The technical field is the filing of US patent applications through ePave.
The background art is as follows. The US Patent and Trademark Office provides software called PASAT and XPort which is intended to facilitate authoring of XML patent applications. It is desirable for users to have more than one option for the authoring of XML patent applications.
The problem is to provide an alternative to PASAT/XPort for the authoring of XML patent specifications.
What is proposed is to use the PCT-SAFE editor for authoring of XML patent specifications. After the document is authored, the user uses Notepad to open the XML file and to change the country code to "US".
Advantageously, an alternative to PASAT/XPort is provided for the authoring of XML patent specifications
Fig. 1 shows various ways of e-filing patent applications.
It is not clear what is the best mode.
This is also not clear.
The method has industrial applicability.
This is the abstract.