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October 8, 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 Jazmin Rexrode at Jazmin.Rexrode@uspto.gov - (703) 306-2626 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).

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Any inquiries that require additional research and/or response are considered outstanding inquiries and will appear in red, bold and italicized.

Inquiries that have been resolved will have the resolution in black, bold, italicized and underlined.

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For Your Information – FYI:

10/08/2004:

Control #96:

Servers and other hardware are being moved to the USPTO Data Center in Crystal City in preparation of the subsequent move to the Alexandria Campus.

The majority of the equipment maintained by OEIP is used to produce the CASSIS line of optical disc products and the equipment that is used to disseminate the daily trademark files is being replaced.

Phase 1: September 20, 2004 - Hardware used to produce CASSIS products was successfully moved.

Phase 2: September 23, 2004 - Hardware used to produce USAApp and USAPat products was successfully moved.

Phase 3: September 29, 2004 - Hardware used to produce NTAF products was successfully moved.

Phase 4: October 2004 - New hardware to support the Data File Delivery (DFD) FTP system has been ordered and will be installed and configured in the USPTO Data Center in Crystal City.

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08/13/2004:

Requirements and Proposed Schedule for the updated Trademark Daily Applications product – Control #61

Requirements:

Proposed Schedule:

NOTE: Once the updated Daily Application product is accepted and placed into production, the Monthly Status File and the Monthly Contractor Reports will be discontinued in a timely manner.

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04/16/2004:

"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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Availability of Files:

10/08/2004:

All files for the week ending October 08, 2004 were available on time with the following exceptions:

A truncated tt041004 file was initially provided on October 05, 2004. A corrected complete file was available at 12:30 p.m., October 05, 2004. The truncated file was the result of an internal server problem.
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The reason for the Daily Assignment file asb040930.zip not being available until 11:00 a.m. ET last Friday, 10/01/2004 was due to the fact that a system task was also processing. This system task had problems thus causing problems with the trademark production process. The system task has been set up not to process simultaneously.

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Control #95 – 09/27/2004:

These applications 78133250 and 78358000 appear as new application images in the 24 Hour Box without associated XML data.

10/08/2004:

78133250 and 78358000 were both rescanned and placed back in the 24 Hour Box. - The reason that they were rescanned was due to the fact that the image residing at the USPTO was corrupt in some manner and was being replaced.

Note: The documentation for the Trademark 24 Hour Box will be updated to include: If a cropped image appears in the 24 Hour Box “root directory” without associated xml data it can be assumed that this image is replacing an existing image.

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Status of Inquiries:

10/01/2004:

Closed: Control #95, Control #111, Control #112

In Process: Control #61, Control #108, Control #109, Control #110

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Inquiry – 08/13/2004: Control #61 – Requirements Trademark Daily Applications “C” version.

1. The updated Trademark Daily Applications product will include all data fields provided in the current product. Reference the “B” Trademark Applications Daily XML DTD Element Documentation (v1.2) located on the TDXF DTD's, Documentation, and Sample Data page.

2. Provide all MADRID PROTOCOL INFORMATION (including Madrid History and Multiple transactions) for applications going to the International Bureau (IB).

3. Provide all MADRID PROTOCOL INFORMATION for applications received from the International Bureau (IB).

4. Provide status code changes on a daily basis that are now only provided in the Monthly Status file.

5. Provide the Date In Location and the Law Office Assigned in addition to the <law-office-assigned-location-code> field that is currently provided.

6. Provide the Abandonment-Date and Mis-Assigned Numbers. This information is currently only available in the Monthly Contractor Reports.

7. Provide 2-character WIPO Standard ST. 3 country codes in the <nationality> field and the <country> field of the <case-file-owner>. Note: The data in the Correspondent Address is free form text and
will remain that way.

8. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>

The above statement will be included inside the XML files but not the current “B” version of the Daily Applications file.

9. Reference Control #’’s 85, 86, 91 and 97 that were closed in the Trademark Status Report of Friday 10/01/2004. These control numbers are being applied to the daily applications requirements.

#85 - Note: name-1, name-2, name-3, name-overflow will be removed and replaced by: name

The party type and entry-number handle different owner names.

And, if there were a second owner the <entry-number> would equal 02 and the <party-type> would still equal 10.

If there were a subsequent owner that caused a new party-type the <party-type> would increment accordingly and the <entry-number> would start anew at 01.

#86 – A valid party-type code will be included with the correspondent party-type.

#87 – The <!ELEMENT madrid-international-filing-record will include a international-renewal-date? field and the <!ELEMENT madrid-history-event will include a number field.

#88 - The following element <Madrid-international-filing-request> will be renamed to <Madrid-international-filing-requests>

#89 –

1. The data elements listed in the international-registration group are for incoming requests from the
IB. The new group madrid-international-filing-requests is for outgoing requests to the IB.

2. Records that have abandonment dates are present in the test data file: TestData-v2.0-10082004.xml

3. Table 2 in the Applications Documentation will be updated to accommodate the 2-position Country and State Codes. This table will be edited until all codes are properly identified.

#91 – The correspondent change of Control #91 will be included in the new requirements. If you want to
review the entire Control #91 please reference the weekly status report dated October 01, 2004.

#97 –

1. Missing status-date element: Serial No.: 71/194337, 72/123294

Note: This was corrected in the test data dated and provided 09/24/2004.

2. The <correspondent> group doesn't contain the following tag <person-or-organization-name>

Note: All of those <correspondent> tags are missing and instead <address-1>, <address-2>, <address-3>, <address-4>, <address-5> are used.

The DTD will refer to five lines of address (person-or-organization-name has been changed). It cannot be
guaranteed that the value found in this field contains a person or organization. The field name has been
changed to address-1. Reference Control #91.

3. The <case-file-owner> contains a tag named <party-name> this should display as <name>. Reference Control #85.

Note: This has been corrected in the test data dated and provided 09/24/2004.

4. The <correspondent> group doesn't match what had been discussed in Control #91

The Status Report should have been updated to reflect the tag names that are being used in the DTD
and the Documentation. They are not in sync at the moment. I am referring to #3 and 4 in my list above.

Note: The DTD dated and provided 09/24/2004 has been updated accordingly.

10. The international-renewal-date? field has been included and the number field will contain an ascending sequence number. Reference Control #87 that was closed in the Trademark Status Report of Friday 10/01/2004.

11. <Madrid-international-filing-requests>. The “s” has been added to be consistent with the naming convention being used. . Reference Control #88 that was closed in the Trademark Status Report of Friday 10/01/2004.

12. Empty optional tags will not be present in the 2.0 XML data. Reference Control #98 that was closed in the Trademark Status Report of Friday 10/01/2004.

13. The <employee-name> will be provided. Reference Control #100 that was closed in the Trademark Status Report of Friday 10/01/2004.

14. Control #107 remains open to resolve Country and State Code issues.

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Inquiry – 10/08/2004: Control #108

This is a consolidation of all inquiries concerning the use of the Nationality, the Country and the State fields.

#105 – identifies the use of XP as a country code used when one was not provided.

#106 – identifies the content of the <nationality> field where there is no distinction if CA is California or Canada.

#107 - identifies the content of the <nationality> field where there is no distinction when using the same code for various countries or states.

#108 – Identifies 3-position country codes that remain in Table 2 of the Applications Documentation.

Table 2 in the Applications Documentation will be updated to accommodate the 2-position Country Codes, State Codes and other agencies codes. This table will be edited until all codes are properly identified.

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Inquiry – 10/06/2004: Control #109

The tt040930.xml daily XML has 472 bad due dates all of them with the following erroneous data:

<due-date>00011010</due-date>

Example:

<prosecution-entry>
<identifier>38</identifier>
<code>900</code>
<type-code>T</type-code>
<due-date>00011010</due-date>
<date>20020727</date>
<history-text>OPP NO. 119,557 NO ASWER IS REQ AT THIS TIME; CONS OF OPPS; SUSP OF CONS PROC FO</history-text>
</prosecution-entry>

There was a problem on how the due date was being received from the applicant. A blanket fix was applied resulting in the erroneous data. This has subsequently been corrected and will be investigated to ensure that the corrected records are disseminated.

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Inquiry – 10/06/2004: Control #110

The following address is a correspondence address and should probably be formatted inside its own set of tags similar to the change made for Application correspondence address. These occurred in the tt040921.xml daily file.

<proceeding-address>
<identifier>427900</identifier>
<type-code>C</type-code>
<name>SALVATORE J. ABBRUZZESE</name>
<orgname>HOFFMANN &amp; BARON, LLP</orgname>
<address-1>6900 JERICHO TURNPIKE</address-1>
<city>SYOSSET NEW YO</city>
<state>RK</state>
<postcode>11791</postcode>
</proceeding-address>

<proceeding-address>
<identifier>428829</identifier>
<type-code>C</type-code>
<name>PACIFIC LEGEND APPAREL, INC.</name>
<address-1>1622 DEMOCRAT STREET</address-1>
<city>HONOLULU HI U</city>
<state>SA</state>
<postcode>96819</postcode>
</proceeding-address>

The <city> value is continued in the <state> value????


Maybe a structure such as the Applications Correspondent Address (DTD v2) would serve this information better:

<correspondent>
<address-1>ALLAN RATNER</address-1>
<address-2>RATNER &amp; PRESTIA</address-2>
<address-3>500 NORTH GULPH ROAD</address-3>
<address-4>POST OFFICE BOX 980</address-4>
<address-5>VALLEY FORGE, PA 19482</address-5>
</correspondent>

The only daily file current changed by the new requirements is the Daily Applications file. No major changes to the TTAB Daily file will be undertaken at this time.

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Inquiry – 10/06/2004: Control #111

In the latest test file, there appears to be an issue within the Madrid Filing Request section with the entry-number field. In Serial Number
78264506, you'll see that there are two entry-number = '2'. The last one should probably be a '3'. This could potential cause problems linking up the Madrid History Events with the appropriate Filing Request.

Your inquiry is correct the new requirements DTD has been corrected and a changed made in the test data dated and provided October 08, 2004.

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Inquiry – 10/06/2004: Control #112

For the “C” version 2.0 of the new data can you also make sure we don't get these:

<amend-to-register-date>00000000</amend-to-register-date>
<cancellation-date>00000000</cancellation-date>
<published-for-opposition-date>00000000</published-for-opposition-date>
<amend-to-register-date>00000000</amend-to-register-date>
<republished-12c-date>00000000</republished-12c-date>
<filing-date>00000000</filing-date>
<registration-expiration-date>00000000</registration-expiration-date>
<registration-renewal-date>00000000</registration-renewal-date>
<registration-renewal-expiration-date>00000000</registration-renewal-expiration-date>

The “C” version of the new requirements will not contain zero filled date fields.

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If you have any questions or need additional information please contact one of the following individuals:

Ed Johnson Jazmin Rexrode
Office of Electronic Information Products Office of Electronic Information Products
(703) 306-2621 (703) 306-2626
(703) 306-2737 Fax (703) 306-2737 Fax
Ed.Johnson@uspto.gov Jazmin.Rexrode@uspto.gov

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