These files are for drafting a U.S. Patent Application using LaTeX or LyX.

The complete CTAN file set can be found at: http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/uspatent

This work may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3 of this license or (at your option) any later version. The latest version of the license is in http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt and version 1.3 or later is part of all distributions of LaTeX version 2003/06/01 or later.

It includes:

PatentApplicationGuide.pdf - the instructions uspatent.cls - LaTeX class file based on memoir uspatent.layout - LyX layout file that goes with uspatent.cls

PatentApplication.tex - A skeleton starting document for LaTeX PatentApplication.lyx - A skeleton starting document for LyX Drawings.lyx - An example drawings file for a LyX patent application

TpXDrawing.tpx - An example TpX (TikZ) drawing for drawing annotation VisioDrawing.vsd, VisioMainDrawing.vsd, VisioDrawing.pdf - Example Visio drawings InkscapeDrawing.svg, InkscapeDrawing.pdf, InkscapeDrawing.pdf_tex - Example Inkscape drawings

Make a folder called "MyInvention" and put all of these files in it. Rename one of the skeleton application files to MyInvention.tex or .lyx depending on which you are using and begin editing these documents to produce your application. It's all in the Guide provided.

Happy TeX patenting, Pete Pupalaikis pete_pope at hotmail.com