Disclosure document

Keep records that document when and what was invented. It is important that accurate records are kept showing your original sketches with a disclosure statement describing what and how your invention works. It is useful to have someone witness this disclosure document and verify the date that this invention took place. It is often during this step that the invention concept is either modeled (mathematical or physical or both) and tested. Thus, accurate records of these analyzes or test results should also be kept. In the U.S. it is the first to invent that will obtain a patent in the event of two individuals inventing the same thing. Keep the disclosure document secret until the patent application is submitted to the patent office. 

T. E. Bearden, Formation and Use of Time-Reversal Zones, EM Wave Transduction, Time-Density (Scalar) EM Excitation and Decay, and Spacetime Curvature Engines to Alter Matter and Convert Time Into Energy, Invention Disclosure Document 446522 (Oct. 26, 1998). 

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) provides a service under the Disclosure Document Program to give evidence as to the date of conception of an invention [5]. An inventor may disclose the conception of his invention in a Disclosure Document to the USPTO for a nominal fee. This document will be held in confidence by the USPTO. After a period of two years it will be destroyed unless a related patent application is filed within these two years. They caution that the Disclosure Document is not a patent application. The date of its receipt in the USPTO will not become the effective filing date of any patent application subsequently filed [6]. 

In both academia and industry, the laboratory notebook is a legal document that records the work done by an individual researcher. Even in the USPTO s own view, its Disclosure Document Program does not diminish the value of the conventional, witnessed, permanently bound, and page-numbered laboratory notebook or notarized records [6]. Without a doubt, any experimental work might be worthless unless it is properly recorded for later use. Evidence of the dates of conception and reduction to practice of an invention may be established by a well-maintained laboratory notebook. Therefore, researchers should become familiar with how to keep persuasive laboratory notebooks. Of course, no notebook is ever perfect. However, the closer one comes to this objective, the better it will be. 

The printed pubHshed document which represents the patent rights granted by the Federal Government can be a complex Hterary work. There are specific and rigid legal requirements for the description, disclosure, and definiteness which support these affirmative rights and enable enforcement of those rights by the inventor or owner of the patent. The basis for this fiiU and complete disclosure of the invention in the patent is clearly articulated in the U.S. Constitution. 

One further component of the record of invention is a Hst of any uncovered pubHcations or patents which are relevant to the invention. Such a listing should also include any disclosures made by any of those who worked on the invention to other parties inside or outside the organization. AH inventors should sign the record of invention. At least two witnesses who are not inventors should also read and understand the record of invention so that they can sign and date this document. 

The disclosure requirement provides that the patent be a teaching document, and enhance the breadth of knowledge held by the pubHc. By increasing the breadth of knowledge within the pubHc sector, a given patent faciHtates further technological development and growth, which in turn results in the issuance of additional patents. 

Patent documents differ from journal Hterature in several ways. First of all, they are legal documents whose disclosures support one or more claims that define an area of property rights. The language in patent documents can therefore be quite convoluted "patentese" as the appHcant strives to achieve the broadest possible scope of coverage. Examples provided in patents may never have happened. Based on the appHcant s understanding of the technical... 

Patents tend to be the literature of technology with full disclosure of its invention details. This legal document confers to its owner the right to exclude others from using it. 

U.S. Government Restricted Rights Notice Use, duplication, or disclosure of this software and related documentation by the U.S. government is subject to the Agreement with SAS Institute and the restrictions set forth in FAR 52.227-19, Commercial Computer Software-Restricted Rights (June 1987). 

Next day, Dr. Hoffman handed over to us a few weekly construction reports. It was a token gesture. The other counsel would not release anything until the court ruled. Hoffman wanted to return all the remaining documents (for he believed the court would order the defense to do so anyway) and to account for those that had been destroyed. Or (and the alternative seemed impossible to him), if the court did not issue the order, the prosecution would raise a rumpus that would hurt the defense even more than a frank disclosure of the suppressed evidence. 

CFR 171.1(c) describes in greater detail the data requirements for food additive petitions, including the five basic areas of information and scientific data noted above, as well as other administrative information and environmental assessment requirements. This document addresses chemistry-related issues only. As described in 21 CFR 171.1(h), certain data and information contained in food additive petitions are available for public disclosure, while other data are not. Questions in this regard should be directed to the Office of Premarket Approval. 

The owner of a trade secret may at times protect it by an oral understanding, or the circumstances surrounding disclosure to those who need to know as a requirement for their tasks will speak for itself. The better practice, however, requires a written document. This may be in broad terms—e.g., each time the employee acquires new information, a new agreement need not be drafted. Substantial changes in relationships require updating of the agreement. 

Some documents created by an incident investigation team may besulyect to disclosure to ... 

It should always be remembered that the IB is not a promotional document aimed at presenting the NME in its best light on the contrary, it is intended to inform investigators and ethics committees about every aspect of the drug, to enable them to make wise judgements in the interest of study subjects, be they healthy volunteers or patients. The IB is necessarily a summary, but less than full disclosure of important information about the drug, whatever the source, is not acceptable and all documents should be referenced and made available on request. 

Although the Army anticipates procuring equipment, systems, and tools that are unique to closure operations, closure planning documents made available to the committee addressed this issue in a cursory way (U.S. Army, 2000c). Section 3.3 of the decommissioning plan simply states a requirement for vendor contracts and engineering guidance. WDC said, however, that it has a very extensive and sophisticated company procurement manual (O Shea, 2000). Because of the importance of materiel procurement, the Army should insist on full disclosure of the contractor process, and all interested parties must understand and... 

The Certificate of Confidentiality is a federally sponsored document that provides immunity to investigators from any governmental or civil order to disclose identifying information from research records. The Certificate is granted under 301(d) of the Public Healthy Service Act. The Certificate provides additional protection against disclosure of confidential information to outside parties. When a Certificate of Confidentiality is granted, both the protections and limitations of it should be explained to the child and caregiver. The application for the Certificate can be obtained at most federal research institutions. 

On the defensive side, service requirements were promulgated for a real-time detector for nerve agents in the field, shipboard detectors for Royal Navy vessels, prophylactics and therapy for nerve agent poisoning and a new respirator. The procurement cycle for some of these items was relatively quick, but for others, in particular the respirator, the process was one of continuous improvement reflecting advances in science and technology. However, to try to provide a succinct analysis of the first 20 post-war years of chemical weapon development in Britain is difficult mainly because many topics cannot be reported due to the non-disclosure of sensitive documents by the British government. 

If you are the inventor and are representing yourself (pro se), then you will need to supply the information yourself to the USPTO. The information submitted must be listed on an information disclosure statement, and the forms can be found on the USPTO website. Briefly, there is a section for U.S. patent and published patent applications, foreign patent applications, and patents as well as nonpatent references. For U.S. patents and patent publications, only a citation is necessary. For non-U.S. patent references or any other reference, the citation must be indicated on the form and a hardcopy of the reference must be provided. If the reference is written in a language other than English, a summary of the relevancy of the document in English or an English translation must be provided. 

Beyond submitting any known prior art, parties of interest must confirm that the patent application is an accurate reflection of their invention. If statements or data characterizing the invention in the specification are relied on to support the patentability of one or more of the claims in the patent application then those statements or that data need to be accurate and also should be representative of the claimed invention. This also applies to data and statements in declarations and related documents submitted to the patent office to support the patentability of the claimed invention selective disclosure of only favorable data while omitting contradicting data is frequently not a good idea ( when in doubt, send it out ).77... 

Different organizations have different formats for the record of invention (i.e., invention disclosure) but some common threads include a brief description of the invention, key dates including conception and reduction to practice, references to key notebook pages, and a list of proposed inventors and their contact information. This document serves as an important record as well as a helpful aid to get the patent agent or attorney started on drafting the patent application. 

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