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USPTO Closed on Monday and Tuesday, February 8-9, 2010

By Donald Zuhn, Kevin Noonan, Chris Singer, Sherri Oslick, and Jason Derry

By Sarah Fendrick -- On Monday and Tuesday, February 8-9, 2010, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office was closed due to weather. As a result of the closing, the USPTO will consider each of Monday and Tuesday, February 8-9, 2010 to be a "Federal holiday within the District of Columbia" under 35 U.S.C. § 21(b) and 37 C.F.R. §§ 1.6, 1.7, 1.9, 2.2(d), 2.195, and 2.196. Thus, according to a USPTO notice issued earlier today, any action or fee due on either February 8-9, 2010 (or the preceding Saturday (February 6, 2010) or Sunday (February 7, 2010)) will be considered...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on February 10, 2010 (boomark / email).