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Patentics™: Safe Paper™ for reliable transfer of invention documents


SafePaper™ allows for reliable transfer of invention documents through
the Internet or other electronic channels, the documents also including
drafts or sketches, while preventing loss of info.

An inventor desires to send a description of an invention to the patent agent
or the Patent Office. The received document may differ from what the inventor
intended to send: sometimes the scanning of the document is faulty, so that
part of the page is missing (the upper or lower part is clipped; one side of
the page is missing; several lines in the middle of the page are distorted or
missing, etc.), the scanning is too light (difficult to read) or too dark
(black dots or areas). Sometimes the message is distorted in transmission;
sometimes the transmit and receive equipment or software are not completely
compatible. Sometimes one or more pages of a document are missing; sometimes
the same page is transmitted several times.

For patenting using electronic communications, it is essential that documents
be received without errors - the inventor depends on these channels.

The problem is the inventor does not know what exactly was received, and the
recipient does not know what was send, so neither party can check the
transmission to verify its correctness.

Patentics(TM) Patentics: SafePaper™

  • Structure of a SafePaper™ page (1)


    The page includes, see Figure:

    1. A work area, usable for writing, printing, drawing etc. by the user.
    For each page of a message, the info in the work area may be different.

    2. A frame surrounding the work area. The frame is the same for
    all pages of a message. It may contain letters, numbers and/or other symbols.
    If part of a page is missing or distorted, the symbols in the frame will
    be distorted. The recipient does not know what is written in the work area
    but he does know the standard structure of the frame. Thus, if the
    frame is intact, the message in the page is OK.

    3. Page-specific info field, including for each page the number of the
    page, the total number of pages in the message, a Reference number common to
    that message, a date (of creating or sending it), the type of message: text,
    drawings, photos, etc. This allows to check that all the pages of a document
    were received, that all the pages belong to this message and to the present
    version thereof, etc.

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Patent4U Limited
P.O. Box 2162
87 Jabotinski St.
Petah Tikva 49120
Israel

ph: +972-3-9226767
fax: +972-3-9192287