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Tools for drafting a U.S. Patent Application using LaTeX and/or LyX
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Starting from 2023: DOCX required! #10

Open stroobandt opened 1 year ago

stroobandt commented 1 year ago

Filing a new non provisional 111(a) application? Starting January 1, 2023, specification, claims and abstracts not filed in DOCX format will incur a non-DOCX surcharge of up to $400 for this filing type.

See USPTO: File patent application documents in DOCX

If you hate M$ Word as much as I do, writing the application in Markdown using the Vim text editor and converting it to DOCX using Pandoc and the provided USPTO DOCX template, might be a very viable option.

yurivict commented 10 months ago

According to the above link the DOCX requirement begins starting January 17, 2024.

Pandoc User's Guide says that it is able to convert LaTeX to DOCX, so Pandoc might be a solution.

In fact, Pandoc did quite a good job converting "uspatent" type LaTeX to DOCX in my test, including formulas, except of a few issues in the resulting DOCX.

I will report issues to Pandoc as bugs, and once they would fix them Pandoc might be useful in order to submit patent applications based on "uspatent" LaTeX documents.