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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.

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.

You could also include additional details in a series of subsequent provisional applications filed within 12 months of the first provisional, and then consolidate all the details into a single non-provisional application filed within 1 year of the first provisional application.

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.

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.

Requirements for filing a provisional application: A detailed written description of the invention including drawings. Title of the invention. Name(s) of all inventors. Inventor(s) residence(s) Name and registration number of attorney or agent and docket number (if applicable) Correspondence address.

37 CFR 1.52(6) specifies that all paragraphs in a patent application should be consecutively numbered, with at least four numerals enclosed in square brackets, including leading zeros (e.g., 0001). This is easy in Word.

Add Paragraph Numbers in Word Select your paragraphs by dragging your cursor through them and head to the Home tab. To apply the default number style, click "Numbering" in the Paragraph section of the ribbon. To use a different number format, click the arrow next to the Numbering button and select an option.