As of March 19, 2004, the organizations and persons listed below have submitted comments in response to the notice of proposed rule making entitled “Changes to Representation of Others Before the United States Patent and Trademark Office" published in the Federal Register at 68 Fed. Reg. 69442 <http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/com/sol/notices/68fr69442.pdf> [PDF] (December 12, 2003), and in the Official Gazette at 1278 Off.Gaz.Pat.Office 22 <http:www.uspto.gov/web/offices/com/sol/og/2004/week01/patchng.htm> (January 6, 2004)

If any person or organization has submitted comments but is not included in this listing, please submit the comment by electronic mail message at harry.moatz@uspto.gov or by facsimile at (703) 306-4134 (marked to the attention of Harry Moatz), or contact Harry Moatz by telephone at (703) 306-4097.

The comment period was extended on the proposed rules. Please see the notice in the OG Notices: 16 March 2004.

One comment was received in hand-written form that could not be converted to an electronic document. That comment is available for public inspection at the Office of Enrollment and Discipline, Crystal Plaza 6, Suite 1103, Arlington, Virginia 20003.

Please note that the following documents are provided as submitted by persons and organizations but may contain artifacts of scanning, OCR, or document format conversion.

A. Organizations

1. American Bar Association [PDF]
2. American Intellectual Property Law Association
3. American Intellectual Property Law Association
4. Association of the Bar of the City of New York
5. Bar Association of the District of Columbia Patent, Trademark and Copyright Section
6. Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct, The State Bar of California [PDF]
7. District of Columbia Bar, Intellectual Property Law Section [PDF]
8. Houston Intellectual Property Law Association
9. Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago [PDF]
10. Intellectual Property Law Section, The State Bar of California [PDF]
11. Intellectual Property Owners Association [PDF]
12. Los Angeles Intellectual Property Law Association [PDF]
13. National Association of Patent Practitioners [PDF]
14. Northern Virginia Patent Lawyers Club
15. Philadelphia Intellectual Property Law Association [PDF]
16. Professional Responsibility and Ethics Committee (PREC), LA County Bar Association [PDF]
17. San Diego Intellectual Property Law Association [PDF]
18. Washington State Patent Law Association [PDF]

B. Law Firms

1. Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP
2. Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman [PDF]
3. Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe LLP [PDF]
4. Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP
5. Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP [PDF]
6. Macheledt Bales LLP
7. The Morris Law Firm, P. C.
8. Oblon Spivak 1
9. Oblon Spivak 2
10. Oliff & Berridge, PLC [PDF]
11. Pearne & Gordon LLP
12. Ratner Prestia
13. Stern, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox-PTO Practice Committee
14. Townsend and Townsend and Crew [PDF]
15. Venable LLP

C. Businesses

1. Advent Product Development, Inc.
2. Genentech, Inc
3. Invention Submission Corporation
4. Invention Submission Corporation [PDF]
5. The Lubrizol Corporation
6. Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV
7. Public Patent Foundation
8. Xerox

D. Patent Attorneys, Patent Agents, Individuals and Others

1. Abokhair, John K.
2. Adams, Thomas W
3. Alden, Dana Andrew
4. Allen, Courtenay B.
5. Alstadt, Lynn J
6. Anonymous 1
7. Anonymous 2
8. Anonymous 3
9. Anonymous 4
10. Barber, William G. [PDF]
11. Barksdale Jr., James H.
12. Barschall, Anne E.
13. Berridge, William P.
14. Blenko Jr., Walter J.
15. Borda, Gary G.
16. Cavender, Carol
17. Choksi, Jehangir
18. Cochran, Adam
19. Coffield, Grant E.
20. Cohen, Gary M.
21. Crandell, Ralph F.
22. Crisman, Thomas L.
23. Delhommer, Harold J.
24. Dobrea, Diane H.
25. Dobyns, Kenneth W.
26. Donovan, Larry B.
27. Drew, James J.
28. Eissler, Valarie J.
29. Elman, Gerry J.
30. Farrell, Daniel R.
31. Farrow, Douglas B.
32. Fawcett, Robroy R.
33. Fay, Regan J., etal
34. Fendelman, Harvey
35. Flores, Edwin. Ph.D., J.D.
36. Fox, David L., Ph.D.
37. Frost, Thomas
38. Galasso, Raymond M.
39. Gigante
40. Gilbert, Raymond D.
41. Goldstein, Richard W.
42. Gray Jr., Richard O.
43. Green, Robert A.
44. Griedel, Brian D., Ph.D.
45. Hall, Jeff
46. Hammerle, Kurt G.
47. Hansen, Eugenia S. [PDF]
48. Hay, Martin
49. Henderson, Ronald
50. Heptig, J. Pat
51. Hetherington, Michael
52. Hoffman, Jean-Paul
53. Hollis, Darrell E.
54. Houston, Kay
55. Hricik, David C.
56. Irani, Rita
57. Ishimaru, Mikio
58. Israel, Sharon A.
59. Jack, Kenneth
60. Jocke, Ralph E.
61. Johnston, Roger A.
62. Jorgenson, Edward
63. Kanak, Wayne
64. Keaty, Thomas S.
65. Kilner, Christopher B.
66. Kirkpatrick, Francis H. [PDF]
67. Kocian, David
68. Kondracki, Edward J.
69. Korfhage, Glenn H.
70. Kunstadt, Robert M.
71. Kusmiss, John H.
72. Lang IV, William F.
73. Leeds, Kenneth E.
74. Leeds, Kenneth E.
75. Leeds, Kenneth E.
76. Limberg, Allen LeRoy
77. Lindeen III, Gordon R.
78. Ljungman, Nils H.
79. Luh, Peggy
80. Lupuloff, Harry
81. Maag Jr., Robert E.
82. Meyers, Philip G.
83. Moravan, Gregory W.
84. Morgan, Paul F.
85. Morgan, Thomas D.
86. Nase, Jeffrey V.
87. Norvell Jr., William C.
88. Oppedahl
89. Palmer, Alun L.
90. Parmelee, Christopher L.
91. Price, Lucinda G.
92. Raubitschek, John
93. Reid, John S.
94. Roe, Kevin
95. Ronyak, David M.
96. Rosenthal, Eugene J.
97. Rusyn, Paul F.
98. Scafetta Jr., Joseph
99. Scheinberg, Michael O.
100. Schlafly, Roger
101. Schmidt, Robert N.
102. Seaman, Kenneth A.
103. Sears, Jere W.
104. Sellers, M.
105. Sheinbein, Sol
106. Shideler, Blynn
107. Shideler, Blynn
108. Sklar, Warren A.
109. Smith, William P.
110. Steel, Randall L.
111. Steimle, Aaron
112. Stone, Kent N.
113. Walker, Pat
114. Walling, Richard R.
115. Warner II, Charles L.
116. Webster, Robert J.
117. Wegner, Harold C.
118. Weiffenbach, Cameron
119. Weiffenbach, Cameron
120. Willis, Charles L.
121. Wolff, Kevin Alan [PDF]
122. Woloch, Anthony N.

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