Public User Identification Badges USPTO Public Search Facilities The USPTO Public Search Services Division, responsible for the public search facilities in the Patent Search Room and the Trademark Search Library, will be installing a new badge system. This system will replace the current badges with a laminated picture identification badge. The new badges will be valid for one year. Badges must be visible at all times within the Patent and Trademark Office building complex. This new badge system will be used by the File Information Unit for public users requesting files. The change over from the present system to the new badge system will occur in January 1998. Beginning the first week in January equipment will be available in the Patent Search Room to issue the new badges for both patent and trademark public users. The Patent Search Room is open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Current badges will no longer be valid after January 31, 1998. Dec. 10, 1997 WESLEY H. GEWEHR Administrator for Information Dissemination