Powered by ListBot Protect Your Business Plan Invention Disclosure and Disclosure Documents As a complement to keeping an inventor's notebook , one option is to prepare an invention disclosure or disclosure document. Invention disclosure provides another medium to prove ownership of an invention and to document the date of idea conception. The US Patent Office will accept an invention disclosure document as evidence of the date of invention. If you do refer to the invention disclosure in the patent application, the disclosure document will then become part of the patent file, which will become public record once issued.
Photographs also are acceptable.
Text and drawings should be sufficiently dark to permit reproduction with commonly used office copying machines. In addition to the fee described below, the Disclosure Document must be accompanied by a stamped, self-addressed envelope and a separate paper in duplicate, signed by the inventor, stating that he or she is the inventor and requesting that the material be received for processing under the Disclosure Document Program. The US Patent Office will then stamp the invention disclosure document and return a copy to you in your self-addressed stamped envelope. This one is a bargain. If you have diligently kept proper records of your invention using inventor notebooks, it should be easy to pull the disclosure together.