USPTO Notices re: mail, petitions to withdraw holdings of abandonment
June 2, 2004 on 4:23 pm | In USPTO |Elimination of Post Office Box in Arlington, Virginia for Patent Related Correspondence [PDF]
Effective immediately, the Office will cease accepting patent-related correspondence addressed to the P.O. Box 2327 Arlington, VA 22202.
Correspondence in patent-related matters to organizations reporting to the Commissioner for Patents must be addressed to: Commissioner for Patents
P.O. Box 1450
Alexandria, VA 22313-1450
Appropriate mail stops should also be used.
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Untimely Filing of Petitions under 37 CFR 1.181(a) to Withdraw Holdings of Abandonment [PDF]
Summary: The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) receives petitions under 37 CFR 1.181(a) to withdraw holdings of abandonment (based on non-receipt of an Office action, or upon non-receipt or loss of a reply by the applicant). Some of these petitions are filed years after the application is held abandoned, causing extensive prosecution delays. To prevent these delays from inappropriately extending the term of any patent issued from the application, the USPTO is clarifying its position concerning the treatment of petitions to withdraw holdings of abandonment that are not timely filed because the applicant failed to exercise reasonable diligence in monitoring the status of the application. The USPTO strongly encourages practitioners and applicants to use the USPTO’s Patent Application Information and Retrieval (PAIR) system (private side) to monitor the status of the patent applications that they are prosecuting.
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