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	United States Patent and Trademark Office - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO or USPTO) is an agency in the United States Department of Commerce that provides patent and trademark protection to inventors and businesses for their inventions and corporate and product identification.
		The current head of the USPTO is Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property Jon W. Dudas.
		In order to become either, an applicant must demonstrate to the USPTO's statisfaction certain scientific and technical competencies and then pass a difficult USPTO-administered examination called the USPTO Registration Examination, which covers the voluminous regulations and procedures that govern USPTO practice.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/USPTO (595 words)

	Patently-O: Patent Law Blog: USPTO News
		To underscore an earlier post, the USPTO is considering enacting a rule that would require Applicants to submit structural data on chemical compounds and biological molecules in electronic format.
		The USPTO has announced that its Web Patent Database, known as PatFT, may be unavailable from 4:00 PM EST on April 1st until 4:00 PM EST on April 2nd due to a planned physical relocation of the USPTO contractor's data center.
		According to the program, disclosed documents will be preserved by the USPTO for two years after their receipt, and then destroyed unless referred to in a separate letter in a related patent application filed within the two year period.
	patentlaw.typepad.com /patent/uspto_news (8436 words)

	Forbes.com - Magazine Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The USPTO interpreted these new decisions very broadly and began to issue patents on computer software--hitherto considered uncopyrightable as mathematical algorithms, since they are not really human inventions.
		In fact, the USPTO started openly advocating that its performance be measured by the amount that it contributed to the public coffers.
		In all the charts and graphs of "operating results" in the USPTO annual report, there is not a cent attributed to the cost to the public of the slices of the economy it is selling off for monopolization by private interests.
	www.forbes.com /asap/2002/0624/044_print.html (1356 words)

	AIPLA \| USPTO Consolidation
		For example, it was stated that the USPTO plans to spend $88 million to outfit and furnish the interior of their new facilities and that, if the USPTO were to accept a standard, high-quality building typical of government agencies, some $48 million would be saved.
		The USPTO has indicated that the standard in their build-out for individual office sizes for examiners will be 120 square feet - 20% smaller than the room sizes in the current facility and consistent with the guidelines adopted by AIPLA.
		While it is true that the USPTO will not own the building at the end of this period, there is no practical option under which that could be the case.
	www.aipla.org /Content/ContentGroups/Legislative_Action/105th_Congress1/Testimony3/USPTO_Consolidation.htm (2143 words)

	USPTO Hearings in January-February, 1994
		Such sources would not be readily available to USPTO examiners unless the USPTO would have the funding to build an extensive library with appropriate indexing for that purpose.
		In particular, the USPTO faces two problems in examining the increasing number of software patent applications: (1) the lack of a comprehensive database of prior art in software technology, and (2) training the USPTO examining corps in continuing advances in software technology.
		The USPTO should process applications for patents on software-related technology no differently than applications in any other technology, either in the examination procedures those applications are put through or in the way the statutory tests for patentability are applied.
	www.spi.org /hearing.htm (3071 words)

	Domain Names and Trademarks: At the Intersection
		The USPTO gets its jurisdiction to perform its registration function from the commerce clause of the U.S. Constitution, so marks that are presented for registration in the USPTO can only be registered upon a showing that the mark is being used in a type of commerce that Congress can regulate.
		The USPTO requires that this description be clear and specific so that people who are not necessarily experts in that particular field of goods or services will understand the scope of protection of the mark in the registration.
		The problem the USPTO must solve now is whether the addition (or deletion for that matter) of the computer protocols from a drawing is (1) necessary when the specimens show the mark as actually used in a form different from the drawing or (2) permissible without violating the prohibition against allowing material alterations.
	www.isoc.org /isoc/whatis/conferences/inet/96/proceedings/f4/f4_3.htm (7611 words)

	Radio Free PTO - Home
		On September 8, 2005, POPA and USPTO management were among those who testified before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet and Intellectual Property at a hearing concerning a review of USPTO operations.
		USPTO Director James Rogan today proposed sweeping changes in the patent system, including a new four-tier fee structure for filing patent applications and for examination, the licensing of private commercial search services, the elimination of U.S.-style searches when foreign searches are available, and deferred examination.
		Thus, the overtime rate will remain as is. However, USPTO management has agreed to be more generous in the work-at-home program, increasing the primary examiner (and equivalent) participation rate from 15% to 25% after three months (see section H.a.4), unless significant problems arise during the pilot program.
	www.popa.org (2824 words)

	USPTO goes digital (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		June 30, 2003 — The USPTO scans patent applications, filing receipts and amendments electronically, in what is called an image file wrapper.
		PAIR is part of USPTO officials' overall goal to file and process patent applications electronically, speeding up what some critics said was an inefficient agency.
		He said USPTO officials approve too many patents after they are initially rejected, resulting in an enormous backlog.
	www.fcw.com:8443 /fcw/articles/2004/0830/tec-uspto-08-30-04.asp (714 words)

	Rethink(IP) - RSS Mojo: Contact Information for USPTO Customers Affected by Hurricane Katrina
		USPTO customers in the areas affected by Hurricane Katrina who have questions or problems regarding patent applications or other patent proceedings should contact Eugenia Jones at 571-272-7727 or eugenia.jones@uspto.gov.
		USPTO customers in the areas affected by Hurricane Katrina who have questions or problems regarding trademark applications or registrations should contact Janis Long at 571-272-9573 or janis.long@uspto.gov.
		The contents of USPTO files for trademark applications, many registrations, and international applications filed under the Madrid Protocol, are available on the USPTO website at http://portal.uspto.gov/external/portal/tow.
	www.rethinkip.com /rssmojo/archives/contact_information_for_uspto_customers_affected_by_hurricane_katrina.html (326 words)

	USPTO. EPAS.
		This collection of information is required by 36 USC §§ 261 and 263 and is used by the public to submit (and by the USPTO to process) patent assignment recordation requests using the Electronic Patent Assignment System (EPAS).
		This collection of information is authorized by 35 U.S.C. §§ 1, 2, 261 and E.O. This information will primarily be used by the USPTO for the recordation of assignments related to parents and patent applications.
		Submission of this information is voluntary but is required in order for the USPTO to record the requested assignment.
	epas.uspto.gov (607 words)

	Cover Pages: US Patent and Trademark Office Electronic Filing System
		USPTO Electronic Filing and Communication Goals: "Electronic filing and correspondence over time will include the two-way electronic exchange of information that the USPTO has with individual applicants and inventors, corporate filers, registered patent attorneys and agents, legal representatives, and government entities.
		The USPTO has based its electronic filing and business communication initiatives on Extensible Markup Language (XML)-tagged documents and has developed standard formats for applications and most applicant/USPTO correspondence received and sent by the USPTO during the prosecution of a patent as well as post grant correspondence.
		USPTO is offering the opportunity for partnerships with industry to stimulate electronic filing and correspondence in regard to patent and/or trademark application filing with the release of USPTO's first Request for Agreements (RFA).
	xml.coverpages.org /uspto.html (3996 words)

	Small Business IP Protection and Management
		Doll has received numerous awards throughout his USPTO career, including the Vice Presidential Hammer Award for his work in establishing the Biotech Customer Partnership; a Department of Commerce Gold Medal for his work on the team that implemented IFW; and a Silver Medal for his work on automating patent examiner tools.
		The USPTO has announced that the move to Alexandria, Virginia is complete.
		USPTO's new headquarters is designed to accommodate cutting edge technology, necessary to fully automate the processing of patent and trademark applications.
	jdmesq.typepad.com (1688 words)

	The Invent Blog \| The Patent Blog of Stephen M. Nipper: USPTO
		Necessity is the mother of invention, and the USPTO’s delay in using RSS has led the guys at the Rethink(ip) Blog (Doug, Matt and me) to create RSS feeds of the USPTO’s News and Notices page.
		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 is holding a round table meeting in Arlington, Virginia, on February 17, 2004, to discuss the equities of inter partes reexamination proceedings.
	nip.blogs.com /patent/uspto (6188 words)

	TARR Home Page
		Due to limitations of equipment and bandwidth, TARR is not intended to be a source for bulk downloads of USPTO data.
		Bulk data may be purchased from USPTO at cost (see the USPTO Products and Services Catalog).
		Individuals, companies, IP addresses, or blocks of IP addresses who, in effect, deny service to the general public by generating unusually high numbers of daily TARR accesses (searches, pages, or hits), whether generated manually or in an automated fashion, may be denied access to these servers without notice.
	tarr.uspto.gov (217 words)

	USPTO launches desktop buy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		USPTO received a special waiver from the Small Business Administration that would allow it to make the award to such a team.
		Almost two years ago, USPTO was forced to cancel plans for the desktop recompete, which was called the Desktop Acquisition ReMap Team (DART) contract.
		This time, SBA and USPTO research showed that a small business could not provide the depth, breadth and volume of products that would meet USPTO's requirements, which could total 200 computers per week, said Edith Butler, program analyst at the SBA's Office of Government Contracting.
	www.fcw.com:8443 /fcw/articles/2001/0416/tec-uspto-04-16-01.asp (713 words)

	USPTO September 28, 2004 Electronic Filing Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The USPTO had a chief goal of bringing in representatives of corporations that file lots of patent applications and law firms that file lots of patent applications.
		USPTO, WIPO, EPO, and JPO have spent many man-years working out the large and fine points of Annex F, which was and is intended to permit authoring a patent application once and then filing it in many patent offices, ideally without the need for format changes.
		Point B suggests that USPTO plans eventually to restore things to the way they were before August 22, 2004, namely to again formally accept annex-F-compliant patent application filing packages.
	www.patents.com /efs/forum/report.htm (3094 words)

	If you can't get USPTO Direct to work (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		If you can't get USPTO Direct to work, then you will not be able to get ePave (which is part of EFS) to work, and you will not be able to get PAIR to work (that is, the secure version of pair that lets you see status of your pending applications).
		USPTO personnel have also suggested to me that USPTO Direct additionally requires that port 443 be open.
		If you are trouble getting USPTO Direct to work, probably your first step should be to check to see whether your version of USPTO Direct is recent enough to include the diagnostic tool (in USPTO Direct, look in your "help" menu for a "diagnostics" choice).
	www.patents.com /efs/firewalls.htm (1300 words)

	USPTO. ETAS.
		All forms filed via ETAS will be marked with an U.S. Eastern Time timestamp when received on the USPTO server.
		The time stamp applied by the ETAS server is the time of official USPTO receipt.
		The collection of information is required by 15 U.S.C. §§ 1057 and 1060 and is used by public to submit (and by the USPTO to process) trademark assignment recordation requests using the Electronic Trademark Assignment System (ETAS).
	etas.uspto.gov (395 words)

	I/P Updates - News and Information for Intellectual Property Practitioners (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		John Welch at the TTABlog is reporting on USPTO TEAS Project Manager Craig K. Morris' presentation to the Boston Patent Law Association on the recent and upcoming developments for the PTO's Trademark Operation.
		According to Sam Mamudi writing for Managing Intellectual Property on October 18, 2005, USPTO Commissioner Jon Dudas is calling on patent practitioners for "a reduction in the number of continuations, fewer claims for each application and a limit to the number of supporting references":
		Cohn began her career at the USPTO as a trademark examining attorney and was promoted to senior attorney and then managing attorney.
	ip-updates.blogspot.com (7886 words)

	Express Search, Inc. - at the USPTO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Construction on the new USPTO campus continues, as does discussion over the ramifications of its presence by area residents.
		Download the most current USPTO Filing Forms located on the USPTO web server and are in Adobe PDF format.
		This map of the new USPTO campus in Alexandria, distributed by the USPTO, features the major buildings, immediate pathways, and directions to the nearest metro stops.
	www.expresssearch.com /attorney/atuspto/2004news (314 words)

	Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS) Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		An international application submitted through the USPTO must be based on either (1) an application(s) that is currently pending in the USPTO; or (2) a registration(s) that the USPTO already issued.
		The international application fees may be paid through the USPTO in U.S. dollars or directly to the IB in Swiss francs.
		The international fees may be paid through the USPTO in U.S. dollars or directly to the IB in Swiss francs.
	teasi.uspto.gov (439 words)

	S&E Library: Finding Patents
		U.S. patents may be searched at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) web site at http://www.uspto.gov/patft/index.html or the esp@cenet site at http://ep.espacenet.com/.
		Note that only classification and patent number searching is available at the USPTO site for patents older than 1976.
		USPTO (1790-present)--provides tiff files, one page at a time (tiff viewer is needed; see info on free Quicktime for Mac or AlternaTIFF for PC's).
	scilib.ucsd.edu /howto/guides/findpatents.html (633 words)

	Geek.com Geek News - USPTO grants Calif. lawyer patent over entire WWW naming scheme (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The USPTO wants to approve every patent they possibly can because this is how they make money.
		Knowing how slow the USPTO can be, this guy may have filed for his patent 20 years ago in which case he may have a legitimate claim.
		Instead, the "cumulative effect is that everything everywhere comes with warning labels, and everyone who slips and falls immediately thinks not of bruises but of dollar signs" and then YOU come along to distort the picture to create a story so that YOU have something to write about.
	www.geek.com /news/geeknews/2004Jan/gee20040120023507.htm (6249 words)

	The Invent Blog \| The Patent Blog of Stephen M. Nipper: Guide to Downloading Patent Copies on the Internet
		Works well with the USPTO site...if you use a TIFF view with the USPTO site, this one might a great option for you (instead of pasting patent numbers into a separate program).
		USPTO, EPO, WIPO/WO PCT, Japanese patent abstracts, and European country patents (United Kingdom, France, Sweden, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Bulgaria, Estonia, Hellenic Republic, Luxembourg, Monaco, Slovenia, etc.).
		Allows you to search patents from the USPTO Issued and Published Patents, and EUROPEAN Patents Database...by entering one word in any of the field of software you can search in all three places.
	nip.blogs.com /patent/2004/09/guide_to_downlo.html (1764 words)

	Patent Bar Simulator - USPTO Registration Examination Practice Simulation Software
		Upstart Raising provides an emulation of the USPTO patent bar testing software as an aid to prospective registration examinees who wish to practice for the patent bar under the most realistic conditions available outside of the actual exam.
		The computer-delivered USPTO registration exam is proctored at locations with access to a searchable copy of the Manual of Patent Examining Procedure (MPEP).
		If you are interested in distributing our Patent Bar Simulator using your organization's name, logo, images, and content, partnering with us as a third-party provider of our simulator, or incorporating our software into your course offerings, please contact our business development office.
	www.upstartraising.com /patentbar (588 words)

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