APPLICATION DATA SHEET (ADS) Requirements and Common Mistakes

An ADS is required to:

Identify applicants who are not inventors
Set inventorship when an inventors oath is NOT being submitted until later in the prosecution
Set inventorship where there are joint inventors and each joint inventor is executing a declaration that ONLY names that inventor and not all inventors
Make benefit claims under 37 CFR 1.78 and foreign priority claims under 37 CFR 1.55

Common Mistakes found in ADS