United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 28 June 2005

                  Status of Office of Public Records Services

The Office of Public Records (OPR) processes and fills orders for
both certified and uncertified copies of Patent and Trademark Office
documents and records assignments and other documents related to title.
This is an update of actual processing times for orders filled during
the month of May 2005:

Document Services                          Goal          Actual
                                                     Processing
                                                           Time
Certified Documents

Patent Applications-As-Filed             7 days         10 days
Patent Related File Wrappers            25 days         27 days
Patent Copies                           10 days          5 days
Patent Assignments                      10 days          8 days
Trademark Applications-As-Filed          7 days          8 days
Trademark Related File Wrappers         25 days         18 days
Trademark Assignments                   10 days          6 days
Trademark Registrations, Expedited       5 days          5 days
Trademark Registrations, Regular        14 days          6 days

Uncertified Documents

Patent Copies                            5 days          1 day
Plant Patents                            5 days          0 days
Patent Assignments                      10 days          4 days
Patent Related File Wrappers            25 days         14 days
Trademark Copies                         5 days          1 day
Trademark Assignments                   10 days          4 days
Trademark Related File Wrappers         25 days         10 days

Customers should use the above actual processing time for each product
as a guide as to when they can expect their orders to be completed. In
cases where an urgent deadline is approaching, contact Document Services
Customer Service at (703) 308-9726 or 1 (800) 972-6382 for assistance
with a particular order.

Customers are encouraged to place orders through the Internet at
http://ebiz1.uspto.gov/oems25p.

Orders may also be faxed to the Document Services Division at
(703) 308-9759. Information on the status of pending orders may be
obtained by calling (703) 308-9726 or 1 (800) 972-6382 (outside the
Washington, DC Metro area), or via E-mail to dsd@uspto.gov.

ASSIGNMENT SERVICES
                            Goal        Actual
                                    Processing
                                          Time
Submission Method

Internet (EFS, ePAS or    2 days        1 day
         eTAS)
Fax                      10 days       42 days
Paper                    90 days      163 days

The Assignment Services Division is currently mailing recordation
notices for paper documents received in the Office of Public Records on
December 16, 2004.

Customers should use the above actual processing times as a guide as to
when they can expect their assignment submissions to be processed. For
fastest service customers are encouraged to file assignments via the
Internet.

Assignment submissions may be made via the Internet at
http://epas.uspto.gov/ for patent assignments and
http://etas.uspto.gov for trademark assignments. Patent assignment
submissions may also be made by selecting the "Electronic Filing (EFS)"
option at http://www.uspto.gov/ebc.

Assignment submissions may also be faxed to the Assignment Services
Division at (703) 306-5995. Trademark assignment recordations
may be reviewed online at http://assignments.uspto.gov/assignments.
Information on the status of pending assignment recordations may be
obtained by calling (703) 308-9723 or 1 (800) 972-6382 (outside the
Washington, DC Metro area).

June 3, 2005                                                       TED PARR
                                         Director, Office of Public Records