The multi-file editor PatEdit(TM) method is suitable for processing electronic documents, adapted for use with patents and patent applications:

a. Input user and application details

b. Input filed applications A, B, C
These applications or patents or parts from them, may be used to draft a new application.

c. Draft new patent application, including the required steps.

d. Terms definitions

e. Text edit,
Sentences numbering,
Hyper links,
Log activities.

f. Definitions in Boolean Logic
These are concise, precise statements based on precisely defined terms and the relationships between them. Other equations or Mathematical Models may be used.

g. Edit Drawings

h. Compile Cross-references
Cross-references may refer to sentence numbers in the text, to the claims and to references.

i. Ready?
The user evaluates the application drafted thus far, and decides whether to continue the process. If finished - proceed to step (j).

j. Append IDRI 865, for example re parts 865-867.

k. Compile and append CRC

m. Compile and append DIS
May use public key encryption to encrypt the file or to authenticate with a digital signature. This adds further protection against computer viruses and errors in the file.

Patentability criteria:
An adequate written description must reasonably prove to those skilled in the art that the applicant was in possession of the claimed invention as of the date of invention.
To those skilled in the art - what is known to professinals need not be proved.

See Regents of the University of California v. Eli Lilly & Co., 119 F.3d 1559, 1566-67, 43 USPQ2d 1398, 1404-05 (Fed. Cir. 1997);
Hyatt v. Boone, 146 F.3d 1348, 1354, 47 USPQ2d 1128, 1132 (Fed. Cir. 1998).

The claimed invention subject matter need not be described literally, i.e., using the same terms; some people use different, broader terms in the claims, to claim a broader invention than what was illustrated by way of example in the disclosure.

We believe this is a mistake, because it would be easy for the applicant to copy the broader terms from the claim to the end of an embodiment, as a broadening paragraph.
Thus, the terms in claims and description do match, stronger protection may be allowed, and the applicant saves examiner's time.

A multi-file editor may be used to concurrently amend several related files to keep the application current.