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April 16, 2004
Trademark Daily XML Files - Weekly Status Report
The following is a status update for all inquiries.
Inquiries can be made to: Ed Johnson at Ed.Johnson@uspto.gov - (703) 306-2621 or Marva Dubar at Marva.Dubar@uspto.gov - (703) 305-1669 or sent to OEIP@uspto.gov.
*The format of the Weekly Status Report will appear as follows:
1. Each inquiry is given a USPTO Control # for tracking purposes.
2. The summary portion of “Status of Inquiries” will be “grouped” by the current status.
3. The detail portion of the report will be in sequence Control # (for easier reference).~~~
"The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is processing paper Madrid filings within a week of receipt and electronic applications within hours. Information is generally viewable on the USPTO website within 24 hours of the completion of Trademark processing. In addition to the work done on Madrid filings at the USPTO, there is also processing at the International Bureau of WIPO. Thus, in certain circumstances pendency is influenced by any backlogs that might develop at WIPO."
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*The status on the availability of the 2003 Annual Trademark (Retrospective) files is as follows:
-The 2003 Trademark Retrospective Assignment/XML file is available for purchase through FTP or on CD-R.
2003 Trademark Retrospective Assignment XML File
2003 asgn.zip - 82,622,036 bytes
2003 asgn.xml - 744,114,826 bytes-The 2003 Trademark Retrospective Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB)/XML file is available for purchase through FTP or on CD-R.
2003 Trademark Retrospective TTAB XML File
2003ttab.zip - 55,626,578 bytes
2003 ttab.xml - 788,006,699 bytes-The 2003 Trademark Retrospective Live/XML file is available for purchase on DVD-R. Note: Due to the size of this file it is on 1 DVD-R.
2003 Trademark Retrospective Live/XML File
2003live01.zip thru 2003live11.zip - 883,077,749 bytes
2003live01.xml thru 2003live11.xml - 17,356,993,923 bytes-The 2003 Trademark Retrospective Dead/XML files.
Note: As of (04/16/2004): The process of creating the Dead retrospective file continues.
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Status of Inquiries:
Awaiting Policy Decision from the Commission of Trademarks:
04/16/2004:
*1 is awaiting a policy decision from the Commission of Trademarks Office. Reference Inquiry (Control #17).
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In Progress:
04/16/2004:
Control #16 “The use of Country Codes” and Control #21 “The inclusion of 3 IB data fields continue to be evaluated along with providing status changes in a more timely manner.
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Open:
04/16/2004:
*Control #30 - Concerning the content of the 24 Hour Box.
*Control #41 - US applications requesting International Registration Status.
*Control #42 – Concerning serial numbers in the Trademark 24 Hour Box describing a mark/design that is different than the mark/design for the same serial numbers in the Daily Application file.
*Control #43 - The ISO-8859-1 Character Set being used in the Trademark 24 Hour Box versus the UTF-8 Character Set is being used in Daily Application file, The Daily Assignment file and the Daily TTAB file.
*Control #44 - Concerning registrations that were cancelled decades and the re-use of registrations numbers.
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Inquiries that have been resolved will have the resolution in black, bold, italicized and underlined.
Any inquiries that require additional research and/or response are considered outstanding inquiries and will appear in red, bold and italicized.
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Inquiry – 11/12/2003: (Control #16)
This inquiry was initially received 11/12/2003. A further clarification (as defined below) of the initially inquiry was received 03/02/2004.
There are fields available on TARR for an Application/Registration that has requested protection into a Madrid Protocol country that do no appear in the current DTD of the daily application file being disseminated. They are:
USPTO Control Number:
Original Filing Date with USPTO:
Date of Last Irregularity:All other data fields included in the Madrid Protocol Information section on TARR are fields that appear in the current DTD of the daily application file being disseminated.
What we'd like is to have this information sent to us in the daily file being disseminated when the Application/Registration has been applied for and then updated with the additional Madrid related fields upon BIRTH from the IB.
A decision has been made by management that the Daily XML files will contain appropriate information that is present on TESS and TARR including the above 3 data fields. Software and documentation must be evaluated and updated. This effort will also analyze providing status changes in a more timely manner and the use of the same country codes in all 3 daily DTD’s.
04/16/2004: A requirements document has been written and is currently being reviewed for completeness.
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Inquiry – 10/31/2003: (Control #17)
Correspondent and owner information are provided.
It is requested that the telephone number, the fax number and email address, if available information, for the correspondent and owner be provided.
04/16/2004: This inquiry is awaiting a policy decision from the Commission of Trademarks Office.~~~
Inquiry – 6/06/2003: (Control #21)
In reviewing the country codes for each of the 3 XML files and discovered the following
*Trademark-Applications XML
Uses 3 digit code from TWTF file
*Trademark-Assignments XML
Uses no codes at all, they expand all codes (Spelling out countries)
*Trademark-Proceedings XML
Uses officially designated country as prescribed by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Standard ST.3
04/16/2004: This inquiry is being evaluated along with Inquiry (Control #16)
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Inquiry – 03/11/2004: (Control #30)
1. We've noticed something different with the 24 Hour Box. It looks like there are records in the root directory that may belong in the Amended folder -- 75919455 dates back to 2000 -- why would this be considered a Pending Application?
04/16/2004: This inquiry remains under evaluation.
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2. Also there is a folder TEST which contains 79 series records. Is this something we should expect?The development staff of the 24 Hour Box is using the TEST folder. That is why you see additional test data there.
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Inquiry – 04/12/2004: (Control #41)
There has 11,501 US applications requesting International Registration Status present on the Daily Application XML files identified below and they continue to appear on subsequent Daily Application XML files:
Date Count File 20040409 5180 apb040409.xml 20040410 2357 apb040410.xml 20040411 2130 apb040411.xml 20040412 1834 apb040412.xml The USPTO TARR data base contains "Madrid Protocol Information" for each one of these applications.
The Daily Application XML file has identified XML tags/fields for this "Madrid Protocol Information". But these XML tags/fields are not populated with data.
04/16/2004: The current XML tags/fields identified for Madrid Protocol International Information are to be populated for applications received from the International Bureau.
This inquiry has been included in the requirements that were completed for Control #16 and Control #21 to change the content of the Daily Application file to be the same as the TARR data base.
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Inquiry – 03/14/2004: (Control #42)
Serial numbers received in the Trademark 24 Hour Box contain a <mark-text> that matches the image/design present in the Trademark 24 Hour Box The same serial number in the Daily Application file has a different <mark-identification> that describes the image/design of another serial number.
The following example shows application 78680640 with a <mark-text> of “HiGeen” in the Trademark 24 Hour Box. Note the presence of ISO-8859-1 characters is discussed in Control #43.
78680640 from the 24 Hour Box File - hr040315.zip:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<serial-number>78380640</serial-number>
<mark-text>HiGeen &#1607;&#1575;&#1610;
&#1580;&#1610;&#1606;</mark-text>The following example shows application 78680640 with a <mark-identification> of “CHIHUAHUA CHOPPERS” in the Daily Application file.
78380640 from Daily Application File - apb040324.zip:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?>
<serial-number>78380640</serial-number>
<mark-identification>CHIHUAHUA CHOPPERS</mark- identification>04/16/2004: This inquiry has been forwarded to the appropriate trademark area for resolution.
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Inquiry – 03/14/2004: (Control #43)
The examples in Control #42 show where the ISO-8859-1 Character Set is being used in the Trademark 24 Hour Box and UTF-8 Character Set is being used in Daily Application file, The Daily Assignment file and the Daily TTAB file.
If the ISO-8859-1 Character Set is to remain in the Trademark 24 Hour Box could a table of these special characters be provided?
04/16/2004: This inquiry has been forwarded to the appropriate trademark area.
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Inquiry – 03/14/2004: (Control #44)
We're seeing registrations coming in that were cancelled decades ago but are now being sent with the original serial numbers being replaced with serial numbers formed by the registrations numbers preceded by 8. To illustrate, original serial number 73-051897, registration 1,036,105 Cancelled (Sec. 8) on 8/17/1982.
On 3/29/2004 we received new serial number 81-036105, registration 1,036,105 with Cancelled (Sec. 8) on 8/17/1982. This causes problems with duplicates for us.
Can you shed light on why this is being done? Was there an announcement that this (serial number conversion) was being done? Why are we getting these records 20 years Post Mortem?
04/16/2004: This inquiry has been forwarded to the appropriate trademark area.
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If you have any questions or need additional information please contact one of the following individuals:
Ed Johnson Marva Dubar Information Products Division Information Dissemination Data Dissemination Branch Systems Division (703) 306-2621 (703) 305-1669 (703) 306-2737 Fax (703) 308-5164 Fax Ed.Johnson@uspto.gov Marva.Dubar@uspto.gov
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