a. It may be advantageous to assign a unique number to each sentence in a patent application, preferably in an increasing order, maybe consecutive numbers. These numbers may be used in cross-references 457 to be added to application, in tracking changes in the application, etc.

b. The Figure parts. A, B and C detail, for example, three preferred embodiments of a method for numbering the sentences in a patent application.

c. In A, sentences 851, 852, 853 are separated/annexed with delimiters 841, 842, 843 respectively. Delimiters are consecutive numbers, in this preferred embodiments in a Unicode UTF-8 representation of one byte per digit. the numbers may be between square brackets, which in this embodiment should be reserved by the editor for only this specific use.

d. In B one type of delimiter 844 is used, the character ">" in this example. Whenever the editor encounters this character, it indicates a new sentence. When the user so desires, the Editor will insert and display the serial number of each sentence (usually these numbers should be hidden, to more clearly present the text of the patent/application).

e. Part C includes Natural text, interpreted by Editor so that each period or semicolon for example " . ;" will be a new sentence, unless special control characters are inserted, for example a delimiter 845 to indicate a discontinuity/jump in the numbering, or a control character 846 to indicate that the last period should not indicate a new sentence - the following sentence is logically/semantically tied together with the preceding sentence and should not be separated therefrom.

f. Claims may each be considered a sentence and numbered accordingly.

g. Sentences in each page may be numbered anew (starting from 1 in each page). A sentence may be given a composite number [page No.][sentence No.] for example 02433 for the 33th sentence in page 24. Where there are several documents in an electronic document, each document may be assigned a serial number, then a sentence number may appear as: [document No.][page No.][sentence No.], with a given number of digits each.

Patentability criteria:

The application should indicate the correlation of each claim limitation to all portions of the disclosure that describe the claim limitation.