United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 04 November 2003

              Survey of Registered Practitioners in Patent Cases

   The Office of Enrollment and Discipline (OED) will be
conducting a survey pursuant to 37 C.F.R. 10.11(b) of the active
registered practitioners. The purpose of the survey is to ascertain
whether the practitioners desire to remain on the register. The United
States Patent and Trademark Office benefits from the survey by
obtaining confirmation that OED's records regarding each practitioner's
address and telephone number are correct, or by receiving updated
information. In the past, the survey has prompted some individuals to
advise OED of the deaths of other practitioners.

   At the present time, there are more than 28,000 active
registered practitioners. A register of all active registered
practitioners, also called the roster, is found on the Office web site
at www.uspto.gov/web/offices/dcom/olia/oed/roster/index.html. This
survey will not be conducted of the entire roster of more
than 28,000 active registered practitioners at one time. Instead, the
survey is being conducted of 25 per cent of the active registered
practitioners at a time. It is expected that the survey will occur
twice each year, and that the entire active register will be survyed in
five years.

   A survey letter will be mailed on October 27, 2003, to active
registered practitioners whose registrations numbers are 39,487 through
46,847, inclusive. Enclosed with the survey letter will be a blue Data
Sheet, which practitioners must be complete and return to OED within
thirty days of October 27, 2003. The survey will be mailed to the
address on the roster. This is the last address for which the Director
of Enrollment and Discipline received separate notice.

   Practitioners can determine if they should receive a survey
letter and Data Sheet by checking the roster on the Office web site. A
practitioner on the roster with a registration number within the range
from 39,487 through 46,847, should receive the survey letter and blue
Data Sheet by November 3, 2003, if the practitioner receives mail at
the address on the roster. If a practitioner does not receive the
survey by November 3, 2003, the practitioner should contact LouWilda
Albritton via mail addressed to the Mail Stop OED, Director, United
States Patent and Trademark Office, Mail Stop OED, PO Box 1450,
Alexandria, VA 22313-1450, or via e-mail addressed to oed@uspto.gov.

   A practitioner on the roster with a registration number from
39,487 through 44,847 who no longer receives mail at the address listed
in the roster must provide the new address to receive the survey letter
and blue Data Sheet. Please contact LouWilda Albritton at the foregoing
addresses.

   The name and address of any practitioner failing to reply and
give any information requested by the Director within the 30-day time
limit specified will be published in the Official Gazette. A further
30-day opportunity will be given to respond and provide the requested
information. Thereafter, the names of practitioners failing to reply
and give the requested information will be removed from the register
and the names of individuals so removed will be published in the
Official Gazette. The name of any individual so removed may be
reinstated on the register as may be appropriate and upon payment of
the fee set forth in 37 CFR 1.21(a)(3).

   If an individual's name is not on the roster, and the
individual's registration number is within the range from 39,487
through 44,847, the individual's name has been endorsed as inactive on
the roster. Individuals whose names are endorsed as inactive include
those who failed to reply to previous surveys, or requested to be
removed from the roster, as well as individuals employed by the Office.
No survey will be sent to these individuals.

   Practitioners having a registration number not between 33,487
through 44,847, are not in the current survey. Accordingly, it is not
necessary for them to call or advise OED that they did not receive the
survey. A survey will be sent to them in the future.

October 9, 2003                                              HARRY I. MOATZ
                                      Director of Enrollment and Discipline