uspto Public Search Room Moving to Alexandria, virginia - Opens Monday 9-27-04

The final phase of the USPTO�s move to its new headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia begins this weekend with the relocation of the public search room. The public search facilities and the trademark search library will open on Monday. The new public search facility will occupy the first two floors of the Madison East Building. It will consolidate current patent and trademark information sources and staff and focus on electronic delivery of information. The state-of-the-art facility will offer 300 computer workstations providing access to the full complement of USPTO patent and trademark automated search systems, in addition to other electronic, microfilm and print resources. The public search room will be open daily from 8 am to 8 pm.

At the conclusion of the agency�s move in the early spring of next year, over 7,000 USPTO employees and contractors will occupy the five buildings of the Alexandria campus.