and (4) date of December 20, 2010.

                       37 CFR 1.47 Notice by Publication

   Notice is hereby given of the filing of an application with a petition
under 37 CFR 1.47 requesting acceptance of the application without the
signature of all the inventors.  The petition has been granted.  A notice
has been sent to the last known addresses of the non-signing inventors.
The inventors whose signatures are missing (Alexander Bilchinsky and Eran
Ben-Shmuel) may join in the application by promptly filing an appropriate
oath or declaration complying with 37 CFR 1.63.  The international
application number is PCT/IL2009/001057 and was filed 10 November 2009 in
the names of Alexander Bilchinsky and Eran Ben-Shmuel for the invention
entitled DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING ENERGY.  The national stage
number is 13/128,369 and has a 35 U.S.C. 371(c) date of 17 November 2011.

                       37 CFR 1.47 Notice by Publication

   Notice is hereby given of the filing of a national stage application
with a petition under 37 CFR 1.47 requesting acceptance of the application
without the signature of all of the inventors.  The petition has been
granted.  A notice has been sent to the last known address of the
non-signing inventor, Paul J. Doczy.  The inventor whose signature is
missing may join in the application by promptly filing an appropriate oath
or declaration complying with 37 CFR 1.63.  The international application
number is PCT/US2008/082018 and was filed on 31 October 2008 in the names
of Mark S. Tracy, Earl W. Moore and Paul J. Doczy for the invention
entitled Extruding Material Through a Die to Produce a Computer Chassis.
The national stage application is assigned number 13/126,015 and has a 35
U.S.C. 371(c)(1), (c)(2) and (c)(4) date of 26 April 2011.

                       37 CFR 1.47 Notice by Publication

   Notice is hereby given of the filing of an application with a petition
under 37 CFR 1.47 requesting acceptance of the application without the
signature of a joint inventor.  The petition has been granted.  A notice
has been sent to the last known address of the non-signing inventor. The
inventor whose signature is missing (Herve Jean Francois LEGAIGNOUX) may
join in the application by promptly filing an appropriate oath or
declaration complying with 37 CFR 1.63.  The international application
number is PCT/EP2009/057698 and was filed on June 19, 2009 in the names of
Herve Jean Francois LEGAIGNOUX, Michel Pierre BAYLOT, Emmanuel HUOT
and Kimon Tullo ARDAVANIS for the invention entitled PIPE-LAYING VESSEL AND
METHOD OF LAYING A PIPELINE.  The national stage application number is
13/000,116 and has a 35 U.S.C. 371(c)(1), (2) and (4) date of May 24, 2011.
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                       37 CFR 1.47 Notice by Publication

   Notice is hereby given of the filing of an application with a petition
under 37 CFR 1.47 requesting acceptance of the application without the
signature of all inventors.  The petition has been granted.  A notice has
been sent to the last known address of the non-signing inventor.  The
inventor whose signature is missing (Gulsen CELIKER) may join in the
application by promptly filing an appropriate oath or declaration complying
with 37 CFR 1.63.  The international application number is PCT/EP2009/054847
and was filed 22 April 2009 in the names of Gulsen CELIKER, Hilmi Volkan
DEMIR, Fatih OZKADI, Sumeyra TEK, Evren MUTLUGUN, Ibrahim Murat SOGANCI,
Tuncay OZEL, and Ilkem Ozge HUYAL for the invention entitled A
PHOTOCATAYLTIC NANOCOMPOSITE MATERIAL.  The national stage application
number is 12/990,779 and has a 35 U.S.C. 371(c)(1), (c)(2) and (c)(4) date
of 05 August 2011.

                       37 CFR 1.47 Notice by Publication

   Notice is hereby given of the filing of an application with a petition
under 37 CFR 1.47 requesting acceptance of the application without the
signature of all inventors.  The petition has been granted.  A notice has
been sent to the last known address of the non-signing inventor.  The
inventor whose signature is missing (Burak AKALIN) may join in the
application by promptly filing an appropriate oath or declaration complying
with 37 CFR 1.63.  The international application number is PCT/US2008/053280
and was filed 07 February 2008 in the names Burak AKALIN and Feza OZENC for
the invention entitled MAGNETIC TOOTHBRUSH HOLDER.  The national stage
application number is 12/526,359 and has a 35 U.S.C. 371(c)(1), (c)(2) and
(c)(4) date of 25 July 2011.

                       37 CFR 1.47 Notice by Publication

   Notice is hereby given of the filing of an application with a petition
under 37 CFR 1.47 requesting acceptance of the application without the
signature of all inventors.  The petition has been granted.  A notice has
been sent to the last known address of the non-signing inventor.  The
inventor whose signature is missing (Yasuhiro KAWAMURA) may join in the
application by promptly filing an appropriate oath or declaration complying
with 37 CFR 1.63.  The international application number is PCT/JP2009/064085
and was filed 04 August 2009 in the names Seiichi KATOH and Yasuhiro
KAWAMURA for the invention entitled LIQUID MEDICINE INJECTION AMOUNT
ADJUSTING METHOD, LIQUID MEDICINE INJECTION AMOUNT ADJUSTING APPARATUS, AND
LIQUID MEDICINE INJECTING SYSTEM.  The national stage application number is
13/057,889 and has a 35 U.S.C. 371(c)(1), (c)(2) and (c)(4) date of 01
December 2011.

                       37 CFR 1.47 Notice by Publication

   Notice is hereby given of the filing of a national stage application
with a petition under 37 CFR 1.47 requesting acceptance of the application
without the signature of all inventors. The petition has been granted. A
notice has been sent to the last known address of the non-signing inventor.
The inventor whose signature is missing (Chris Russon) may join in the
application by promptly filing an appropriate oath or declaration complying
with 37 CFR 1.63. The international application number is PCT/GB2008/001677
and was filed on 15 May 2008 in the names of Kieran Kennedy, Christopher
James Bolton and Chris Russon for the invention entitled BLAST DOOR. The
national stage application number is 12/600,102 and has a 35 U.S.C. 371
date of 09 December 2011.
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Registration to Practice 
                           Registration to Practice

   The following list contains the names of persons seeking for
registration to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark
Office.  Final approval for registration is subject to establishing to the
satisfaction of the Director of the Office of Enrollment and Discipline
that the person seeking registration is of good moral character and repute.
37 CFR § 11.7   Accordingly, any information tending to affect the
eligibility of any of the following persons on moral ethical or other
grounds should be furnished to the Director of Enrollment and Discipline on
or before January 27, 2012 at the following address: Mail Stop OED United
States Patent and Trademark Office P.O. Box 1450 Alexandria VA 22314

Ampagoomian, David Scott, 401 Santos Street, Apartment 1407, San Antonio,
TX  78210

Bass, Jonathan York, 400 Merrimac Way, Apartment 62, Costa Mesa, CA  92626

Bentley, Jay Henry, 709 Fieldstream Way, Stockbridge, GA  30281

Crandall, Ross Nelson, 191 E. 550 S., Farmington, UT  84025

Darno, Patrick Adam, McGuire Woods LLP, 1750 Tysons Boulevard, Suite 1800,
Tysons Corner, VA 22102-4215

Deppe, Denise Dama, 3M, Building 130-2N-34, 6801 River Place Boulevard,
Austin, TX  78726-9000

Gao, Yang, 5907 Whisperwood Drive, Durham, NC  27713

Haberman, Andrew Garrett, Maier & Maier; PLLC, 1000 Duke Street,
Alexandria, VA  22314

Hines, Christopher Laurence English, Polsinelli Shughart, 100 South 4th
Street, Suite 1000, Saint Louis, MO  63102

Hogan, Patrick Alan, H.C. Starck, Inc., 45 Industrial Place, Newton, MA
02461

Hu, Hongyi, Ropes & Gray, Prudential Tower, 800 Boylston Street, Boston, MA
02199-3600

Huffman, Gregory Michael, McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP, 300
South Wacker Drive, Chicago, IL  60606

Jochym, Alexander Gerus, 340 Woodlawn Terrace, Apartment A5, Collingswood,
NJ  08108

Kale, Lawrence Thomas, NOVA Chemicals, 1555 Corapolis Heights Road, Moon
Township, PA  15108

Khullar, Divya, The Small Patent Law Group, 225 S. Meramec, Suite 725, St.
Louis, MO  63105

Leavitt, Kristina Marie, 16406 Kingston River Bend, Houston, TX  77044

Leavy, Tanya Margaret, 601 Lexington Avenue, 52nd Floor, New York, NY
10022

Lee, Joohee, Park & Associates IP Law P.C., 265 Bic Drive, Suite 106,
Milford, CT  06461

Leija, Javier Montiljo, 2323 E Zion Way, Chandler, AZ  85249

Liu, Kenneth, Eubanks & Liu, PLLC, 19500 State Highway 249, Suite 465,
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Houston, TX  77070

Marakani, Ramani Venkata, 2787, Arona Street, Roseville, MN  55113

Murata, Austin Kyushu, United States Patent and Trademark Office, 400
Dulany Street, Remsen Building (9D20), Alexandria, VA  22314

Norton, John Jerome, 220 Summit Way, Syosset, NY  11791

Overbeck, Brian Paul, GE Aviation, 6796 Corkwood Knoll, Hamilton, OH  45011

Pate III, William Frank, 6348 Meriwether Lane, Springfield, VA 22150

Patel, Krupal Thakorlal, Grundfos Pumps Corporation, 12121 W 136th Street,
Apt 925, Overland Park, KS  66221

Poil, Garland Lee, 825 W Spruce, Apartment 203, Missoula, MT  59802

Prieur, Brett Randall, 1235 Pennsylvania Avenue #3C, Miami Beach, FL  33139

Ram, Rachna Jagga, 616 Spokane Avenue, Albany, CA  94706

Rickershauser Jr., Joseph Charles, 348 East Whittier Street, Columbus, OH
43206

Warminsky, Joshua Michael, GlaxoSmithKline, 108 Merion Avenue, Narberth, PA
19072

Wicks, Kristal Marie, 2308 Altenas Drive, Nashville, TN  37211

Wong-Chan, Karen Ann, 310 Country Club Lane, Atlantic Beach, FL  32233

December 13, 2011                                          WILLIAM R. COVEY
                   Deputy General Counsel for Enrollment and Discipline and
                                      Director of Enrollment and Discipline
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Changes To Implement the Prioritized Examination for Requests for Continued Examination 
                            DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
                          Patent and Trademark Office
                                 37 CFR Part 1
                         [Docket No. PTO-P-2011-0070]
                                 RIN 0651-AC65

             Changes To Implement the Prioritized Examination for
                      Requests for Continued Examination

AGENCY: United States Patent and Trademark Office, Commerce.

ACTION: Final rule.

SUMMARY: The Leahy-Smith America Invents Act includes provisions for
prioritized examination of patent applications. The United States
Patent and Trademark Office (Office) implemented the Leahy-Smith
America Invents Act prioritized examination provision following the
prioritized examination track (Track I) of the proposed 3-Track
examination process in a previous final rule. The final rule was made
applicable to newly filed patent applications. In order to provide
patent applicants with the flexibility to accelerate processing of
their applications in which a request for continued examination has
been filed, the Office is now permitting applicants to request
prioritized examination for applications after the filing of a request
for continued examination.

DATES: Effective Date: The changes in this final rule are effective on
December 19, 2011.
   Applicability Date: The changes in this final rule are applicable
to any patent application in which a proper request for continued
examination has been filed before, on, or after December 19, 2011.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: By telephone to Eugenia A. Jones, at
(571) 272-7727, Kathleen Kahler Fonda, at (571) 272-7754, or Michael T.
Cygan, at (571) 272-7700; or by mail addressed to: United States Patent
and Trademark Office, Mail Stop Comments-Patents, Commissioner for
Patents, P.O. Box 1450, Alexandria, VA 22313-1450, marked to the
attention of Eugenia A. Jones, Kathleen Kahler Fonda or Michael T.
Cygan.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the procedure set forth in this final
rule, once the application is accorded special status after the filing
of a request for continued examination it will be placed on the
examiner's special docket throughout its entire course of continued
prosecution before the examiner until a final disposition is reached in
the application. The goal for handling applications under prioritized
examination for request for continued examination is to, on average,
provide a final disposition within twelve months of prioritized status
being granted. For purposes of the twelve-month goal, "final
disposition" can be any of the following: (1) Mailing of a notice of
allowance; (2) mailing of a final Office action; (3) filing of a notice
of appeal; (4) completion of examination as defined in 37 CFR 41.102;
(5) filing of a subsequent request for continued examination; or (6)
abandonment of the application. An application under prioritized
examination, however, would not be accorded special status throughout
its entire course of appeal or interference before the BPAI, or after
the filing of a subsequent request for continued examination.
   Filing an amendment to the application which results in more than
four independent claims, more than thirty total claims, or a multiple
dependent claim will terminate the prioritized examination. Upon
termination of prioritized examination, the application will be removed
from the examiner's special docket and placed on the examiner's regular
docket in accordance with its stage of prosecution. As the termination
of prioritized examination does not cause the prioritized examination
fee to have been paid by mistake or in an amount in excess of that
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required, the termination of prioritized examination will not entitle
the applicant to a refund of the prioritized examination fee. See 35 U.S.C.
42(d) and § 1.26(a) (permits refunds only for fees "paid by mistake or
any amount paid in excess of that required").
   As discussed previously, the submission of an amendment resulting
in more than four independent claims or more than thirty total claims
is not prohibited, but simply terminates the prioritized examination.
Thus, upon mailing of a final rejection (at which point prioritized
examination is terminated), applicants may amend the claims to place
them in independent form where dependent claims were found allowable,
or add new claims, subject only to the limitations applicable to any
application under final rejection. See 37 CFR 1.116. Similarly, upon
mailing of a notice of allowance, applicants may submit amendments to
the claims, again subject only to the limitations applicable to any
application that has been allowed. See 37 CFR 1.312.
   The requirements for requesting prioritized examination after the
filing of a request for continued examination are summarized below. A
patent application may be granted prioritized examination status under
the following conditions:
   (1) The request for continued examination must be in an original
utility or plant nonprovisional application filed under 35 U.S.C.
111(a) or that has entered the national stage under 35 U.S.C. 371.
   (2) The request for prioritized examination must be filed via the
Office's electronic filing system (EFS-Web), except in a plant
application for which the request must be filed in paper (MPEP
502.05(II)(B)) prior to the mailing of a first Office action after the
filing of the request for continued examination under 37 CFR 1.114. The
request for prioritized examination may either be filed concurrently
with, or subsequently to, the filing of a request for continued
examination.
   (3) At the time of the request for prioritized examination, the
application must contain or be amended to contain no more than four
independent claims and no more than thirty total claims. In addition,
the application must not contain any multiple dependent claims. If an
amendment is filed in an application that has been granted prioritized
examination that results in more than four independent claims or thirty
total claims, or a multiple dependent claim, then prioritized
examination will be terminated.
   (4) The request for prioritized examination must be accompanied by
the prioritized examination fee set forth in 37 CFR 1.17(c), the
processing fee set forth in 37 CFR 1.17(i), and if not previously paid,
the publication fee set forth in 37 CFR 1.18(d). Applicants are advised
to use the certification and request form PTO/SB/424 which is available
on EFS-Web.
   (5) The Leahy-Smith America Invents Act currently limits the number
of requests for prioritized examination under § 1.102(e) that the
Office may accept to a maximum of 10,000 per fiscal year. This includes
both requests for prioritized examination for initial examination (37
CFR 1.102(e)(1)) and requests for prioritized examination after filing
of a request for continued examination (37 CFR 1.102(e)(2)).

Discussion of Specific Rules

   Title 37 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Part 1, is proposed to
be amended as follows:
    Section 1.102: Section 1.102(e) is revised to set out the general
requirements for prioritized examination and the specific requirements
for prioritized examination for initial examination (Track I) (37 CFR
1.102(e)(1)) and for prioritized examination after the filing of a
request for continued examination (37 CFR 1.102(e)(2)).
   Section 1.102(e) provides that a request for prioritized
examination under § 1.102(e) must comply with the requirements of
§ 1.102(e) and be accompanied by the prioritized examination fee
set forth in § 1.17(c), the processing fee set forth in §
1.17(i), and the publication fee set forth in § 1.18(d). Section
1.102(e) also provides that an application for which prioritized
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examination has been requested may not contain or be amended to contain
more than four independent claims, more than thirty total claims, or
any multiple dependent claim. Section 1.102(e) also provides that
prioritized examination under this paragraph will not be accorded to
international applications that have not entered the national stage
under 35 U.S.C. 371, design applications, reissue applications,
provisional applications, or reexamination proceedings. Finally, §
1.102(e) provides that a request for prioritized examination must also
comply with the requirements of § 1.102(e)(1) or § 1.102(e)(2).
   Section 1.102(e)(1) provides that a request for prioritized
examination may be filed with an original utility or plant
nonprovisional application under 35 U.S.C. 111(a) that is complete as
defined by § 1.51(b), with any fees due under § 1.16 paid on
filing. If the application is a utility application, it must be filed
via the Office's electronic filing system (EFS-Web). The request for
prioritized examination in compliance with § 1.102(e)(1) must be
present upon filing. The discussion in the final rule to implement
prioritized examination for initial examination (Track I) (Changes to
Implement the Prioritized Examination Track (Track I) of the Enhanced
Examination Timing Control Procedures under the Leahy-Smith America
Invents Act, 76 FR 59050 (Sept. 23, 2011)) remains applicable to
request for prioritized examination under § 1.102(e)(1).
   Section 1.102(e)(2) provides that a request for prioritized
examination may be filed with or after a request for continued
examination in compliance with § 1.114. Only a single such request
for prioritized examination under § 1.102(e)(2) may be granted in
an application. If the application is a utility application, the
request must be filed via the Office's electronic filing system (EFS-
Web). The request must be filed before the mailing of the first Office
action after the filing of the request for continued examination under
§ 1.114. The request must be accompanied by the prioritized
examination fee set forth in §  1.17(c), the processing fee set
forth in § 1.17(i), and if not already paid, the publication fee
set forth in § 1.18(d).

Rule Making Considerations

A. Administrative Procedure Act

   This final rule implements prioritized examination for applications
after the filing of a request for continued examination under 35 U.S.C.
132(b) and 37 CFR 1.114. The changes in this final rule that implement
the fee for prioritized examination and requirements specified in
section 11(h) of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act are merely
interpretative. See Gray Panthers Advocacy Comm. v. Sullivan, 936 F.2d
1284, 1291-1292 (DC Cir. 1991) (regulation that reiterates statutory
language does not require notice and comment procedures); See Nat'l
Org. of Veterans' Advocates v. Sec'y of Veterans Affairs, 260 F.3d
1365, 1375 (Fed. Cir. 2001). The additional requirements (e.g., filing
via the Office's electronic filing system (EFS-Web)) merely specify the
procedures that apply to applications for which an applicant has
requested prioritized examination and are thus procedural and not
substantive. See JEM Broad. Co. v. FCC, 22 F.3d 320, 326 (DC Cir. 1994)
("[T]he critical feature of the procedural exception [in 5 U.S.C.
553(b)(A)] is that it covers agency actions that do not themselves
alter the rights or interests of parties, although [they] may alter the
manner in which the parties present themselves or their viewpoints to
the agency") (quoting Batterton v. Marshall, 648 F.2d 694, 707 (DC Cir.
1980)). Specifying the procedures for according prioritized examination
for an application in which a request for continued examination has
been made concerns only the manner in which applicants interact with
the Office and does not change the substantive rights (condition of
patentability) of any patent applicant. See Bachow Communications, Inc.
v. F.C.C., 237 F.3d 683 (DC Cir. 2001) (rule permitting or suspending
amendments to applications was procedural).
   Accordingly, prior notice and an opportunity for public comment are
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not required pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 553(b)(A) or any other law. See
Cooper Techs. Co. v. Dudas, 536 F.3d 1330, 1336-37 (Fed. Cir. 2008)
(stating that 5 U.S.C. 553, and thus 35 U.S.C. 2(b)(2)(B), do not
require notice and comment rule making for "interpretative rules,
general statements of policy, or rules of agency organization,
procedure, or practice.") (quoting 5 U.S.C. 553(b)(A)). In addition,
thirty-day advance publication is not required pursuant to 5 U.S.C.
553(d) or any other law. See 5 U.S.C. 553(d) (requiring thirty-day
advance publication for substantive rules).

B. Regulatory Flexibility Act

   As prior notice and an opportunity for public comment are not
required pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 553 or any other law, neither a
regulatory flexibility analysis nor a certification under the
Regulatory Flexibility Act (5 U.S.C. 601 et seq.) is required. See 5
U.S.C. 603.

C. Executive Order 12866 (Regulatory Planning and Review)

   This rule making has been determined to be not significant for
purposes of Executive Order 12866 (Sept. 30, 1993).

D. Executive Order 13563 (Improving Regulation and Regulatory Review)

   The Office has complied with Executive Order 13563 (Jan. 18, 2011).
Specifically, the Office has, to the extent feasible and applicable:
(1) Made a reasoned determination that the benefits justify the costs
of the rule; (2) tailored the rule to impose the least burden on
society consistent with obtaining the regulatory objectives; (3)
selected a regulatory approach that maximizes net benefits; (4)
specified performance objectives; (5) identified and assessed available
alternatives; (6) involved the public in an open exchange of
information and perspectives among experts in relevant disciplines,
affected stakeholders in the private sector and the public as a whole,
and provided on-line access to the rule making docket; (7) attempted to
promote coordination, simplification and harmonization across
government agencies and identified goals designed to promote
innovation; (8) considered approaches that reduce burdens and maintain
flexibility and freedom of choice for the public; and (9) ensured the
objectivity of scientific and technological information and processes.

E. Executive Order 13132 (Federalism)

   This rule making does not contain policies with federalism
implications sufficient to warrant preparation of a Federalism
Assessment under Executive Order 13132 (Aug. 4, 1999).

F. Executive Order 13175 (Tribal Consultation)

   This rule making will not: (1) Have substantial direct effects on
one or more Indian tribes; (2) impose substantial direct compliance
costs on Indian tribal governments; or (3) preempt tribal law.
Therefore, a tribal summary impact statement is not required under
Executive Order 13175 (Nov. 6, 2000).

G. Executive Order 13211 (Energy Effects)

   This rule making is not a significant energy action under Executive
Order 13211 because this rule making is not likely to have a
significant adverse effect on the supply, distribution, or use of
energy. Therefore, a Statement of Energy Effects is not required under
Executive Order 13211 (May 18, 2001).

H. Executive Order 12988 (Civil Justice Reform)
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   This rule making meets applicable standards to minimize litigation,
eliminate ambiguity, and reduce burden as set forth in sections 3(a)
and 3(b)(2) of Executive Order 12988 (Feb. 5, 1996).

I. Executive Order 13045 (Protection of Children)

   This rule making does not concern an environmental risk to health
or safety that may disproportionately affect children under Executive
Order 13045 (Apr. 21, 1997).

J. Executive Order 12630 (Taking of Private Property)

   This rule making will not effect a taking of private property or
otherwise have taking implications under Executive Order 12630 (Mar.
15, 1988).

K. Congressional Review Act

   Under the Congressional Review Act provisions of the Small Business
Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act of 1996 (5 U.S.C. 801 et seq.),
prior to issuing any final rule, the United States Patent and Trademark
Office will submit a report containing the final rule and other
required information to the United States Senate, the United States
House of Representatives, and the Comptroller General of the Government
Accountability Office. The changes in this notice are not expected to
result in an annual effect on the economy of 100 million dollars or
more, a major increase in costs or prices, or significant adverse
effects on competition, employment, investment, productivity,
innovation, or the ability of United States-based enterprises to
compete with foreign-based enterprises in domestic and export markets.
Therefore, this notice is not expected to result in a "major rule" as
defined in 5 U.S.C. 804(2).

L. Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995

   The changes set forth in this notice do not involve a Federal
intergovernmental mandate that will result in the expenditure by State,
local, and tribal governments, in the aggregate, of 100 million dollars
(as adjusted) or more in any one year, or a Federal private sector
mandate that will result in the expenditure by the private sector of
100 million dollars (as adjusted) or more in any one year, and will not
significantly or uniquely affect small governments. Therefore, no
actions are necessary under the provisions of the Unfunded Mandates
Reform Act of 1995. See 2 U.S.C. 1501 et seq.

M. National Environmental Policy Act

   This rule making will not have any effect on the quality of the
environment and is thus categorically excluded from review under the
National Environmental Policy Act of 1969. See 42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.

N. National Technology Transfer and Advancement Act

   The requirements of section 12(d) of the National Technology
Transfer and Advancement Act of 1995 (15 U.S.C. 272 note) are not
applicable because this rule making does not contain provisions which
involve the use of technical standards.

O. Paperwork Reduction Act

   This rule making implements a prioritized examination process. The
primary impact on the public of this change is that applicants will
have the option to request prioritized examination by paying
appropriate fees, filing a request via the Office's electronic filing
system (EFS-Web), and limiting their applications to four independent
claims and thirty total claims with no multiple dependent claims.
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   An applicant who wishes to participate in the program must submit a
certification and request to participate in the prioritized examination
program, preferably by using Form PTO/SB/424. The Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) has determined that, under 5 CFR 1320.3(h), Form PTO/
SB/424 does not collect "information" within the meaning of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. Therefore, this rule making does not
impose additional collection requirements under the Paperwork Reduction
Act which are subject to further review by OMB.
   Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no person is required
to respond to, nor shall a person be subject to a penalty for failure
to comply with, a collection of information subject to the requirements
of the Paperwork Reduction Act unless that collection of information
displays a currently valid OMB control number.

List of Subjects in 37 CFR Part 1

   Administrative practice and procedure, Courts, Freedom of
Information, Inventions and patents, Reporting and record keeping
requirements, Small Businesses.

   For the reasons set forth in the preamble, 37 CFR part 1 is amended
as follows:

PART 1-RULES OF PRACTICE IN PATENT CASES

1. The authority citation for 37 CFR Part 1 continues to read as
follows:

    Authority:  35 U.S.C. 2(b)(2).

2. Section 1.102 is amended by revising paragraph (e) to read as
follows:

§  1.102  Advancement of examination.

* * * * *

   (e) A request for prioritized examination under this paragraph must
comply with the requirements of this paragraph and be accompanied by
the prioritized examination fee set forth in § 1.17(c), the
processing fee set forth in § 1.17(i), and if not already paid, the
publication fee set forth in § 1.18(d). An application for which
prioritized examination has been requested may not contain or be
amended to contain more than four independent claims, more than thirty
total claims, or any multiple dependent claim. Prioritized examination
under this paragraph will not be accorded to international applications
that have not entered the national stage under 35 U.S.C. 371, design
applications, reissue applications, provisional applications, or
reexamination proceedings. A request for prioritized examination must
also comply with the requirements of paragraph (e)(1) or paragraph
(e)(2) of this section.
   (1) A request for prioritized examination may be filed with an
original utility or plant nonprovisional application under 35 U.S.C.
111(a) that is complete as defined by § 1.51(b), with any fees due
under § 1.16 paid on filing. If the application is a utility
application, it must be filed via the Office's electronic filing
system. The request for prioritized examination in compliance with this
paragraph must be present upon filing of the application.
   (2) A request for prioritized examination may be filed with or
after a request for continued examination in compliance with §
1.114. If the application is a utility application, the request must be
filed via the Office's electronic filing system. The request must be
filed before the mailing of the first Office action after the filing of
the request for continued examination under § 1.114. Only a single
such request for prioritized examination under this paragraph may be
granted in an application.

December 7, 2011                                            DAVID J. KAPPOS
                  Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and
                  Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office
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Extension of the Extended Missing Parts Pilot Program 
                            DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
                   United States Patent and Trademark Office
                         [Docket No. PTO-P-2011-0076]

                Extension of the Extended Missing Parts Pilot Program

AGENCY: United States Patent and Trademark Office, Commerce.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
implemented a pilot program (Extended Missing Parts Pilot Program) in
which an applicant, under certain conditions, can request a twelve-
month time period to pay the search fee, the examination fee, any
excess claim fees, and the surcharge (for the late submission of the
search fee and the examination fee) in a nonprovisional application.
The Extended Missing Parts Pilot Program benefits applicants by
permitting additional time to determine if patent protection should be
sought-at a relatively low cost-and by permitting applicants to focus
efforts on commercialization during this period. The Extended Missing
Parts Pilot Program benefits the USPTO and the public by adding
publications to the body of prior art, and by removing from the USPTO's
workload those nonprovisional applications for which applicants later
decide not to pursue examination. The USPTO is extending the Extended
Missing Parts Pilot Program until December 31, 2012, to better gauge
whether the Extended Missing Parts Program offers sufficient benefits
to the patent community for it to be made permanent.

DATES: Effective Date: December 16, 2011.
    Duration: The Extended Missing Parts Pilot Program will run through
December 31, 2012. Therefore, any certification and request to
participate in the Extended Missing Parts Pilot Program must be filed
before December 31, 2012. The USPTO may further extend the pilot
program (with or without modifications) depending on the feedback
received and the continued effectiveness of the pilot program.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Eugenia A. Jones, Senior Legal
Advisor, Office of Patent Legal Administration, Office of the Associate
Commissioner for Patent Examination Policy, by telephone at (571) 272-
7727, or by mail addressed to: Mail Stop Comments-Patents,
Commissioner for Patents, P.O. Box 1450, Alexandria, VA 22313-1450,
marked to the attention of Eugenia A. Jones.
    Inquiries regarding this notice may be directed to the Office of
Patent Legal Administration, by telephone at (571) 272-7701, or by
electronic mail at PatentPractice@uspto.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The USPTO implemented a change to missing
parts practice in certain nonprovisional applications as a pilot
program (i.e., Extended Missing Parts Pilot Program) after considering
written comments from the public. See Pilot Program for Extended Time
Period To Reply to a Notice to File Missing Parts of Nonprovisional
Application, 75 FR 76401 (Dec. 8, 2010), 1362 Off. Gaz. Pat. Office 44
(Jan. 4, 2011).
    The USPTO is extending the Extended Missing Parts Pilot Program
until December 31, 2012. The USPTO may further extend the Extended
Missing Parts Pilot Program, or may discontinue the pilot program after
December 31, 2012, depending on the results of the program. The
requirements of the program are reiterated below. Applicants are
strongly cautioned to review the pilot program requirements before
making a request to participate in the Extended Missing Parts Pilot
Program.
    The USPTO cautions all applicants that, in order to claim the
benefit of a prior provisional application, the statute requires a
nonprovisional application filed under 35 U.S.C. 111(a) to be filed
within twelve months after the date on which the corresponding
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provisional application was filed. See 35 U.S.C. 119(e). It is
essential that applicants understand that the Extended Missing Parts
Pilot Program cannot and does not change this statutory requirement.
    I. Requirements: In order for an applicant to be provided a twelve-
month (non-extendable) time period to pay the search and examination
fees and any required excess claims fees in response to a Notice to
File Missing Parts of Nonprovisional Application under the Extended
Missing Parts Pilot Program, the applicant must satisfy the following
conditions: (1) Applicant must submit a certification and request to
participate in the Extended Missing Parts Pilot Program with the
nonprovisional application on filing, preferably by using Form PTO/SB/
421 titled "Certification and Request for Extended Missing Parts Pilot
Program;" (2) the application must be an original nonprovisional
utility or plant application filed under 35 U.S.C. 111(a) within the
duration of the pilot program; (3) the nonprovisional application must
directly claim the benefit under 35 U.S.C. 119(e) and 37 CFR 1.78 of a
prior provisional application filed within the previous twelve months;
the specific reference to the provisional application must be in the
first sentence of the specification following the title or in an
application data sheet under 37 CFR 1.76 (see 37 CFR 1.78(a)(5)); and
(4) applicant must not have filed a nonpublication request.
    As required for all nonprovisional applications, applicant will
need to satisfy filing date requirements and publication requirements.
In accordance with 35 U.S.C. 122(b), the USPTO will publish the
application promptly after the expiration of eighteen months from the
earliest filing date to which benefit is sought. Therefore, the
nonprovisional application should also be in condition for publication
as provided in 37 CFR 1.211(c). The following are required in order for
the nonprovisional application to be in condition for publication: (1)
The basic filing fee; (2) an executed oath or declaration in compliance
with 37 CFR 1.63; (3) a specification in compliance with 37 CFR 1.52; (4)
an abstract in compliance with 37 CFR 1.72(b); (5) drawings in compliance
with 37 CFR 1.84 (if applicable); (6) any application size fee required
under 37 CFR 1.16(s); (7) any English translation required by 37 CFR
1.52(d); and (8) a sequence listing in compliance with 37 CFR 1.821-1.825
(if applicable). The USPTO also requires any petition under 37 CFR 1.47 to
be granted, any compact disc requirements to be satisfied, and an English
translation of the provisional application to be filed in the provisional
application if the provisional application was filed in a non-English
language and a translation has not yet been filed. If the requirements
for publication are not met, applicant will need to satisfy the
publication requirements within a two-month extendable time period.
    As noted above, applicants should request participation in the
Extended Missing Parts Pilot Program by using Form PTO/SB/421. For
utility patent applications, applicant may file the application and the
certification and request electronically using the USPTO electronic
filing system, EFS-Web, and selecting the document description of
"Certification and Request for Missing Parts Pilot" for the
certification and request on the EFS-Web screen. Form PTO/SB/421 is
available on the USPTO Web site at http://www.uspto.gov/forms/sb0421.pdf.
Information regarding EFS-Web is available on the USPTO Web
site at http://www.uspto.gov/ebc/index.jsp.
    The utility application including the certification and request to
participate in the pilot program may also be filed by mail (e.g., by
"Express Mail" in accordance with 37 CFR 1.10) or hand-carried to the
USPTO. However, applicants are advised that, effective November 15,
2011, as provided in the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, a new
additional fee of $400.00 for a non-small entity ($200.00 for a small
entity) is due for any nonprovisional utility patent application that
is not filed by EFS-Web. See Public Law 112-29, § 10(h), 125 Stat.
283, 319 (2011). This non-electronic filing fee is due on filing of the
utility application or within the two-month (extendable) time period to
reply to the Notice to File Missing Parts of Nonprovisional
Application. Applicants will not be given the twelve-month time period
to pay the non-electronic filing fee. Therefore, utility applicants are
strongly encouraged to file their utility applications via EFS-Web to
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avoid this additional fee.
    For plant patent applications, applicant must file the application
including the certification and request to participate in the pilot
program by mail or hand-carried to the USPTO since plant patent
applications cannot be filed electronically using EFS-Web. See Legal
Framework for Electronic Filing System Web (EFS-Web), 74 FR 55200 (Oct.
27, 2009), 1348 Off. Gaz. Pat. Office 394 (Nov. 24, 2009).
    II. Processing of Requests: If applicant satisfies the requirements
(discussed above) on filing of the nonprovisional application and the
application is in condition for publication, the USPTO will send
applicant a Notice to File Missing Parts of Nonprovisional Application
that sets a twelve-month (non-extendable) time period to submit the
search fee, the examination fee, any excess claims fees (under 37 CFR
1.16(h)-(j)), and the surcharge under 37 CFR 1.16(f) (for the late
submission of the search fee and examination fee). The twelve-month
time period will run from the mailing date, or notification date for
e-Office Action participants, of the Notice to File Missing Parts. For
information on the e-Office Action program, see Electronic Office
Action, 1343 Off. Gaz. Pat. Office 45 (June 2, 2009), and
http://www.uspto.gov/patents/process/status/e-Office_Action.jsp. After an
applicant files a timely reply to the Notice to File Missing Parts
within the twelve-month time period and the nonprovisional application
is completed, the nonprovisional application will be placed in the
examination queue based on the actual filing date of the nonprovisional
application.
    For a detailed discussion regarding treatment of applications that
are not in condition for publication, processing of improper requests
to participate in the program, and treatment of authorizations to
charge fees, see Pilot Program for Extended Time Period To Reply to a
Notice to File Missing Parts of Nonprovisional Application, 75 FR
76401, 76403-04 (Dec. 8, 2010), 1362 Off. Gaz. Pat. Office 44, 47-49
(Jan. 4, 2011).
    III. Important Reminders: Applicants are reminded that the
disclosure of an invention in a provisional application should be as
complete as possible because the claimed subject matter in the later-
filed nonprovisional application must have support in the provisional
application in order for the applicant to obtain the benefit of the
filing date of the provisional application.
    Furthermore, the nonprovisional application as originally filed
must have a complete disclosure that complies with 35 U.S.C. 112, first
paragraph, which is sufficient to support the claims submitted on
filing and any claims submitted later during prosecution. New matter
cannot be added to an application after the filing date of the
application. See 35 U.S.C. 132(a). In order to be accorded a filing
date, a nonprovisional application must include a specification
concluding with at least one claim as prescribed by 35 U.S.C. 112 and a
drawing as prescribed by 35 U.S.C. 113. See 35 U.S.C. 111(a). While
only one claim is required in a nonprovisional application for filing
date purposes and applicant may file an amendment adding additional
claims later during prosecution, applicant should consider the benefits
of submitting a complete set of claims on filing of the nonprovisional
application. This would reduce the likelihood that any claims added
later during prosecution might be found to contain new matter. Also, if
a patent is granted and the patentee is successful in litigation
against an infringer, provisional rights to a reasonable royalty under
35 U.S.C. 154(d) may be available only if the claims that are published
in the patent application publication are substantially identical to
the patented claims that are infringed, assuming timely actual notice
is provided. Thus, the importance of the claims that are included in
the patent application publication should not be overlooked.
    Applicants are also advised that the extended missing parts period
does not affect the twelve-month priority period provided by the Paris
Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property (Paris
Convention). Thus, any foreign filings must still be made within twelve
months of the filing date of the provisional application if applicant
wishes to rely on the provisional application in the foreign-filed
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application or if protection is desired in a country requiring filing
within twelve months of the earliest application for which rights are
left outstanding in order to be entitled to priority.
    For additional reminders, see Pilot Program for Extended Time
Period To Reply to a Notice to File Missing Parts of Nonprovisional
Application, 75 FR 76401, 76405 (Dec. 8, 2010), 1362 Off. Gaz. Pat.
Office 44, 50 (Jan. 4, 2011).

December 6, 2011                                            DAVID J. KAPPOS
                  Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and
                  Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office
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Notice of Suspension and Probation 
                      Notice of Suspension and Probation

   This concerns Leon I. Edelson of Deerfield, Illinois, a registered
patent attorney (Registration No. 38,863).  Mr. Edelson has been suspended
for thirty-six (36) months by the United States Patent and Trademark Office
("USPTO" or "Office") for violating 37 C.F.R. § 10.23(a) via 37 C.F.R.
§§10.23(c)(2)(i) and 10.23(c)(8); 37 C.F.R. § 10.23(b)(4); 37 C.F.R.
§ 10.23(b)(5); 37 C.F.R. § 10.23(b)(6); 37 C.F.R. § 10.77(c) and 37 C.F.R.
§ 10.84(a).  Mr. Edelson is eligible to request reinstatement after serving
six months of his 36-month suspension.  Mr. Edelson has also been placed on
a 36-month probationary period.

   During his representation of a certain client before the Office, Mr.
Edelson received Office correspondence that could have a significant effect
on the patent, Patent Cooperation Treaty ("PCT"), and trademark matters the
client entrusted  to him, but he did not always inform the client of such
correspondence; did not always provide accurate information to the client
about the status of the patent, PCT, and trademark matters; provided false
or misleading information to the client about the status of the patent,
PCT, and trademark matters; failed to keep himself adequately apprised as
to the status of patent, PCT, and trademark applications pending before the
Office; allowed patent, PCT, and trademark applications to become abandoned
without the client's knowledge or consent; and did not take appropriate,
timely corrective action to revive or restore the abandoned patent, PCT,
and trademark applications. Additionally Mr. Edelson, through his attorney,
provided false or misleading information to the Office of Enrollment and
Discipline in connection with its investigation of his alleged misconduct.

   This action is the result of a settlement agreement between Mr. Edelson
and the OED Director pursuant to the provisions of 35 U.S.C. §§ 2(b)(2)(D)
and 32 and 37 C.F.R. §§ 11.20, 11.26, and 11.59.  Disciplinary decisions
involving practitioners are posted for public reading at the Office of
Enrollment and Discipline Reading Room located at:
http://des.uspto.gov/Foia/OEDReadingRoom.jsp.

December 15, 2011                                            JAMES O. PAYNE
                                     Deputy General Counsel for General Law
                                  United States Patent and Trademark Office
                                                               on behalf of
                                                            DAVID M. KAPPOS
                  Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and
                  Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office
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Patent Prosecution Highway Pilot Program between the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the State Intellectual Property Office of the People's Republic of China

Patent Prosecution Highway Pilot Program between the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the State Intellectual Property Office of the People’s Republic of China

I. Background

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has established a 2010-2015 Strategic Plan to transform the USPTO into a more quality-focused, highly productive, responsive organization supporting a market-driven intellectual property system. One of the specific action items of the 2010-2015 Strategic Plan is to share search results with other intellectual property offices. By relying on the search results obtained via partnerships with other intellectual property offices, the USPTO can reduce duplication of efforts and decrease workload.

From July 2006 to January 2008, the USPTO partnered with the Japan Patent Office (JPO) to establish the first Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) pilot program. The PPH leverages accelerated examination procedures already available in both offices to allow applicants in both offices to obtain corresponding patents faster and more efficiently. The PPH also permits each office to benefit from the work previously done by the other office, in turn helping to reduce workload and improve patent quality. The USPTO and the JPO began full implementation of the PPH program on January 4, 2008.

The USPTO commenced a PPH pilot program with the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) and the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) on January 28, 2008. The pilot program with KIPO ended on January 28, 2009, and full implementation of the PPH program began on January 29, 2009. The pilot program with CIPO ended on January 28, 2011, and full implementation of the PPH program with CIPO began on January 28, 2011.

USPTO has also commenced separate PPH pilot programs with the United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office (UK IPO), IP Australia (IPAU), the European Patent Office (EPO), the Danish Patent and Trademark Office (DKPTO), the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS), the German Patent and Trade Mark Office (DPMA), the National Board of Patents and Registration of Finland (NBPR), the Hungarian Patent Office (HPO), the Russian Patent Office (Rospatent), the Spanish Patent and Trademark Office (SPTO), the Austrian Patent Office (APO), the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property (IMPI), the Israeli Patent Office (ILPO), the Taiwan Intellectual Property Office (TIPO), the Norwegian Industrial Property Office (NIPO), and the Icelandic Patent Office (IPO) based on the same or similar framework as the PPH between the USPTO and JPO.

Following on these partnerships, the USPTO and the State Intellectual Property Office of the People’s Republic of China (SIPO) have agreed to launch a PPH pilot program similar to the PPH pilot programs noted above.

II. Patent Prosecution Highway Pilot Program

The PPH was established to enable an applicant whose claims are determined to be allowable/patentable in the Office of First Filing (OFF) to have the corresponding application filed in the Office of Second Filing (OSF) advanced out of turn for examination while at the same time allowing the OSF to exploit the search and examination results of the OFF.

Where the USPTO is the OFF and the U.S. application contains claims that are determined to be allowable/patentable, the applicant may request accelerated examination at SIPO for the corresponding application filed with SIPO as the OSF. The procedures and requirements for filing a request with SIPO for participation in the PPH pilot program will be available on December 1, 2011, from the SIPO Web site at: http://www.sipo.gov.cn/sipo_English2008/.

Where the USPTO is the OSF and the corresponding application filed with SIPO as the OFF contains claims that are determined by the SIPO to be allowable/patentable, the applicant may request participation in the PPH pilot program in the USPTO and request that the U.S. application be advanced out of turn for examination by order of the Director to expedite the business of the Office under 37 CFR 1.102(a). Note that the procedures for a petition to make special under the accelerated examination program set forth in MPEP 708.02(a) do NOT apply to a request for expedited examination by order of the Director to expedite the business of the Office under 37 CFR 1.102(a). The procedures and requirements for filing a request in the USPTO for participation in the PPH pilot program are set forth below.

A. Trial Period for the PPH Pilot Program

The PPH pilot program will commence on December 1, 2011, for a period of one year ending on November 30, 2012. The trial period may be extended for up to an additional year if necessary to adequately assess the feasibility of the PPH program. The USPTO and SIPO will evaluate the results of the pilot program to determine whether and how the program should be fully implemented after the trial period. The offices may also terminate the PPH pilot program early if the volume of participation exceeds a manageable level, or for any other reason. Notice will be published if the PPH pilot program will be terminated before the November 30, 2012 date.

B. Requirements for Requesting Participation in the PPH Pilot Program in the USPTO

In order to be eligible to participate in the PPH pilot program, the following conditions must be met:

(1) The U.S. application is

   

(a) a Paris Convention application which either

   

(i) validly claims priority under 35 U.S.C. § 119(a) and 37 CFR 1.55 to one or more applications filed with SIPO, or
(ii) validly claims priority under 35 U.S.C. §§ 119(a)/365(a) to a PCT application that contains no priority claims,

or

(b) a national stage application under the PCT (an application which entered the national stage in the U.S. from a PCT international application after compliance with 35 U.S.C. § 371), in which the PCT application

   

(i) validly claims priority under 35 U.S.C. § 365(b) to an application filed with SIPO, or
(ii) validly claims priority under 35 U.S.C. § 365(b) to a PCT application that contains no priority claims, or
(iii) contains no priority claim,

or

(c) a so-called bypass application filed under 35 U.S.C. § 111(a) which validly claims benefit under 35 U.S.C. § 120 to a PCT application, in which the PCT application

   

(i) validly claims priority under 35 U.S.C. § 365(b) to an application filed with SIPO, or
(ii) validly claims priority under 35 U.S.C. § 365(b) to a PCT application that contains no priority claims, or
(iii) contains no priority claim.

Examples of U.S. applications that fall under requirement (1) are:

(1)(a)(i):

- U.S. application with single Paris Convention priority claim to an application filed in China (CN)

U.S. application with single Paris Convention priority claim to an application filed in China (CN)

- U.S. application with multiple Paris Convention priority claims to CN applications

U.S. application with multiple Paris Convention priority claims to CN applications

- Paris route and domestic priority

Paris route and domestic priority

- Paris route and divisional application

Paris route and divisional application

(1)(a)(ii):

- U.S. application claims Paris Convention priority to a PCT application

U.S. application claims Paris Convention priority to a PCT application

* DO – Designated Office

(1)(b)(i):

- U.S. application is a national stage of a PCT application which claims Paris Convention priority to a CN application

U.S. application is a national stage of a PCT application which claims Paris Convention priority to a CN application

- PCT Route

PCT Route

(1)(b)(ii):

- U.S. application is a national stage of a PCT application which claims Paris Convention priority to another PCT application

U.S. application is a national stage of a PCT application which claims Paris Convention priority to another PCT application

- Direct PCT and PCT Route

Direct PCT and PCT Route

(1)(b)(iii):

- U.S. application is a national stage of a PCT application without priority claim

U.S. application is a national stage of a PCT application without priority claim

(1)(c)(i):

- U.S. application is a § 111(a) bypass of a PCT application which claims Paris Convention priority to a CN application

U.S. application is a § 111(a) bypass of a PCT application which claims Paris Convention priority to a CN application

(1)(c)(ii):

- U.S. application is a § 111(a) bypass of a PCT application which claims Paris Convention priority to another PCT application

U.S. application is a § 111(a) bypass of a PCT application which claims Paris Convention priority to another PCT application

(1)(c)(iii):

- U.S. application is a § 111(a) bypass of a PCT application which contains no priority claim

U.S. application is a § 111(a) bypass of a PCT application which contains no priority claim

The CN application whose claims are determined to be allowable/patentable does not have to be the application for which priority is claimed in the USPTO application (the basic application). The CN application can be an application explicitly derived from the basic application, e.g., a divisional application of the basic application. Note that where the CN application that contains the allowable/patentable claims is not the same application for which priority is claimed in the U.S. application, the applicant must identify the relationship between the CN application that contains the allowable/patentable claims and the CN priority application claimed in the U.S. application (e.g., CN application X that contains the allowable/patentable claims is a divisional application of CN application Y, which is the priority application claimed in the U.S. application).

Provisional applications, plant applications, design applications, reissue applications, reexamination proceedings, and applications subject to a secrecy order are excluded and not subject to participation in the PPH.

(2) The CN application(s) have at least one claim that was determined by the SIPO to be allowable/patentable. The CN application with the allowed claims cannot be a utility model application. The applicant may not rely on the allowed claims from a CN utility model application for purposes of requesting PPH in the U.S. application. The applicant must submit a copy of the allowable/patentable claims from the CN application(s) along with an English translation thereof and a statement that the English translation is accurate if the claims are not in the English language. If the SIPO office action does not explicitly state that a particular claim is allowable, the applicant must include a statement in the request for participation in the PPH pilot program or in the transmittal letter accompanying the request for participation that no rejection has been made in the SIPO office action regarding that claim, and therefore, the claim is deemed allowable by the SIPO.

(3) All the claims in each U.S. application for which a request for participation in the PPH pilot program is made must sufficiently correspond to or be amended to sufficiently correspond to the allowable/patentable claims in the CN application(s). Claims will be considered to sufficiently correspond where, accounting for differences due to translations and claim format requirements, the claims are of the same or similar scope. The applicant is also required to submit a claims correspondence table in English. The claims correspondence table must indicate how all the claims in the U.S. application correspond to the allowable/patentable claims in the CN application(s).

(4) Examination of the U.S. application for which participation in the PPH pilot program is requested has not begun.

(5) The applicant must file a request for participation in the PPH pilot program and a request that the U.S. application be advanced out of turn for examination by order of the Director to expedite the business of the Office under 37 CFR 1.102(a). A sample request form (PTO/SB/20CN) will be available from the USPTO Web site at http://www.uspto.gov on December 1, 2011. Applicants are encouraged to use the USPTO request form. A petition fee under 37 CFR 1.17(h) is NOT required. See Notice Regarding the Elimination of the Fee for Petitions To Make Special Filed Under the Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) Programs, 75 Fed. Reg. 29312 (May 25, 2010).

(6) The applicant must submit a copy of all the office actions (which are relevant to patentability) from each of the CN application(s) containing the allowable/patentable claims that are the basis for the request, along with an English translation thereof and a statement that the English translation is accurate if the office actions are not in the English language. If the CN application is a first action allowance, i.e., there is no office action prior to the “Decision to Grant a Patent,” then the applicant should indicate on the request form that no office action from the CN application is submitted since the CN application was a first action allowance. In addition, the applicant must submit copies of any office actions (which are relevant to patentability) from the CN application(s) issued after the grant of the request for participation in the PPH pilot program in the USPTO (especially where SIPO might have reversed a prior holding of allowability).

(7) The applicant must submit an information disclosure statement (IDS) listing the documents cited by the SIPO examiner in the SIPO office action (unless such an IDS has already been filed in the U.S. application). The applicant must submit copies of all the documents cited in the SIPO office action (unless the copies have already been filed in the U.S. application) except U.S. patents or U.S. patent application publications.

The request for participation in the PPH pilot program and all the supporting documents must be submitted to the USPTO via EFS-Web and indexed with the following document description: “Petition to make special under Patent Pros Hwy.” Information regarding EFS-Web is available at http://www.uspto.gov/ebc/efs_help.html. Any preliminary amendments and IDS submitted with the PPH documents must be separately indexed as a preliminary amendment and IDS, respectively.

Where the request for participation in the PPH pilot program and special status are granted, the applicant will be notified and the U.S. application will be advanced out of turn for examination. In those instances where the request for participation in the PPH pilot program does not meet all the requirements set forth above, the applicant will be notified and the defects in the request will be identified. The applicant will be given one opportunity to perfect the request in a renewed request for participation (which must be submitted via EFS-Web and indexed accordingly as noted above). Note that action on the application by the examiner will NOT be suspended (37 CFR 1.103) awaiting a reply by the applicant to perfect the request in a renewed request for participation. That is, if the application is picked up for examination by the examiner after the applicant has been notified of the defects in the request, any renewed request will be dismissed. If the renewed request is perfected and examination has not begun, the request and special status will be granted, the applicant will be notified and the U.S. application will be advanced out of turn for examination. If not perfected, the applicant will be notified and the application will await action in its regular turn.

(8) Request for participation in the PPH pilot program and special status granted in a parent application will not carry over to a continuing application. The applicant must fulfill all the conditions set forth above in order for special status to be granted in the continuing application.

If any of the documents identified in items (2), (6) and (7) above have already been filed in the U.S. application prior to the request for participation in the PPH pilot program, it will not be necessary for the applicant to resubmit these documents with the request for participation. The applicant may simply refer to these documents and indicate in the request for participation in the PPH pilot program when these documents were previously filed in the U.S. application.

C. Special Examining Procedures

Once the request for participation in the PPH pilot program and special status have been granted to the U.S. application, the U.S. application will be taken up for examination by the U.S. examiner before all other categories of applications except those clearly in condition for allowance, those with set time limits, such as examiner’s answers, and those that have been granted special status for “accelerated examination.”

Any claims amended or added after the grant of the request for participation in the PPH pilot program must sufficiently correspond to one or more allowable/patentable claims in the CN application(s). The applicant is required to submit a claims correspondence table along with the amendment (see B.(3) above). If the amended or newly added claims do not sufficiently correspond to the allowable/patentable claims in the CN application(s), the amendment will not be entered and will be treated as a non-responsive reply.

The PPH program does not absolve applicants of all their duties under 37 CFR 1.56 and 37 CFR 11.18. By complying with requirements B.(6) and (7) identified above, applicants would be considered to have complied with their duties to bring to the attention of the USPTO any material prior art cited in the corresponding foreign application(s) (see MPEP § 2001.06(a)). Applicants still have a duty of candor and good faith, including providing to the USPTO other information known to them to be material to patentability.

Any inquiries concerning this notice may be directed to Magdalen Greenlief, Office of the Associate Commissioner for Patent Examination Policy, at 571-272-8140 or at magdalen.greenlief@uspto.gov.

November 30, 2011  DAVID J. KAPPOS
  Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and
  Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office
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Patent Prosecution Highway Pilot Program between the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the State Intellectual Property Office of the People's Republic of China based on Patent Cooperation Treaty Work Products

Patent Prosecution Highway Pilot Program between the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the State Intellectual Property Office of the People’s Republic of China based on Patent Cooperation Treaty Work Products

I. Background

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and the State Intellectual Property Office of the People’s Republic of China (SIPO) have agreed to commence a Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) pilot program on December 1, 2011. Under the PPH pilot program, an applicant receiving a determination from the SIPO that at least one claim in an application filed in China is allowable/patentable may request that a corresponding application filed in the USPTO be accorded special status and be advanced out of turn for examination. The PPH pilot program is limited to the utilization of search and examination results of national applications between cross filings under the Paris Convention.

In order to expand the potential of the PPH pilot program, the USPTO recently implemented a new PPH pilot program with our Trilateral partners (the European Patent Office (EPO) and the Japan Patent Office (JPO)), the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO), the Austrian Patent Office (APO), the Federal Service on Intellectual Property, Patents & Trademarks (Rospatent), the Spanish Patent and Trademark Office (SPTO), IP Australia (IPAU), the National Board of Patents and Registration of Finland (NBPR), the Swedish Patent and Registration Office (PRV), and the Nordic Patent Institute (NPI) based on Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) work products (PCT-PPH pilot program). The USPTO had discussions with the SIPO to launch a PCT-PPH pilot program similar to the PCT-PPH pilot programs identified above. The USPTO and SIPO agreed that consistency between PCT-PPH pilot programs should be maintained to the extent possible, to avoid creating burdens on applicants and offices, and to ensure maximum work-sharing potential.

II. PCT-PPH Pilot Program

The PCT-PPH pilot program was established to enable an applicant, who has received

(1) a Written Opinion from an International Searching Authority (WO/ISA) (ISA must be the SIPO or the USPTO), or

(2) a Written Opinion from an International Preliminary Examining Authority (WO/IPEA) (IPEA must be the SIPO or the USPTO), or

(3) an International Preliminary Examination Report (IPER) from an International Preliminary Examining Authority (IPEA must be the SIPO or the USPTO),

that indicates at least one claim in the PCT application has novelty, inventive step and industrial applicability, to file a request to participate in the PCT-PPH pilot program in a corresponding U.S. application and petition to make the U.S. application special under the PCT-PPH pilot program. Note that the procedures for a petition to make special under the accelerated examination program set forth in MPEP 708.02(a) do NOT apply to a petition to make special under the PCT-PPH pilot program. The procedures and requirements for filing a request in the USPTO for participation in the PCT-PPH pilot program are set forth below.

A. Trial Period for the PCT-PPH Pilot Program

USPTO and SIPO agreed to commence the PCT-PPH pilot program on December 1, 2011, for a period of one year ending on November 30, 2012. The trial period may be extended if necessary until the USPTO and the SIPO receive a sufficient number of PCT-PPH requests to adequately assess the feasibility of the PCT-PPH pilot program. The USPTO and the SIPO may also terminate the PCT-PPH pilot program early if the volume of participation exceeds a manageable level, or for any other reasons. Notice will be published if the PCT-PPH pilot program will be terminated before the November 30, 2012 date.

B. Requirements for Requesting Participation in the PCT-PPH Pilot Program in the USPTO

In order to be eligible to participate in the PCT-PPH pilot program, the following conditions must be met:

(1) The relationship between the corresponding U.S. application for which participation in the PCT-PPH pilot program is requested and the PCT application satisfies one of the following requirements (note that RO/-- as used in the diagrams below refers to an international application filed under the PCT in any competent receiving office):

   

(a) The U.S. application is a national stage entry of the corresponding PCT application. See diagrams (A), (A’) and (A”) below.

(A) The U.S. application is a national stage entry of the corresponding PCT application.

* DODesignated Office

(A') The U.S. application is a national stage entry of the corresponding PCT application. (The corresponding PCT application claims priority to a national application filed anywhere.)

(A'') The U.S. application is a national stage entry of the corresponding PCT application. (The corresponding PCT application claims priority to another PCT application.)

(b) The U.S. application is a national application which forms the basis for the priority claim in the corresponding PCT application. See diagram (B) below.

Provisional applications, plant applications, design applications, reissue applications and applications subject to a secrecy order (35 U.S.C. § 181) are excluded and not subject to participation in the PCT-PPH pilot program.

(B) The U.S. application is a national application which forms the basis for the priority claim in the corresponding PCT application.

(c) The U.S. application is a national stage entry of another PCT application (which can be filed in any competent receiving office) which claims priority to the corresponding PCT application. See diagram (C) below.

(C) The U.S. application is a national stage entry of a PCT application which claims priority to the corresponding PCT application.

(d) The U.S. application is a national application claiming foreign/domestic priority to the corresponding PCT application. See diagram (D) below.

Design applications and applications subject to a secrecy order (35 U.S.C. § 181) are excluded and not subject to participation in the PCT-PPH pilot program.

(D) The U.S. application is a national application claiming foreign/domestic priority to the corresponding PCT application.

(e) The U.S. application is a continuing application (continuation, divisional, or continuation-in-part) of the U.S. application which satisfies one of the above (a) through (d) scenarios. See diagrams (E1) and (E2) below.

Plant applications, design applications and applications subject to a secrecy order (35 U.S.C. § 181) are excluded and not subject to participation in the PCT-PPH pilot program.

(E1) The U.S. application is a continuing application of an application which satisfies requirement (a).

(E2) The U.S. application (US2) is an application claiming Domestic priority to an application (US1) which satifies requirement (b).

In diagram (E2), US2 application may be a non-provisional application claiming benefit under 35 U.S.C. § 119(e) to a provisional application (US1).

(2) The latest work product in the international phase of the PCT application corresponding to the U.S. application, namely, the WO/ISA, WO/IPEA, or the IPER, indicates at least one claim in the PCT application has novelty, inventive step and industrial applicability. In case any observation is described in Box VIII of the WO/ISA, WO/IPEA, or IPER, which forms the basis for the PCT-PPH request, the applicant must identify and explain why the claim(s) is/are not subject to any observation described in Box VIII irrespective of whether an amendment is submitted to correct the observation described in Box VIII. The U.S. application will not be eligible to participate in the PCT-PPH pilot program if the applicant does not identify and explain why the claim(s) is/are not subject to the observation described in Box VIII.

Note that the ISA and the IPEA which produced the WO/ISA, WO/IPEA and the IPER are limited to the SIPO or the USPTO.

The applicant may not file a request to participate in the PCT-PPH pilot program on the basis of an International Search Report (ISR) only.

(3) Claim Correspondence

   

(a) All of the claims in each U.S. application for which a request for participation in the PCT-PPH pilot program is made must sufficiently correspond to or be amended to sufficiently correspond to one or more of those claims indicated as having novelty, inventive step and industrial applicability and be free of any observation described in Box VIII in the latest work product of the corresponding PCT application.

(b) Claims are considered to “sufficiently correspond” where, accounting for differences due to translations and claim format requirements, the claims in the U.S. application are of the same or similar scope as the claims indicated as having novelty, inventive step and industrial applicability and free of any observation described in Box VIII in the latest work product of the corresponding PCT application, or the claims in the U.S. application are narrower in scope than the claims indicated as having novelty, inventive step and industrial applicability and free of any observation described in Box VIII in the latest work product of the corresponding PCT application.

(c) In this regard, a claim that is narrower in scope occurs when a claim indicated as having novelty, inventive step and industrial applicability and free of any observation described in Box VIII in the latest work product of the corresponding PCT application is amended to be further limited by an additional feature that is supported in the written description of the U.S. application. The claim(s) with the narrower scope must be written in dependent form in the U.S. application for which participation in the PCT-PPH pilot program is requested.

(4) Substantive examination of the U.S. application for which participation in the PCT-PPH pilot program is requested has not begun.

(5) The applicant must file a request for participation in the PCT-PPH pilot program and a request that the U.S. application be advanced out of turn for examination by order of the Director to expedite the business of the office under 37 CFR 1.102(a). A sample request form (PTO/SB/20PCT-CN) will be available from the USPTO Web site at http://www.uspto.gov on December 1, 2011. Applicants are encouraged to use the USPTO request form. A petition fee under 37 CFR 1.17(h) is NOT required. See Notice Regarding the Elimination of the Fee for Petitions To Make Special Filed Under the Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) Programs, 75 Fed. Reg. 29312 (May 25, 2010).

(6) Unless already filed in the U.S. application for which participation in the PCT-PPH pilot program is requested, the applicant must submit a copy of the latest international work product, WO/ISA, WO/IPEA or IPER, which indicated that the claim(s) has/have novelty, inventive step and industrial applicability along with an English translation thereof if the copy of the latest international work product is not in the English language. A statement that the English translation is accurate is not required. Where the required documents have been previously filed in the U.S. application, the applicant may simply refer to these documents and indicate in the request for participation in the PCT-PPH pilot program when these documents were previously filed in the U.S. application. Where the U.S. application and the corresponding PCT application satisfy the relationship noted in B.(1)(a) above, the applicant need not submit a copy of the latest international work product along with an English translation thereof since a copy of these documents is already contained in the file wrapper of the U.S. application.

(7) Unless already filed in the U.S. application for which participation in the PCT-PPH pilot program is requested, the applicant must submit a copy of the claims from the corresponding PCT application which were indicated as having novelty, inventive step and industrial applicability in the latest work product of the PCT application along with an English translation thereof and a statement that the English translation is accurate if the claims are not in the English language. Where the required documents have been previously filed in the U.S. application, the applicant may simply refer to these documents and indicate in the request for participation in the PCT-PPH pilot program when these documents were previously filed in the U.S. application. If the claims in the U.S. application for which participation in the PCT-PPH pilot program is requested are identical to the claims from the corresponding PCT application, and are in the English language, the applicant may just indicate such in the PCT-PPH request and it will not be necessary for the applicant to submit a copy of the claims from the corresponding PCT application.

(8) The applicant is required to submit a claims correspondence table in English. The claims correspondence table must indicate how all the claims in the U.S. application sufficiently correspond to the claims indicated as having novelty, inventive step and industrial applicability in the latest international work product.

(9) The applicant must submit an information disclosure statement (IDS) listing the documents cited in the international work products (ISR, WO/ISA, WO/IPEA, IPER) of the PCT application corresponding to the U.S. application for which participation in the PCT-PPH pilot program is requested (unless such an IDS has already been filed in the U.S. application, in which case the applicant may simply refer to the previously filed IDS and indicate in the request for participation in the PCT-PPH pilot program when the IDS was previously filed in the U.S. application). The applicant must submit copies of all the documents cited in the international work products of the PCT application corresponding to the U.S. application (unless the copies have already been filed in the U.S. application, in which case the applicant may simply refer to the previously filed copies of the documents and indicate in the request for participation in the PCT-PPH pilot program when the copies were previously filed in the U.S. application) except U.S. patents or U.S. patent application publications.

(10) The request for participation in the PCT-PPH pilot program and all the supporting documents must be submitted to the USPTO via EFS-Web and indexed with the following document description: “Petition to make special under PCT-Patent Pros Hwy.” Information regarding EFS-Web is available at http://www.uspto.gov/ebc/efs_help.html. Any preliminary amendments and IDS submitted with the PCT-PPH documents must be separately indexed as a preliminary amendment and IDS, respectively.

Where the request for participation in the PCT-PPH pilot program and special status are granted, the applicant will be notified and the U.S. application will be advanced out of turn for examination. In those instances where the request for participation in the PCT-PPH pilot program does not meet all the requirements set forth above, the applicant will be notified and the defects in the request will be identified. The applicant will be given one opportunity to perfect the request in a renewed request for participation (which must be submitted via EFS-Web and indexed accordingly as noted above). Note that action on the application by the examiner will NOT be suspended (37 CFR 1.103) awaiting a reply by the applicant to perfect the request in a renewed request for participation. That is, if the application is picked up for examination by the examiner after the applicant has been notified of the defects in the request, any renewed request will be dismissed. If the renewed request is perfected and examination has not begun, the request and special status will be granted, the applicant will be notified and the U.S. application will be advanced out of turn for examination. If not perfected, the applicant will be notified and the application will await action in its regular turn.

Request for participation in the PCT-PPH pilot program and special status granted in a parent application will not carry over to a continuing application. The applicant must fulfill all the conditions set forth above in order for special status to be granted in the continuing application.

C. Special Examining Procedures

Once the request for participation in the PCT-PPH pilot program and special status have been granted to the U.S. application, the U.S. application will be taken up for examination by the U.S. examiner before all other categories of applications except those clearly in condition for allowance, those with set time limits, such as examiner’s answers, and those that have been granted special status for “accelerated examination.”

Any claims amended or added after the grant of the request for participation in the PCT-PPH pilot program must “sufficiently correspond” to the claims indicated as having novelty, inventive step and industrial applicability in the latest work product of the corresponding PCT application. See the definition of “sufficient correspondence” in II.B.(3) above. The applicant is required to submit a claims correspondence table along with the amendment (see II.B.(8) above). If the amended or newly added claims do not sufficiently correspond to the claims indicated as having novelty, inventive step and industrial applicability in the latest work product of the corresponding PCT application, the amendment will not be entered and will be treated as a non-responsive reply.

The PCT-PPH program does not absolve applicants of all their duties under 37 CFR 1.56 and 37 CFR 11.18. By complying with requirements II.B.(6) and (9) identified above, applicants would be considered to have complied with their duties to bring to the attention of the USPTO any material prior art cited in the corresponding PCT application (see MPEP § 2001.06(a)). Applicants still have a duty of candor and good faith, including providing to the USPTO other information known to them to be material to patentability.

Any inquiries concerning this notice may be directed to Magdalen Greenlief, Office of the Associate Commissioner for Patent Examination Policy, at 571-272-8140 or at magdalen.greenlief@uspto.gov.

November 30, 2011  DAVID J. KAPPOS
  Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and
  Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office
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Patent Prosecution Highway Pilot Program between the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the Icelandic Patent Office

Patent Prosecution Highway Pilot Program between the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the Icelandic Patent Office

I. Background

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has established a 2010-2015 Strategic Plan to transform the USPTO into a more quality-focused, highly productive, responsive organization supporting a market-driven intellectual property system. One of the specific action items of the 2010-2015 Strategic Plan is to share search results with other intellectual property offices. By relying on the search results obtained via partnerships with other intellectual property offices, the USPTO can reduce duplication of efforts and decrease workload.

From July 2006 to January 2008, the USPTO partnered with the Japan Patent Office (JPO) to establish the first Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) pilot program. The PPH leverages accelerated examination procedures already available in both offices to allow applicants in both offices to obtain corresponding patents faster and more efficiently. The PPH also permits each office to benefit from the work previously done by the other office, in turn helping to reduce workload and improve patent quality. The USPTO and the JPO began full implementation of the PPH program starting January 4, 2008.

The USPTO commenced a PPH pilot program with the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) and the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) on January 28, 2008. The pilot program with KIPO ended on January 28, 2009, and full implementation of the PPH program began on January 29, 2009. The pilot program with CIPO ended on January 28, 2011, and full implementation of the PPH program began on January 29, 2011.

USPTO has also commenced separate PPH pilot programs with the United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office (UK IPO), IP Australia (IPAU), the European Patent Office (EPO), the Danish Patent and Trademark Office (DKPTO), the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS), the German Patent and Trade Mark Office (DPMA), the National Board of Patents and Registration of Finland (NBPR), the Hungarian Patent Office (HPO), the Russian Patent Office (Rospatent), the Austrian Patent Office (APO), the Spanish Patent and Trademark Office (SPTO), the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property (IMPI), the Israeli Patent Office (ILPO), and the Taiwan Intellectual Property Office (TIPO) based on the same or similar framework as the PPH between the USPTO and JPO.

Following on these partnerships, the USPTO and the Icelandic Patent Office (IPO) have agreed to launch a PPH pilot program similar to the PPH pilot programs noted above.

II. Patent Prosecution Highway Pilot Program

The PPH was established to enable an applicant whose claims are determined to be allowable/patentable in the Office of first filing (OFF) to have the corresponding application filed in the Office of second filing (OSF) advanced out of turn for examination while at the same time allowing the OSF to exploit the search and examination results of the OFF.

Where the USPTO is the OFF and the U.S. application contains claims that are determined to be allowable/patentable, the applicant may request accelerated examination at IPO for the corresponding application filed with IPO as the OSF. The procedures and requirements for filing a request with IPO for participation in the PPH pilot program will be available on December 1, 2011, from the IPO Web site at: http://www.els.is/en.

Where the USPTO is the OSF and the corresponding application filed with the IPO as the OFF contains claims that are determined by the IPO to be allowable/patentable in a substantive examination carried out in the name of the IPO, the applicant may request participation in the PPH pilot program in the USPTO and request that the U.S. application be advanced out of turn for examination by order of the Director to expedite the business of the Office under 37 CFR 1.102(a). Note that the procedures for a petition to make special under the accelerated examination program set forth in MPEP 708.02(a) do NOT apply to a request for expedited examination by order of the Director to expedite the business of the Office under 37 CFR 1.102(a). The procedures and requirements for filing a request in the USPTO for participation in the PPH pilot program are set forth below.

A. Trial Period for the PPH Pilot Program

The PPH pilot program will commence on December 1, 2011, for a period of one year ending on November 30, 2012. The trial period may be extended for up to an additional year if necessary to adequately assess the feasibility of the PPH program. The USPTO and IPO will evaluate the results of the pilot program to determine whether and how the program should be fully implemented after the trial period. The offices may also terminate the PPH pilot program early if the volume of participation exceeds a manageable level, or for any other reason. Notice will be published if the PPH pilot program will be terminated before the November 30, 2012 date.

B. Requirements for Requesting Participation in the PPH Pilot Program in the USPTO

In order to be eligible to participate in the PPH pilot program, the following conditions must be met:

(1) The U.S. application is

   

(a) a Paris Convention application which either

   

(i) validly claims priority under 35 U.S.C. § 119(a) and 37 CFR 1.55 to one or more applications filed with IPO, or
(ii) validly claims priority under 35 U.S.C. §§ 119(a)/365(a) to a PCT application that contains no priority claims,

or

(b) a national stage application under the PCT (an application which entered the national stage in the U.S. from a PCT international application after compliance with 35 U.S.C. § 371), in which the PCT application

   

(i) validly claims priority under 35 U.S.C. § 365(b) to an application filed with IPO, or
(ii) validly claims priority under 35 U.S.C. § 365(b) to a PCT application that contains no priority claims, or
(iii) contains no priority claim,

or

(c) a so-called bypass application filed under 35 U.S.C. § 111(a) which validly claims benefit under 35 U.S.C. § 120 to a PCT application, in which the PCT application

   

(i) validly claims priority under 35 U.S.C. § 365(b) to an application filed with IPO, or
(ii) validly claims priority under 35 U.S.C. § 365(b) to a PCT application that contains no priority claims, or
(iii) contains no priority claim.

Examples of U.S. applications that fall under requirement (1) are:

(1)(a)(i):

- U.S. application with single Paris Convention priority claim to an application filed in Iceland (IS)

U.S. application with single Paris Convention priority claim to an application filed in Iceland (IS)

- U.S. application with multiple Paris Convention priority claims to IS applications

U.S. application with multiple Paris Convention priority claims to IS applications

- Paris route and domestic priority

Paris route and domestic priority

- Paris route and divisional application

Paris route and divisional application

(1)(a)(ii):

- U.S. application claims Paris Convention priority to a PCT application

U.S. application claims Paris Convention priority to a PCT application

* DO – Designated Office

(1)(b)(i):

- U.S. application is a national stage of a PCT application which claims Paris Convention priority to an IS application

U.S. application is a national stage of a PCT application which claims Paris Convention priority to an IS application

- PCT Route

PCT Route

(1)(b)(ii):

- U.S. application is a national stage of a PCT application which claims Paris Convention priority to another PCT application

U.S. application is a national stage of a PCT application which claims Paris Convention priority to another PCT application

- Direct PCT and PCT Route

Direct PCT and PCT Route

(1)(b)(iii):

- U.S. application is a national stage of a PCT application without priority claim

U.S. application is a national stage of a PCT application without priority claim

(1)(c)(i):

- U.S. application is a § 111(a) bypass of a PCT application which claims Paris Convention priority to an IS application

U.S. application is a § 111(a) bypass of a PCT application which claims Paris Convention priority to an IS application

(1)(c)(ii):

- U.S. application is a § 111(a) bypass of a PCT application which claims Paris Convention priority to another PCT application

U.S. application is a § 111(a) bypass of a PCT application which claims Paris Convention priority to another PCT application

(1)(c)(iii):

- U.S. application is a § 111(a) bypass of a PCT application which contains no priority claim

U.S. application is a § 111(a) bypass of a PCT application which contains no priority claim

The IS application whose claims are determined to be allowable/patentable does not have to be the application for which priority is claimed in the U.S. application (the basic application). The IS application can be an application explicitly derived from the basic application, e.g., a divisional application of the basic application. Note that where the IS application that contains the allowable/patentable claims is not the same application for which priority is claimed in the U.S. application, the applicant must identify the relationship between the IS application that contains the allowable/patentable claims and the IS priority application claimed in the U.S. application (e.g., IS application X that contains the allowable/patentable claims is a divisional application of IS application Y, which is the priority application claimed in the U.S. application).

Provisional applications, plant applications, design applications, reissue applications, reexamination proceedings, and applications subject to a secrecy order are excluded and not subject to participation in the PPH.

(2) The IS application(s) have at least one claim that was determined by the IPO to be allowable/patentable in a substantive examination carried out in the name of the IPO. The applicant must submit a copy of the allowable/patentable claims from the IS application(s) along with an English translation thereof and a statement that the English translation is accurate if the claims are not in the English language. If the IPO office action does not explicitly state that a particular claim is allowable, the applicant must include a statement in the request for participation in the PPH pilot program or in the transmittal letter accompanying the request for participation that no rejection has been made in the IPO office action regarding that claim, and therefore, the claim is deemed allowable by the IPO.

(3) All the claims in each U.S. application for which a request for participation in the PPH pilot program is made must sufficiently correspond or be amended to sufficiently correspond to the allowable/patentable claims in the IS application(s). Claims will be considered to sufficiently correspond where, accounting for differences due to translations and claim format requirements, the claims are of the same or similar scope. The applicant is also required to submit a claims correspondence table in English. The claims correspondence table must indicate how all the claims in the U.S. application correspond to the allowable/patentable claims in the IS application(s).

(4) Examination of the U.S. application for which participation in the PPH pilot program is requested has not begun.

(5) The applicant must file a request for participation in the PPH pilot program and a request that the U.S. application be advanced out of turn for examination by order of the Director to expedite the business of the Office under 37 CFR 1.102(a). A sample request/petition form (PTO/SB/20IS) will be available from the USPTO Web site at http://www.uspto.gov on December 1, 2011. Applicants are encouraged to use the USPTO request/petition form. A petition fee under 37 CFR 1.17(h) is NOT required. See Notice Regarding the Elimination of the Fee for Petitions To Make Special Filed Under the Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) Programs, 75 Fed. Reg. 29312 (May 25, 2010).

(6) The applicant must submit a copy of all the office actions (which are relevant to patentability) from each of the IS application(s) containing the allowable/patentable claims that are the basis for the request, along with an English translation thereof and a statement that the English translation is accurate if the office actions are not in the English language. In addition, the applicant must submit copies of any office actions (which are relevant to patentability) from the IS application(s) issued after the grant of the request for participation in the PPH pilot program in the USPTO (especially where IPO might have reversed a prior holding of allowability).

(7) The applicant must submit an information disclosure statement (IDS) listing the documents cited by the IPO examiner in the IPO office action (unless such an IDS has already been filed in the U.S. application). The applicant must submit copies of all the documents cited in the IPO office action (unless the copies have already been filed in the U.S. application) except U.S. patents or U.S. patent application publications.

The request for participation in the PPH pilot program and all the supporting documents must be submitted to the USPTO via EFS-Web and indexed with the following document description: “Petition to make special under Patent Pros Hwy.” Information regarding EFS-Web is available at http://www.uspto.gov/ebc/efs_help.html. Any preliminary amendments and IDS submitted with the PPH documents must be separately indexed as a preliminary amendment and IDS, respectively.

Where the request for participation in the PPH pilot program and special status are granted, the applicant will be notified and the U.S. application will be advanced out of turn for examination. In those instances where the request for participation in the PPH pilot program does not meet all the requirements set forth above, the applicant will be notified and the defects in the request will be identified. The applicant will be given one opportunity to perfect the request in a renewed request for participation (which must be submitted via EFS-Web and indexed accordingly as noted above). Note that action on the application by the examiner will NOT be suspended (37 CFR 1.103) awaiting a reply by the applicant to perfect the request in a renewed request for participation. That is, if the application is picked up for examination by the examiner after the applicant has been notified of the defects in the request, any renewed request will be dismissed. If the renewed request is perfected and examination has not begun, the request and special status will be granted, the applicant will be notified and the U.S. application will be advanced out of turn for examination. If not perfected, the applicant will be notified and the application will await action in its regular turn.

(8) Request for participation in the PPH pilot program and special status granted in a parent application will not carry over to a continuing application. The applicant must fulfill all the conditions set forth above in order for special status to be granted in the continuing application.

If any of the documents identified in items (2), (6) and (7) above have already been filed in the U.S. application prior to the request for participation in the PPH pilot program, it will not be necessary for the applicant to resubmit these documents with the request for participation. The applicant may simply refer to these documents and indicate in the request for participation in the PPH pilot program when these documents were previously filed in the U.S. application.

C. Special Examining Procedures

Once the request for participation in the PPH pilot program and special status have been granted to the U.S. application, the U.S. application will be taken up for examination by the U.S. examiner before all other categories of applications except those clearly in condition for allowance, those with set time limits, such as examiner’s answers, and those that have been granted special status for “accelerated examination.”

Any claims amended or added after the grant of the request for participation in the PPH pilot program must sufficiently correspond to one or more allowable/patentable claims in the IS application(s). The applicant is required to submit a claims correspondence table along with the amendment (see B.(3) above). If the amended or newly added claims do not sufficiently correspond to the allowable/patentable claims in the IS application(s), the amendment will not be entered and will be treated as a non-responsive reply.

The PPH program does not absolve applicants of all their duties under 37 CFR 1.56 and 37 CFR 11.18. By complying with requirements B.(6) and (7) identified above, applicants would be considered to have complied with their duties to bring to the attention of the USPTO any material prior art cited in the corresponding foreign application(s) (see MPEP § 2001.06(a)). Applicants still have a duty of candor and good faith, including providing to the USPTO other information known to them to be material to patentability.

Any inquiries concerning this notice may be directed to Magdalen Greenlief, Office of the Associate Commissioner for Patent Examination Policy, at 571-272-8140 or at magdalen.greenlief@uspto.gov.

November 7, 2011  DAVID J. KAPPOS
  Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and
  Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office
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Revision of Patent Term Adjustment Provisions Relating to Information Disclosure Statements 
                            DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
                          Patent and Trademark Office
                                 37 CFR Part 1
                         [Docket No. PTO-P-2011-0014]
                                 RIN 0651-AC56

                      Revision of Patent Term Adjustment
                            Provisions Relating to
                       Information Disclosure Statements

AGENCY: United States Patent and Trademark Office, Commerce.

ACTION: Final rule.

SUMMARY: The United States Patent and Trademark Office (Office) is
revising the patent term adjustment provisions of the rules of practice
in patent cases. The patent term adjustment provisions of the American
Inventors Protection Act of 1999 (AIPA) provide for a reduction of any
patent term adjustment if the applicant failed to engage in reasonable
efforts to conclude prosecution of the application. The Office is
revising the rules of practice pertaining to the reduction of patent
term adjustment for applicant delays to exclude information disclosure
statements resulting from the citation of information in a counterpart
application that are promptly filed with the Office. The rule change
allows the diligent applicant to avoid patent term adjustment reduction
for an IDS submission that results from a communication from the
Office. Presently, the rule only provides relief if the IDS was cited
as a result of a communication from a foreign patent office. Under this
final rule, there will be no reduction of patent term adjustment in the
following situations: when applicant promptly submits a reference in an
information disclosure statement after the mailing of a notice of
allowance if the reference was cited by the Office in another
application, or when applicant promptly submits a copy of an Office
communication (e.g., an Office action) in an information disclosure
statement after the mailing of a notice of allowance if the Office
communication was issued by the Office in another application or by a
foreign patent office in a counterpart foreign application. The above
changes are intended to ensure compliance with AIPA in light of the
evolving case law.

DATES: Effective Date: December 1, 2011.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kery A. Fries, Senior Legal Advisor,
Office of Patent Legal Administration, by telephone at (571) 272-7757,
by mail addressed to: Box Comments-Patents, Commissioner for Patents,
P.O. Box 1450, Alexandria, VA 22313-1450, marked to the attention of
Kery A. Fries.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The AIPA amended 35 U.S.C. 154(b) to provide
patent term adjustment for certain delays during the patent examination
process. See Public Law 106-113, 113 Stat. 1501, 1501A-552 through
1501A-591 (1999)). Specifically, under the patent term adjustment
provisions of 35 U.S.C. 154(b) as amended by the AIPA, an applicant is
entitled to patent term adjustment for the following reasons: (1) If
the Office fails to take certain actions during the examination and
issue process within specified time frames (35 U.S.C. 154(b)(1)(A));
(2) if the Office fails to issue a patent within three years of the
actual filing date of the application in the United States (35 U.S.C.
154(b)(1)(B)); and (3) for delays due to interference, secrecy order,
or successful appellate review (35 U.S.C. 154(b)(1)(C)). The AIPA,
however, sets forth a number of conditions and limitations on any
patent term adjustment accrued under 35 U.S.C. 154(b)(1). Specifically,
35 U.S.C. 154(b)(2)(C) provides, in part, that "[t]he period of
adjustment of the term of a patent under [35 U.S.C. 154(b)(1)] shall be
reduced by a period equal to the period of time during which the
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applicant failed to engage in reasonable efforts to conclude
prosecution of the application" and that "[t]he Director shall
prescribe regulations establishing the circumstances that constitute a
failure of an applicant to engage in reasonable efforts to conclude
processing or examination of an application." 35 U.S.C.
154(b)(2)(C)(i) and (iii). The Office implemented the patent term
adjustment provisions of 35 U.S.C. 154(b) as amended by the AIPA,
including setting forth the circumstances that constitute a failure of
an applicant to engage in reasonable efforts to conclude processing or
examination of an application, in a final rule published in September
of 2000. See Changes to Implement Patent Term Adjustment Under Twenty-
Year Patent Term, 65 FR 56366 (Sept. 18, 2000) (patent term adjustment
final rule).
   Section 1.704(c) provides that the submission of an information
disclosure statement either that is after a notice of allowance, an
initial reply, or that requires a supplemental Office action, results
in a reduction of any patent term adjustment under 37 CFR 1.703. See 37
CFR 1.704(c)(6), 1.704(c)(8), 1.704(c)(9), and (c)(10). Section
1.704(d) provides that an information disclosure statement will not
result in a patent term adjustment reduction under 37 CFR 1.704(c)(6),
1.704(c)(8), 1.704(c)(9), or (c)(10) if it is accompanied by a
statement that each item of information contained in the information
disclosure statement was first cited in a communication from a foreign
patent office in a counterpart application and that this communication
was not received by any individual designated in 37 CFR 1.56(c) more
than thirty days prior to the filing of the information disclosure
statement. 37 CFR 1.704(d) permits applicants to submit information
first cited in a communication from a foreign patent office in a
counterpart application to the Office without a reduction in patent
term adjustment if an information disclosure statement is promptly
(within thirty-days of receipt of the communication) submitted to the
Office.
   Recent decisions by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal
Circuit (Federal Circuit) underscore the importance of making
information cited and Office actions issued in related copending
foreign and domestic applications of record. See Dayco Products, Inc.
v. Total Containment, Inc., 329 F.3d 1358 (Fed. Cir. 2003) and McKesson
Info. Solutions, Inc. v. Bridge Medical, Inc., 487 F.3d 897 (Fed. Cir.
2007); see also Larson Mfg. Co. v. Aluminart Products Ltd., 559 F.3d
1317 (Fed. Cir. 2009) (relating to disclosure in a U.S. reexamination
proceeding of U.S. Office actions that were issued in a continuation
application of the patent under reexamination). The Office is revising
37 CFR 1.704(d) to also embrace information first cited in a
communication from the Office, as well as the communication (e.g.,
Office action) in a counterpart foreign or international application.
These revisions are intended to ensure compliance with AIPA in light of
the evolving case law. Obviously, meeting the conditions set forth in
37 CFR 1.704(d) does not substitute for compliance with any relevant
requirement of 37 CFR 1.97 or 1.98.

Discussion of Specific Rules

   Title 37 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Part 1, is amended as
follows:
   Section 1.704: Section 1.704(d) is amended to change "any
communication from a foreign patent office in a counterpart
application" to "any communication from a patent office in a
counterpart foreign or international application or from the Office,"
and to add to this definition "a communication that was issued by a
patent office in a counterpart foreign or international application or
by the Office." This change revises Sec. 1.704(d) to also embrace
information first cited in a communication from the Office, as well as
the communication (e.g., Office action) in a counterpart foreign or
international application or from the Office itself.
   Response to Comments: The Office published a notice in April of
2011 proposing to change the rules of practice pertaining to patent
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term extension and adjustment to: (1) Indicate that in most
circumstances an examiner reopening prosecution of the application
after a notice of appeal has been filed will be considered a decision
in the review reversing an adverse determination of patentability for
purposes of patent term adjustment or extension purposes; and (2)
exclude information disclosure statements resulting from the citation
of information by a foreign patent office in a counterpart application
that are promptly filed with the Office from the provisions for the
reduction of patent term adjustment for applicant delays. See Revision
of Patent Term Extension and Adjustment Provisions Relating to
Appellate Review and Information Disclosure Statements, 76 FR 18990
(Apr. 6, 2011). The Office received eight written comments in response
to this notice. The Office is revising its proposal concerning the
reopening of prosecution of an application by the Office after a notice
of appeal has been filed and will publish that proposal for public
comment in a separate rulemaking. The comments and the Office's
responses to the comments pertaining to information disclosure
statements resulting from the citation of information by a foreign
patent office in a counterpart application that are promptly filed with
the Office follow.
   The comments on the Office's proposed change to 37 CFR 1.704(d)
pertaining to information disclosure statements supported the proposed
change. The Office also received comments on provisions of 37 CFR 1.704
that the Office did not propose to change: (1) One comment suggested
changing the thirty day to a three month period; and (2) one comment
indicated that an information disclosure statement filed after a notice
of appeal should not result in reduction under 37 CFR 1.704(c)(8).
   The Office did not propose to change the thirty-day period in 37
CFR 1.704(d). The Office adopted the provisions of 37 CFR 1.704(d) in
2000 to permit applicants to avoid a patent term adjustment impact if
an information disclosure statement containing information that was
cited in a communication from a foreign patent office in a counterpart
application is promptly submitted to the Office. The Office does not
consider an information disclosure statement filed more than thirty
days after the information has been brought to applicant's attention to
be promptly submitted.
   Regarding the second comment, 37 CFR 1.704(c)(8) does not provide
for a reduction of any patent term adjustment simply because an
applicant files an information disclosure statement after a notice of
appeal has been filed.

Rulemaking Considerations

   A. Regulatory Flexibility Act: For the reasons set forth herein,
the Deputy General Counsel for General Law of the United States Patent
and Trademark Office has certified to the Chief Counsel for Advocacy of
the Small Business Administration that the changes in this rulemaking
will not have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of
small entities. See 5 U.S.C. 605(b).
   This rulemaking expands the exception to the patent term adjustment
reduction for filing an information disclosure statement after a notice
of allowance or reply, or for filing an information disclosure
statement that requires a supplemental Office action, for information
cited by a foreign patent office in a counterpart application that is
promptly filed with the Office, to embrace information first cited by
the Office in another application. This rulemaking does not add any
additional requirements (including information collection requirements)
or fees for patent applicants or patentees. Therefore, the changes in
this rulemaking will not have a significant economic impact on a
substantial number of small entities.
   B. Executive Order 12866 (Regulatory Planning and Review): This
rulemaking has been determined to be not significant for purposes of
Executive Order 12866 (Sept. 30, 1993).
   C. Executive Order 13563 (Improving Regulation and Regulatory
Review): The Office has complied with Executive Order 13563. Specifically,
the Office has, to the extent feasible and applicable: (1) Made a reasoned
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determination that the benefits justify the costs of the rule; (2) tailored
the rule to impose the least burden on society consistent with obtaining
the regulatory objectives; (3) selected a regulatory approach that
maximizes net benefits; (4) specified performance objectives; (5)
identified and assessed available alternatives; (6) involved the public in
an open exchange of information and perspectives among experts in relevant
disciplines, affected stakeholders in the private sector and the public as
a whole, and provided on-line access to the rulemaking docket; (7)
attempted to promote coordination, simplification and harmonization across
government agencies and identified goals designed to promote
innovation; (8) considered approaches that reduce burdens and maintain
flexibility and freedom of choice for the public; and (9) ensured the
objectivity of scientific and technological information and processes.
   D. Executive Order 13132 (Federalism): This rulemaking does not
contain policies with federalism implications sufficient to warrant
preparation of a Federalism Assessment under Executive Order 13132
(Aug. 4, 1999).
   E. Executive Order 13175 (Tribal Consultation): This rulemaking
will not: (1) Have substantial direct effects on one or more Indian
Tribes; (2) impose substantial direct compliance costs on Indian Tribal
governments; or (3) preempt Tribal law. Therefore, a Tribal summary
impact statement is not required under Executive Order 13175 (Nov. 6,
2000).
   F. Executive Order 13211 (Energy Effects): This rulemaking is not a
significant energy action under Executive Order 13211 because this
rulemaking is not likely to have a significant adverse effect on the
supply, distribution, or use of energy. Therefore, a Statement of
Energy Effects is not required under Executive Order 13211 (May 18,
2001).
   G. Executive Order 12988 (Civil Justice Reform): This rulemaking
meets applicable standards to minimize litigation, eliminate ambiguity,
and reduce burden as set forth in sections 3(a) and 3(b)(2) of
Executive Order 12988 (Feb. 5, 1996).
   H. Executive Order 13045 (Protection of Children): This rulemaking
does not concern an environmental risk to health or safety that may
disproportionately affect children under Executive Order 13045 (Apr.
21, 1997).
   I. Executive Order 12630 (Taking of Private Property): This
rulemaking will not effect a taking of private property or otherwise
have taking implications under Executive Order 12630 (Mar. 15, 1988).
   J. Congressional Review Act: Under the Congressional Review Act
provisions of the Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act of
1996 (5 U.S.C. 801 et seq.), prior to issuing any final rule, the
United States Patent and Trademark Office will submit a report
containing the final rule and other required information to the U.S.
Senate, the U.S. House of Representatives and the Comptroller General
of the Government Accountability Office. The changes in this notice are
not expected to result in an annual effect on the economy of 100
million dollars or more, a major increase in costs or prices, or
significant adverse effects on competition, employment, investment,
productivity, innovation, or the ability of United States-based
enterprises to compete with foreign-based enterprises in domestic and
export markets. Therefore, this notice is not expected to result in a
"major rule" as defined in 5 U.S.C. 804(2).
   K. Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995: The changes in this
rulemaking do not involve a Federal intergovernmental mandate that will
result in the expenditure by State, local, and Tribal governments, in
the aggregate, of 100 million dollars (as adjusted) or more in any one
year, or a Federal private sector mandate that will result in the
expenditure by the private sector of 100 million dollars (as adjusted)
or more in any one year, and will not significantly or uniquely affect
small governments. Therefore, no actions are necessary under the
provisions of the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995. See 2 U.S.C.
1501 et seq.
   L. National Environmental Policy Act: This rulemaking will not have
any effect on the quality of environment and is thus categorically
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excluded from review under the National Environmental Policy Act of
1969. See 42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.
   M. National Technology Transfer and Advancement Act: The
requirements of section 12(d) of the National Technology Transfer and
Advancement Act of 1995 (15 U.S.C. 272 note) are not applicable because
this rulemaking does not contain provisions which involve the use of
technical standards.
   N. Paperwork Reduction Act: The rules of practice pertaining to
patent term adjustment and extension have been reviewed and approved by
the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) under the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.) under OMB control number 0651-
0020. As discussed previously, this rulemaking expands the exception to
the patent term adjustment reduction for filing an information
disclosure statement after a notice of allowance or a reply, or for
filing an information disclosure statement that requires a supplemental
Office action, for information cited by a foreign patent office in a
counterpart application that are promptly filed with the Office, to
embrace information first cited by the Office in another application.
This notice does not propose to add any additional requirements
(including information collection requirements) or fees for patent
applicants or patentees. Therefore, the Office is not resubmitting
information collection packages to OMB for its review and approval
because the changes in this rulemaking do not affect the information
collection requirements associated with the information collections
approved under OMB control number 0651-0020.
   Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no person is required
to respond to nor shall any person be subject to a penalty for failure
to comply with a collection of information subject to the requirements
of the Paperwork Reduction Act unless that collection of information
displays a currently valid OMB control number.

List of Subjects in 37 CFR Part 1

   Administrative practice and procedure, Courts, Freedom of
information, Inventions and patents, Reporting and recordkeeping
requirements, Small businesses.

   For the reasons set forth in the preamble, 37 CFR part 1 is amended
as follows:

PART 1-RULES OF PRACTICE IN PATENT CASES

1. The authority citation for 37 CFR Part 1 continues to read as
follows:

   Authority:  35 U.S.C. 2(b)(2).

2. Section 1.704 is amended by revising paragraph (d) to read as
follows:

Sec.  1.704  Reduction of period of adjustment of patent term.

* * * * *

   (d)(1) A paper containing only an information disclosure statement
in compliance with §§ 1.97 and 1.98 will not be considered a
failure to engage in reasonable efforts to conclude prosecution
(processing or examination) of the application under paragraphs (c)(6),
(c)(8), (c)(9), or (c)(10) of this section if it is accompanied by a
statement that each item of information contained in the information
disclosure statement:
   (i) Was first cited in any communication from a patent office in a
counterpart foreign or international application or from the Office,
and this communication was not received by any individual designated in
Sec. 1.56(c) more than thirty days prior to the filing of the
information disclosure statement; or
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   (ii) Is a communication that was issued by a patent office in a
counterpart foreign or international application or by the Office, and
this communication was not received by any individual designated in
Sec. 1.56(c) more than thirty days prior to the filing of the
information disclosure statement.
   (2) The thirty-day period set forth in paragraph (d)(1) of this
section is not extendable.

* * * * *

November 21, 2011                                           DAVID J. KAPPOS
                  Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and
                  Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office
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Sunset of the Patent Application Backlog Reduction Stimulus Plan and a Limited Extension of the Green Technology Pilot Program 
                            DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
                          Patent and Trademark Office
                         [Docket No. PTO-P-2011-0078]

              Sunset of the Patent Application Backlog Reduction
                 Stimulus Plan and a Limited Extension of the
                        Green Technology Pilot Program

AGENCY: United States Patent and Trademark Office, Commerce.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: The United States Patent and Trademark Office (Office) has
provided two procedures under which an applicant may have an
application accorded special status for examination. The Patent
Application Backlog Reduction Stimulus Plan is available if the
applicant expressly abandons another copending unexamined application.
The Green Technology Pilot Program is available to patent applications
pertaining to environmental quality, energy conservation, development of
renewable energy resources, and greenhouse gas emission reduction. In view
of the trend in filings under the Patent Application Backlog Reduction
Stimulus Plan, this plan has fulfilled its purpose and will not be
extended. In view of the success of the Green Technology Pilot Program,
this plan will be extended until 500 additional applications have been
accorded special status under this program or until March 30, 2012,
whichever occurs earlier. Following the expiration of this extension, the
program will be eliminated, and applicants may instead use the newly
enacted Prioritized Examination (Track I) program. The Track I program not
only provides advancement of examination, but sets a target of reaching
final disposition within 12 months from the time advancement is initiated.
Furthermore, the advancement in the Track I program is available to all
technologies and is not restricted to certain categories of invention as in
the Pilot Program.

DATES: Effective Date: December 15, 2011. The Patent Application
Backlog Reduction Stimulus Plan became effective on November 27, 2009,
was modified on June 24, 2010, and was extended on November 22, 2010.
The Green Technology Pilot Program became effective on December 8,
2009, was modified to eliminate the classification requirement on May
21, 2010, and was extended on November 10, 2010.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Pinchus M. Laufer or Michael Cygan,
Office of Patent Legal Administration, Office of the Associate
Commissioner for Patent Examination Policy, by telephone at (571) 272-
7726 or (571) 272-7700; or by mail addressed to: Mail Stop Comments
Patents, Commissioner for Patents, P.O. Box 1450, Alexandria, VA 22313-
1450.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On November 27, 2009, the USPTO published a
notice in the Federal Register providing an additional temporary basis
(the Patent Application Backlog Reduction Stimulus Plan) under which a
small entity applicant may have an application accorded special status
for examination if the applicant expressly abandons another copending
unexamined application. See Patent Application Backlog Reduction
Stimulus Plan, 74 FR 62285 (Nov. 27, 2009), 1349 Off. Gaz. Pat. Office
304 (Dec. 22, 2009) (notice). The USPTO indicated that the plan would
last for the period ending on February 28, 2010, but may be extended
for an additional time period thereafter. See Patent Application
Backlog Reduction Stimulus Plan, 74 FR at 62287, 1349 Off. Gaz. Pat.
Office at 306. The USPTO extended the plan for an additional four
months to June 30, 2010. See Extension of the Patent Application
Backlog Reduction Stimulus Plan, 75 FR 5041 (Feb. 1, 2010), 1351 Off.
Gaz. Pat. Office 202 (Feb. 23, 2010). Subsequently, the USPTO expanded
the plan to eliminate the small entity requirement and further extended
its duration to expire at the earlier of the December 31, 2010 date, or
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the date that 10,000 applications have been accorded special status
under this plan. See Expansion and Extension of the Patent Application
Backlog Reduction Stimulus Plan, 75 FR 36063 (June 24, 2010), 1356 Off.
Gaz. Pat. Office 173 (July 20, 2010). The USPTO further extended the
plan to expire at the earlier of December 31, 2011, or the date that
10,000 applications have been accorded special status under this plan.
See Extension of the Patent Application Backlog Reduction Stimulus
Plan, 75 FR 71072 (Nov. 22, 2010), 1361 Off. Gaz. Pat. Office 230 (Dec.
28, 2010). Filings under this plan reached a peak in late 2010 and have
since steadily decreased. Accordingly, as those desiring the benefits
of this plan have taken advantage of its provisions, the Patent
Application Backlog Reduction Stimulus Plan has run its course and will
not be further extended beyond December 31, 2011.
    On December 8, 2009, the USPTO published a notice for the
implementation of the Green Technology Pilot Program. See Pilot Program
for Green Technologies Including Greenhouse Gas Reduction, 74 FR 64666
(December 8, 2009), 1349 Off. Gaz. Pat. Office 362 (December 29, 2009)
(Green Technology Notice). The Green Technology Notice indicated that
an applicant may have an application advanced out of turn (accorded
special status) for examination, if the application pertained to green
technologies and met other requirements specified in the Green
Technology Notice. The USPTO published a notice eliminating the
classification requirement of the Green Technology Pilot Program on May
21, 2010. See Elimination of the Classification Requirement in the
Green Technology Pilot Program, 75 FR 28554 (May 10, 2010), 1355 Off.
Gaz. Pat. Office 188 (June 15, 2010). The USPTO further extended the
program to expire at the earlier of December 31, 2011, or the date that
3,000 applications have been accorded special status under this
program. See Expansion and Extension of the Green Technology Pilot
Program, 75 FR 69049 (Nov. 10, 2010), 1361 Off. Gaz. Pat. Office 50
(Dec. 7, 2010). In view of the success of the Green Technology Pilot
Program in the designated technology areas, the Green Technology Pilot
Program will be extended until an additional 500 applications have been
accorded special status under this program (for a total of 3,500
applications) or March 30, 2012, whichever occurs earlier. Following
the expiration of this extension, the program will be eliminated, and
applicants may instead seek to use the newly enacted Prioritized
Examination (Track I) program.
    The Prioritized Examination (Track I) program permits an applicant
to have an application advanced out of turn (accorded special status)
for examination under 37 CFR 1.102(e), if the application contains,
upon filing, a request for prioritized (Track I) examination
accompanied by the appropriate fees. See Changes to Implement the
Prioritized Examination Track (Track I) of the Enhanced Examination
Timing Control Procedures Under the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, 76
FR 59050 (September 23, 2011), 1371 Off. Gaz. Pat. Office 151 (October
18, 2011) (Track I Notice).
    The Track I Program provides prioritized examination having a more
aggressive time frame for examination than the Green Technology Pilot
Program, with an aggregate goal of reaching final disposition within 12
months and maintains an enhanced special status of the application
throughout prosecution until final disposition. Additionally, the Track
I Program does not have the restrictions of the Green Technology Pilot
Program on the types of inventions for which special status may be
sought, as the Track I Program does not require a connection to any
particular technology.
    In view of the ability of any applicant to request prioritized
examination with the filing of an application under the procedure set
forth in the Track I Notice, the Green Technology Pilot Program will
not be extended past the earlier of March 30, 2012, or the date that
3,500 applications have been accorded special status under this
program.

December 7, 2011                                            DAVID J. KAPPOS
                  Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and
                  Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office
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Disclaimers and Dedications 
                          Disclaimers and Dedications

   7,298,327 B2 - Dennis J. Dupray et al., Denver, CO (US). WIRELESS
LOCATION USING HYBRID TECHNIQUES.  Patent dated November 20, 2007.
Disclaimer filed April 21, 2011, by the assignee, TracBeam, LLC.

   The term of this patent shall not extend beyond the expiration date of
patent no. 7,298,327.

   7,525,484 B2 - Dennis J. Dupray et al., Denver, CO (US). GATEWAY AND
HYBRID SOLUTIONS FOR WIRELESS LOCATION.  Patent dated November 20, 2007.
Disclaimer filed April 21, 2011, by the assignee, TracBeam, LLC.

   The term of this patent shall not extend beyond the expiration date of
patent no. 7,525,484.

   7,764,231 B1 - Charles L. Karr, et al., Tuscaloosa, AL (US). WIRELESS
LOCATION USING MULTIPLE MOBILE STATION LOCATION TECHNIQUES.  Patent dated
July 27, 2010. Disclaimer filed April 21, 2011, by the assignee, TracBeam,
LLC.

   The term of this patent shall not extend beyond the expiration date of
patent no. 7,764,231.
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Disclaimers 
                                  Disclaimers

   5,444,457 - Robert Hotto, La Jolla CA (US). DC INTEGRATING DISPLAY
DRIVER EMPLOYING PIXEL STATUS MEMORIES.  Patent dated Aug. 22, 1995.
Disclaimer filed April 6, 2011, by the assignee, Positive Technologies,
Inc.

   The term of this patent shall not extend beyond the expiration date of
patent no. 5,444,457.

   6,249,252 B1 - Dennis J. Dupray, et al., Denver, CO (US). WIRELESS
LOCATION USING MULTIPLE LOCATION ESTIMATORS. Patent dated June 19, 2001.
Disclaimer filed April 21, 2011, by the assignee, TracBeam, LLC.

   The term of this patent shall not extend beyond the expiration date of
patent no. 6,249,252.

   7,105,486 B2 - Travis Mickle, et al., Charlottesville, VA (US).
ABUSE-RESISTANT AMPHETAMINE COMPOUNDS. Patent dated September 12, 2006.
Disclaimer filed April 29, 2011, by the assignee, Shire, LLC.

   The term of this patent shall not extend beyond the expiration date of
patent no. 7,105,486.

   7,820,871 B2 - Guo-Feng Xu, Guangzhou (CH). BIOLOGICAL WOUND DRESSING
AND METHOD OF MAKING.  Patent dated October 26, 2010. Disclaimer filed May
18, 2010, by the assignee, Grandhope Biotech Co., Ltd.

   The term of this patent shall not extend beyond the expiration date of
patent no. 7,820,871.

   7,964,981 B2 - Jason Tsao, Torrence, CA  (US). SOLAR AND WIND ENERGY
CONVERTER.  Patent dated June 21, 2011. Disclaimer filed April 5, 2011, by
the owner.

   The term of this patent shall not extend beyond the expiration date of
patent no. 7,964,981.

   7,967,822 B2 - Timothy G. Haines, Columbia City, IN (US). METHODS AND
APPARATUS FOR ORTHOPEDIC IMPLANTS.  Patent dated June 28, 2011. Disclaimer
filed April 14, 2011, by the assignee, Hudson Surgical Design, Inc.

   The term of this patent shall not extend beyond the expiration date of
patent no. 7,967,822.

   7,969,506 B2 - Yi-Tsung Cheng, Taipei Hsien (TW). CRADLE FOR CONNECTING
TO PORTABLE ELECTRONIC APPARATUS.  Patent dated June 28, 2011. Disclaimer
filed April 14, 2011, by the assignee, HTC Corporation.

   The term of this patent shall not extend beyond the expiration date of
patent no. 7,969,506.

   7,970,748 B2 - William Romine et al., Tustin, CA (US). SYSTEMS AND
METHODS FOR REORGANIZING A DATABASE OBJECT.  Patent dated June 28, 2011.
Disclaimer filed April 15, 2011, by the assignee, Quest Software Inc.

   The term of this patent shall not extend beyond the expiration date of
patent no. 7,970,748.

   7,978,157 B2 - Jung Min Seo et al., Daegu (KP). ELECTRO-LUMINESCENCE
DISPLAY.  Patent dated July 12, 2011. Disclaimer filed April 21, 2011, by
the assignee, LG Display Co., LTD.

   The term of this patent shall not extend beyond the expiration date of
patent no. 7,978,157.
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   7,978,384 B2 - Kengo Kinumra et al., Kanagawa (JP). IMAGE PROCESSING
SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE
MEDIUM THEREOF.  Patent dated July 12, 2011. Disclaimer filed April 8,
2011, by the assignee, Canon Kabushiki Kaisha.

   The term of this patent shall not extend beyond the expiration date of
patent no. 7,978,384.

   7,983,169 B2 - Brandon Carl Smith et al., Sunnyvale, CA (US).
PROGRAMMABLE METERING BEHAVIOR BASED ON A TABLE LOOKUP.  Patent dated July
19, 2011. Disclaimer filed April 22, 2011, by the assignee, Broadcom
Corporation.

   The term of this patent shall not extend beyond the expiration date of
patent no. 7,983,169.

   7,997,702 B2 - Hitotoshi Kimura et al., Nagano (JP). LIQUID CONTAINER.
Patent dated Aug., 16, 2011. Disclaimer filed April 12, 2011, by the
assignee, Seiko Epson Corporation.

   The term of this patent shall not extend beyond the expiration date of
patent no. 7,997,702.

   7,998,322 B2 - Robert Allen Janssen et al., Alpharetta, GA (US).
ULTRASONIC TREATMENT CHAMBER HAVING ELECTRODE PROPERTIES.  Patent dated
August 16, 2011. Disclaimer filed April 14, 2011, by the assignee,
Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.

   The term of this patent shall not extend beyond the expiration date of
patent no. 7,998,322.
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Erratum 
                                    Erratum

   In the notice of Certificate of Correction appearing in October 18,
2011, delete all reference to Patent No. 7,960,339, issue of September 27,
2011. No evidence exists in the patent for claim of priority for
"60/906,648 March 14, 2007". The U. S. Application Priority Data as printed
on title page of patent is correct.  The certificate of correction should
not have been issued.

                                    Erratum

   In the notice of Certificate of Correction appearing in November 29,
2011, delete all reference to Patent No. 7,714,849, issue of November 8,
2011. The patent is not owned by the assignee which filed request.
Therefore certificate of correction should not have been issued.
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Certificates of Correction 
                          Certificates of Correction
                             for December 20, 2011

5,643,086C1           7,875,702             7,970,540            8,026,489
6,022,697             7,880,288             7,971,199            8,026,501
6,082,419             7,880,454             7,971,425            8,026,542
6,180,415             7,880,606             7,972,380            8,026,702
6,190,143             7,881,266             7,972,772            8,027,088
6,216,231             7,881,952             7,973,304            8,027,677
6,326,507             7,882,888             7,973,381            8,028,959
6,349,337             7,883,015             7,974,371            8,029,276
6,552,075             7,883,419             7,975,089            8,030,366
6,566,114             7,884,580             7,975,470            8,030,949
6,863,717             7,884,604             7,978,137            8,031,518
6,866,488             7,884,703             7,978,187            8,031,529
6,883,436             7,884,884             7,978,343            8,032,233
6,889,539             7,886,905             7,978,604            8,032,350
6,974,801             7,888,338             7,978,805            8,032,359
6,993,847             7,888,892             7,979,604            8,032,480
7,007,070             7,889,722             7,979,862            8,032,717
7,028,071             7,892,565             7,979,971            8,032,778
7,031,745             7,893,202             7,980,428            8,032,804
7,053,664             7,895,851             7,980,722            8,032,866
7,149,258             7,898,721             7,981,496            8,032,929
7,164,267             7,899,557             7,981,601            8,033,029
7,165,931             7,900,577             7,981,926            8,033,033
7,211,931             7,901,073             7,982,441            8,033,466
7,229,509             7,901,489             7,983,687            8,033,506
7,278,389             7,902,202             7,983,863            8,033,599
7,279,281             7,902,845             7,983,936            8,033,781
7,288,568             7,903,367             7,984,437            8,033,895
7,365,047             7,903,596             7,984,485            8,034,310
7,422,484             7,904,196             7,984,769            8,034,336
7,436,665             7,907,776             7,985,313            8,034,405
7,494,241             7,908,989             7,985,505            8,034,450
7,513,005             7,910,887             7,986,843            8,034,596
7,513,449             7,911,339             7,986,959            8,035,993
7,551,265             7,912,195             7,987,844            8,036,124
7,553,673             7,914,077             7,988,707            8,036,284
7,554,018             7,915,238             7,989,075            8,036,367
7,561,759             7,915,514             7,989,193            8,036,679
7,568,012             7,915,791             7,989,501            8,036,691
7,572,519             7,917,516             7,990,119            8,036,793
7,572,606             7,917,847             7,990,332            8,036,984
7,589,815             7,918,144             7,990,543            8,037,630
7,590,861             7,918,721             7,991,222            8,038,044
7,596,179             7,919,628             7,991,416            8,038,354
7,596,618             7,921,984             7,991,588            8,038,549
7,601,685             7,925,923             7,991,770            8,038,655
7,612,817             7,927,581             7,992,039            8,038,732
7,618,445             7,928,928             7,992,400            8,039,241
7,620,546             7,930,228             7,992,424            8,039,243
7,620,715             7,930,626             7,993,748            8,039,588
7,621,823             7,930,715             7,993,824            8,039,655
7,622,473             7,932,909             7,994,212            8,040,204
7,625,944             7,934,083             7,995,580            8,040,329
7,627,695             7,934,281             7,995,614            8,040,330
7,630,729             7,934,425             7,996,044            8,040,492
7,639,217             7,934,428             7,996,048            8,040,895
7,639,622             7,934,658             7,996,338            8,041,395
7,644,284             7,936,362             7,996,379            8,041,413
7,644,926             7,937,302             7,996,480            8,041,606
7,656,091             7,937,895             7,996,780            8,041,714
7,673,441             7,938,686             7,997,021            8,041,819
7,689,760             7,938,728             7,997,224            8,042,131
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7,691,821             7,939,220             7,997,417            8,042,163
7,697,620             7,940,746             7,998,540            8,042,181
7,700,308             7,941,569             7,998,887            8,042,565
7,704,713             7,944,805             7,998,951            8,043,152
7,713,227             7,945,128             7,998,960            8,043,208
7,713,287             7,945,648             7,999,152            8,043,228
7,714,121             7,947,174             7,999,153            8,043,523
7,715,960             7,948,730             7,999,428            8,043,964
7,716,205             7,949,634             7,999,896            8,044,213
7,723,444             7,949,788             8,000,829            8,044,465
7,726,300             7,950,231             8,001,181            8,044,526
7,732,527             7,950,584             8,001,185            8,044,690
7,735,673             7,950,611             8,001,458            8,045,033
7,741,877             7,950,889             8,002,528            8,045,175
7,745,545             7,951,557             8,002,560            8,045,247
7,749,223             7,952,328             8,003,147            8,045,368
7,761,081             7,952,571             8,003,357            8,045,720
7,768,538             7,952,577             8,003,625            8,046,147
7,768,628             7,953,123             8,003,948            8,046,278
7,778,189             7,953,509             8,004,952            8,046,371
7,779,261             7,953,741             8,005,098            8,046,381
7,780,574             7,953,900             8,005,633            8,046,542
7,780,830             7,954,047             8,008,449            8,046,823
7,785,690             7,954,061             8,009,660            8,046,868
7,788,403             7,954,065             8,010,497            8,046,972
7,788,501             7,954,212             8,010,856            8,047,577
7,789,586             7,954,566             8,010,889            8,047,736
7,789,919             7,955,975             8,012,410            8,047,839
7,793,414             7,956,862             8,013,414            8,047,979
7,796,701             7,957,376             8,013,608            8,048,158
7,797,107             7,957,557             8,014,525            8,048,274
7,801,069             7,957,741             8,015,124            8,048,680
7,806,586             7,958,525             8,015,613            8,049,266
7,807,623             7,958,954             8,015,780            8,050,270
7,809,736             7,959,039             8,016,658            8,050,561
7,811,606             7,959,908             8,016,783            8,050,772
7,815,209             7,960,156             8,017,391            8,050,950
7,815,889             7,960,339             8,017,572            8,051,087
7,819,847             7,960,473             8,017,640            8,051,096
7,820,236             7,961,193             8,018,056            8,051,374
7,826,907             7,962,018             8,018,157            8,052,310
7,827,983             7,962,122             8,018,322            8,053,048
7,828,886             7,962,633             8,019,467            8,053,243
7,844,565             7,962,760             8,020,921            8,053,417
7,844,664             7,962,916             8,020,985            8,054,011
7,847,154             7,963,096             8,021,348            8,054,122
7,851,455             7,964,264             8,021,844            8,055,689
7,856,668             7,964,350             8,022,089            8,055,785
7,857,390             7,964,581             8,022,100            8,056,631
7,863,862             7,965,053             8,022,498            8,057,010
7,863,896             7,966,445             8,022,785            8,057,367
7,870,393             7,967,232             8,024,715            8,057,597
7,871,267             7,967,550             8,024,734            8,060,573
7,871,309             7,968,324             8,025,094            D. 552,164
7,872,344             7,968,541             8,025,798            D. 616,653
7,872,421             7,969,103             8,025,972            D. 618,165
7,873,120             7,969,866             8,026,074            D. 635,659
7,874,172             7,969,935             8,026,148            D. 635,660
7,875,612             7,970,448             8,026,460            D. 645,805
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Summary of Final Decisions Issued by the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board 




SUMMARY OF FINAL DECISIONS ISSUED BY THE TRADEMARK TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD
December 5 – December 9, 2011
 





 

Date Issued
Type of Case(1)
Proceeding or Appn. Number
Party or Parties
TTAB Panel (2)
Issue(s)
TTAB Decision
Opposer’s or Petitioner’s mark and goods or services
Applicant’s or Respondent’s mark and goods or services
Mark and goods or services cited by Examining Attorney 
Issued as Precedent of TTAB

 

 

  12-5
  EX
  76696032
  Revolution Energy Solutions LLC
  Cataldo Mermelstein Ritchie*
  2(d); 2(e)(1), 6(a)
  Both Refusals Affirmed
   
  REVOLUTION E BUILDING [metal prefabricated buildings and building modules of various types] [non-metal prefabricated buildings and building modules of various types]
  REVOLUTION [primarily non-metal, transportable, semi-permanent, span fabric roofed buildings]
  No
 

 

  12-5
  EX 
 		
  78648865
  SEI Manufacturing, Inc.
  Cataldo* Mermelstein Wolfson
  23
  Refusal Reversed
   
  HANGBOARD [winter sports and recreation equipment, namely, snowboards, sleds]
   
  No
 

 

  12-5
  EX
EX		
  78659563 78659571
  Green Bancorp., Inc.
  Seeherman Mermelstein Bergsman* 
  2(d); 2(e)(1)
  Refusal as to 2(d) Reversed in each application; Refusal as to 2(e)(1) Affirmed as to each application
   
  GREEN BANCORP, INC. and GREEN BANK (both for) [banking, namely, depository services, namely, accepting FDIC-insured deposits and providing deposit accounts]
  GREEN CHECKING [retail and commercial banking services, in the nature of a checking account] and GREEN SAVINGS [retail and commercial banking services, in the nature of a savings account] (both by the same party); and GREEN BRANCH [financial services, namely, banking services featuring checking, savings and investment account services]
  No
 

 

  12-6
  EX
  77537524
  Goodman Manufacturing Company, L.P.
  Zervas* Wellington Ritchie
  2(d)
  Refusal Affirmed
   
  LIBERTY [natural gas and natural gas/electric furnaces and electric air conditioners for commercial and residential use]
  LIBERTY [oil boiler for domestic heating or domestic hot water]
  No
 

 

  12-6
  EX
  79026352
  AKG Yalitim Ve Insaat Malzemeleri Sanayi Ve Ticaret A.S.
  Grendel Wellington Shaw*
  2(d)
  Refusal Affirmed as to each cited registration
   
  CIMSTONE (stylized) [a wide variety of construction materials and elements, made of a wide variety of different materials, including ready-mixed concrete, prefabricated construction blocks, synthetic surface coatings in the form of strips or plates, and dry mixtures also known as aggregates composed of natural materials]
  CEMSTONE [cementitious materials for commercial and residential applications, namely, ready-mix concrete, designed architectural concrete, concrete blocks, concrete blocks with a rock face; bulk quantities of sand, gravel, limestone and decorative landscape rock] SEMSTONE [polymer-based, chemical resistant floor toppings, coatings, linings, sealants and polymer concretes used primarily over concrete and steel; related blended aggregates]
  No
 

 

  12-7
  CU
  94002400
  Holmes Oil Company, Inc. v. Myers Cruizers of Mena, Inc.
  Bergsman Shaw 
Kuczma [Opinion "By the Board" (Goodman)]		
  2(d)
  Registration Granted to Applicant
  CRUIZERS A CONVENIENCE MARKETPLACE AND EATERY (and design) [retail store services featuring convenience store items and gasoline] (application of the concurrent use applicant and plaintiff)
  MYERS CRUIZZERS DRIVE-IN [restaurant services] (registration of the party recited as exception in concurrent use application)
   
  Yes
 

 

  12-7
  CANC
  92049924
  Paul Audio, Inc. v. Baoning Zhou
  Holtzman Bergsman* Kuczma
  2(d), Fraud, Ownership
  Petition to Cancel Granted on Ownership claim
  C-MARK [audio and electronic equipment, including but not limited to goods such as speakers, speaker boxes, speaker enclosures, amplifiers, equalizers]
  C-MARK [Amplifiers; Audio equipment for vehicles, namely, stereos, speakers, amplifiers, equalizers, crossovers and speaker housings; audio mixers; audio speaker enclosures; audio speakers; digital signal processors; echo sounding devices; electric connectors; electric current switches; electric light dimmers; electric light switches; graphic equalizers; microphones; radios; signal processors; sound mixers; stereo tuners]
   
  No
 

 

  12-8
  EX
  77394063
  Shuffle Master, Inc.
  Grendel Holtzman Lykos*
  2(e)(1), 2(f)
  Both Refusals Affirmed
   
  THREE CARD POKER [entertainment services, namely, providing live games of chance in gaming establishments] 
   
  No
 

 

  12-8
  EX
  85030456
  Eaton Corp.
  Quinn 
Zervas Cataldo*		
  2(d)
  Refusal Reversed
   
  MLOCKER [land vehicle differential]
  Two design marks (by the same entity) [wide variety of automotive goods, including differential carrier assemblies, differentials and parts thereof]
  No
 

 

  12-8
  EX
  77816357
  Savage Tales Entertainment, LLC
  Quinn 
Zervas Wolfson*		
  2(d)
  Refusal Affirmed
   
  PETER CANNON THUNDERBOLT [comic books; comic magazines; graphic novels; posters; trading cards]
  THUNDERBOLTS [publications, namely, comic books and comic magazines and printed stories in illustrated form featured in books and magazines; posters]
  No
 




(1) EX=Ex Parte Appeal; OPP=Opposition; CANC=Cancellation; CU=Concurrent Use; (SJ)=Summary Judgment; (ACR)=by Accelerated Case Resolution; (R)=Request for Reconsideration   (2) *=Opinion Writer; (D)=Dissenting Panel Member
 












  

    
    
    
    

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                        applications filed on or after May 29, 2000.
                        For applications for patent term extension under
                        35 U.S.C. 156, use Mail Stop Hatch-Waxman PTE.
                        For applications for patent term extension or
                        adjustment under 35 U.S.C. 154 that are mailed
                        together with the payment of the issue fee, use
                        Mail Stop Issue Fee.

Mail Stop Patent        Submission of comments regarding search templates.
 Search Template
 Comments

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 a non-publication request, corrected
                        patent application publication, and refund of
                        publication fee.

Mail Stop Post          In patented files: requests for changes of
 Issue                  correspondence address, powers of attorney,
                        revocations of powers of attorney, withdrawal as
                        attorney or agent 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 mailed 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
 Reconstruction         of lost patent files.

Mail Stop Ex Parte      Original requests for Ex Parte Reexamination
 Reexam                 and all subsequent corresponcence other
                        than correspondence to the Office of the Solicitor
                        (see 37 CFR 1.1(a)(3) and 1.302(c)).

Mail Stop Inter         Original requests for Inter Partes Reexamination
 Partes Reexam          and 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.

Information for addressing trademark-related correspondence may also be found
on the USPTO's web site at http://www.uspto.gov/patents/mail.jsp.


            MAIL TO BE DIRECTED TO THE COMMISSIONER FOR TRADEMARKS

   Please address trademark-related correspondence 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:

        Madrid Processing Unit
        600 Dulany Street
        MDE-7B87
        Alexandria, VA 22314-5796

   Mail to be delivered by the USPS to the Office's Deputy Commissioner for
Trademark Policy regarding Letters of Protest must be mailed to:

        Letter of Protest
        ATTN: Deputy Commissioner for Trademark Policy
        600 Dulany Street
        Alexandria, VA 22314-5796

   Mail to be delivered by the USPS to the Director regarding the Fastener
Quality Act (FQA) must be mailed to:

        Director, USPTO
        ATTN: FQA
        600 Dulany Street, MDE-10A71
        Alexandria, VA 22314-5793

   Mail to be delivered by the USPS to the Commissioner regarding the
recordal of a Native American Tribal Insignia (NATI) must be mailed to:

        Native American Tribal Insignia
        ATTN: Commissioner for Trademarks
        600 Dulany Street
        MDE-10A71
        Alexandria, VA 22314-5793

Do NOT send any of the following via USPS certified mail or with a
"signature required" option: submissions to the Madrid Processing Unit,
Letters of Protest, applications for recordal of insignia under the
Fastener Quality Act, notifications of Native American Tribal Insignia.

   Trademark-related mail to be delivered by hand or other private courier
or delivery service (e.g., UPS, Federal Express) 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

Information for addressing trademark-related correspondence may also be found
on the USPTO's web site at http://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/mail.jsp.


           MAIL TO BE DIRECTED TO THE DIRECTOR OF THE UNITED STATES
                          PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE

   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.

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 Assignment    All assignment documents, security interests,
 Recordation Services   and other documents to be recorded in the
                        Assignment records. Note that documents with
                        cover sheets that are faxed to 571-273-0140 or
                        submitted electronically (http://epas.uspto.gov)
                        are processed much more quickly than those
                        submitted by mail.

Mail Stop Document      All requests for certified or uncertified
 Services               copies of patent or trademark documents.

Mail Stop EEO           Mail for the Office of Civil Rights.

Mail Stop External      Mail for the Office of External Affairs.
 Affairs

Mail Stop Interference  Communications relating to interferences and
                        applications and patents involved in interference.

Mail Stop M             Mail to designate or change a fee
 Correspondence         address, or other correspondence related to
                        maintenance fees, except payments of
                        maintenance fees in patents. See below for
                        the address for maintenance fee payments.

Mail Stop OED           Mail for the Office of Enrollment and Discipline.


                           Maintenance Fee Payments

   Unless submitted electronically over the Internet at www.uspto.gov, or by
facsimile, payments of maintenance fees in patents should be mailed through
the United States Postal Service.

   Mailing address if paying with a check or money order:

        United States Patent and Trademark Office
        P.O. Box 979070
        St. Louis, MO 63197-9000

   Mailing address if paying by credit card or deposit account (or by hand-
delivery):

        Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
        Attn.: Maintenance Fees
        2051 Jamieson Avenue, Suite 300
        Alexandria, Virginia 22314

   Information about the Maintenance Fee Branch may also be found on the
USPTO's web site at http://www.uspto.gov/about/offices/cfo/finance/receipts_
division.jsp.

                        Deposit Account Replenishments

   To send payment to replenish deposit accounts, send the payments through
the United States Postal Service to:

        United States Patent and Trademark Office
        P.O. Box 979065
        St. Louis, MO 63197-9000

        Or

        Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
        Attn.: Deposit Accounts
        2051 Jamieson Avenue, Suite 300
        Alexandria, VA 22314

   Alternatively, deposit account replenishments (Attn: Deposit Accounts)
using hand-delivery and delivery by private courier (e.g., FedEx, UPS, etc.)
may be delivered to:

        Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
        Attn.: Deposit Accounts
        2051 Jamieson Avenue, Suite 300
        Alexandria, VA 22314

   Information abount deposit account replenishments may also be found on
the USPTO's web site at
http://www.uspto.gov/about/offices/cfo/finance/Deposit_Account_
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    Reference Collections of U.S. Patents Available for Public Use in Patent and Trademark Resource Centers
  




             Reference Collections of U.S. Patents Available for
             Public Use in Patent and Trademark Resource Centers

The following libraries, designated as Patent and Trademark Resource Centers
(PTRCs), provide public access to patent and trademark information received
from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). This
information includes all issued patents, all registered trademarks, the
Official Gazette of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, search tools such
as the Cassis CD-ROM suite of products and supplemental information in a
variety of formats including online, optical disc, microfilm and paper.
Each PTRC also offers access to USPTO resources on the Internet and to
PubWEST (Web based examiner search tool), a system used by patent examiners
that is not available on the Internet.

Staff assistance and training is provided in the use of this information.
All information is available free of charge. However, there may be charges
associated with the use of photocopying and related services. Hours of
service to the public vary, and anyone contemplating use of these
collections at a particular library is urged to contact that library in
advance about its services and hours to avoid inconvenience.

State                   Name of Library                  Telephone Contact

Alabama                 Auburn University Libraries         (334) 844-1737
                        Birmingham Public Library           (205) 226-3620
Alaska                  Fairbanks: Keith B. Mather Library,
                        Geophysical Institute,
                        University of Alaska, Fairbanks     (907) 474-2636
Arkansas                Little Rock: Arkansas State
                        Library                             (501) 682-2053
California              Los Angeles Public Library          (213) 228-7220
                        Riverside: University of
                        California, Riverside, Orbach
                        Science Library                     (951) 827-3316
                        Sacramento: California State
                        Library                             (916) 654-0261
                        San Diego Public Library            (619) 236-5813
                        San Francisco Public Library        (415) 557-4500
                        Sunnyvale Public Library            (408) 730-7300
Colorado                Denver Public Library               (720) 865-1711
Connecticut             Fairfield: Ryan-Matura Library
                        Sacred Heart University             (203) 371-7726
Delaware                Newark: University of Delaware
                        Library                             (302) 831-2965
Dist. of Columbia       Washington: Howard University
                        Libraries                           (202) 806-7252
Florida                 Fort Lauderdale: Broward County
                        Main Library                        (954) 357-7444
                        Miami-Dade Public Library           (305) 375-2665
                        Orlando: University of Central
                        Florida Libraries                   (407) 823-2562
Georgia                 Atlanta: Library and Information
                        Center, Georgia Institute of
                        Technology                          (404) 385-7185
Hawaii                  Honolulu: Hawaii State Library      (808) 586-3477
Illinois                Chicago Public Library              (312) 747-4450
                        Macomb:  Western Illinois
                        University Libraries                (309) 298-2722
Indiana                 Indianapolis-Marion County Public
                        Library                             (317) 269-1741
                        West Lafayette Siegesmund
                        Engineering Library,
                        Purdue University                   (765) 494-2872
Iowa                    Davenport: Davenport Public Library (563) 326-7832
Kansas                  Wichita: Ablah Library, Wichita
                        State University                  1 (800) 572-8368
Kentucky                Louisville Free Public Library      (502) 574-1611
Louisiana               Baton Rouge: Troy H. Middleton
                        Library, Louisiana State University (225) 388-8875
Maine                   Orono: Raymond H. Fogler Library,
                        University of Maine                 (207) 581-1678
Maryland                Baltimore: University of Baltimore
                        Law Library                         (410) 837-4554
                        College Park: Engineering and
                        Physical Sciences Library,
                        University of Maryland              (301) 405-9157
Massachusetts           Amherst: Physical Sciences Library,
                        University of Massachusetts         (413) 545-2765
                        Boston Public Library               (617) 536-5400
                                                                 Ext. 4256
Michigan                Ann Arbor: Art, Architecture &
                        Engineering Library,
                        University of Michigan              (734) 647-5735
                        Big Rapids: Ferris Library for
                        Information, Technology &
                        Education, Ferris State
                        University                          (231) 592-3602
                        Detroit: Public Library             (313) 481-1391
Minnesota               Hennepin County Library
                        Minneapolis Central Library         (952) 847-8000
Mississippi             Jackson: Mississippi Library
                        Commission                          (601) 961-4111
Missouri                Kansas City: Linda Hall Library     (816) 363-4600
                                                                  Ext. 724
                        St. Louis Public Library            (314) 352-2900
Montana                 Butte: Montana Tech Library of
                        the University of Montana           (406) 496-4281
Nebraska                Lincoln: Engineering Library,
                        University of Nebraska-Lincoln      (402) 472-3411
Nevada                  Reno: University of Nevada, Reno,
                        Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center      (775) 784-6500
                                                                  Ext. 257
New Jersey              Newark Public Library               (973) 733-7779
                        Piscataway: Library of Science and
                        Medicine, Rutgers University        (732) 445-2895
New Mexico              Albuquerque: University of
                        New Mexico General Library          (505) 277-4412
New York                Albany: New York State Library      (518) 474-5355
                        Buffalo and Erie County Public
                        Library                             (716) 858-7101
                        Rochester Public Library            (716) 428-8110
                        New York: New York Public Library,
                        Science Industry & Business Library (212) 592-7000
North Carolina          Charlotte: J. Murrey Atkins
                        Library,                            (704) 687-2241
                        University of North Carolina at
                        Charlotte                           (919) 515-2935
North Dakota            Grand Forks: Chester Fritz Library,
                        University of North Dakota          (701) 777-4888
Ohio                    Akron - Summit County Public        (330) 643-9075
                        Library
                        Cincinnati and Hamilton County,
                        Public Library of                   (513) 369-6932
                        Cleveland Public Library            (216) 623-2870
                        Dayton: Paul Laurence Dunbar
                        Library, Wright State University    (937) 775-3521
                        Toledo/Lucas County Public Library  (419) 259-5209
Oklahoma                Stillwater: Oklahoma State
                        University Edmon Low Library        (405) 744-6546
Pennsylvania            Philadelphia, The Free Library of   (215) 686-5394
                        Pittsburgh, Carnegie Library of     (412) 622-3138
                        University Park: PAMS Library,
                        Pennsylvania State University       (814) 865-7617
Puerto Rico             Bayamon: Learning Resources Center,
                        University of Puerto Rico           (787) 993-0000
                                                                 Ext. 3222
                        Mayaquez General Library,
                        University of Puerto Rico           (787) 832-4040
                                                                 Ext. 2023
                        Bayamon, Learning Resources Center,
                        University of Puerto Rico           (787) 786-5225
Rhode Island            Providence Public Library           (401) 455-8027
South Carolina          Clemson University Libraries        (864) 656-3024
South Dakota            Rapid City: Devereaux Library,
                        South Dakota School of Mines and
                        Technology                          (605) 394-1275
Tennessee               Nashville: Stevenson Science and
                        Engineering Library, Vanderbilt
                        University                          (615) 322-2717
Texas                   Austin: McKinney Engineering
                        Library, University of Texas at
                        Austin                              (512) 495-4511
                        College Station: West Campus
                        Library, Texas A & M University     (979) 845-2111
                        Dallas Public Library               (214) 670-1468
                        Houston: The Fondren Library, Rice
                        University                          (713) 348-5483
                        Lubbock: Texas Tech University      (806) 742-2282
                        San Antonio Public Library          (210) 207-2500
Utah                    Salt Lake City: Marriott Library,
                        University of Utah                  (801) 581-8394
Vermont                 Burlington: Bailey/Howe Library,
                        University of Vermont               (802) 656-2542
Washington              Seattle: Engineering Library,
                        University of Washington            (206) 543-0740
West Virginia           Morgantown: Evansdale Library,
                        West Virginia University            (304) 293-4695
Wisconsin               Wendt Commons Library,
                        University of Wisconsin-Madison     (608) 262-0696
                        Milwaukee Public Library            (414) 286-3051
Wyoming                 Cheyenne: Wyoming State Library     (307) 777-7281





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    Patent Technology Centers
  





        
        
        
        

        PATENT TECHNOLOGY CENTERS
        

        

        AVERAGE FILING DATE OF APPLICATIONS RECEIVING A FIRST OFFICE ACTION IN THE LAST 3 MONTHS1
        
        

        

        Technology
Center		
        GAU
        Avg Filing Date
        

        

        1600
        BIOTECHNOLOGY, AND ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
        

        

         
        1610
        01/14/2010            

        

         
        1620
        04/12/2010
        

        

         
        1630
        02/14/2010
        

        

         
        1640
        04/06/2010
        

        

         
        1650
        12/30/2009
        

        

         
        1660
        11/11/2010
        

        

         
        TOTAL 
        03/04/2010
        

        

         
         
         
        

        

        1700
        CHEMICAL AND MATERIALS ENGINEERING AND DESIGNS
        

        

         
        1710
        08/21/2009
        

        

         
        1720
        09/02/2009
        

        

         
        1730
        03/04/2010
        

        

         
        1740
        01/17/2010
        

        

         
        1750
        09/30/2009
        

        

         
        1760
        04/18/2010
        

        

         
        1770
        01/14/2010
        

        

         
        1780
        12/06/2009
        

        

         
        1790
        08/09/2009
        

        

         
        TOTAL 
        12/18/2009
        

        

         
         
         
        

        

        2100
        COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE AND SOFTWARE
        

        

         
        2110
        06/09/2009
        

        

         
        2120
        07/22/2009
        

        

         
        2150
        11/11/2009
        

        

         
        2160
        12/15/2009
        

        

         
        2170
        07/16/2009
        

        

         
        2180
        12/15/2009
        

        

         
        2190
        07/16/2008
        

        

         
        TOTAL 
        07/28/2009
        

        

         
         
         
        

        

        2400
        NETWORKING, MULTIPLEXING, CABLE AND SECURITY
        

        

         
        2420
        02/07/2009
        

        

         
        2430
        04/18/2009
        

        

         
        2440
        10/21/2009
        

        

         
        2450
        08/21/2009
        

        

         
        2460
        04/28/2009
        

        

         
        2470
        06/03/2009
        

        

         
        2480
        12/18/2008
        

        

         
        2490
        03/19/2009
        

        

         
        TOTAL 
        05/10/2009
        

        

         
         
         
        

        

        2600
        COMMUNICATIONS
        

        

         
        2610
        08/30/2009
        

        

         
        2620
        06/24/2009
        

        

         
        TOTAL 
        07/28/2009
        

        

         
         
         
        

        

        2800
         
        SEMICONDUCTORS/MEMORY, CIRCUITS/MEASURING AND TESTING, OPTICS/PHOTOCOPYING
        

        

         
        2810
        02/07/2010
        

        

         
        2820
        01/11/2010
        

        

         
        2830
        12/30/2009
        

        

         
        2840
        01/05/2010
        

        

         
        2850
        09/30/2009
        

        

         
        2860
        12/12/2009
        

        

         
        2870
        12/21/2009
        

        

         
        2880
        12/15/2009
        

        

         
        2890
        03/25/2010
        

        

         
        TOTAL 
        12/27/2009
        

        

         
         
         
        

        

         
         
         
        

        
2900
         
         
        
        

        

         
        2910
        01/20/2011

        

         
        TOTAL 
        01/20/2011
        

        

         
         
         
        

        

         
         
         
        

        

        3600
         
         
        TRANSPORTATION, CONSTRUCTION, ELECTRONIC COMMERCE, AGRICULTURE, NATIONAL SECURITY AND LICENSE AND REVIEW
        

        

         
        3610
        03/07/2010
        

        

         
        3620
        09/14/2009
        

        

         
        3630
        04/06/2010
        

        

         
        3640
        03/16/2010
        

        

         
        3650
        10/30/2009
        

        

         
        3660
        09/11/2009
        

        

         
        3670
        03/10/2010
        

        

         
        3680
        08/15/2009
        

        

         
        3690
        02/11/2010
        

        

         
        TOTAL 
        12/24/2009
        

        

         
         
         
        

        

        3700
         
        MECHANICAL ENGINEERING, MANUFACTURING AND PRODUCTS
        

        

         
        3710
        08/15/2009
        

        

         
        3720
        10/21/2009
        

        

         
        3730
        08/15/2009
        

        

         
        3740
        05/31/2009
        

        

         
        3750
        06/24/2009
        

        

         
        3760
        09/24/2009
        

        

         
        3770
        07/19/2009
        

        

         
        3780
        08/12/2009
        

        

         
        TOTAL 
        08/12/2009
        

        

         
         
         
        

        

         
        1 Report last updated on 11-30-11.
        





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