Electronic Notebooks and the Specifications to Prove Date of Invention in Patent Interferences

To Patent your idea, you must first write a provisional patent application. You may negotiate signing fees, royalties, and licensing fees on your idea, in return for negotiating the final patent rights. It contains all of the actual provisional patent application forms -- and only those forms -- required by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Electronic Notebooks and the Requirements to Prove Date of Invention in Patent InterferencesThis paper contains an excerpt of an email I sent to the PIUG (Patent Information User's Group) email distribution list on November 30, 2003.1. In all other major jurisdictions, it is the date of filing of a patent application that is the earliest date allowed to as a date of invention, except where there are issues of theft of invention.2. The law respecting how to prove priority of invention is in fact a well defined body of law. Inventor Assistance for Patents, Prototypes, Marketing ; Licensing
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(I use the word "patent" here to mean either patent or patent application, for simplicity.) It is the date of that corroborator's review that defines provable evidence a date of invention.