Patent Proofreading Services in USA | Patent Drawing Services

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BarcodeIP
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Patent Proofreading Services
Patent Drawing Services USA
Presented By BarcodeIP (C.E.O)P.HD Law Firm
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ABOUT US
BarcodeIP is a paralegal secretarial support
services firm based in New Delhi, India. It
offers proofreading services at three stages of a
patent life cycle draft application,
publication and post grant. Our reports
facilitate a decision on filing a Certification
of Correction (CoC) at the post grant stage. We
deliver ready to file Preliminary Amendments,
Replacement Sheets and Certificate of
Corrections. Our experts in intellectual
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Patent Proofreading Services in USA
Proofreading is the act of finding and correcting
mistakes. It gives us an opportunity to make sure
that no important element, detail or part is
being missed or overlooked. Elements of
proofreading embrace descriptive linguistics,
punctuation, spelling, formatting, visual
consistency and structure.
Once the drafting of a patent application is
complete the text must be carefully read,
analyzed and methodically re-checked.
Proofreading can be carried out at any stage of
patent prosecution and the errors can be
corrected by way of filing voluntary amendments.
Patent proofreading is crucial and the final step
of patent prosecution.
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Patent Proofreading Services
The process of proofreading helps identify
critical errors. These errors have an impact on
the invention and can lead to opposition,
infringement and even abandonment. Such errors
might be in any section of the patent and should
be corrected immediately via preliminary
amendment, 1.312 Amendment, CoC, Article 19,
Article 34 etc. Not getting a patent proofread
is one of the most unfortunate oversights that an
applicant can make. A significant percentage of
issued patents have errors in them as is evident
in the number of CoCs filed for granted patents
week after week. About 12-15 percent of all
patents issued require a certificate of
correction.
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Broadly the errors fall into the following
category

• Typographical and grammatical.
• Amendments with respect to changes in text of the
  Abstract, Specification and Claims.
• Amendments with respect to changes in text of
  the Abstract, Specification and Claims.
• Uniformity in typefaces throughout the document.
  Formatting consistency, order, and numbering of
  images and tables. All numerical data.
• Claim dependencies and antecedents.
• The USPTO does not provide the applicant with a
  copy of the patent text before final printing.
  Hence the patents are enforceable as they are
  granted (with errors embedded in their text).
• The onus of correcting these errors whether
  critical or not lies with the applicant. While
  the PTO errors are corrected free of cost,
  correction of applicant errors involves a fee of
  150.

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Application Proofreading
Application Proofreading gives an opportunity to
attorneys to correct applications at a very early
stage even before the application is filed with
the PTO.
Publication Proofreading
The published application is checked for
incorporation of preliminary amendments and
bibliographic data.
Post Grant Proofreading
The granted patent is checked for content of the
application as filed along with amendments vs
what is granted. Post Grant Proofreading helps
attorneys to correct errors in granted patent via
CoC, thereby reducing the chances of
re-examination, re-issue and infringement.
Proofreading is a critical process and it is
worth the additional effort