IDS Generator

Classic view (the same tool on one page, as before)

Your case

Application number or USPTO application XML

or choose the USPTO application XML

Case header

References

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Use	Reference	Date	Found in	Status	Who cited it

+ Add your own (a reference number or a non-patent citation)Add

A reference: a number (for example US 7087049) or a manual override line

A non-patent literature citation

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Run each button separatelyCorresponding Cases' own form: the family, EPO's citations, the USPTO forms and foreign office actions, one at a time; its edition line. OpenClose

Application or publication number

Slow: one EPO call per publication of every family member -- about a minute for a family of twenty publications. Runs in the background; progress is shown below. A very large family is read in batches.

Button 3 does what Button 2 does, then reads every US family member's own file at the USPTO: the PTO-892s (references the examiner cited) and the considered 1449s (IDS references the examiner initialled), each with the real mail date. Slower still: about half a minute to two minutes per US application, because the forms are scanned images read by OCR.

Button 4 does what Button 2 does, then reads every foreign family member's own office actions and search reports from the USPTO's Global Dossier (EP, JP and CN today): each cited patent reference with the date of the document that cited it, read from Global Dossier's English machine translation, the document's own text, or by OCR for scanned documents. A JP translation is checked against its original. Global Dossier's own citation list is compared too, and nothing it lists is dropped. From a few seconds to half a minute per family member.

Edition: Main

Foreign office actionsAlso read foreign office actions (slower)Continue also runs Button 4 when this is ticked.

Manual override linesThe references box and the non-patent literature box themselves. OpenClose

The references box (manual override lines)

One per line: a bare number (e.g. US 7087049) looked up automatically via EPO OPS, OR the manual override: reference | kind | date | name [| translation yes/no]

Non-patent literature -- one citation per line (search reports, written opinions, articles, books). Each goes onto the form exactly as typed; nothing is looked up.

Review and Generate separatelyThe classic page's own two buttons, which Create IDS presses one after the other. Their results show in step 3.

Output formatWhat Generate IDS produces.

Package foreign referencesPackage foreign references (fetches each foreign reference's full document and an English family member's document from EPO OPS, builds references.zip and translations.zip). This can take many minutes; progress is shown below.

DetailsThe family table with its group tick boxes, who cited what, the reading log, the copy lists and Notes on this run. OpenClose

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