United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 18 May 2004

                     Establishment of New Mail Stop L&R;
                         FAX Number for Requests for
                       Expedited Foreign Filing License

   Effective immediately, applications subject to a secrecy order
pursuant to 35 U.S.C. Sec. 181, or are national security classified, and
correspondence to be filed in such an application, are required to use
the following address when the documents are submitted by mail:

Mail Stop L&R
Commissioner for Patents
P.O. Box 1450
Alexandria, VA 22313-1450

   Correspondence to be filed in a patent application subject to a
secrecy order under 37 CFR Sec. 5.1 through 5.5 and directly related to
the secrecy order content of the application may not be transmitted via
facsimile. See 37 CFR Sec. 1.6(d)(6).

   Applications subject to a secrecy order pursuant to 35 U.S.C.
Sec. 181, or are national security classified, and correspondence related
thereto, may also be hand-carried to Licensing and Review. See 37 CFR
Secs. 5.1(c) and 5.2(c). The current location of Licensing and Review
is:

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

   Petitions for a foreign filing license pursuant to 37 CFR
5.12(b), including a petition for a foreign filing license where there
is no corresponding U.S. application (37 CFR 5.13), may be faxed to:
(703) 305-7658 instead of the Central FAX number (703) 872-9306.
Alternatively, petitions for a foreign filing license may also be hand
carried to Licensing and Review, or mailed to Mail Stop L&R at the
address specified above.

   Questions regarding this notice should be directed to James
Samuels, Licensing & Review Team Leader, by telephone at (703)
305-0239, or Thomas Black, Supervisory Patent Examiner, Art Unit 3663,
Technology Center 3600, by telephone at (703)305-8233. Alternatively,
questions regarding this notice may be e-mailed to
PatentPractice@uspto.gov.

April 23, 2004                                             STEPHEN G. KUNIN
                                                    Deputy Commissioner for
                                                  Patent Examination Policy