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482 | <strong>Patent</strong> it YOURSELF<br />

A. <strong>Patent</strong> and Trademark<br />

Office Mail Addresses<br />

Special Boxes for <strong>Patent</strong> Mail<br />

If you are sending mail in any of the “Type of Mail”<br />

categories below to the PTO, add the appropriate Mail<br />

Stop below as the first line of your address as indicated. If<br />

your mail does not fall into one of these categories, e.g., an<br />

amendment with a fee for extra claims, simply address it<br />

using just the last three lines of the address below.<br />

Mail Stop<br />

Commissioner for <strong>Patent</strong>s<br />

P.O. Box 1450<br />

Alexandria, VA 22313-1450<br />

Mail Stop<br />

Mail Stop PCT<br />

Mail Stop Petition<br />

Mail Stop PGPUB<br />

Type of Mail<br />

Mail related to international<br />

applications filed under the <strong>Patent</strong><br />

Cooperation Treaty.<br />

Petitions to be decided by the<br />

Office of Petitions including<br />

petitions to revive and petitions<br />

to accept late payment of issue or<br />

maintenance fees.<br />

Correspondence regarding publication<br />

of patent applications,<br />

including request for early publication<br />

and rescission of nonpublication<br />

request.<br />

Mail Stop<br />

Mail Stop AF<br />

Mail Stop Amendment<br />

Mail Stop Appeal<br />

Brief—<strong>Patent</strong>s<br />

Mail Stop Assignment<br />

Recordation Services<br />

Type of Mail<br />

Amendments and other responses<br />

after final rejection, other than an<br />

appeal brief.<br />

Information Disclosure State ments,<br />

drawings, Notices of Appeal, and<br />

replies to Office Actions in patent<br />

applications.<br />

Appeal briefs.<br />

Assignments (with cover sheets).<br />

Mail Stop RCE<br />

Mail Stop Ex Parte<br />

Reexam<br />

Mail Stop Inter Partes<br />

Reexam<br />

Mail Stop Reissue<br />

Mail Stop Sequence<br />

Requests for continued<br />

examination under 37 CFR 1.114.<br />

Requests for Reexamination for<br />

original request papers only.<br />

Requests for Inter Partes<br />

Reexamination.<br />

All new and continuing reissue<br />

application filings.<br />

Submission of computer-readable<br />

form (CRF) for applications with<br />

sequence listings, when the<br />

CRF is not being filed with the<br />

application.<br />

Mail Stop Post Issue<br />

Mail Stop EBC<br />

Mail Stop Expedited<br />

Design<br />

Mail Stop Express<br />

Abandonment<br />

Mail Stop Issue Fee<br />

Requests for Certificates of<br />

Correction and changes in patent<br />

files.<br />

Mail for the Electronic Business<br />

Center.<br />

Initial filing of design applications<br />

accompanied by a request for<br />

expedited examination (“Rocket<br />

Docket”).<br />

Requests for abandonment of a<br />

patent application.<br />

All communications following the<br />

receipt of a Notice of Allowance<br />

and Fee(s) Due, and prior to the<br />

issuance of a patent.<br />

Maintenance Fee Payments. Maintenance fee payments<br />

should preferably be submitted over the Internet: go to<br />

www.uspto.gov and click Maintain/Pay Fees. Otherwise<br />

mail the payment form and fee to:<br />

United States <strong>Patent</strong> and Trademark Office<br />

P.O. Box 979070<br />

St. Louis, MO 63197-9000<br />

PTO Is Closed for Ten Holidays. The PTO is closed on<br />

weekends and the following holidays: New Year’s Day,<br />

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Presidents’ Day, Memorial<br />

Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Columbus Day,<br />

Veterans’ Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. If any action<br />

falls due on a holiday or weekend, it is due on the next<br />

open-for-business day. If there is a disaster or service<br />

interruption, such as 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, or a mail<br />

strike, the PTO will publish a notice postponing the due<br />

dates for everyone (or just those in a particular geographical<br />

area if applicable).

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