How do I apply for a patent?

• The USPTO's resource page for independent inventors
  
  
• The list of Patent & Trademark Depository Libraries (PTDLs)
  
  
• U.S. Patent Classification Index
  
  
• The USPTO patent search page

• Patent attorneys and agents registered to practice before the PTO
  

• The USPTO's How to Get a Patent page covers Utility, Design, and Plant patent application information, electronic filing of utility patents, information on the Provisional application, and more aimed at prospective patent applicants.
  
  
• Information on the Disclosure Document Program
  
  

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