human: How can a Digital Certificate be created for new users?
assistant: A Digital Certificate is created by the customer using two pieces of information from the USPTO. One is an Authorization Code and the other is a Reference Number. Each piece of information will be sent to you separately upon submitting a Certificate Action Form to the EBC. Once you receive the Authorization Code you may call the EBC to obtain the Reference Number if you have not already received it. Once you have both the Authorization Code and Reference Number go tohttps://dcm.uspto.gov/UserRegistration/do/Home and follow these steps:
1. Click ""New User"", enter the Authorization Code and the Reference Number where requested.
2. Click the ""browse"" button next to ""digital certificate filename"".
3. When a dialog box appears, select the folder where you want the file to be saved at (somewhere you can locate the file easily, such as your desktop), then in the ""filename"" box, name your file (i.e. johndoe.epf) *making sure to leave the .EPF at the end of the file name, and then click ""open"".
4. Enter the password that you wish to use twice following rules located in the box on the right side of the screen (when all rules are successfully followed green check marks will appear), then click ""Submit"".
5. Once your password has been processed it will state ""profile created successfully"". Your Digital Certificate file will be downloaded to the directory that you previously specified and saved under the file name previously designed.
Once a Digital Certificate is created the EBC recommends that recovery codes be created. Please refer to the question on generating recovery codes in this section