IDS Generator

Application header

USPTO application XML (optional -- fills in whatever it can below)

Application Number

Filing Date

First Named Inventor

Art Unit

Examiner Name

Attorney Docket Number

References

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.

Output

Output format

Package 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.

Import references from related cases

Runs Corresponding Cases for this case (its buttons, tick boxes and conflicts below, exactly as on its own page), then adds the references it found to the references box above. Buttons 3 and 4 can take several minutes; the progress stays in view.

The number box is filled from the header's application number when it is empty.

Include every reference found, also those already of record in this case (by default only references NEW TO YOUR CASE are added) Adds to the references box; anything already typed there stays, and nothing is added twice.

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.

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