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A 371 application is an application which has entered the national phase of the Patent Cooperation Treaty by the fulfillment of certain requirements in a national Office, which is an authority entrusted with the granting of national or regional patents. Such an application is filed under 35 U.S.C.

An application data sheet is a sheet or sheets, that may be voluntarily submitted in either provisional or nonprovisional applications, which contains bibliographic data, arranged in a format specified by the Office.

National Phase: after the end of the PCT procedure, usually at 30 months from the earliest filing date of your initial application, from which you claim priority, you start to pursue the grant of your patents directly before the national (or regional) patent Offices of the countries in which you want to obtain them.

Claiming domestic benefit in a patent application allows an applicant to rely on the filing date of an earlier-filed US application. The MPEP 216 outlines the requirements for claiming domestic benefit, which are based on 35 U.S.C. 120.

Domestic Benefit/National Stage Information: This section allows for the applicant to either claim benefit under 35 U.S.C. 119(e), 120, 121, 365(c), or 386(c) or indicate National Stage entry from a PCT application.

US National Stage Application Checklist whether the applicant is a small entity or large entity (required upfront) names and addresses of inventors and applicant (required upfront; typically available from published PCT application) signed inventor declarations (may be submitted after initial filing)

The US has a 30-month national stage deadline. Unlike other patent offices, the USPTO requires each patent applicant to disclose known prior art. This is an ongoing duty throughout the application process that ends when the US patent is granted.

A 371 application is an application which has entered the national phase of the Patent Cooperation Treaty by the fulfillment of certain requirements in a national Office, which is an authority entrusted with the granting of national or regional patents. Such an application is filed under 35 U.S.C.

National Phase: after the end of the PCT procedure, usually at 30 months from the earliest filing date of your initial application, from which you claim priority, you start to pursue the grant of your patents directly before the national (or regional) patent Offices of the countries in which you want to obtain them.