U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Information Products Division
Data Dissemination
Trademark Daily XML Migration

August 27, 2004

Trademark Daily XML Files - Weekly Status Report

The following is a status update for all inquiries.

Inquiries can be made to: Ed Johnson at Ed.Johnson@uspto.gov - (703) 306-2621 or Jazmin Rexrode at Jazmin.Rexrode@uspto.gov - (703) 306-2626 or sent to OEIP@uspto.gov.

*The format of the Weekly Status Report will appear as follows:
1. Each inquiry is given a USPTO Control # for tracking purposes.
2. The summary portion of “Status of Inquiries” will be “grouped” by the current status.
3. The detail portion of the report will be in sequence Control # (for easier reference).

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Any inquiries that require additional research and/or response are considered outstanding inquiries and will appear in red, bold and italicized.

Inquiries that have been resolved will have the resolution in black, bold, italicized and underlined.

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For Your Information – FYI:

04/16/2004:

"The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is processing paper Madrid filings within a week of receipt and electronic applications within hours. Information is generally viewable on the USPTO website within 24 hours of the completion of Trademark processing. In addition to the work done on Madrid filings at the USPTO, there is also processing at the International Bureau of WIPO. Thus, in certain circumstances pendency is influenced by any backlogs that might develop at WIPO."

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08/13/2004:

Requirements and Proposed Schedule for the updated Trademark Daily Applications product – Control #61

Requirements:

1. The updated Trademark Daily Application product will include all data fields provided in the current product. Reference the Trademark Applications Daily XML DTD Element Documentation (v.12) located on the TDXF DTD's, Documentation, and Sample Data page.
   
2. Provide all MADRID PROTOCOL INFORMATION (including Madrid History and Multiple transactions) for applications going to the International Bureau (IB).
   
3. Provide all MADRID PROTOCOL INFORMATION for applications received from the International Bureau (IB).
   
4. Provide status code changes on a daily basis that are now only provided in the Monthly Status file.
   
5. Provide the Date In Location and the Law Office Assigned in addition to the <law-office-assigned-location-code> field that is currently provided.
   
6. Provide the Abandonment-Date and Mis-Assigned Numbers.This information is currently only available in the Monthly Contractor Reports.
   
7. Provide 2-character WIPO Standard ST. 3 country codes in the <nationality> field and the <country> field of the <case-file-owner>.
   Note: The data in the Correspondent Address is free form text and will remain that way.

Proposed Schedule:

• September 1, 2004 – The updated Daily Application DTD and Documentation to be released. Test files will be made available during the month of September 2004.
  
• October 1, 2004 – Proposed parallel process to include the updated Daily Application product along with the current production product to take place October 1, 2004 through December 31, 2004.
  
• January 3, 2005 – Proposed deployment of the updated Daily Application product into production.

NOTE: Once the updated Daily Application product is accepted and placed into production, the Monthly Status File and the Monthly Contractor Reports will be discontinued in a timely manner.

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Availability of Files:

08/27/2004:

All files for the week ending August 27, 2004 were available on time.

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Status of Inquiries:

Closed:

Control #80

In Process:

Control #61 - Requirements and Proposed Schedule for the updated Trademark Daily Applications product will be updated and tracked in the FYI section above.

Control #81 - serial number is 75801607 contains prosecution history on TARR that was never received on the daily application file.

Control #82 – An invalid entity character appeared on the daily application file dated August 25, 2004.

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Inquiry – 08/24/2004: Control #80

The following application 75770413 on the Daily Application file dated August 19, 2004 contained carriage returns in the composed-of-statement(s).

<case-file-owner>
<composed-of-statement>COMPOSED OF ORBIT PRODUCTIONS LLC
DBA ORBIT PRODUCTIONS</composed-of-statement>
<entry-number>01</entry-number>
<name-1>ORBIT PRODUCTIONS LLC</name-1>
<party-type>31</party-type>
<address-1>POB 4093</address-1>
<city>MODESTO</city>
<state>CA</state>
<postcode>95352</postcode>
<dba-aka-text>DBA ORBIT PRODUCTIONS</dba-aka-text>
<legal-entity-type-code>99</legal-entity-type-code>
<entity-statement>LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY</entity-statement>
</case-file-owner>
<case-file-owner>
<composed-of-statement>COMPOSED OF ORBIT PRODUCTIONS LLC
DBA ORBIT PRODUCTIONS</composed-of-statement>
<entry-number>02</entry-number>
<nationality>CA</nationality>
<name-1>ORBIT PRODUCTIONS LLC</name-1>
<party-type>31</party-type>
<address-1>POB 4093</address-1>
<city>MODESTO</city>
<state>CA</state>
<postcode>95352</postcode>
<dba-aka-text>DBA ORBIT PRODUCTIONS LLC DBA ORBIT PRODUCTIONS</dba-aka-text>
<legal-entity-type-code>99</legal-entity-type-code>
<entity-statement>LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY</entity-statement>
</case-file-owner>

08/27/2004:

Erroneous return characters (Hexadecimal “0A”) are received from the applicant through electronic filings. Please ignore these erroneous characters.

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Inquiry – 08/25/2004: Control #81

The serial number is 75801607. We received this record in December 1999 as a Pending Drawing page. It came in as a New Application in the TWTF Jan. 10, 2000. We have had numerous updates on this record between miscellaneous transactions on the now defunct TWTF Weekly file and the Monthly Status (MOST) Updates. The last update we received for this serial number is through a MOST on 09-04-2003. We have that this Status of 744 (4th Extension Filed) is 08-13-2003.

Here is what you have on TARR for the same record. You will see that there are 5 transactions that have taken place in 2004 and we have not received any of these and the last one is 2004-07-01 - Case File in TICRS when this record has already been published. What does that mean?

Any help would be appreciated.

PROSECUTION HISTORY
2004-07-01 - Case File in TICRS
2004-04-26 - Case file assigned to examining attorney
2004-01-21 - Extension 5 granted
2004-01-21 - Extension 5 filed
2004-01-26 - PAPER RECEIVED
2003-08-13 - Extension 4 granted
2003-07-14 - Extension 4 filed
2003-07-14 - PAPER RECEIVED
2003-02-07 - Extension 3 granted
2003-02-07 - Extension 3 filed
2003-02-11 - PAPER RECEIVED
2002-07-23 - PAPER RECEIVED
2002-07-08 - Extension 2 granted
2002-06-21 - Extension 2 filed
2002-02-21 - Extension 1 granted
2002-01-29 - Extension 1 filed
2001-08-07 - Notice of allowance - mailed
2001-05-15 - Published for opposition
2001-05-02 - Notice of publication
2000-12-28 - Approved for Pub - Principal Register (Initial exam)
2000-12-26 - Examiner's Amendment Completed
2000-12-26 - Previous allowance count withdrawn
2000-11-06 - Approved for Pub - Principal Register (Initial exam)
2000-08-21 - Correspondence Received In Law Office
2000-02-17 - Non-final action mailed
2000-02-10 - Case file assigned to examining attorney

08/27/2004:

This inquiry has been forwarded to the appropriate trademark area for resolution.

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Inquiry – 08/26/2004: Control #82

The daily application file for August 25, 2004 had the following error:

[Fatal Error] ap040825.xml:176069:345: A decimal representation must immediately follow the "&#" in a character reference - application 76063801

08/27/2004:

The appropriate trademark area acknowledged this error and stated application 76063801 would be corrected the week of 8/30/2004.

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If you have any questions or need additional information please contact one of the following individuals:

Ed Johnson	Jazmin Rexrode
Office of Electronic Information Products	Office of Electronic Information Products
(703) 306-2621	(703) 306-2626
(703) 306-2737 Fax	(703) 306-2737 Fax
Ed.Johnson@uspto.gov	Jazmin.Rexrode@uspto.gov