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 Section 1703 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 1703 The Official Gazette [R-10.2019]

 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. 
 

 
 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. 
 

 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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