MMRGlobal, Inc. announced that it has received a Notice of Allowance from the United States Patent and Trademark Office for U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 12/204,498 entitled Method and System for Providing Online Records. The application represents the first step in expanding MMR's health information technology Patent Portfolio from the medical profession to the legal profession.

The NOA includes 28 claims directed toward accessing, collecting, storing, managing, and sharing legal documents and records. The company believes that the new patent, when issued, will open opportunities for sales, licensing and strategic partnerships in document storage and retrieval services for companies like PACER, escrow, real estate and lending organizations and online consumer legal services, among numerous others.