USPTO Patent Filing Online United States of America

Name of the Organization : United States Patent and Trademark Office (uspto.gov)
Type of Facility : File Patent Online
Location : Alexandria
Country : United States of America

Website : http://www.uspto.gov/

Related :
USPTO Patent Application Filing Status Check Online United States of America : www.statusin.org/372.html

1. File Patent Online :

EFS-Web :
EFS-Web is the United States Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO’s) Web-based patent application and document submission solution. Using EFS-Web, anyone with a Web-enabled computer can file patent applications and documents without downloading special software or changing document preparation tools and processes.

Patent Electronic Business Center contact – 866-217-9197 (toll-free) or 571-272-4100

EFS-Web utilizes standard Web-based screens and prompts to enable you to submit patent application documents in PDF format directly to the USPTO within minutes. When creating your PDF documents, you choose the tool, process and workflow with which you author your documents, convert them to standard PDF files and then submit them to USPTO’s secure servers. Additionally, EFS-Web allows submission of PCT-EASY .ZIP compressed files to submit International PCT applications and ASCII text files (.TXT) to submit your bio-sequence listings, computer program listings, mega tables, etc. EFS-Web is safe, simple and secure and gives you all of the same benefits as paper filings, including an electronic receipt that acknowledges your submission date.

File Online : http://www.uspto.gov/patents/process/file/index.jsp

2. Prioritized Examination :

Prioritized examination is being implemented for utility and plant patent applications. When an applicant opts in to prioritized examination, the application will be accorded special status during prosecution before the patent examiner. The goal is to provide a final disposition within twelve months, on average, of prioritized status being granted. A maximum of 10,000 requests will be granted per fiscal year, although the USPTO may choose to revise that cap in the future. Prioritized examination is available at the time of filing an original utility or plant application (Track One) under 35 U.S.C. 111(a). Also, a single request for prioritized examination may be granted for a request for continued examination (RCE) in a plant or utility application.

File Online : http://www.uspto.gov/aia_implementat….jsp#heading-5

3. Accelerated Examination :

The USPTO has established procedures under which the examination of a patent application may be accelerated. Under one of these procedures, the USPTO will advance an application out of turn for examination if the applicant files a grantable petition to make special under the accelerated examination program. The USPTO is similarly revising the procedures for other petitions to make special, except those based on applicant’s health or age or the PPH pilot program. Other petitions to make special (i.e., based on : manufacture, infringement, environmental quality, energy, recombinant DNA, superconductivity materials, HIV/AIDS and cancer, countering terrorism, and biotechnology applications filed by small entities MPEP § 708.02 ) will be processed using the revised procedure for accelerated examination. Thus, petitions to make special, except those based on applicant’s health, age, or the PPH pilot program , will be required to comply with the requirements for petitions to make special under the accelerated examination program as set forth in this notice.

File Online : http://www.uspto.gov/patents/process…ated/index.jsp

4. First Action Interview (FAI) :

The USPTO conducted the Enhanced First Action Interview Pilot Program in which utility applicants in certain art areas could participate (the Enhanced First Action Interview Pilot Program notice was published on October 20, 2009, at 1347 OG 173). The USPTO indicated in the notice the program would run until April 1, 2010. The USPTO extended the program to run until April 1, 2011 (extension notices were published on May 4, 2010, at 1354 OG 51, and on November 2, 2010, at 1360 OG 56). Under the program, participants were permitted to conduct an interview with the examiner after reviewing a Pre-Interview Communication providing the result of a prior art search conducted by the examiner.

Participants experienced many benefits including :
(1) the ability to advance prosecution of an application;
(2) enhanced interaction between applicant and the examiner;
(3) the opportunity to resolve patentability issues one-on-one with the examiner at the beginning of the prosecution process; and
(4) the opportunity to facilitate possible early allowance.

File Online : https://www.uspto.gov/

5. Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) :

The Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) speeds up the examination process for corresponding applications filed in participating intellectual property offices.

Under PPH, participating patent offices have agreed that when an applicant receives a final ruling from a first patent office that at least one claim is allowed, the applicant may request fast track examination of corresponding claim(s) in a corresponding patent application that is pending in a second patent office. PPH leverages fast-track examination procedures already in place among participating patent offices to allow applicants to reach final disposition of a patent application more quickly and efficiently than standard examination processing.

File Online : http://www.uspto.gov/patents/init_events/pph/index.jsp

6. Priority Document Exchange (PDX) :

This site is intended to provide useful information for U.S. applicants that wish to take advantage of the PDX program which avoids the fee associated with ordering a certified priority document for each office of second filing (OSF) and the costs of transmitting those certified copies to foreign associates or foreign intellectual property offices. The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) transmits certain U.S. priority applications as-filed to any foreign intellectual property office that participates in the PDX program (participating office) and retrieves/accesses certain foreign priority applications as-filed from the participating offices.

File Online : http://www.uspto.gov/patents/process…/pdx_index.jsp

Helpdesk :
Full technical support for EFS-Web is available through the Patent Electronic Business Center contact form 6 a.m. to 12 Midnight Eastern Time, Monday – Friday.

Contact Postal Address :
United States Patent and Trademark Office
Randolph Building
401 Dulany Street
Alexandria, VA 22314