Attachment 25a - eOG_manual_2019.docx

eOG Manual—2019

Guidelines for Producing Weekly and Daily Electronic Official Gazettes

Office of Data Management, USPTO

Part ONE: Weekly Electronic Official Gazette for Patents (eOG:P)

Introduction and Background

Delivery by Patent Data Capture Contractor

Front Page screen

Index and Welcome screen

Browse by CPC or USPC screen

Classification of Patents screen ……. 7

CPC ___ screen (for each CPC class) ……. 7

US Class Design ___ (for each USPC Design class range)

US Class Plant screen

Class Designations and Descriptions screen

Browse Granted Patents screen …

Ex Parte Reexaminations screen …

Ex Parte Reexaminations under 35 U.S.C. 257 screen …….8

Inter Partes Reexaminations screen

Supplemental Examination (No Substantial New Question of Patentability) menu

SNQ No layout screen ……. 9

Supplemental Examination (Substantial New Question of Patentability) menu ……. 9

SNQ Yes layout screen ……. 9

PTAB: PGR menu ……. 9

PGR layout screen ……. 10

PTAB: IPR menu ……. 10

IPR layout screen ……. 10

PTAB: DER menu ……. 10

DER layout screen ……. 10

Reissues screen ……. 10

Plants screen ……. 11

Designs screen ……. 11

A: Human Necessities screen ……. 11

B: Operations & Transport screen ……. 11

C: Chemistry & Metallurgy screen ……. 11

D: Textiles & Paper screen ……. 11

E: Fixed Constructions screen ……. 11

F: Mechanical Engineering screen ……. 11

G: Physics screen ……. 12

H: Electricity screen

SIRs screen ……. 12

Patentee Index screen ……. 12

Patentee by Name Index screen ……. 12

Patentees by Type Index screen ……. 12

Inventor Geographical Index screen ……. 12

State __: screen (for each state code) ……. 13

__X: screen (for each country code) ……. 13 page layout screens – overview ……. 13 page layout screen – representative drawing ……. 14 page layout screen – representative claim ……. 15 page layout screen – Utility ……. 15 page layout screen – Design ……. 15 page layout screen – Plant ……. 15 patent page layout screens – additional instructions ……. 15 patentee information in LIST OF PATENTEES, LIST OF DESIGN PATENTEES, LIST OF PLANT PATENTEES, LIST OF REEXAMINATION PATENTEES, LIST OF REISSUE PATENTEES, and LIST OF STATUTORY INVENTION REGISTRATIONS APPLICANTS ……. 16

No SIRs message screens ……. 16

Weekly Notices ……. 18

Consolidated Notices ……. 20

Help Page ……. 22

Part TWO: Daily Official Gazette for Certificates ……. 34

Part ONE: Weekly Electronic Official Gazette for Patents (eOG:P)

Introduction and Background

The Official Gazette (OG) is the official journal of the USPTO, published weekly on Tuesday, that includes bibliographic information, exemplary claim(s), and a representative drawing for each patent granted or trademark published on that issue date. There is a separate Official Gazette for Patents and Official Gazette for Trademarks, and the most recent 52 issues for each are available online.

The Notices section of the Official Gazette contains important information concerning both patents and trademarks.

The Official Gazette for Patents is published each Tuesday in electronic form only, and contains bibliographic text, exemplary claim(s), and a representative drawing from each patent issued that week. Please note that the Official Gazette Notices are also included in each issue.

The Official Gazette for Patents is available online for the most recent 52 issues. It may be browsed by classification or type of patent, for example, utility, design, and plant. Specific patents may be accessed by class/subclass or patentee name or state/country. For each patent displayed, you may click the "Full Text" button in the upper left corner to retrieve the full text of the patent from the USPTO Full Text database. See usage notes within each issue or refer to the Frequently Asked Questions for additional information.

On September 7, 2016 the 52 weekly issues published here were moved to a new URL: patentsgazette.uspto.gov. This page will remain the main index page for those issues (and is the "home page" for patents gazette). However, the actual Official Gazette content will go to URLs like http://patentsgazette.uspto.gov/week32/ rather than http://www.uspto.gov/web/patents/patog/week32.

Information on each patent may additionally be found in the comprehensive, searchable patent full-text, full-page image, and bibliographic databases, which are updated for each weekly issue and accessible directly from the home page of the USPTO Web site.

Trial Certificates published after January 18, 2018, will no longer display patent owner and petitioner data. The change in the composition of Trial Certificates makes the data published consistent with data published in Reexamination Certificates and simplifies the publication process.

Delivery by Patent Data Capture Contractor

Weekly Electronic Official Gazette for Patent is provided by the Patent Data Capture Contractor each Tuesday as a package of HTML files. It is also referred to in this document as eOG or eOG:P.

For example, the entry point of the html page for week 36 is, http://patentsgazette.uspto.gov/week36/OG/issue_home.html eOG HTML page uses frameset cols=”240,*” with two frames. Left Frame is used as home/index for navigation and right Frame is for content. The left frame is often referred as “menu” in this document. The right frame is referred as “Patent Page” or “screen” in this document.

eOG patent is mainly for patent information. There are some trademark notices in the Notices Section.

Weekly eOG:P is produced every Tuesday from weekly Patent Grant Red Book XML data issued every Tuesday. It also includes the accumulated Daily eOG (mainly certificates) from the previous week. The Notice Section is from USPTO Word, Excel, or PDF documents.

File structure for the weekly eOG:P delivered by the PaDaCap contractor was designed so that the eOG:P could be posted on the web and be made available for bulk download.

The PaDaCap contractor will deliver the eOG:P in the file structure shown below, which is the file structure that the Electronic Information Products Division—with no need for modification—will use for posting the eOG:P on the web.

In the file name, YYYYMMDD is the issue date, VVVV is the four-digit “Volume” designation for the month, and n is the one-digit “Number” designation for the week. In addition, the root of the transmitted file will contain a single directory labeled: VVVV-n

File name: e-OGYYYYMMDD_VVVV-n.zip

File directory structure:

\root

If a redelivery/replacement eOG tar file is necessary, the file name format will be:

e-OGYYYYMMDD_VVVV-n _rn.zip where “_rn” (_r1, _r2, etc.)

When creating the weekly eOG:P deliverable, the Patent Data Capture contractor will use 7-Zip.

Front Page screen

The “front page” screen of the electronic Official Gazette will show the following USPTO address immediately above the button:Continue

United States Department of Commerce U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Electronic Information Products Division

RSQ-5C00

P.O. Box 1450 Alexandria, VA 22313-1450

Below is the front page of the Official Gazette of Volume 1453 (August 2018) Number 4 (the 4th Tuesday).

The next screen is the Official Gazette Index and Welcome screen.

Index and Welcome Screen

See Appendix P: CPC-Related Changes to Electronic Official Gazette for Patents in DATA ENTRY MANUAL FOR UTILITY PATENTS.

Browse by CPC or USPC screen

See Appendix P: CPC-Related Changes to Electronic Official Gazette for Patents in DATA ENTRY MANUAL FOR UTILITY PATENTS.

Classification of Patents screen

See Appendix P: CPC-Related Changes to Electronic Official Gazette for Patents in DATA ENTRY MANUAL FOR UTILITY PATENTS.

CPC ___ screen (for each CPC class)

See Appendix P: CPC-Related Changes to Electronic Official Gazette for Patents in DATA ENTRY MANUAL FOR UTILITY PATENTS.

US Class Design ___ (for each USPC Design class range)

See Appendix P: CPC-Related Changes to Electronic Official Gazette for Patents in DATA ENTRY MANUAL FOR UTILITY PATENTS.

US Class Plant screen

See Appendix P: CPC-Related Changes to Electronic Official Gazette for Patents in DATA ENTRY MANUAL FOR UTILITY PATENTS.

Class Designations and Descriptions screen

See Appendix P: CPC-Related Changes to Electronic Official Gazette for Patents in DATA ENTRY MANUAL FOR UTILITY PATENTS.

Browse Granted Patents screen

See Appendix P: CPC-Related Changes to Electronic Official Gazette for Patents in DATA ENTRY MANUAL FOR UTILITY PATENTS, and see Reporting of Daily Certificates in Weekly (Tuesday) Electronic Official Gazette for Patents in Section XX of DATA ENTRY MANUAL FOR NON-UTILITY PATENT DOCUMENTS OTHER THAN PATENT APPLICATION PUBLICATIONS.

Ex Parte Reexaminations screen

See Appendix P: CPC-Related Changes to Electronic Official Gazette for Patents in DATA ENTRY MANUAL FOR UTILITY PATENTS, and see Reporting of Daily Certificates in Weekly (Tuesday) Electronic Official Gazette for Patents in Section XX of DATA ENTRY MANUAL FOR NON-UTILITY PATENT DOCUMENTS OTHER THAN PATENT APPLICATION PUBLICATIONS, and see Section IX. EX PARTE REEXAMINATION CERTIFICATE, court decision statement on reexamination “page layout” screen in daily and weekly Official Gazettes.

Ex Parte Reexaminations under 35 U.S.C. 257 screen

See Appendix P: CPC-Related Changes to Electronic Official Gazette for Patents in DATA ENTRY MANUAL FOR UTILITY PATENTS, and see Reporting of Daily Certificates in Weekly (Tuesday) Electronic Official Gazette for Patents in Section XX of DATA ENTRY MANUAL FOR NON-UTILITY PATENT DOCUMENTS OTHER THAN PATENT APPLICATION PUBLICATIONS.

Inter Partes Reexaminations screen

See Appendix P: CPC-Related Changes to Electronic Official Gazette for Patents in DATA ENTRY MANUAL FOR UTILITY PATENTS, and see Reporting of Daily Certificates in Weekly (Tuesday) Electronic Official Gazette for Patents in Section XX of DATA ENTRY MANUAL FOR NON-UTILITY PATENT DOCUMENTS OTHER THAN PATENT APPLICATION PUBLICATIONS, and see Section X. INTER PARTES REEXAMINATION CERTIFICATE, court decision statement on reexamination “page layout” screen in daily and weekly Official Gazettes

· Supplemental Examination (No Substantial New Question of Patentability) menu

· SNQ No layout screen

Same as for daily SNQ NO certificate. See Daily Electronic Official Gazette for Certificates in Section XX of DATA ENTRY MANUAL FOR NON-UTILITY PATENT DOCUMENTS OTHER THAN PATENT APPLICATION PUBLICATIONS.

· Supplemental Examination (Substantial New Question of Patentability) menu

· SNQ Yes layout screen

Same as for daily SNQ YES certificate. See Daily Electronic Official Gazette for Certificates in Section XX of DATA ENTRY MANUAL FOR NON-UTILITY PATENT DOCUMENTS OTHER THAN PATENT APPLICATION PUBLICATIONS.

PTAB: PGR menu

· PGR layout screen

Same as for daily Post Grant Review certificate. See Daily Electronic Official Gazette for Certificates in Section XX of DATA ENTRY MANUAL FOR NON-UTILITY PATENT DOCUMENTS OTHER THAN PATENT APPLICATION PUBLICATIONS.

PTAB: IPR menu

IPR layout screen

Same as for daily Inter Partes Review certificate. See Daily Electronic Official Gazette for Certificates in Section XX of DATA ENTRY MANUAL FOR NON-UTILITY PATENT DOCUMENTS OTHER THAN PATENT APPLICATION PUBLICATIONS.

PTAB: DER menu

Like the two PTAB menus above except that PTAB: DER will be shown beneath the USPTO logo.

DER layout screen

Same as for daily Derivation certificate. See Daily Electronic Official Gazette for Certificates in Section XX of DATA ENTRY MANUAL FOR NON-UTILITY PATENT DOCUMENTS OTHER THAN PATENT APPLICATION PUBLICATIONS.

Reissues screen

See Appendix P: CPC-Related Changes to Electronic Official Gazette for Patents in DATA ENTRY MANUAL FOR UTILITY PATENTS.

In DATA ENTRY MANUAL FOR NON-UTILITY PATENT DOCUMENTS, OTHER THAN PATENT APPLICATION PUBLICATIONS, see Section IV. REISSUE OF DESIGN PATENT, Columns, International (Locarno) Classification, and Representative Drawing.

Plants screen

See Appendix P: CPC-Related Changes to Electronic Official Gazette for Patents in DATA ENTRY MANUAL FOR UTILITY PATENTS.

Designs screen

See Appendix P: CPC-Related Changes to Electronic Official Gazette for Patents in DATA ENTRY MANUAL FOR UTILITY PATENTS.

A: Human Necessities screen

See Appendix P: CPC-Related Changes to Electronic Official Gazette for Patents in DATA ENTRY MANUAL FOR UTILITY PATENTS.

B: Operations & Transport screen

See Appendix P: CPC-Related Changes to Electronic Official Gazette for Patents in DATA ENTRY MANUAL FOR UTILITY PATENTS.

C: Chemistry & Metallurgy screen

See Appendix P: CPC-Related Changes to Electronic Official Gazette for Patents in DATA ENTRY MANUAL FOR UTILITY PATENTS.

D: Textiles & Paper screen

See Appendix P: CPC-Related Changes to Electronic Official Gazette for Patents in DATA ENTRY MANUAL FOR UTILITY PATENTS.

E: Fixed Constructions screen

See Appendix P: CPC-Related Changes to Electronic Official Gazette for Patents in DATA ENTRY MANUAL FOR UTILITY PATENTS.

F: Mechanical Engineering screen

See Appendix P: CPC-Related Changes to Electronic Official Gazette for Patents in DATA ENTRY MANUAL FOR UTILITY PATENTS.

G: Physics screen

See Appendix P: CPC-Related Changes to Electronic Official Gazette for Patents in DATA ENTRY MANUAL FOR UTILITY PATENTS.

H: Electricity screen

See Appendix P: CPC-Related Changes to Electronic Official Gazette for Patents in DATA ENTRY MANUAL FOR UTILITY PATENTS.

SIRs screen

See Appendix P: CPC-Related Changes to Electronic Official Gazette for Patents in DATA ENTRY MANUAL FOR UTILITY PATENTS.

Patentee Index screen

See Appendix P: CPC-Related Changes to Electronic Official Gazette for Patents in DATA ENTRY MANUAL FOR UTILITY PATENTS, and see Reporting of Daily Certificates in Weekly (Tuesday) Electronic Official Gazette for Patents in Section XX of DATA ENTRY MANUAL FOR NON-UTILITY PATENT DOCUMENTS OTHER THAN PATENT APPLICATION PUBLICATIONS.

Patentee by Name Index screen

See Appendix P: CPC-Related Changes to Electronic Official Gazette for Patents in DATA ENTRY MANUAL FOR UTILITY PATENTS, and see Reporting of Daily Certificates in Weekly (Tuesday) Electronic Official Gazette for Patents in Section XX of DATA ENTRY MANUAL FOR NON-UTILITY PATENT DOCUMENTS OTHER THAN PATENT APPLICATION PUBLICATIONS.

Patentees by Type Index screen

See Appendix P: CPC-Related Changes to Electronic Official Gazette for Patents in DATA ENTRY MANUAL FOR UTILITY PATENTS, and see Reporting of Daily Certificates in Weekly (Tuesday) Electronic Official Gazette for Patents in Section XX of DATA ENTRY MANUAL FOR NON-UTILITY PATENT DOCUMENTS OTHER THAN PATENT APPLICATION PUBLICATIONS.

Inventor Geographical Index screen

See Appendix P: CPC-Related Changes to Electronic Official Gazette for Patents in DATA ENTRY MANUAL FOR UTILITY PATENTS.

In the Geographical Index of Inventors in the weekly (Tuesday) electronic Official Gazette for Patents, the Browse by State: section will continue to show U.S. state/territory names as set forth in Appendix A of DATA ENTRY MANUAL FOR UTILITY PATENTS, and the Browse by (non-US) Country: section will continue to show country names as set forth in Appendix B of DATA ENTRY MANUAL FOR UTILITY PATENTS, except that the following truncated country names will be used:

Bolivia Brunei Cocos Islands Falkland Islands Gambia Hong Kong Iran Kyrgyzstan Moldova West Bank Gaza Slovakia Tanzania

State __: screen (for each state code)

See Appendix P: CPC-Related Changes to Electronic Official Gazette for Patents in DATA ENTRY MANUAL FOR UTILITY PATENTS.

__X: screen (for each country code)

See Appendix P: CPC-Related Changes to Electronic Official Gazette for Patents in DATA ENTRY MANUAL FOR UTILITY PATENTS.

page layout screens – overview

Each patent is reported in the eOG on a “page layout” screen, showing bibliographic data—patent number, invention title, inventor information, applicant information, assignee information, filing date, application number, pre-grant publication number and date, IPC/CPC/USPC classifications, claim total, etc.—followed by a representative drawing and representative claim(s).

Link to the full patent specification on USPTO web site should be provided. The reference page should be loaded into the right hand frame.

A print button should be provided to print only the Patent Page in the right hand frame.

Below is an example screen shot of the current production eOG patent page layout.

page layout screen – representative drawing

In DATA ENTRY MANUAL FOR UTILITY PATENTS see Section IV. REPRESENTATIVE DRAWING, 23. Representative Drawing and see Section V. DRAWING(S), 24. Drawing(s), particularly Pre-Capture Verification, (3) print figure.

For additional guidelines having to do with the representative drawing as shown in the eOG, in DATA ENTRY MANUAL FOR NON-UTILITY PATENT DOCUMENTS, OTHER THAN PATENT APPLICATION PUBLICATIONS see the following:

· Section IV. REISSUE OF DESIGN PATENT, Representative Drawing.

· Section IX. EX PARTE REEXAMINATION CERTIFICATE, Representative Drawing.

· Section X. INTER PARTES REEXAMINATION CERTIFICATE, Representative Drawing.

· Section XVIII. EX PARTE REEXAMINATION CERTIFICATE FROM REEXAMINATION ORDERED UNDER 35 U.S.C. 257, Representative Drawing.

page layout screen – representative claim

See DATA ENTRY MANUAL FOR UTILITY PATENTS, 35. Claim(s), Pre-Capture Verification, verification of Print Claim box.

page layout screen – Utility

See Appendix P: CPC-Related Changes to Electronic Official Gazette for Patents in DATA ENTRY MANUAL FOR UTILITY PATENTS.

page layout screen – Design

See Appendix P: CPC-Related Changes to Electronic Official Gazette for Patents in DATA ENTRY MANUAL FOR UTILITY PATENTS.

In DATA ENTRY MANUAL FOR NON-UTILITY PATENT DOCUMENTS, OTHER THAN PATENT APPLICATION PUBLICATIONS see Section I. DESIGN PATENT, International (Locarno) Classification Data, Locarno Classification in Electronic Official Gazette.

page layout screen – Plant

See Appendix P: CPC-Related Changes to Electronic Official Gazette for Patents in DATA ENTRY MANUAL FOR UTILITY PATENTS.

In DATA ENTRY MANUAL FOR NON-UTILITY PATENT DOCUMENTS, OTHER THAN PATENT APPLICATION PUBLICATIONS see Section II. PLANT PATENT, Bibliographic Columns, Latin Name & Varietal Denomination, Latin name and varietal denomination in eOG.

patent page layout screens – additional instructions

In DATA ENTRY MANUAL FOR UTILITY PATENTS see eOG guidelines at the end of each of the following sections: 7. Inventor Data, 13A. Prior (Pre-Grant) Publication Data, and 15. International Patent Classification Reform (IPCR) Data.

In DATA ENTRY MANUAL FOR UTIITY PATENTS see Appendix A: Two-Character Codes for U.S. States and Territories and see Appendix B: Two-Character Codes for Countries and Intergovernmental Organizations.

The “page layout” screens in the weekly (Tuesday) electronic Official Gazette for Patents and in the daily electronic Official Gazette for Certificates will, when showing applicant/inventor/assignee residences, use the two-letter codes from the above-identified appendices. For example:

patentee information in LIST OF PATENTEES, LIST OF DESIGN PATENTEES, LIST OF PLANT PATENTEES, LIST OF REEXAMINATION PATENTEES, LIST OF REISSUE PATENTEES, and LIST OF STATUTORY INVENTION REGISTRATIONS APPLICANTS)

See Appendix P: CPC-Related Changes to Electronic Official Gazette for Patents in DATA ENTRY MANUAL FOR UTILITY PATENTS, and see Reporting of Daily Certificates in Weekly (Tuesday) Electronic Official Gazette for Patents in Section XX of DATA ENTRY MANUAL FOR NON-UTILITY PATENT DOCUMENTS OTHER THAN PATENT APPLICATION PUBLICATIONS.

No SIRs message screens

See Appendix P: CPC-Related Changes to Electronic Official Gazette for Patents in DATA ENTRY MANUAL FOR UTILITY PATENTS. Clicking on Browse Granted Patents and then clicking on Statutory Invention Registrations leads to this screen:

However (not shown in Appendix P) clicking on Index of Patentees, clicking on Patentees by Type, then clicking on Statutory Invention Registrations leads to this screen:

In DATA ENTRY MANUAL FOR NON-UTILITY PATENT DOCUMENTS, OTHER THAN PATENT APPLICATION PUBLICATIONS see Instructions for Electronic Official Gazette in Section VI. STATUTORY INVENTION REGISTRATION – UTILITY, Section VII. STATUTORY INVENTION REGISTRATION – DESIGN, Section VIII. STATUTORY INVENTION REGISTRATION – PLANT.

· Weekly Notices

USPTO will provide Microsoft Word documents, Excel sheets, or PDF documents to be used as sources for the notices to be published in the weekly eOG.

Common notices include:

Examples of other notices (not an exhaustive list):

1. Notice of Delegation of Authority

1. Patents and Patent Applications Available for License or Sale (2nd week of each month)

1. Status of Office of Public Records Services

1. Adverse Decision in Interference

1. Removal from Register

1. Trademark Operation

1. Reclass Alert Report

1. Notice of Petition for Reprimand

1. Special Mail Stops for Patent Mail

1. Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) Update

1. PTRCP Changes

1. Notice of Petition for Reinstatement

1. Notice of Private Reprimand

1. Patent Public Advisory Committee Annual Report (a.k.a. PPAC) (usually once a year, in November)

1. Trademark Public Advisory Committee Annual Report (a.k.a. TPAC) (usually once a year, in November)

NOTE: With respect to the USPTO’s decision that, beginning with the eOG:P of 30 July 2019, notices about rule changes to Part 1 of 37 CFR will no longer be published in the eOG:P, the PaDaCap contractor will not be required to review the file names, titles, or contents of the notices received from the USPTO and will not be required to distinguish a “rulemaking” notice from any other notice. The PaDaCap contractor will continue to publish any notice that is sent by the USPTO for publication in the eOG:P.

A ▲ Top of Notices feature will be present at the end of each notice.

example #1 showing table of contents. This shows the first page and the beginning of the second page of the eOG notices.

example #2 showing end of Page 56 and beginning of Page 57.

· Consolidated Notices

The YYYY Consolidated Notices—that is, the consolidated listing of “the more important” OG notices published in the Official Gazette from July 1, 1964, through the current year—are published, as a separate item from the weekly notices, in the final eOG of the year at the end of December.

example of menu in the last weekly eOG of the year when the consolidated notices are being published.

Example of CONTENTS screen for consolidated notices in last weekly eOG of the year.

NOTE: As of the CONTENTS screen for the consolidated notices in the weekly eOG of December 31, 2019, the italicized introduction beginning The following is a compilation of is revised (as shown next) by the addition of the third sentence:

The following is a compilation of the more important notices and rule changes which have been published in the Official Gazette from July 1, 1964, through December 31, 2019. These notices and rule changes are currently in effect unless otherwise noted. Beginning July 30, 2019, new notices about rule changes to Part 1 of 37 CFR are no longer published in the Official Gazette.

Help Page Help Page Assignee (Company) Name Classification of Patents Index Derivation Proceeding Design Patent Geographical Index of Inventors Index of Patentees Inter Partes Review Notices Patent Classification Patent Number Patentee Name Plant Patent Post-Grant Review Reexamination Reissue Patent Statutory Invention Registration Supplemental Examination Utility Patent

Assignee (Company) Name (See also Index of Patentees) The name of the company or individual that the patent was assigned to at time of issue. Assignee names are searchable in the Index of Patentees. There are two ways to search by assignee name:

1. On the Index of Patentees page, enter the first word of the assignee's name (for a company) or last name (for an individual) in the Patentee entry box. When the first word or last name is entered, press Go. The Index in the right window will jump to that name.

2. Using the linked letters/numbers in the left window, click on the first letter of the first word in the company's name or first letter of the individual's last name. The beginning of that letter in the Index is displayed in the right window. Scroll through the entries for that letter by using the scroll bars.

Click on the patent number in the appropriate entry to display the patent.

Notes:

Names beginning with initials will be found under the initial, not the last name, i.e., A G Edwards will be located in the A section. Do not include periods or commas.

You cannot search for a partial name. If you are not certain of the spelling, use the linked letters/numbers in the left window to go that section of the Index and use the scroll bar to browse through the entries.

If the name you enter is not found, the Index will jump to the start of that letter. Use the scroll bar to browse through the entries.

There are two separate alphabetical indexes: 1) by patent type - Reexamination, Statutory Invention Registration, Reissue, Plant, Utility, and Design, and 2) a combined alphabetical index of all patentees, regardless of type.

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Classification of Patents Index This index lists issued Utility patent numbers by Cooperative Patent Classification class — for example, A01, B29, G08. Click on the class designation to display classifications and patent numbers.

This index lists issued Design patent numbers in U.S. Patent Classification ranges — for example, D01 – D09 — and lists issued Plant patent numbers in U.S. Patent Classification PLT.

Click on the patent number to display a specific patent. Use the Previous and Next buttons to browse through the classes and ranges.

Use the Browse by Class and Group/Subclass page to browse by specific classification.

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Derivation Proceeding Effective March 16, 2013, a derivation proceeding (DER) is a trial conducted by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board to determine whether (i) an inventor named in an earlier application derived the claimed invention from an inventor named in the petitioner’s application, and (ii) the earlier application claiming such invention was filed without authorization. At the conclusion of the trial, a certificate setting forth the results is issued. DER certificates are signified by an O1 suffix after the original patent number, followed by the number of the DER certificate, for example, 7,654,321 O1 (3rd).

To locate by patent number:

From the Browse Granted Patents page, enter the number in the Patent Number box as 7654321 or 07654321 and click the Go button.

To browse Patent Trial and Appeal Board certificates:

From the Browse Granted Patents page, click on the Derivation Proceeding link to display the patent numbers. Click on patent numbers to display specific documents or use the previous and next buttons to browse the entire section.

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Design Patent Design patents may be granted to anyone who invents a new, original, and ornamental design for an article of manufacture. The design patent protects only the appearance of an article, but not its structural or functional features. Design patents are indicated by a "D" prefix before the patent number, for example, D452,955.

To locate by patent number:

From the Browse Granted Patents page, enter the number in the Patent Number entry box as D452955 or D045955 and click the Go button.

To browse design patents:

From the Browse Granted Patents page, click on the Design Patents Granted link to display classifications and patent numbers. Click on patent numbers to display specific patents or use the previous and next buttons to browse the entire section.

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Geographical Index of Inventors This index lists issued patent numbers for the week by the state or country of the inventor. From the Geographical Index page, click on the state to display patent numbers for that state. Click on the patent number to display the patent. To display country names, click on the See Other Countries link and then click on the individual country to display patent numbers.

The number in parentheses following the state or country name indicates the number of patents.

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Index of Patentees This is an alphabetical listing of inventor names and assignee names, either company or individual's names. The Index of Patentees is searchable using the following two methods.

1. On the Index of Patentees page, enter the last name of the inventor or individual assignee or the first word of the assignee's name in the Patentee entry box. When the first word or last name is entered, press Go. The Index in the right window will jump to that name.

2. Using the linked letters/numbers in the left window, click on the first letter of the inventor's last name or the first word in the assignee's name. The beginning of that letter in the Index is displayed in the right window. Scroll through the entries for that letter by using the scroll bars.

Click on the patent number in the appropriate entry to display the patent.

Notes:

Company names beginning with initials will be found under the first initial, not the last name, i.e., A G Edwards will be located in the A section. Do not include periods or commas.

You cannot search for a partial name. If you are not certain of the spelling, use the linked letters/numbers in the left window to go that section of the Index and use the scroll bar to browse through the entries.

If the name you enter is not found, the Index will jump to the start of that letter. Use the scroll bar to browse through the entries.

There are two separate alphabetical indexes: 1) by patent type - Reexamination, Statutory Invention Registration, Reissue, Plant, Utility, and Design, and 2) a combined alphabetical index of all patentees, regardless of type.

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Inter Partes Review Effective September 16, 2012, inter partes review (IPR), initiated by a person who is not the owner of the patent, is a proceeding conducted by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board to review the patentability of one or more claims on the basis of prior art consisting of patents or printed publications. At the conclusion of the trial, a certificate setting forth the results is issued. IPR certificates are signified by a K1 suffix after the original patent number, followed by the number of the IPR certificate, for example, 7,654,321 K1 (14th).

To locate by patent number:

From the Browse Granted Patents page, enter the number in the Patent Number box as 7654321 or 07654321 and click the Go button.

To browse Patent Trial and Appeal Board certificates:

From the Browse Granted Patents page, click on the Inter Partes Review link to display the patent numbers. Click on patent numbers to display specific documents or use the previous and next buttons to browse the entire section.

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Notices The Notices section of the Official Gazette contains important notices published for that week. Each Notice title is linked to the text of the notice. Use the Top of Page link to return to the Table of Contents for the Notices. Click on the Go Back button to return Home.

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Patent Classification Each Utility patent was assigned to a Cooperative Patent Classification — for example, A24C 5/002, which consists of a CPC Subclass (A24C) plus a CPC Subgroup (5/002). Each Design and Plant patent was assigned to a U.S. Patent Classification Class and Subclass — for example, USPC Class D8 and Subclass 29.1, or USPC Class PLT and Subclass 413. There are two ways to browse by CPC (Utility) and two ways to browse by USPC (Design or Plant):

1. From the Browse by CPC or USPC page, for a Utility patent enter the CPC Subclass designation in the Subclass entry box, enter the main group number (before the slash) in the first Subgroup entry box, and enter the subgroup number (after the slash) in the second Subgroup entry box. For a Design or Plant patent enter the USPC Class designation in the Class entry box and enter the Subclass number in the Subclass entry box. You must enter a CPC Subclass designation for Utility documents, but a CPC Subgroup designation is optional. You must enter a USPC Class designation for Design or Plant documents, but a USPC Subclass designation is optional. Click the Go button. A list of patent numbers with classifications is displayed in the left window and the first patent in the classification is displayed in the right window. To look at the next patent in that classification, click on the Next button. Click on a patent number to display a specific patent.

2. From the Classification of Patents page, click on the CPC class (such as B26 or G12) or on the USPC class range or class (like D20 – D29 or PLT) to display the classifications and patent numbers. Click on the patent number to display the patent.

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Patent Number The unique number assigned to applications that have issued as patents. Enter the patent number in the patent number entry box on the Browse Granted Patents page and click the Go button. Patent numbers should be entered using the following formats:

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Patentee Name The name of the inventor or the company or individual assigned the patent at the time of issue. The Index of Patentees is searchable using the following two methods.

1. On the Index of Patentees page, enter the last name of the inventor or individual assignee or the first word of the assignee's name in the Patentee entry box. When the first word or last name is entered, press Go. The Index in the right window will jump to that name.

2. Using the linked letters/numbers in the left window, click on the first letter of the inventor's last name or the first word in the assignee's name. The beginning of that letter in the Index is displayed in the right window. Scroll through the entries for that letter by using the scroll bars.

Click on the patent number in the appropriate entry to display the patent.

Notes:

Company names beginning with initials will be found under the first initial, not the last name, i.e., A G Edwards will be located in the A section. Do not include periods or commas.

You cannot search for a partial name. If you are not certain of the spelling, use the linked letters/numbers in the left window to go that section of the Index and use the scroll bar to browse through the entries.

If the name you enter is not found, the Index will jump to the start of that letter. Use the scroll bar to browse through the entries.

There are two separate alphabetical indexes: 1) by patent type - Reexamination, Statutory Invention Registration, Reissue, Plant, Utility, and Design, and 2) a combined alphabetical index of all patentees, regardless of type.

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Plant Patent Plant patents may be granted to anyone who invents or discovers and asexually reproduces any distinct and new variety of plants, including cultivated sports, mutants, hybrids, and newly found seedlings, other than a tuber-propagated plant or a plant found in an uncultivated state. Asexually propagated plants are those that are reproduced by means other than from seeds, such as by the rooting of cuttings, by layering, budding, grafting, inarching, etc. Plant patents are indicated with a PP prefix before the patent number, for example, PP 12,350.

To locate by patent number:

From the Browse Granted Patents page, enter the number in the Patent Number entry box as PP12350 or PP012350 and click the Go button.

To browse plant patents:

From the Browse Granted Patents page, click on the Plant Patents Granted link to display classifications and patent numbers. Click on patent numbers to display specific patents or use the previous and next buttons to browse the entire section.

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Post-Grant Review Effective September 16, 2012, post grant review (PGR), initiated by a person who is not the owner of the patent, is a proceeding conducted by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board to review the patentability of one or more claims in a patent on any ground that could be raised under § 282(b)(2) or (3). At the conclusion of the trial, a certificate setting forth the results is issued. PGR certificates are signified by a J1 suffix after the original patent number, followed by the number of the PGR certificate, for example, 7,654,321 J1 (25th).

Effective September 16, 2012, the transitional program for covered business method (CBM) patents is a proceeding conducted by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board to review the patentability of one or more claims in a covered business method patent. The program will sunset for new CBM petitions on September 16, 2020. CBM proceedings employ the standards and procedures of post-grant review. At the conclusion of the CBM trial, a PGR certificate is issued. See above.

To locate by patent number:

From the Browse Granted Patents page, enter the number in the Patent Number box as 7654321 or 07654321 and click the Go button.

To browse Patent Trial and Appeal Board certificates:

From the Browse Granted Patents page, click on the Post-Grant Review link to display the patent numbers. Click on patent numbers to display specific documents or use the previous and next buttons to browse the entire section.

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Reexamination Any person may file a request for reexamination of a patent, along with the required fee, on the basis of prior art consisting of patents or printed publications. At the conclusion of the reexamination proceedings, a certificate setting forth the results of the reexamination proceeding is issued. Reexaminations are signified by a C1 suffix after the original patent number followed by the number of the reexamination certificate, for example, 5,480,218 C1 (4328th).

To locate by patent number:

From the Browse Granted Patents page, enter the number in the Patent Number box as 5480218 or 05480218 and click the Go button.

To browse reexaminations:

From the Browse Granted Patents page, click on the Reexaminations link to display classifications and patent numbers. Click on patent numbers to display specific patents or use the previous and next buttons to browse the entire section.

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Reissue Patent When the patent is defective in certain respects, the law provides that the patentee may apply for a reissue patent. Following an examination in which the proposed changes correcting any defects in the original patent are evaluated, a reissue patent may be granted to replace the original for the balance of the unexpired term. However, the nature of changes that can be made by means of the reissue are rather limited; new matter cannot be added. Reissue patents are designated by a RE prefix before the patent number, for example, RE 37,514.

To locate by patent number:

From the Browse Granted Patents page, enter the number in the Patent Number entry box as RE37514 or RE037514 and click the Go button.

To browse reissue patents:

From the Browse Granted Patents page, click on the Reissue Patents Granted link to display classifications and patent numbers. Click on patent numbers to display specific patents or use the previous and next buttons to browse the entire section.

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Statutory Invention Registration (SIR) An applicant for an original patent may request, at any time during the pendency of applicant's pending complete application, that the specification and drawings be published as a statutory invention registration (SIR). A waiver filed with a request for a statutory invention registration will be effective, upon publication of the statutory invention registration, to waive the inventor's right to receive a patent on the invention claimed in the statutory invention registration, in any application for an original patent which is pending on, or filed after, the date of publication of the statutory invention registration. SIRs are designated by a H prefix before the document number, for example, H 1959.

To locate by document number:

From the Browse Granted Patents page, enter the number in the Patent Number entry box as H1959 or H01959 and click the Go button.

To browse statutory invention registrations:

From the Browse Granted Patents page, click on the Statutory Invention Registrations link to display classifications and patent numbers. Click on patent numbers to display specific patents or use the previous and next buttons to browse the entire section.

Notes:

If issued, Statutory Invention Registrations are published on the first Tuesday of the month.

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Supplemental Examination Effective September 16, 2012, a patent owner may submit items of information (not limited to patents and printed publications) and request that the Office conduct a supplemental examination. Within 3 months after the filing of the request, a certificate is issued in the proceeding’s file indicating whether a substantial new question of patentability was raised. Supplemental examination certificates are signified by an F1 suffix after the original patent number, for example, 7,654,321 F1.

To locate by patent number:

From the Browse Granted Patents page, enter the number in the Patent Number box as 7654321 or 07654321 and click the Go button.

To browse supplemental examination certificates:

From the Browse Granted Patents page, click on the Supplemental Examination link to display the patent numbers. Click on patent numbers to display specific documents or use the previous and next buttons to browse the entire section.

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Utility Patent Utility patents may be granted to anyone who invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, article of manufacture, or compositions of matters, or any new useful improvement thereof. An example of a utility patent number is 8,338,169.

To locate by patent number:

From the Browse Granted Patents page, enter the number in the Patent Number entry box as 8338169 or 08338169 and click the Go button.

To browse Utility patents:

Utility patents, in accordance with the Cooperative Patent Classification system, are organized under eight types — A: Human Necessities, B: Operations & Transport, C: Chemistry & Metallurgy, D: Textiles & Paper, E: Fixed Constructions, F: Mechanical Engineering, G: Physics, and H: Electricity. From the Browse Granted Patents page, click on the link to the specific Utility patent type to display classifications and patent numbers. Click on patent numbers to display patents or use the Previous and Next buttons to browse the entire section.

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Part TWO: Daily Official Gazette for Certificates

In DATA ENTRY MANUAL FOR NON-UTILITY PATENT DOCUMENTS, OTHER THAN PATENT APPLICATION PUBLICATIONS see the following:

· Section I. DESIGN PATENT, Columns, International (Locarno) Classification Data, Locarno Classification in Electronic Official Gazette.

· Section II. PLANT PATENT, Bibliographic Columns, Latin Name & Varietal Denomination, Latin name and varietal denomination in eOG.

· Section IV. REISSUE OF DESIGN PATENT, Columns, International (Locarno) Classification Data.

· Section V. REISSUE OF PLANT PATENT, Bibliographic Columns, Latin Name & Varietal Denomination.

· Section VI. STATUTORY INVENTION REGISTRATION – UTILITY, Instructions for Electronic Official Gazette.

· Section VII. STATUTORY INVENTION REGISTRATION – DESIGN, Instructions for Electronic Official Gazette.

· Section VIII. STATUTORY INVENTION REGISTRATION – PLANT, Instructions for Electronic Official Gazette.

· Section IX. EX PARTE REEXAMINATION CERTIFICATE, court decision statement on reexamination “page layout” screen in daily and weekly Official Gazettes.

· Section X. INTER PARTES REEXAMINATION CERTIFICATE, court decision statement on reexamination “page layout” screen in daily and weekly Official Gazettes.

· Section XIII. REEXAMINATION CERTIFICATE ISSUING FROM MERGED REEXAMINATION PROCEEDINGS, electronic Official Gazette.

· Section XVI. REEXAMINATION CERTIFICATE ISSUING WHEN THERE ARE PENDING REISSUE APPLICATION(S) FOR SAME PATENT AND/OR PENDING REEXAMINATION PROCEEDING(S) FOR SAME PATENT AND/OR PENDING PATENT TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD PROCEEDING(S) FOR SAME PATENT, Showing the “At the time of issuance …” statement on the reexamination “patent page layout” screen in the electronic Official Gazette.

· Section XVII. SUPPLEMENTAL EXAMINATION CERTIFICATE, PaDaCap Contractor’s Processing of Supplemental Examination Certificates.

· Section XX. DAILY ISSUANCE OF CERTIFICATES, DAILY ELECTRONIC OFFICIAL GAZETTE FOR CERTIFICATES, AND REPORTING OF DAILY CERTIFICATES IN WEEKLY (TUESDAY) ELECTRONIC OFFICIAL GAZETTE FOR PATENTS.

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