1995 U.S. Code
Title 44 - PUBLIC PRINTING AND DOCUMENTS
CHAPTER 13 - PARTICULAR REPORTS AND DOCUMENTS
Sec. 1337 - Patent Office: publications authorized to be printed

The Commissioner of Patents, upon the requisition of the Secretary of Commerce may cause to be printed:

1. Patents issued.—The patents for inventions and designs issued by the Patent Office, including grants, specifications, and drawings, together with copies of them, and of patents already issued, in the number needed for the business of the office.

2. Trade-marks and labels.—The certificates of trade-marks and labels registered in the Patent Office, including descriptions and drawings, together with copies of them, and of trade-marks and labels previously registered, in the numbers needed for the business of the office.

3. Official Gazette.—The Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office in numbers sufficient to supply all who subscribe for it at a year; also for exchange for other scientific publications desirable for the use of the Patent Office; also to supply one copy to each Senator and Representative in Congress; with one hundred additional copies, together with weekly, monthly, and annual indexes. The “usual number” of the Official Gazette may not be printed.

4. Report of Commissioner of Patents.—The annual report of the Commissioner of Patents, not exceeding five hundred in number, for distribution by him; the annual report of the Commissioner of Patents to Congress, without the list of patents, not exceeding one thousand five hundred in number, for distribution by him; and the annual report of the Commissioner of Patents to Congress, with the list of patents, five hundred copies for sale by him, if needed, and in addition the “usual number” only shall be printed.

5. Rules of practice, laws, etc.—Pamphlet copies of the rules of practice, and of the patent laws, and pamphlet copies of the laws and rules relating to trade-marks and labels, and circulars relating to the business of the office, all in numbers as needed for the business of the office. The “usual number” may not be printed.

6. Decisions of Commissioner and courts.—Annual volumes of the decisions of the Commissioner of Patents and of the United States courts in patent cases, not exceeding one thousand five hundred in number, of which the usual number shall be printed, and for this purpose a copy of each shall be transmitted to Congress promptly when prepared.

7. Indexes.—Indexes to patents relating to electricity, and indexes to foreign patents, in the numbers needed for the business of the office. The “usual number” may not be printed.

(Pub. L. 90–620, Oct. 22, 1968, 82 Stat. 1271.)

Based on 44 U.S. Code, 1964 ed., §283 (Jan. 12, 1895, ch. 23, §73, 28 Stat. 619, 620; Feb. 14, 1903, ch. 552, §§4, 12, 32 Stat. 826, 830; Aug. 24, 1912, ch. 355, §1, 37 Stat. 481; Feb. 18, 1922, ch. 58, §4, 42 Stat. 391; June 7, 1924, ch. 303, §1, 43 Stat. 592).

“Patent Office” and “Commissioner of Patents” redesignated “Patent and Trademark Office” and “Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks”, respectively, by section 3 of Pub. L. 93–596, Jan. 2, 1975, 88 Stat. 1949, set out as a note under section 1 of Title 35, Patents.

Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks, annual report to Congress, see section 14 of Title 35, Patents.

Copies of patents for public libraries, see section 13 of Title 35.

Copyright Office, see section 701 et seq. of Title 17, Copyrights.

Patent and Trademark Office publications, see section 11 of Title 35, Patents.