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USPTO MPEP › Chapter 1700 - Miscellaneous › MPEP § 1703
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The
Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark
Office (Official Gazette)
is published electronically every Tuesday in two
sections, the
Official Gazette – Patents
and the
Official
Gazette – Trademarks
.
The
Official Gazette — Patents
reports the
reexamination certificates, reissues, plant patents, utility patents, and design patents
issued and statutory invention registrations (if any) published on that day. The
Electronic Official Gazette — for Patents
(eOG:P) (
www.uspto.gov/learning-and-resources/
official-gazette/official-gazette-patents
) allows browsing through the
issued patents for the week. The eOG:P can be browsed by classification or type of patent,
for example, utility, design, and plant. Specific patents can be accessed by class/subclass
or patentee name. Links are provided to the various pages of the eOG:P:
(A)
Browse by CPC or USPC
page to access patents by a specific classification;
(B)
Classification of Patents
page to link to patents issued within specified CPC classes, links to
Utility documents and of USPC class ranges with links to Design and Plant documents,
and a link to a listing of Class Designations and Descriptions;
(C)
Browse Granted Patents
page to access a patent by patent number or patents by type as well as
links to certificates resulting from reexaminations, supplemental examinations and
administrative trials;
(D)
Index of Patentees
page to browse by names of inventors and assignees in either a cumulative
alphabetical index or individual indexes by type of patent. Each patentee listing
contains a link to the patent;
(E)
Geographical Index of Inventors
to link to patents by the state or country of residence of the first
listed inventor; and
(F)
Notices
page to link to the text of Patent and Trademark Office Notices for the
week
age to browse by names of inventors and assignees in either a cumulative
alphabetical index or individual indexes by type of patent. Each patentee listing
contains a link to the patent;
(E)
Geographical Index of Inventors
to link to patents by the state or country of residence of the first
listed inventor; and
(F)
Notices
page to link to the text of Patent and Trademark Office Notices for the
week.
As to each patent, the following information may be given:
(A) Patent number;
(B) Title of the invention;
(C) Name of inventor(s), city, and state or country of residence;
(D) Assignee's name, city, and state or country of residence, if
assigned;
(E) Applicant's name, city, and state or country of residence;
(F) Filing date and application number;
(G) For reissue patents, the original patent number and issue date, and
the original application number and filing date;
(H) U.S. benefit application data, if any;
(I) PCT or international design application data, if any;
(J) Foreign priority application data, if any;
(K) Patent Application Publication Number and Publication date, if any;
(L) International classification;
(M) CPC classification;
(N) U.S. classification by class and subclass (for Design and Plant
documents);
(O) Number of claims;
(P) Selected figure of the drawing, if any;
(Q) A claim or claims.
The
Official Gazette – Trademarks
is published
electronically and contains an illustration of each trademark published for opposition, an
alphabetical list of registered trademarks, a classified list of registered trademarks, an
index of registrants, a list of canceled trademark registrations, and a list of renewed
trademark registrations.
The information in the
Official Gazette
pertaining to
each issued patent and each trademark registration can be obtained from the Patent Grants
Database and the U.S. Trademark Electronic Search System (TESS) respectively, both also
available on the USPTO website
egistered trademarks, an
index of registrants, a list of canceled trademark registrations, and a list of renewed
trademark registrations.
The information in the
Official Gazette
pertaining to
each issued patent and each trademark registration can be obtained from the Patent Grants
Database and the U.S. Trademark Electronic Search System (TESS) respectively, both also
available on the USPTO website.
Regular and special notices of the United States Patent and Trademark
Office are published in the
Official Gazette Notices
, both as part of
the
Electronic Official Gazette — Patents
(eOG:P) and as a separate
publication. The notices that are included in this publication include notices of patent
and trademark suits, disclaimers filed, Certificates of Correction issued, lists of
applications and patents available for license or sale, notices of
37 CFR 1.47
applications, and general information such as orders, notices, changes in rules, changes in
classification, certain adverse decisions in interferences, the condition of work in the
Office, registration of attorneys and agents, reprimands, suspensions, and exclusions of
registered attorneys and agents, and notices to parties not reached by mail. The
Official Gazette Notices
are available on the United States Patent
and Trademark Office website (
www.uspto.gov/
learning-and-resources/official-gazette
).
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