Within the USPTO Web site you will find a wealth of public information available at your fingertips. If the information you are seeking is already publicly available somewhere on the USPTO Web site, you will be able to review it on-line or download it for future use.
A great place to start is the USPTO Site Index., which links to recent publications and reference materials.
The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) is a federal statute which affords any person the right to obtain federal agency records, unless the records (or a part of the records) are protected from disclosure by any of the nine exemptions contained in the law. On October 2, 1996, President Clinton signed into law the Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments of 1996 (E-FOIA, for short). E-FOIA makes it possible for you to have electronic access to the USPTO FOIA Reading Room, offering such information as Final Agency Decisions and our most frequently requested FOIA documents .
If you check all these resources for public information but you still don't see what you need, then you may consider filing a FOIA request. FOIA is a federal law which entitles you to any federal agency record as long as one of the FOIA exemptions does not apply. Only records within the USPTO's possession and control as of the date of receipt of a FOIA request will be searched.
FOIA Reading Room
Indices:
Most Frequently Requested DocumentsFinal Decisions of the
Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences
Office of the Commissioner for Patents
Office of the Commissioner for Trademarks
Office of the Director (Enrollment and Discipline)
Trademark Trial and Appeal Board
Notices of Suit filed with U.S. District Courts for Patents and Trademarks
Search Patents
MPEP: Manual of Patent Examining Procedure
Search Trademarks
Acceptable Identification of Goods and Services Manual
Design Search Code Manual
TMEP: Trademark Manual of Examining Procedure
USPTO Annual Reports
FY 2008 USPTO Annual FOIA Report
Non-USPTO Resources:
[On GPO Web Site:] GILS: the Government Information Locator Service