Filing Patents Online: A Professional Guide

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CRC Press, Apr 28, 2003 - Business & Economics - 464 pages
The average cost of an uncomplicated patent application filing is about $10,000. This high cost can leave thousands of inventors out in the cold. Filing Patents Online: A Professional Guide is a complete manual that walks inventors through each step of filing and prosecuting the patent online at a fraction of the cost. The online filing system reco
 

Contents

Chapter 1 The Patnet Filing Systems
1
Chapter 2 Patent Application Essentials
11
Chapter 3 Online Patentability Search
35
Chapter 4 Online Filing Basics
81
Chapter 5 USPTO EFS Overview
91
Chapter 6 USPTO EFS Scenarios
121
PASAT
155
Chapter 8 USPTO TSA
185
Chapter 10 USPTO ePAVE
239
Chapter 11 USPTO Direct
285
Chapter 12 WIPO PCTEASY
295
Chapter 13 WIPO PCTSAFE
369
Chapter 14 EPO epoline
389
Glossary of Common Terms
415
Index
425
Back cover
435

Chapter 9 USPTO Patentln
211

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About the author (2003)

Pakistani doctor Sarfaraz K. Niazi has been teaching in the field of pharmaceutical sciences for over 34 years. He has published over 100 research articles and over a dozen major books including textbooks and a book on patent filing. He is the recipient of several research recognition awards. He is a licensed practitioner of patent law in the United States and serves the global pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry in the transition of research ideas into useful technology. Niazi holds several major US and worldwide patents for his inventions and writes in the fields of philosophy, sociology, rhetoric and poetry. He is the author of the first book on clinical pharmacokinetics and the largest work on pharmaceutical manufacturing formulations and also on the manufacturing of therapeutic proteins. He holds several fellowship of learned societies and is a reviewer for scientific journals. He writes poetry in several languages and as a hobby translates ancient Urdu and Persian poetry into English.