What happens if a patent document doesn’t meet identification requirements?

If a patent document doesn’t meet the identification requirements, it will not be recorded. The MPEP 317.01 states:

“A document which does not comply with the identification requirements of § 3.21 will not be recorded.”

This means that the USPTO will reject documents that fail to meet the specific identification criteria outlined in 37 CFR 3.21, and these documents will not receive a recording date until the issues are corrected.

To learn more:

• patent requirements
• document rejection
• identification criteria