Entry into US national stage from a PCT (Patent Cooperation Treaty) patent application

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What we need from you

For Oppedahl Patent Law Firm LLC to enter your PCT patent application into the US national stage, at a minimum we will need:

• The PCT publication number (WO publication number).

It will save you additional government fees and additional professional fees if you are also able to provide, prior to entry into the US national stage, the following:

• a copy of the International Search Report as a PDF file
• identification by email of all references to be disclosed in an Information Disclosure Statement (IDS) (how to know which references to disclose)
• for each reference to be disclosed in an IDS that is not a US patent or US published patent application, a PDF copy of the reference
• for each reference to be disclosed in an IDS that is not in the English language, a translation of that reference into the English language (or a concise statement of relevance thereof)
• an Inventor's Declaration (fillable PDF or OpenOffice or Microsoft Word) signed by all of the inventors (by fax or email image attachment; we do not need the original document)
• for each inventor, an assignment from the inventor to the Assignee (by fax or email image attachment; we do not need the original document)
• a Power of Attorney (fillable PDF or OpenOffice or Microsoft Word) from the Assignee to "the practitioners associated with customer number 57380" (by fax or email image attachment; we do not need the original document)
• a copy of form PCT/IB/308 showing that the PCT application has already been communicated to the USPTO (by fax or email image attachment)
• for each inventor, a postal mailing address (by email)
• for each inventor, the inventor's residence city and country (by email)
• for each inventor, the inventor's citizenship(by email)
• if the PCT application is not in the English language, a translation of the PCT application into the English language (preferably as a word processor document by email attachment)
• a statement by email as to whether any amendments to claims of the PCT application were made under Article 19
• if the claims were amended under Article 19, a copy of the amended claims (preferably as a word processor document by email attachment)
• if the Article 19 amended claims are not in the English language, a translation of the amended claims into the English language (preferably as a word processor document by email attachment)
• a statement by email as to whether a Demand for Preliminary Examination was made
• if a Demand was made, an English-language translation of the annexes of the International Preliminary Examination Report or International Preliminary Report on Patentability
• a statement by email as to whether any amendments of the PCT application were made under Article 34
• if the application was amended under Article 34, a copy of the amendment (preferably as a word processor document by email attachment)
• if the Article 34 amendment is not in the English language, a translation of the amendment into the English language (preferably as a word processor document by email attachment)

Please note that we prefer not to receive these documents from you on paper. It is very much our preference to receive them as PDF and word processor files sent via email.

Note that for any new client we will generally ask for payment in advance, prior to undertaking the work.