Information needed by American patent system

(1) American patent application for invention and design:

1, specification, patent application part and attached drawings

2. affidavit and power of attorney

3. Small individual declaration (the applicant is an individual, or a small enterprise with less than 500 employees, or a non-profit organization)

(2) Temporary application:

1, description, drawings and names, addresses and nationalities of all inventors.

2, small personal declaration

(3) Priority of creditor's rights:

If the same invention (or design) has been applied in other Paris Convention countries, and the original application date is claimed in the United States, an application shall be filed with the United States Patent Office within one year (including Taiwan Province Province) from the application date of the first foreign application (the design is half a year).

(4) novelty requirements (first invention principle and one-year preferential period principle)

An invention loses its novelty if it is patented in the United States or other countries or published in publications, or publicly used or sold in the United States for more than one year; On the other hand, if it is less than one year, it still has the novelty of applying for a patent.