Top three helpful tips for filing patent applications as you move to DOCX format

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Top three helpful tips for filing patent applications as you move to DOCX format

Blog by Kathi Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO; Andrew Faile, Acting Commissioner for Patents; and Jamie Holcombe, Chief Information Officer

As we announced last May, as part of the USPTO’s ongoing initiatives to use the most advanced technology and to issue and maintain robust and reliable patents, the USPTO is moving to DOCX. DOCX is key to the USPTO’s application readiness initiatives, which in the future will provide quick and reliable feedback to applicants to correct their applications before they hit the examiner’s desk so that examiners can spend more time working with applicants to identify subject matter for protection. It is also critical to reducing barriers and costs affiliated with global intellectual property (IP) protection by ensuring each country’s IP systems can talk, electronically, to one another. Currently, filing in DOCX allows for automated checks that prevent unnecessary delays in processing an application.

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