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16.3.2

Certified copies of official, records(cont'd)

IV.

(cont'd)

b.

(oont'd)

2.

This necessitates withdrawing the appli­cation from tile, and having it stamped

with the registration number.

c.

The Patent Office records of print and label registrations Were transferred to the Copyright Office in 1940, but it was found impossible to transfer the records of assign­ments and related documents, since they were inseparably combined with the records of

patent assignments. Thus, anyone wishing a certified copy of an assignment or related document covering a print or label regis­tered in the Patent Office before 1940 should be referred to the Patent Office.

16.3.3

Certified copies of correspondence (See topic 15.2.2.11.d.)

I.

Copies of correspondence (certified or not) can be furnished only under the following circumstances:

a.

The material to be copied must consist of "official correspondence, including preliminary applications, between copyright claimants or their agents and the Copyright Office" (37 C.F.R. §201.2(c)). Such material includes anything (other than deposit copies) that the applicant sent to the Copyright Office and that became a part of the Correspondence file-including un­registered applications and the file copies of the Office's letters to the applicant. It also includes any mailing wrappers preserved in the correspondence file, and re­turn receipts or similar material furnished by the Post Office or Western Union in