United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 30 November 2004

                     SPECIAL MAIL STOPS FOR PATENT MAIL

   For most correspondence (e.g., new patent applications) no mail stop
is required because the processing of the correspondence is routine. 
If NO mail stop is included on the list below, no mail stop is 
required for the correspondence. See the listing under "Special Mail Stops
Applicable To Both Patent And Trademark Mail" for additional mail stops 
for patent-related correspondence. Only the specified type of document 
should be placed in an envelope addressed to one of these
special mail stops. If any documents other than the specified type
identified for each special mail stop are addressed to that mail stop,
they will be significantly delayed in reaching the appropriate area for
which they are intended. The mail stop should generally appear as the 
first line in the address.

   Petitions for a foreign filing license may be faxed to: 703-305-7658.

   Some correspondence may be submitted electronically. See the	Office's 
Internet Web site http://www.uspto.gov for additional information.

   Please address mail to be delivered by the United States Postal Service
(USPS) as follows:

	Mail Stop _______
	Commissioner for Patents
	P.O. Box 1450 
	Alexandria, VA 22313-1450

If no Mail Stop is indicated below, the line beginning Mail Stop should be
omitted from the address.

   Except correspondence for Maintenance Fee payments, Deposit Account 
Replenishments (see 1.25(c)(4)), and Licensing and Review (see CFR 5.1(c) 
and 5.2(c)), please address correspondence to be delivered by other 
delivery services (Federal Express (Fed Ex), UPS, DHL, Laser, Action, 
Purolater, etc.) as follows:

	U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
	220 20th Street South
	Customer Window, Mail Stop _______
	Crystal Plaza Two, Lobby, Room 1B03
	Arlington, VA 22202

Mail Stop Designations	Explanation 

Mail Stop 12		Contributions to the Examiner Education Program.

Mail Stop 313(c)	Petitions under 37 CFR 1.313(c) to withdraw a 
			patent application from issue after payment of the 
			issue fee and any papers associated with the 
			petition, including papers necessary for a
			continuing application or a request for continued 
			examination (RCE).

Mail Stop AF		Amendments and other responses after final 
			rejection, other than an appeal brief.

Mail Stop 		Information disclosure statments, drawings  
 Amendment		and replies to Office actions in patent 
			applications with or without an amendment to the 
			application or a terminal disclaimer. (Use Mail 
			Stop AF for replies after final rejection.).

Mail Stop Appeal	For appeal briefs or other briefs under part 41 
 Brief-Patents		of title 37 of the Code of Federal Regulations 
			(e.g., former 37 CFR 1.192).

Mail Stop		Public comments regarding patent related 
 Comments-Patents	regulations and procedures.

Mail Stop Conversion	Requests under 37 CFR 1.53(c)(2) to convert a
			nonprovisional application to a provisional 
			application and requests under 37 CFR 1.53(c)(3) 
			to convert a provisional application to a 
			nonprovisional application.

Mail Stop DD		Disclosure Documents or materials related to the 
			Disclosure Document Program. (A disclosure document 
			is NOT an information disclosure statement.) 
			Instead of filing a disclosure document, inventors 
			are encouraged to file a provisional patent 
			application.

Mail Stop EBC		Mail for the Electronic Business Center including:
			Certificate Action Forms, Request for Customer 
			Numbers, and Requests for Customer Number Data 
			Change (USPTO Forms PTO-2042, PTO/SB/124A and 125A, 
			respectively) and Customer Number Upload 
			Spreadsheets and Cover Letters.

Mail Stop Expedited 	Only to be used for the initial filing of design 
 Design			applications accompanied by a request for expedited 
			examination under 37 CFR 1.155. (Design applicants 
			seeking expedited examination may alternatively 
			file a design application and corresponding request 
			under 37 CFR 1.155 by hand-delivering the 
			application papers and request directly to the 
			Design Group Director's office.)

Mail Stop Express	Requests for abandonment of a patent application 
 Abandonment		pursuant to 37 CFR 1.138, including any petitions 
			under 37 CFR 1.138(c) to expressly abandon an 
			application to avoid publication of the 
			application. (This new mail stop should be used 
			instead of Mail Stop PGPUB-ABD. Applicants are 
			encouraged to transmit the requests by facsimile to 
			703-305-8568.)

Mail Stop ILS		Correspondence relating to international patent
			classification, exchanges and standards.

Mail Stop Issue Fee	All communications following the receipt of a 
			PTOL-85, "Notice of Allowance and Fee(s) Due", and 
			prior to the issuance of a patent should be 
			addressed to Mail Stop Issue Fee, unless advised to 
			the contrary.

			Assignments are the exception. Assignments (with 
			cover sheets) should be faxed to 703-306-5995,
			electronically submitted, or submitted in a 
			separate envelope and sent to Mail Stop 
			Assignment Recordation Services, Director - 
			U.S. Patent and Trademark Office as shown below. 
			
Mail Stop L&R		All documents pertaining to applications subject to 
			secrecy order pursuant to 35 U.S.C. 181, or  
			national-security classified and required to be 
			processed accordingly.

			Such papers may also be hand carried to:

			Technology Center 3600, Office of the Director
			2451 Crystal Drive, Room 3D07
			Arlington, VA 22202

Mail Stop Missing	Requests for a corrected filing receipt and  
 Parts			replies to OIPE notices such as the Notice of
			Omitted Items, Notice to File Corrected Application
			Papers, Notice of Incomplete Application, Notice to
			Comply with Nucleotide Sequence Requirements, and 
			Notice to File Missing Parts of Application, and
			associated papers and fees.

Mail Stop MPEP		Submissions concerning the Manual of Patent 
			Examining Procedure.

Mail Stop Patent Ext. 	Applications for patent term extension and any 
			communications relating thereto.

Mail Stop PCT		Mail related to international applications filed 
			under the Patent Cooperation Treaty in the 
			international phase and in the national phase under
			35 U.S.C. 371 prior to mailing of a Notification of 
			Acceptance of Application Under 35 U.S.C. 371 and 
			37 CFR 1.495 (Form PCT/DO/EO/903).

Mail Stop Petition	Petitions to be decided by the Office of Petitions 
			including petitions to revive and petitions to 
			accept late payment of issue fees or maintenance
			fees.

Mail Stop PGPUB		Correspondence regarding publication of patent 
			applications not otherwise provided, including 
			requests for early publication made after filing, 
			rescission of non-publication request, corrected 
			patent application publication, refund of 
			publication fee. 

Mail Stop Post Issue	In patented files: requests for changes of 
			correspondence address, powers of attorney, 
			revocations of powers of attorney, withdrawal
			of attorney and submissions under 37 CFR 1.501.
			Designation of, or changes to, a fee address should 
			be addressed to Mail Stop M Correspondence.
			Requests for Certificate of Correction need no
			special mail stop, but should be made to the
			attention of Certificate of Correction Branch.

Mail Stop RCE		Requests for continued examination under 37 CFR
			1.114.

Mail Stop 		Correspondence pertaining to the reconstruction of 
 Reconstruction		lost patent files.

Mail Stop Ex Parte	Requests for Reexamination for original request
 Reexam			papers only.

Mail Stop Inter		Requests for Inter Partes Reexamination for 
 Partes Reexam		original request papers and for all subsequent
			correspondence other than correspondence to the 
			Office of the Solicitor (see 37 CFR 1.1(a)(3) and
			1.302(c)).

Mail Stop Reissue	All new and continuing reissue application filings.

Mail Stop Sequence	Submission of the computer readable form (CRF) for
			applications with sequence listings, when the CRF 
			is not being filed with the patent application.


			  ADDRESS FOR TRADEMARK MAIL

   Please address trademark-related mial to be delivered by the United 
States Postal Service (USPS), except documents sent to the Assignment
Services Division for recordation, requests for copies of trademark 
documents and documents directed to the Madrid Processing Unit, as follows:

	Commissioner for Trademarks
	P.O. Box 1451
	Alexandria, VA 22313-1451

   Mail to be delivered by the USPS to the Office's Madrid Processing 
Unit, must be mailed to:

	Commissioner for Trademarks
	P.O. Box 16471
	Arlington, VA 22215-1471
	Attention MPU

   Trademark-related mail to be delivered by courier or by hand to the 
Trademark Operation, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, or the Office's
Madrid Processing Unit, must be delivered to:

	Trademark Assistance Center
	Madison East, Concourse Level Room C 55
	600 Dulany Street
	Alexandria, VA 22314

		       SPECIAL MAIL STOPS APPLICABLE TO 
			BOTH PATENT AND TRADEMARK MAIL

   Please address mail to be directed to a mail stop identified below to be 
delivered by the United States Postal Service (USPS) as follows (unless 
otherwise instructed):

	Mail Stop _______
	Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
	P.O. Box 1450 
	Alexandria, VA 22313-1450


Mail Stop
Designations		Explanation

Mail Stop 3		Mail for the Office of Personnel from NFC.

Mail Stop 6		Mail for the Office of Procurement. 

Mail Stop 8		All papers for the Office of the Solicitor except 
			communications relating to pending litigation and 
			disciplinary proceedings; papers relating to 
			pending litigation in court cases shall be mailed 
			only to Office of the Solicitor, P.O. Box 15667, 
			Arlington, VA 22215 and papers related to pending 
			disciplinary proceedings before the Administrative 
			Law Judge or the Director shall be mailed only to 
			the Office of the Solicitor, P.O. Box 16116, 
			Arlington, VA 22215.

Mail Stop 11		Mail for the Electronic Ordering Service (EOS).

Mail Stop 13		Mail for the Employee and Labor Relations Division.

Mail Stop 16		Mail related to refund requests, other than
			requests for refund of a patent application
			publication fee. Such requests should be directed
			to Mail Stop PGPub.

Mail Stop 17		Invoices directed to the Office of Finance.

Mail Stop 24		Mail for the Inventor's Assistance Program, 
			including complaints about Invention Promoters.

Mail Stop 171		Vacancy Announcement Applications.

Mail Stop 		All assignment documents, security interests, and
 Assignment		other documents to be recorded in the Assignment
 Recordation		records. Note that documents with cover sheets that 
 Services		are faxed to 703-306-5995 or submitted 
			electronically are processed much more quickly than 
			those submitted by mail.

Mail Stop 		Mail for the Office of Congressional Relations.
 Congressional 
 Relations

Mail Stop Document 	All requests for certified or uncertified copies of 
 Services		patent or trademark documents.

Mail Stop EEO		Mail for the Office of Civil Rights.

Mail Stop		Mail for the Office of Enforcement.
 Enforcement

Mail Stop		Communications relating to interferences and
 Interference		applications and patents involved in interference.

Mail Stop 		Mail for the Office of International Relations.
 International
 Relations

Mail Stop M		Correspondence related to maintenance fees other 
 Correspondence		than payments of maintenance fees in patents is 
			not to be mailed to P.O. Box 371611, Pittsburgh, 
			PA 15250-1611, but must be mailed to "Box M 
			Correspondence, Director of the U.S. Patent and 
			Trademark Office, P.O. Box 1450, Alexandria, VA 
			22313-1450".
			

Mail Stop OED		Mail for the Office of Enrollment and Discipline.


			   Maintenance Fee Payments

Unless submitted electronically over the Internet at www.uspto.gov, 
payment of maintenance fees in patents should be mailed through the United
States Postal Service to:


	Box M Correspondence
	Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
	P.O. Box 1450
	Alexandria, VA 22313-1450

Alternatively, payment of maintenance fees in patents (Attn: Maintenance 
Fee) using hand-delivery and delivery by private courier may be made to:

	Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office
	Attn:_______
	One Crystal Park
	2011 Crystal Drive, Suite 307
	Arlington, Virginia 22202

			Deposit Account Replenishments

To send payment to replenish deposit accounts, send the payments through 
the United States Postal Service to: 

	Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office
	P.O. Box 70541
	Chicago, IL 60673

Alternatively, deposit account replenishments (Attn: Deposit Accounts) 
using hand-delivery and delivery by private courier may be delivered to:

	Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office
	Attn: _______
	One Crystal Park
	2011 Crystal Drive, Suite 307
	Arlington, Virginia 22202