Status information relating to patent applications is available through the USPTO patent electronic filing system (Patent Center, which has a private view and a public view). Patent Center public view provides access to all issued patents and published patent applications. Private view allows registered users to access application information that has not been made public in addition to what is also available in public view. Viewing non-public information in Patent Center private view requires that the application or patent be associated with the viewer’s Customer Number. See MPEP § 403 for Customer Number practice.

Status information relating to patent applications is available through the USPTO patent electronic filing system (Patent Center, which has a private view and a public view). Patent Center public view provides access to all issued patents and published patent applications. Private view allows registered users to access application information that has not been made public in addition to what is also available in public view. Viewing non-public information in Patent Center private view requires that the application or patent be associated with the viewer’s Customer Number. See MPEP § 403 for Customer Number practice.

Status information relating to patent applications is available through the USPTO patent electronic filing system (Patent Center, which has a private view and a public view). Patent Center public view provides access to all issued patents and published patent applications. Private view allows registered users to access application information that has not been made public in addition to what is also available in public view. Viewing non-public information in Patent Center private view requires that the application or patent be associated with the viewer’s Customer Number. See MPEP § 403 for Customer Number practice.

Status information relating to patent applications is available through the USPTO patent electronic filing system (Patent Center, which has a private view and a public view). Patent Center public view provides access to all issued patents and published patent applications. Private view allows registered users to access application information that has not been made public in addition to what is also available in public view. Viewing non-public information in Patent Center private view requires that the application or patent be associated with the viewer’s Customer Number. See MPEP § 403 for Customer Number practice.

Applicants are encouraged to use Patent Center to make status inquiries. See subsection I, above. A stamped postcard receipt or Electronic Acknowledgement Receipt for replies to Office actions, adequately and specifically identifying the papers filed, will be considered prima facie proof of receipt of such papers. See MPEP § 503. Where such proof indicates the timely filing of a reply, the submission of a copy of the postcard or Electronic Acknowledgement Receipt with a copy of the reply will ordinarily obviate the need for a petition to revive. Proof of receipt of a timely reply to a final action will obviate the need for a petition to revive only if the reply was in compliance with 37 CFR 1.113. See also www.uspto.gov/patents/apply/ checking-application-status/e-office-action-program.

Applicants are encouraged to use Patent Center to make status inquiries. See subsection I, above. A stamped postcard receipt or Electronic Acknowledgement Receipt for replies to Office actions, adequately and specifically identifying the papers filed, will be considered prima facie proof of receipt of such papers. See MPEP § 503. Where such proof indicates the timely filing of a reply, the submission of a copy of the postcard or Electronic Acknowledgement Receipt with a copy of the reply will ordinarily obviate the need for a petition to revive. Proof of receipt of a timely reply to a final action will obviate the need for a petition to revive only if the reply was in compliance with 37 CFR 1.113. See also www.uspto.gov/patents/apply/ checking-application-status/e-office-action-program.

Applicants are encouraged to use Patent Center to make status inquiries. See subsection I, above. A stamped postcard receipt or Electronic Acknowledgement Receipt for replies to Office actions, adequately and specifically identifying the papers filed, will be considered prima facie proof of receipt of such papers. See MPEP § 503. Where such proof indicates the timely filing of a reply, the submission of a copy of the postcard or Electronic Acknowledgement Receipt with a copy of the reply will ordinarily obviate the need for a petition to revive. Proof of receipt of a timely reply to a final action will obviate the need for a petition to revive only if the reply was in compliance with 37 CFR 1.113. See also www.uspto.gov/patents/apply/ checking-application-status/e-office-action-program.

Applicants are encouraged to use Patent Center to make status inquiries. See subsection I, above. A stamped postcard receipt or Electronic Acknowledgement Receipt for replies to Office actions, adequately and specifically identifying the papers filed, will be considered prima facie proof of receipt of such papers. See MPEP § 503. Where such proof indicates the timely filing of a reply, the submission of a copy of the postcard or Electronic Acknowledgement Receipt with a copy of the reply will ordinarily obviate the need for a petition to revive. Proof of receipt of a timely reply to a final action will obviate the need for a petition to revive only if the reply was in compliance with 37 CFR 1.113. See also www.uspto.gov/patents/apply/ checking-application-status/e-office-action-program.

A “new” application is a nonprovisional application that has not yet received an action by the examiner. An amendment filed prior to the first Office Action does not alter the status of a “new” application. Note that a request for continued examination (RCE)(see 37 CFR 1.114) is not a type of new application filing. See MPEP § 706.07(h).

A “new” application is a nonprovisional application that has not yet received an action by the examiner. An amendment filed prior to the first Office Action does not alter the status of a “new” application. Note that a request for continued examination (RCE)(see 37 CFR 1.114) is not a type of new application filing. See MPEP § 706.07(h).

A “new” application is a nonprovisional application that has not yet received an action by the examiner. An amendment filed prior to the first Office Action does not alter the status of a “new” application. Note that a request for continued examination (RCE)(see 37 CFR 1.114) is not a type of new application filing. See MPEP § 706.07(h).

An “allowed” nonprovisional application or an application “in issue” is one which has been examined and determined to meet all statutory requirements, and in which a notice of allowance has been sent to the applicant. Its status as an “allowed” application continues from the date of the notice of allowance until it issues as a patent, unless it is withdrawn from issue (37 CFR 1.313), or becomes abandoned for failure to pay the issue fee and any required publication fee (37 CFR 1.314 and 1.316).

An “allowed” nonprovisional application or an application “in issue” is one which has been examined and determined to meet all statutory requirements, and in which a notice of allowance has been sent to the applicant. Its status as an “allowed” application continues from the date of the notice of allowance until it issues as a patent, unless it is withdrawn from issue (37 CFR 1.313), or becomes abandoned for failure to pay the issue fee and any required publication fee (37 CFR 1.314 and 1.316).

An abandoned application is, inter alia, one which is removed from the Office docket of pending applications:

• (A) through formal abandonment by the applicant or by the attorney or agent of record;
• (B) through failure of applicant to take appropriate action at some stage in the prosecution of a nonprovisional application;
• (C) for failure to pay the issue fee (MPEP § 711 to § 711.05); or
• (D) in the case of a provisional application, no later than 12 months after the filing date of the provisional application (see MPEP § 711.03(c) and 35 U.S.C. 111(b)(5)).

If the correspondent is not entitled to the information, in view of 37 CFR 1.14, the correspondent should be so informed.

A Notice of Allowability, Form PTOL-37, is routinely mailed in every application determined to be allowable. Thus, the mailing of a form PTOL-37 in addition to a formal Notice of Allowance and Fee(s) Due (PTOL-85) in all allowed applications would seem to obviate the need for status inquiries even as a precautionary measure where the applicant may believe the new application may have been passed to issue on the first examination. However, as an exception, a status inquiry would be appropriate where a Notice of Allowance (PTOL-85) is not received within three months from receipt of form PTOL-37.