eOG:P Subscriber Notice

We are pleased to announce that an annual index to the Electronic Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office - Patents (eOG:P) for 2002 will be published in early 2003. Although the eOG:P began publication in 2002 July, the eOG:P team is gathering and converting the data from January through June in order to provide a complete annual index.

This annual index will be cumulative of the information contained in the weekly issues of the eOG:P for 2002. Indexes and bibliographic records for the year will be included in this one source. Bibliographic records contain a representative claim and drawing (if applicable) as well as classification, inventor and assignee information. Consistent with the weekly eOG:P issues, patents will be browsable by type of patent (utility, plant, etc.) and classification (class or class/subclass), as well as patentee name and the geographical location of the inventor. The Official Gazette Notices, covering both patents and trademarks, will also be included.

Due to the large amount of data, the eOG:P annual index will be published on one or two DVD-ROM discs, not on CD-ROM. The price of the index will be $ 300.00; it is not included in the annual subscription price of the eOG:P. Subscribers will be notified when the annual index is available.

The Index of Patents Issued From the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office will be published in a paper format through 2002 to coincide with the paper publication of the Official Gazette – Patents. This publication will continue to be supplied by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office. For more information, please visit the GPO Web site at: http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/.

Please contact us if you have any questions or comments.

2002 September 16