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Custodial Unit Change of U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Records (Record Group 241)

Staff at the National Archives at College Park are changing the NARA custodial unit for 118,544 cubic feet of U.S. Patent and Trademark Office patent files and related records from the National Archives at College Park to the National Archives at Kansas City.  The series being transferred are currently located in the Kansas City area. The custodial unit change will facilitate more efficient archival research and public access to these records.

See list of records being transferred to Kansas City.

Estimated custodial unit change date: March 26, 2018.

Please keep in mind that the date listed above is an estimate. If there is a significant change to this schedule we will post it in the consultation areas at the National Archives at College Park and the National Archives at Kansas City.

As the records are currently available by submitting a request to the National Archives at Kansas City, there will be no interruption to reference services while NARA implements this change. You can request these and other records by contacting the National Archives in one of the following ways:

E-mail: kansascity.archives@nara.gov or send a letter to:

National Archives at Kansas City (RM-KC)
400 West Pershing Road

Kansas City, MO, 64108

Please contact the National Archives at Kansas City at least two business days in advance.

 
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