MPEP Section 302.08, Mailing Address for Submitting Assignment Documents

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This document contains Section 302.08 ("Mailing Address for Submitting Assignment Documents ") of the Manual of Patent Examining Procedure (the "M.P.E.P."), Eighth Edition, Eighth Revision (July 2010). This page was last updated in January 2011. You may return to the section index to find a particular section. Alternatively, you may search the MPEP using the search box that appears on the left side of every page of BitLaw--you may restrict your search to the MPEP on the search results page.

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302.08 Mailing Address for Submitting Assignment Documents [R-3]

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37 CFR 3.27 Mailing address for submitting documents to be recorded.

Documents and cover sheets submitted by mail for recordation should be addressed to Mail Stop Assignment Recordation Services, Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, P.O. Box 1450, Alexandria, Virginia 22313-1450, unless they are filed together with new applications.<

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37 CFR 3.27 sets out how documents submitted for recording should be addressed to the Office. In order to ensure prompt and proper processing, documents and their cover sheets should be addressed to the ** >Mail Stop Assignment Recordation Services, Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, P.O. Box 1450, Alexandria, VA 22313-1450<, unless they are filed together with new applications**. Requests for recording documents which accompany new applications should be addressed to the ** >Commissioner for Patents, P.O. Box 1450, Alexandria, VA 22313-1450.<