Patents and Patent Languages

Patent search engines are important to learn how to do a patent search. Using patent search engines, an inventor can review other patents that exist to know how to write their own patents. The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) website displays information about the language of patents as well as the ability to do a patent search. This chapter introduces patent language to prepare the inventor to be able to communicate with the patent attorney and begin to understand how to read the documents from the patent office. It discusses the patent language of status and operation. The focus is on office actions and other operations associated with office actions. The chapter also discusses the patent draft and the patent draft structure of a patent specification.