ADS from USPTO XML

Converts a Patent Center, WIPO PCT, or previously-generated ADS XML export into an ADS-import-ready XML file -- or generates a new child application's ADS from one or more parent filings.

Other ADS tools (edit first, or start from scratch)

Want to edit inventors or add a benefit claim first? Use ADS Review & Edit, then come back here with the result.

No source XML/PDF at all -- just filing a brand-new application from scratch, with no benefit or foreign priority claims? Use ADS Ex Nihilo Generation instead.

Convert as-is Generate child application (CON/DIV/CIP/PRO)

USPTO Patent Center XML:

OR an already-filed ADS PDF:

Pick one. A Patent Center XML runs through the normal conversion; an ADS PDF has its own data extracted and shown/downloaded directly (its SHA-512 is always shown).

Optional, Patent Center XML only -- fill in inventor mailing addresses (redacted by USPTO) from a WIPO PCT XML, ADS-exported XML, or ADS PDF:

Claim small entity status on this ADS?

Yes No

This is your assertion under 37 CFR 1.27, and it decides the fee actually owed. Nothing is pre-selected: not from the uploaded file, not from your settings, and not from the last ADS you made. You must answer it every time, on every ADS.

Applicant is... Required when there is an applicant. Nothing is pre-selected: the form's own box has no default, and choosing one is your assertion. Leave it blank only if there is no separate applicant (the inventor is the applicant).

Each parent may be a USPTO Patent Center XML, a WIPO PCT XML, a previously-generated ADS XML, or an already-filed ADS PDF (its data is extracted automatically, and its SHA-512 is shown below) -- the format is auto-detected per file. Leave continuity type on "Auto" to let the tool pick CON (or PRO if that parent looks like a provisional).

Only needed if this parent is a PDF or a previously-generated ADS XML (no serial number/filing date on record):
Proceed without these (override)
Optional -- fill in THIS parent's inventor mailing addresses (redacted by USPTO) from a WIPO PCT XML, ADS-exported XML, or ADS PDF:

Intended filing date of this new child application (optional, e.g. 2026-09-01):

Every cited prior application's pending/expired status is determined AS OF this date -- it's the legally relevant date, not necessarily today. Leave blank to default to today's date (a default, not confirmed information -- this will be disclosed below).

Claim small entity status on this ADS?

Yes No