USPTO-Revised Procedures for Papers Requiring Immediate Attention

February 27, 2004 on 2:33 pm | In USPTO |

Revised Procedures for Papers Requiring Immediate Attention
February 26, 2004

On October 28, 2003 the Office published new procedures for the centralized delivery of documents (see Centralized Delivery and Facsimile Transmission Requirements for Patent Application Related Correspondence, 1275 Off. Gaz. Pat. Office 200 (Oct. 28, 2003)). These procedures were revised on February 2, 2004. (cf. Papers Requiring Immediate Office Attention (Hand-carried and Facsimile Transmissions), 1279 Off. Gaz. Pat. Office 149 (Feb. 24, 2004)).

To facilitate processing of certain papers requiring immediate attention, Section B of the Centralized Delivery Official Gazette notice is further revised to add a fourth item as follows:

4. Papers required by the Office of Patent Publication to be hand carried or faxed to
the Office of Patent Publication
a. The applicant may hand-carry the correspondence to the Office of Patent Publication at 2231
Crystal Drive, Room 907, Arlington, VA 22202.
b. The applicant may fax the documents directly to: (703) 746-4000

In preparation of a patent application for publication as a patent application publication or as a patent grant, it is sometimes necessary for applicants to promptly hand carry a required document to the Office of Patent Publication. Accordingly, in order to ensure that after allowance papers and documents needed for patent application publications are received in Publications, papers should be hand carried or faxed directly to the Office of Patent Publication, as required by that Office.

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