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Information Disclosure. Disclosure is a formal-sounding term for making information acces- sible to interested and affected parties. Communicating such infor- mation in a manner that is understandable to your stakeholders is an important first (and ongoing) step in the process of stakeholder engagement.

To satisfy this duty of candor, the prior art information must be submitted to the USPTO in the form of an Information Disclosure Statement (“IDS”). see MPEP 2001 and 37 CFR 1.56. Simply inserting prior art information in the specification of a patent application will not suffice.

The date format should be in the form YYYY-MM-DD. Type the first name of the filer. Please enter a Registration Number if you are a patent practitioner.

To start a quick lookup, enter a single patent or publication number and select the Search button. To start a basic search, select a search field, enter your search term, and select the Search button. For example, to search for the inventor 'John Smith,' select Inventor Name from both of the Basic Search dropdowns.

Patent Searching Basics Brainstorm terms to describe your invention. Access and review CPC classification schema using USPTO's website site search. Access and review CPC classification definitions linked to CPC classifications in a scheme. Retrieve and review issued patents using the CPC classification(s) identified.

An inventor may file both design and utility patent applications in the US within one year of their earliest date of public disclosure or sale. This is known as the 1-year grace period for filing patent applications in the US only.

U.S. patent applications granted since March of 2001 can also be found on the USPTO website. Full text of patents from around the world can often be obtained from tools like Lens or Espacenet. The patent search tool of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Provides full-text for U.S. patents.

37 CFR 1.55 (relating to foreign priority claims) and 37 CFR 1.78 (relating to domestic benefit claims) require applicant to inform the Office via a statement if the transition application contains or ever contained a claim that was not supported by the earlier filed domestic benefit or foreign priority application ...

Step 1: Brainstorm terms describing your invention. Step 2: Access and review Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) schema. Step 3: Review classification definition. Step 4: Retrieve and review patents using CPC classification. Step 5: Further review of the relevant patents identified in Step 4.