United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 17 May 2005

                     MAILING AND HAND CARRY ADDRESSES FOR
             MAIL TO THE UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE

              MAIL TO BE DIRECTED TO THE COMMISSIONER FOR PATENTS

   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.

   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.

   Effective January 14, 2005, except correspondence for Maintenance Fee
payments, Deposit Account Replenishments (see 1.25(c)(4)), and Licensing
and Review (see 37 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:

        United States Patent and Trademark Office
        Customer Service Window, Mail Stop _____
        Randolph Building
        401 Dulany Street
        Alexandria, VA 22314


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 Amendment     Information disclosure statements, drawings, 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
 Brief-Patents          part 41 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.

Mail Stop Express       Requests for abandonment of a patent
 Abandonment            application 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. Until April 1, 2005, such
                        papers, petitions for foreign fling license
                        pursuant to 37 CFR 5.12(b) for which expedited
                        handling is requested, and petitions for
                        retroactive license under 37 CFR 5.25 may also
                        be hand carried to Licensing and Review:

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

                        Effective April 1, 2005, this address will
                        change to:

                        Technology Center 3600, Office of the Director
                        Room 4B41
                        501 Dulany Street (Knox Building)
                        Alexandria, VA 22314

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          In patented files: requests for changes of
 Issue                  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 mailed 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
 Reconstruction         of lost patent files.

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

Mail Stop Inter         Requests for Inter Partes Reexamination
 Partes Reexam          for original request papers and for all
                        subsequent correspondence other than
                        correspondence to the Office of the
                        Solicitor (see 37 CFR Secs. 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.


            MAIL TO BE DIRECTED TO THE COMMISSIONER FOR TRADEMARKS

   Please address trademark-related mail 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
        PO 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
        PO 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


           MAIL TO BE DIRECTED TO THE DIRECTOR OF THE UNITED STATES
                          PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE

   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 Assignment    All assignment documents, security interests,
 Recordation Services   and other documents to be recorded in the
                        Assignment records. Note that documents with
                        cover sheets that 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
 Services               copies of 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 Interference  Communications relating to interferences and
                        applications and patents involved in interference.

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

Mail Stop M             Mail to designate or change a fee
 Correspondence         address, or other correspondence related to
                        maintenance fees, except payments of
                        maintenance fees in patents.  See below for
                        the address for maintenance fee payments.

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


                           Maintenance Fee Payments

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

        United States Patent and Trademark Office
        P.O. Box 371611
        Pittsburgh, PA 15250-1611

   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 807
        Arlington, Virginia 22202

   Note that the suite number for the Office of Finance is new, but
that the Office of Finance will move again in May of 2005.


                        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 807
        Arlington, Virginia 22202

   Note that the suite number for the Office of Finance is new, but
that the Office of Finance will move again in May of 2005.