USAPat : Facsimile Images of United States Patents (currently published on
CD-ROM) includes certificates of correction and all types of published
patent documents, including reissues and reexaminations. The cumulative
index, ordered by document number, shows all the related documents for a
given patent number, and which disc each document was published on. The
cumulative index is updated and published with each weekly issue. When we
convert USAPat from CD-ROM to DVD-ROM, none of that will change;
certificates of correction will still be included as will all types of
patents.
More importantly, USAPat is not now, and will not become when it is
converted from CD-ROM to DVD-ROM (planned for 2000 January), a replacement
for patents printed on paper.
Bruce B. Cox
Manager, Optical Disc Publishing Program
Chair, SGML Transition Team
1-703-306-2606
bruce.cox@uspto.gov
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cooper, Donna
> Sent: 1999 March 09, Tuesday 10:14
> To: Cox, Bruce
> Subject: FW: Certificates of correction: will they go on DVD ?
>
> This was on the PIUG list. Is this true - that the PTO will no longer
> publish patents on paper?
>
> Donna
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve.vanDulken@mail.bl.uk [SMTP:Steve.vanDulken@mail.bl.uk]
> Sent: Monday, March 08, 1999 4:03 AM
> To: 'Steve Reynolds'; piug-l@derwent.tecc.co.uk; Simmons; Edlyn; HMR/US
> Cc: syc195045@samyang.co.kr
> Subject: Certificates of correction: will they go on DVD ?
>
> Further to this discussion, does anyone know how certificates of
> correction (plus the B certificates and Reissues) will be handled
> from
> January 1999 when the USPTO begins to publish on DVD alone and not on
>
> paper ?
>
> This is a serious matter. Ideally the DVDs should include such
> supplementary matter and index them on the latest discs -- a problem
> being that many will instinctively print off from the disc containing
>
> the issued patent without thinking there might be alterations later.
> Not a problem with paper if you attach the alterations or a note of
> it
> to the document.
>
> Comment from the USPTO or anyone else with views would be welcome.
>
> Steve van Dulken
> British Library
>
>
> ______________________________ Reply Separator
> _________________________________
> Subject: RE: certificate of correction - CORRECTION
> Author: "Simmons; Edlyn; HMR/US" <Edlyn.Simmons@hmrag.com> at Internet
> Date: 05/03/99 10:08
>
>
> A small clarification of the clarification:
>
> Certificates of correction can also be issued to correct errors made by
> the
> USPTO in typsetting the patent - and there's no fee for requesting a
> certificate of correction to correct PTO errors.
>
> Unfortunately for those of us who would like to ignore certificates of
> correction, the PTO printing errors are often fairly significant --things
> like missing parts of chemical structures or reaction schemes with the
> arrows in the wrong places, for example. In spite of the severity of the
> mistakes in the original patent, the only way to fix these printing errors
>
> is by certificate of correction because reissue or reexamination isn't
> appropriate unless there's a reason to amend the claims (i.e., the claims
> that were allowed by the examiner, not the version printed in the patent
> specification).
>
>
> Edlyn Simmons
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Reynolds
> [mailto:Stephen.E.Reynolds@usa.dupont.com]
> Sent: Friday, March 05, 1999 8:59 AM
> To: piug-l@derwent.tecc.co.uk
> Cc: syc195045@samyang.co.kr
> Subject: RE: certificate of correction - CORRECTION
>
> >
>
> I need to issue my own Certificate of Correction. I left
> out REISSUE
> patents from the last sentance below. I'm happy the fee
> PIUG charges
> for this one is less than the $100 the USPTO charges.
> Sorry
> for any
> confusion, and thanks to Stu for the heads-up.
>
>
>
>
>
> > From your question it appears you may think that a
> certificate of correction
> >can be used to amend claims. As you see above, they are
> only for correcting
> >minor clerical errors. Any changes to claims would be
> done
> as part of a
> reexamination OR REISSUE.
>
>
>
>