[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 246 (Wednesday, December 26, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Page 72999]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-24961]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Patent and Trademark Office

[Docket No.: PTO-P-2007-0049]


Change in Publication Format of Patent and Trademark Office 
Notices and Changes in Display of Patent and Trademark Office Notices 
in Electronic Official Gazette

AGENCY: United States Patent and Trademark Office, Commerce.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is 
discontinuing the separate weekly publication in paper form of Patent 
and Trademark Office notices, and the annual publication in paper form 
of the consolidated listing of notices pertaining to USPTO practices 
and procedures. In addition, notice is hereby given that the weekly 
electronic Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark 
Office--Patents (the eOG:P) will display the Patent and Trademark 
Office notices with volume/page numbers, and the last weekly eOG:P of 
each calendar year will include the annual publication of consolidated 
notices pertaining to USPTO practices and procedures.

DATES: The last separate weekly publication in paper form of Patent and 
Trademark Office notices will be December 25, 2007. The last annual 
publication in paper form of the consolidated listing of notices 
pertaining to USPTO practices and procedures will be December 25, 2007. 
Volume/page numbers will be displayed in the notices in the weekly 
eOG:P beginning January 1, 2008. The first annual publication in the 
eOG:P of the consolidated notices pertaining to USPTO practices and 
procedures will be December 30, 2008.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Electronic Information Products 
Division at (571) 272-5600 or e-mail at [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In accordance with 35 U.S.C. 10 and the 
Presidential E-Government Initiatives to utilize technology in ways 
that will improve how Federal Agencies serve the public, the USPTO will 
begin electronically publishing the weekly Patent and Trademark Office 
notices in 2008. The separate weekly publication in paper form of the 
Patent and Trademark Office notices will be discontinued after December 
25, 2007.
    In the period since the last paper version of the weekly Official 
Gazette on September 24, 2002, the separate weekly paper publication of 
the notices has shown the notices with volume/page numbers while the 
display of the notices in the weekly eOG:P has not. Beginning January 
1, 2008, the volume/page numbers that have been shown in the separate 
weekly paper publication of the notices will be carried forward to the 
notices as they are displayed in the weekly eOG:P. The presence of 
volume/page numbers in the notices as they are displayed in the weekly 
eOG:P will enhance the readability of the electronic notices and will 
facilitate citations of them.
    As with the weekly Patent and Trademark Office notices, the annual 
publication of the consolidated listing of notices pertaining to USPTO 
practices and procedures will occur electronically, not in paper, 
beginning in 2008. The last listing of consolidated notices in paper 
form will be published December 25, 2007. Thereafter the last weekly 
eOG:P of each calendar year will include the consolidated listing of 
notices pertaining to USPTO practices and procedures. The first such 
annual publication of the consolidated notices in the eOG:P will take 
place December 30, 2008.
    The eOG:P displaying the weekly notices with volume/page numbers 
will be available on the USPTO Web site at http://www.uspto.gov/web/patents/patog each Tuesday beginning January 1, 2008.
    The first annual publication in the eOG:P of the consolidated 
notices pertaining to USPTO practices and procedures will be available 
on the USPTO Web site at http://www.uspto.gov/web/patents/patog on 
December 30, 2008.
    The eOG:P on CD-ROM with the above-described changes will be 
published and distributed close to issue date. The eOG:P CD-ROM product 
with the above-described changes will be available from the Information 
Products Division, Chief Information Officer, United States Patent and 
Trademark Office, as an annual subscription for $460 per year and as 
single copies for $20 per issue.

    Dated: December 18, 2007.
Jon W. Dudas,
Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of 
the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
 [FR Doc. E7-24961 Filed 12-21-07; 8:45 am]
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