United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 09 January 2007

                      Status of Public Records Division


   The Public Records Division (PRD) 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
November 2006:

DOCUMENT SERVICES                           Goal                     Actual
                                                                 Processing
                                                                       Time

Certified Documents

Patent Applications-As-Filed              7 days                     6 days
Patent Related File Wrappers             25 days                    21 days
Patent Copies                            10 days                     5 days
Patent Assignments                       10 days                     6 days
Trademark Applications-As-Filed           7 days                     6 days
Trademark Related File Wrappers          25 days                    11 days
Trademark Assignments                    10 days                     5 days
Trademark Registrations,
   Expedited                              5 days                     3 days
Trademark Registrations,
   Regular                               14 days                     5 days

Uncertified Documents

Patent Copies                             5 day                      1 day
Plant Patents                             5 days                     2 days
Patent Assignments                       10 days                     2 days
Patent Related File Wrappers             25 days                     9 days
Trademark Copies                          5 days                     1 day
Trademark Assignments                    10 days                     2 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 (571) 272-3150 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 Branch at (571) 273-3250.
Information on the status of pending orders may be obtained by calling
(571) 272-3150 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 eTAS)              2 days                     1 day
Fax                                      10 days                     2 days
Paper                                    90 days                     3 days

The Assignment Services Branch is currently mailing recordation notices for
paper documents received in the Public Records Division on November 28,
2006.

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 Branch
at (571) 273-0140. 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 (571) 272-3350
or 1 (800) 972-6382 (outside the Washington, DC Metro area).


December 1, 2006                                              AMANDA PUTNAM
                                    Acting Manager, Public Records Division