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How to start your next patent application with a clean slate.

Laura Berwick avatar
Written by Laura Berwick
Updated over a week ago

This article covers the following topics:

  • Starting From the Landing Screen

  • Starting From an Open Application Window

  • What You'll See in a New .rp File

  • Now What?
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Starting From the Landing Screen

  1. Open Rowan Patents.
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  2. Click the Start New Patent Application button.
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Starting From an Open Application Window

  1. Open the File menu in any of the Rowan Patents Preparation module windows.
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  2. Click the New File option.
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    OR simply type Ctrl/Cmd-N while in any Preparation module window.
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What You’ll See in a New .rp File

The above steps will open a new application window with a set of default fields for you to start drafting your application, including:

  • Title

  • Docket Number

  • Cross Reference

  • Background

  • Brief description fields, including a FIG. 1 field

  • Detailed description fields, including a FIG. 1 field

  • Claim fields, including a Claim 1 field

  • Abstract
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Now What?

  1. You can begin typing immediately or copy and paste text from other programs into any of the text entry fields provided to draft your claims or your specification.
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  2. You can navigate to different parts of your application with the left-hand sidebar.
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  3. You can add to, delete, rename, change the page orientation of, add page breaks around, and reorder the sections and modify the headings provided.
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  4. You can open the Drawing Tool and start on your figures.
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  5. You can open any of the managers in the Tools menu above to create and manage data objects for consistent use across your application:
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    1. Terms Manager: Create, drag and drop existing, import, define, merge, edit, delete, and remove all terms
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    2. Sequences Manager: Create, drag and drop existing, import from spreadsheet or text file, reorder, edit, describe, set coding for, delete, remove all, and export a PTO listing for large molecule sequences
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    3. R-groups Manager: Create, drag and drop existing, edit, describe, reorder descriptions for, merge, delete, and remove all Markush groups
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    4. Compounds Manager: Create, drag and drop existing, import, reorder, edit, describe, set prefix for, delete, and remove all small molecule compounds
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  6. You can begin importing existing content from other programs.

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