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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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