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(17) Closing of the United States Patent and
Trademark Office on Friday, December 26, 2014
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) will be closed on
Friday, December 26, 2014. Since Thursday, December 25, 2014, is a Federal
holiday, the USPTO will consider both Thursday, December 25, 2014, and
Friday, December 26, 2014, to be a "Federal holiday within the District of
Columbia" under 35 U.S.C. § 21 and 37 C.F.R. §§ 1.6, 1.7, 1.9, 2.2(d),
2.195, and 2.196. Any action or fee due on these days will be considered as
timely for the purposes of, e.g., 15 U.S.C. §§ 1051(b), 1058, 1059,
1062(b), 1063, 1064, and 1126(d), or 35 U.S.C. §§ 119, 120, 133, and 151,
if the action is taken, or the fee paid, on the next succeeding business
day on which the USPTO is open; that is, Monday, December 29, 2014 (37
C.F.R. §§ 1.7(a) and 2.196).
37 C.F.R. §§ 1.6(a)(2), 2.195(a)(4), and 2.198 provide that certain
correspondence deposited in the Priority Mail Express(r) service of the
United States Postal Service (USPS) in accordance with 37 C.F.R. §§ 1.10 or
2.198 will be considered filed on the date of deposit (as shown by the
"date accepted" on the mailing label) with the USPS. Thus, any paper or fee
properly deposited in the Priority Mail Express(r) service of the USPS on
Thursday, December 25, 2014, or Friday, December 26, 2014, in accordance
with 37 C.F.R. §§ 1.10 or 2.198 will be considered filed on its respective
date of deposit in the Priority Mail Express(r) service of the USPS (as
shown by a "date accepted" of December 25, 2014, or December 26, 2014, on
the mailing label, respectively).
37 C.F.R. §§ 1.6(a)(4) and 2.195(a)(2) provide that patent and
trademark-related correspondence transmitted electronically to the USPTO
will be considered filed in the USPTO on the date the USPTO received the
electronic transmission. Thus, any patent and/or trademark-related
correspondence transmitted electronically to the USPTO on Thursday,
December 25, 2014, or Friday, December 26, 2014, will be considered filed
in the USPTO on the date the USPTO received the electronic transmission.
Patent correspondence successfully received by the USPTO through the
Electronic Filing System (EFS-Web) and filed in compliance with the EFS-Web
Legal Framework will receive the date as indicated on the Acknowledgement
Receipt. See the Manual of Patent Examining Procedure (MPEP) § 502.05 and
the USPTO Web site at
www.uspto.gov/patents/process/file/efs/guidance/New_legal_framework.jsp.
Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS) filings will receive the
date indicated in the e-mail confirmation sent at the time of a successful
filing.
December 22, 2014 MICHELLE K. LEE
Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and
Deputy Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office
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