How to Prepare a Patent Description, Claims and Abstract
Justice Agency for Intellectual Property – How to Prepare a Patent Description, Claims and Abstract
Through this page we provide you with the government guidelines required by the UK government in preparing protection applications.
The government guidelines have been adopted in the UK as the most comprehensive and accurate procedures, all countries in the world use the same model.
- Patent Grant Timeline (Click to view PDF)
- Description (Click to view PDF)
- Drawings (Click to view PDF)
- Claims (Click to view PDF)
- Abstraction (Click to view PDF)
- Search Report (Click to view PDF)
- Expedited Processing (Click to view PDF)
- Publishing (Click to view PDF)
- Overseas Filing (Click to view PDF)
Details
A patent application must include a full description of your invention (including any drawings), a set of claims that define your invention, a short summary summarizing the technical features of your invention and a completed abstract in Form 1.
Once you have filed, you must ask us to search your patent application to see if your invention is novel. Once the search is complete, there will be a first publication of your patent application.
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