An overview of patenting procedure, Filing a Patent Application

As and when you file a patent application, the initial message that you receive from American Patent and Trademark Office will be a form of acceptance of the application. If you are Filing a Patent Application on the internet, then you will get an electronic acceptance. If it is done through mail, then you get an acknowledgment through a stamp on a postcard you incorporated or a filing receipt.    

All these acceptance methods will help in listing your filing date, serial number of your application, and title of your invention, imagining that you have met the requisites to receive a filing date. There are various situations when USPTO will say no for granting a serial number and a filing date. If you have successfully fulfilled all the needed requirements of filing a date but somehow have missed out some of the necessities which might not influence you eligibility of receiving a filing date, USPTO may send you a notice to file the missing parts. You will be given a time of three months in order to provide the missing parts. For example, if you were not able to include a declaration of inventorship, you have to provide the missing parts in the given time period. Otherwise, the application will be discarded. 

So, hopefully this article has helped in being familiar with the whole concept of Filing a Patent Application.