(0) For recording every assignment or other paper not exceeding six pages...... For each additional two pages or less... For each additional registration or application included, or in- (p) For abstracts of title: For the search, one hour or less, and certificate. Each additional hour or fraction thereof..... For each brief from the digest of assignments of two hundred words or less. (q) For title reports required for Office use. (r) For a single printed copy of statement and drawing..... (s) For certificate that trade-mark has not been registered, search and certificate (for deposit in foreign countries only) (t) For certified copies of certificates of registration: For each copy of printed statement and drawing. For the certification.... For each additional registration which may be included under a If renewed, for copy of each certificate of renewal. (u) For photostat copies of records and papers, per sheet (v) For photoprints of drawing. (w) For making drawings, when they can be made by the Patent Office, the cost of making the same, minimum charge. . . (x) For correcting drawings, 20 cents for photoprint of uncorrected drawing, and the cost of making correction, minimum charge for making the correction.. . 20 .20 5.00 I.00 NOTE: The Official Gazette is sold by the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington 25, D. C., to whom all communications respecting the Gazette should be addressed. Following are the rates: Annual subscription, domestic. Annual subscription, foreign Single numbers.. Decision leaflets, $2 per annum; single numbers... $16.00 25.00 • 35 .05 .15 .05 .75 2.2 Method of payment All payments of money required for Patent Office fees must be made in United States specie, Treasury notes, national bank notes, post office money orders or postal notes payable in Washington, D. C., or certified checks. Money orders and certified checks must be made payable to the Commissioner of Patents. If sent in any other form the Office may delay the credit until collection is made. Remittances from foreign countries must be payable and immediately negotiable in the United States for the full amount of the fee required. Money sent by mail to the Patent Office will be at the risk of the sender; letters containing money should be registered. 2.3 Refunds Money paid by actual mistake or in excess, such as a payment not required by law, will be refunded, but a mere change of purpose after the payment of money, as when a party desires to withdraw his application for the registration of a mark or to withdraw an appeal, will not entitle a party to demand such a return. Amounts of ten cents or less will not be returned unless specifically demanded, nor will the payer be notified of such amount; amounts over ten cents but less than one dollar may be returned in postage stamps, and other amounts by check. 3. RECORDS AND PUBLICATIONS OF THE PATENT OFFICE 3.1 Printed copies of registered marks available After a mark has been registered, printed copies of the statement, with a copy of the drawing, will be furnished by the Patent Office upon the payment of the fee therefor. 3.2 Registration files open to public inspection After a mark has been registered, or published for opposition, the file of the application and all proceedings relating thereto are available for public inspection and copies of the papers may be furnished upon paying the fee therefor. 3.3 Assignment records open to public inspection The assignment records are open to public inspection and copies of any assignment recorded may be obtained upon payment of the fee therefor. An order for a copy of an assignment should give the liber and page of the record. If identified only by the name of the applicant and serial number, or by the name of the registrant and registration number, an extra charge will be made for the time consumed in making a search for such assignment. 3.4 Certified copies Copies of records, books, papers, or drawings belonging to the Patent Office relating to marks and copies of certificates of registration, authenticated by the seal of the Patent Office and certified by the Commissioner, or in his name by a chief of division duly designated by the Commissioner, will be furnished by the Patent Office to any person entitled thereto upon payment of the fee for the copies and for the authentication certificate. 3.5 Official Gazette The Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office is published weekly and contains, in addition to the material relating to patents, information relating to trade-marks, including the text or digest of opinions in trade-mark cases. It includes: (a) A list of marks published for opposition, with a reproduction of and information concerning each mark. (b) A list of marks registered on the Principal Register and under the act of 1905. (c) A list of registrations cancelled. (d) A list of marks registered on the Supplemental Register and under the act of 1920, with a reproduction of and information concerning each mark. (e) A list of registrations renewed. (f) A list of marks republished under section 12 (c) of the TradeMark Act of 1946, with a reproduction of each mark. (g) A list of registrations amended, surrendered, disclaimed, or corrected in accordance with section 7 (d), (f) and (g) of the act with a statement of any change in the registration. Single copies and subscriptions are sold by the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C. Part of the trade-mark material is reprinted separately in a trade-mark leaflet which may be purchased or subscribed to separately. 3.6 Annual trade-mark index An annual index of trade-marks registered is published, and sold by the Superintendent of Documents. 3.7 Pamphlet of trade-mark laws and rules. Pamphlet copies of trade-mark laws and rules, and of general information concerning trade-marks, are furnished without charge by the Patent Office. 4. ATTORNEYS AND REPRESENTATION BY ATTORNEYS 4.1 Applicants may be represented by an attorney The owner of a trade-mark may file and prosecute his own application for registration of such trade-mark, or he may be represented by an attorney or other person authorized to practice in trade-mark cases. The Patent Office cannot aid in the selection of an attorney or agent. 4.2 Persons who may practice before the Patent Office in trade-mark cases Attorneys at law in good standing admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States, the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals, or the highest court of any State or Territory of the United States or of the District of Columbia, and persons registered to practice in the United States Patent Office in patent cases (Patent Rule 17) may practice before the Patent Office in trade-mark cases. Attorneys at law. No register of attorneys who may practice before the Patent Office in trade-mark cases is maintained, and no application by an attorney at law for admission to practice is required. A statement in the power of attorney, or in an accompanying paper, of the bar to which the attorney at law is admitted is required, and recognition is limited to each case. Attorneys and agents registered at the Patent Office. Persons or firms, including attorneys at law, who are registered to practice before the Patent Office need only specify the registration number in the power of attorney. Special recognition. No persons other than those hereinabove mentioned will be permitted to practice before the Patent Office in trademark cases unless specially and formally recognized by the Commissioner of Patents, but any person may appear for himself in a proceeding to which he is a party, or for a firm of which he is a member, or for a corporation or association of which he is an officer and which he is authorized to represent, if such firm, corporation, or association is a party to the proceeding. Refusal of recognition for cause. Persons entitled to be recognized under this rule may, nevertheless, be refused recognition for cause. 4.3 Professional conduct Attorneys at law and other persons appearing before the Patent Office in trade-mark cases must conform to the standards of ethical and professional conduct generally applicable to attorneys before the courts. 4.4 Advertising The use of display advertising, circulars, letters, cards, and similar material to solicit trade-mark business, directly or indirectly, is forbidden as unprofessional conduct, and any person engaging in such solicitation, or associated with or employed by others who so solicit, shall be refused recognition to practice before the Patent Office or suspended or excluded from further practice. The use of simple professional letterheads, calling cards, or office signs; simple announcements necessitated by opening an office, change of association, or change of address, distributed to clients and friends, and insertion of professional cards, listings in common form (not display) in a classified telephone or city directory, and listings and |