How is a Patent Application written?
A patent application must present required information in a somewhat standardized format, and must conclude with a set of special statements that define exactly what it is you regard as your invention. These special statements are called the Claims. They are a critical part of the patent application. The claims are said to define the boundaries of the protection secured by the patent. All inventors should carefully read (and re-read) the claims, possibly before the entire application is written, to be sure they fully describe your invention. This is very important. In the end, a patent application should be written carefully and in such a way so as to provide the inventor with the ‘broadest’ coverage possible, while not ‘reading on’ or overlapping upon other inventions. Well known legal scholars have stated, for the record, that they considered a patent application to be one of the most difficult legal documents to write.
