Congressional and Other Official Inquiries

Correspondence and inquiries from the White House, members of

the U.S. Congress, embassies, and heads of U.S. executive departments and agencies normally

are cleared by the USPTO’s Office of Policy and International Affairs and/or the Office of

Governmental Affairs.

Inquiries referred to in this section such as correspondence

from foreign embassies, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, and the U.S.

Department of State must immediately be transmitted to the USPTO's Office of the

Administrator for Policy and International Affairs, and a staff member of that office must

be notified by phone that such correspondence has been received at 571-272-9300. Inquiries

referred to in this section, such as correspondence from the U.S. Congress or the White

House, must immediately be transmitted to the USPTO's Director of the Office of

Governmental Affairs, and a staff member of that office must be notified by phone that such

correspondence has been received at 571-272-7300.

This procedure is used so that there will be uniformity in

the handling of contacts from the indicated sources, and also so that compliance with

directives of the U.S. Department of Commerce is attained.

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