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Video instructions and help with filling out and completing Who Form 8655 Electronically

Instructions and Help about Who Form 8655 Electronically

We're going to look at the process for submitting a provisional application in the USPTO electronic filing system. First off, you will need a completed provisional patent application with a specification and drawings, and a filled out SB 16 provisional patent application cover sheet. The specification and drawing should be on eight and a half by eleven or a four PDFs with one-inch margins all the way around. The PDFs must have embedded fonts. All of this is necessary, or the document won't submit properly. The SB 16, which you download from the USPTO website, is a special web form, so the data you input into it goes directly into their system. You can add multiple inventors to the SB 16 by clicking "add" here. Under correspondence address, select firm or individual. This opens a section where you can put your address. Scrolling down on this question, the invention was made by an agency of the United States government or under a contract with an agency of the United States government, select "no." On entity status, select "yes" applicant qualifies for small entity status under 37 CFR 1.27. On the signature, you're going to "S" sign this form, which means you're going to type your name between two forward slashes, then date and add your name underneath, and save onto the PTO website. So, we have all the documents together and we're ready to submit. Let's go to the USPTO EFS start page and select efile unregistered. Take note that this system has tabs up top, so if you need to go back, you can. In this first screen, I'll start by adding my first name, last name, and email address. Moving down, I select "new application." This opens up the next set of selections. You'll notice that provisional is...