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The earlier filing date protects your ownership and first to idea and market status! Owners and inventors of ideas can benefit and utilize, as well as control the rights and priviledges of these for a limited period of time to reap the ultimate benefit. The earlier filing date protects your ownership and first to idea and market status! It can be as high as 20%!
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They are different and serve different purposes. FILING DATE: The filing date of an application for patent is the date on which a specification (including at least one claim) and any drawings necessary to understand the subject matter sought to be patented are received in the PTO; or the date on which the last part completing the application is received in the case of a previously incomplete or defective application. The application papers must all be the same size -- either 21. FAST FACT: For general information, publications and other copyright related topics, you may visit their Web site at http://www.
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Here is a sampling from what the patent application documentation and related requirements might expect from investors:
APPLICATION FOR PATENT
(Source: Excerpted from General Information Concerning Patents Print Brochure , from the US Government website patent and trade organization see reference listing at the back for full details)
Non-Provisional Application for a patent, is made to the Assistant Commissioner for Patents and includes:
(1) A written document which comprises a specification (description and claims), and an oath or declaration;
(2) A drawing in those cases in which a drawing is necessary; and
(3) The filing fee. Payment of small entity fees must be supported by a small entity statement.
Fees change each October.
All application papers must be in the English language or a translation into the English language will be required along with the required fee set forth in 37 CFR 1.17(k).
All application papers must be legibly written on only one side either by a typewriter or mechanical printer in permanent dark ink or its equivalent in portrait orientation on flexible, strong, smooth, non-shiny, durable and white paper.
The papers must be presented in a form having sufficient clarity and contrast between the paper and the writing to permit electronic reproduction. The application papers must all be the same size -- either 21.0 cm by 29.7 cm (DIN size A4) or 21.6 cm by 27.9 cm (8 1/2 by 11 inches), with a top margins of at least 2.0 cm (3/4 inch), a left side margin of at least 2.5 cm (1 inch), a right side margin of at least 2.0 cm (3/4 inch) and a bottom margin of at least 2.0 cm (3/4 inch) with no holes made in the submitted papers. It is also required that the spacing on all papers be 1 1/2 or double spaced and the application papers must be numbered consecutively (centrally located above or below the text) starting with page one.