System for Preparing a Patent Application

A method of preparing a patent application comprising the steps of;

• numbering and rearranging the order of claims and duplicating claims into the specification and assigning reference numerals to elements,
• running a software macro to present a Tool bar in a word processing program, and
• presenting options in the Tool bar on a display screen of Setup and Number Claims and Build Description and Build Intro Sections and Build Abstract and Count Abstract and Format and Mark Element and Element List and Number Patent,
• and characterized by
• selecting Number Patent in the Tool bar for displaying a different reference numeral with each root element name with a different adjective to describe different elements in response to high-lighting each root element name plus the different adjective for each different adjectively distinguished element in response to selecting Number Patent in the Tool bar and displaying all of the different reference numerals assigned to the root element name differentiated by different adjectives in each instance of the root element name being used without a differentiating adjective.

A method of preparing a patent application comprising the steps of;

• numbering and rearranging the order of claims and duplicating claims into the specification and assigning reference numerals to elements,
• running a software macro to present a Tool bar in a word processing program, and
• presenting options in the Tool bar on a display screen of Setup and Number Claims and Build Description and Build Intro Sections and Build Abstract and Count Abstract and Format and Mark Element and Element List and Number Patent,
• and characterized by
• selecting Protect in the Tool bar to display a Protect Numbers data block presenting a Protect Selected Text Numbers option and an Auto-Protect option,
• highlighting a number in the application to be protected against change,
• selecting the Protect Selected Text Numbers option to add the numbers to be protected and assigning a sequential digit in the Protect Numbers data block, and
• presenting an AutoProtect data line for inserting a word so that all numbers before the word will be automatically protected from change during patent numbering routines.