THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH!! I was literally in tears and the office wasn't answering! Thank you thank you thank you!! I wish I would have found you a day ago!
No worries, Rachal! And if you ever want free access to a very good program which shows how to draft and file a provisional patent application for your next one, you can get 10 days free access to iPatentPending™ via the Free Trial button here. (It includes this video in the program too). (Crew member status also gets you access to elite patent services like the PerfectPatent™ Search (replicates an official patent office search), and the LightSpeed PerfectPatent™ Package, which allows you to get official patent office feedback as to the patentability of your invention, in as quick as 18 days, instead of the standard 2-3 year USPTO wait: theinventorsjourney.com/crewmember.html
That's why we're here. Remember, if you need help drafting (and filing) a really good provisional, the whole program iPatentPending™ is now fully unlocked (including the USPTO PPA Filing Video) on the 10 Day Free Trial of The Inventor's Journey™: theinventorsjourney.com/crewmember.html With regards, Jethro L Bennett Captain of SHIINE® ENTERPRISE Creator of The Inventor's Journey™ ( www.TheInventorsJourney.com ) Inventor, Professional Product Designer, Elite Patent Specialist
I stayed up over night trying to figure this out, and then I found your video the next day. You my friend, are the best person EVER! Subscribed. Thank you so very much.
Glad you enjoyed it. A lot of inventors liking this video! If you want any help/info on how to draft a PPA, remember that you get the whole iPatentPending program free (unlocked) on the free 10 day trial: theinventorsjourney.com/crewmember.html With regards, Jethro L Bennett Captain of SHIINE® ENTERPRISE Creator of The Inventor's Journey™ ( www.TheInventorsJourney.com ) Inventor, Professional Product Designer, Elite Patent Specialist
Thank you very much. I searched for this information on the web for some time. I should have known to just come to youtube. It's people like you that make youtube great.
How do I remove special characters from my pdf location, the site will not let me upload them because of the forward slashes and I'm not sure how to remove them????
For anyone that when they are doing it only see save as a pdf and no other options, you are on the online version of Microsoft word. If you go to the desktop version you should see it. Hopefully it will save you the 3 hours I wasted on the phone talking to different customer support people
I am receiving said errors. This solution might work for my Specification file which was created in Google Docs but I don't see how it will work on the following files "with errors:" SB16, which is a downloaded "fillable PDF" mandated from the uspto site and then my drawings, which were formerly jpgs which the uspto site mandated to save as PDFs. Please advise. TYIA
About your message: 1) This solution WILL (not 'might') work for your Specification created in Google Docs, because Google docs allows you to convert Google docs to Microsoft Word docs: ua-cam.com/video/OXc7-GAyYOw/v-deo.html . Seems to show Google Docs has an in-built option to allow you to convert to WORD document. (Then just use free trial of Microsoft OFFICE if you don't have Microsoft WORD already) 2) Your SB16 problem should not occur if it's been filled out in the normal way. What program did you use to fill it out? Other option is you could print it out from your computer, then scan it back into your computer as a PDF. That will likely go through fine on the USPTO system. You could even use Adobe Acrobat (or maybe even Adobe Reader) to 'print as PDF', which may create a file that the USPTO system allows. 3) I don't really understand your JPG issue- why not just copy and paste (or drag) your JPG drawings into a single Microsoft WORD document? That would be the obvious thing to do. Many/most patent practitioners bring various drawing files into Microsoft Word, before numbering them up in Microsoft Word itself anyway. So if you bring the JPGs into one Microsoft WORD document, you could then just save as PDF and file them on the USPTO system (and use the technique in this UA-cam video, if there are any 'embedded font' issues). With regards, Jethro L Bennett Captain of SHIINE® ENTERPRISE Creator of The Inventor's Journey™ ( www.TheInventorsJourney.com ) Inventor, Professional Product Designer, Elite Patent Specialist
'@Alexandria Lukes Hi, Alexandria. I just tried uploading an SB16 provisional cover sheet PDF, and the USPTO system had no problems with it. It went through fine. Is there any chance you could contact me (on help@TheInventorsJourney.com), so I can find out what's happening? There's always lots of workarounds, and if this is happening to multiple inventors, I want to find out why, and solve it. With regards, Jethro L Bennett Captain of SHIINE® ENTERPRISE Creator of The Inventor's Journey™ ( www.TheInventorsJourney.com ) Inventor, Professional Product Designer, Elite Patent Specialist
Yes- this means that the actual NAME that you've named your PDF file as does not conform to USPTO filing requirements. Basically, things like SPACES and PERIOD MARKS (and other things) are not allowed in your file name. It's just a quirk of their filing system. Change any period marks to regular hyphens, and make sure the file name has no spaces in it. For full rules, check out this USPTO file name guidelines page: www.uspto.gov/patents-application-process/applying-online/files-be-submitted-naming-pdf-files With regards, Jethro L Bennett Captain of SHIINE® ENTERPRISE Creator of The Inventor's Journey™ ( www.TheInventorsJourney.com ) Inventor, Professional Product Designer, Elite Patent Specialist
Thanks...but I have my files on a jump drive using a laptop, it doesn't give me those options, please help! I have even tried to do it in Google docs and it is not working..😓
Just drag the files onto the laptop from the 'jump' drive (eg onto the Desktop), and then use Microsoft Word (you can download a free trial from Microsoft of the whole OFFICE suite of programs, including Microsoft Word, if you don't have it already, and it can be downloaded for PC or Mac). Then just do exactly the same as this UA-cam video shows. You need to drag the files off the USD/jump drive, ONTO your laptop (eg the Desktop), so you can edit them. That's probably the problem you're having. Please post here if this works, once you've successfully filed them. With regards, Jethro L Bennett Captain of SHIINE® ENTERPRISE Creator of The Inventor's Journey™ ( www.TheInventorsJourney.com ) Inventor, Professional Product Designer, Elite Patent Specialist
@@shiinetheinventorsjourney8012 thanks for getting back with me..i thought I had my documents prepared correctly for USPTO standards, but i kept getting that non embedded files error. I checked in the properties section as if I was going to print them, and it said that all of the fonts on the files were embedded already. I didnt know what to do. I don't have a desktop, so I ended up having to email my documents to the email i use on my phone. I then took screenshots of each page of the specifications part and claims. I had to edit them first and then convert them into pdf's ( I used a free app in the playstore). I then downloaded them to my jump drive and uploaded them from there on to the EFS..the drawings did well..i had issues with the cover page too, it was saying it wasn't a pdf..i had to screenshot a completed hard copy, convert it to pdf, and up load it from there..i had been up all night last week on my first couple of attempts, two days (about 3 hours of sleep in between) this weekend, trying to get the documents in..i hate red triangles lol!! I had 2 yellow triangles out of 27 documents in the end that I uploaded. I did about 15 attempts all together! This was a major migraine😭🤒!! Even though I had to screen shot off my phone, the documents still look very professional and nice.. through it all, I can now claim.. "patent pending status" as of 6:00pm today! Yayyy! I really see why inventors might hire someone to do this for them.
@@cameemichelle5619 It sounds like you've made it far more complex than it needed to be. Why couldn't you just use the solution shown in this video above? Did you create your files originally with Microsoft Word?
@@shiinetheinventorsjourney8012 i used google docs to prepare my documents...that pdf/a was not available, I could not locate any of those pages you are showing, I was on a laptop..yes, I made it wayyy more complex than it is. thanks
@@cameemichelle5619 I just did a 2 second Google search and found this video immediately, which says it shows how to convert Google docs to Microsoft Word docs: ua-cam.com/video/OXc7-GAyYOw/v-deo.html . Seems to show Google Docs has an in-built option to allow you to convert to WORD document. So you could have done that in 5 seconds, and then just followed the instructions in my video above, which would have only taken about 30 seconds. In other words, you could have done the whole thing in about a minute, instead of 3 days..... If you don't have Microsoft Word, you could still do it, because, as the video states, Microsoft allow you to download a free 1 month trial of OFFICE, which includes a fully functional version of Microsoft Word. My advice for you, (and I learnt this by doing things like you've done, earlier in my life when I was staring out), is this: ''IF IT FEELS LIKE IT'S GETTING TOO COMPLEX, IT'S BECAUSE YOU'RE MISSING A MUCH MUCH EASIER WAY OF HOW TO DO IT''. Just check on your version of Google docs to see if it allows you to convert to a Microsoft Word doc as in this video: ua-cam.com/video/OXc7-GAyYOw/v-deo.html. If so, that was all you needed, to be able to use the simple solution in the video above.
No problem with Chromebook. Should be just the same as using any other PC- If you have Microsoft Word, simply follow as this video (above) shows. If you haven't got Microsoft Word, simply download the Free Trial of Microsoft Office from the Microsoft Website, and you can download and use Microsoft Word free for a month to get this done. (They also do a very good monthly deal if you want to keep it beyond the trial). The video (above) mentions you can get it on a free trial. With regards, Jethro L Bennett Captain of SHIINE® ENTERPRISE Creator of The Inventor's Journey™ ( www.TheInventorsJourney.com ) Inventor, Professional Product Designer, Elite Patent Specialist
@Fabian Asensio When you 'save as pdf', under where it says PDF, please click the 'more options' text underneath. Even if it is a new version of WORD, it will still have these options. So please make sure to look for that 'more options' option. If you cannot find it, feel free to take a screen capture of where you get stuck, and email it to us.
THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH!! I was literally in tears and the office wasn't answering! Thank you thank you thank you!! I wish I would have found you a day ago!
No worries, Rachal! And if you ever want free access to a very good program which shows how to draft and file a provisional patent application for your next one, you can get 10 days free access to iPatentPending™ via the Free Trial button here. (It includes this video in the program too). (Crew member status also gets you access to elite patent services like the PerfectPatent™ Search (replicates an official patent office search), and the LightSpeed PerfectPatent™ Package, which allows you to get official patent office feedback as to the patentability of your invention, in as quick as 18 days, instead of the standard 2-3 year USPTO wait: theinventorsjourney.com/crewmember.html
I swear I was about to give up and just pay a lawyer to do it....but you taught me how to do it. THIS WORKED PERFECTLY. Thank you my friend!
That's why we're here. Remember, if you need help drafting (and filing) a really good provisional, the whole program iPatentPending™ is now fully unlocked (including the USPTO PPA Filing Video) on the 10 Day Free Trial of The Inventor's Journey™: theinventorsjourney.com/crewmember.html
With regards,
Jethro L Bennett
Captain of SHIINE® ENTERPRISE
Creator of The Inventor's Journey™ ( www.TheInventorsJourney.com )
Inventor, Professional Product Designer, Elite Patent Specialist
I stayed up over night trying to figure this out, and then I found your video the next day. You my friend, are the best person EVER! Subscribed. Thank you so very much.
Glad you enjoyed it. A lot of inventors liking this video! If you want any help/info on how to draft a PPA, remember that you get the whole iPatentPending program free (unlocked) on the free 10 day trial: theinventorsjourney.com/crewmember.html
With regards,
Jethro L Bennett
Captain of SHIINE® ENTERPRISE
Creator of The Inventor's Journey™ ( www.TheInventorsJourney.com )
Inventor, Professional Product Designer, Elite Patent Specialist
Thanks a lot to share the video, you always do an amazing job.
YEAHHHHH! DUDE! I love it when advice works so perfectly after so many struggles! Thanks!
Thank you very much. I searched for this information on the web for some time. I should have known to just come to youtube. It's people like you that make youtube great.
Fantastic. This worked perfect! Why the patent office doesn't mention this on their site in unknown.
Thank you!
OMFG it worked. Thank you so much. fyi, my version of word on my windows 10 was at a different location. But I clicked everything til I saw the A1
Where did you find it on windows 10?
Thank you Thank you Thank you!!!!!! You are the best bro!!! Thanks again. It was so frustrating to not know what the hell is an Embedded font!!!!
Spent hours trying to figure this out.... Thank you....
Holy mother of GOD, It worked!!!!!!!! thank you so much brother, I was just jumping up and down
Thank you so much, I was literally about to throw my computer through a wall!
You deserve an award
very helpful thank you sir
Thank you! Really quick fix, thanks for sharing!
This saved me man, I was getting really pissy!
Fantastic, this even worked with a trial version of Word. CHEEEEERRRSSS!
Pleased it worked for you!!!!!
How do I remove special characters from my pdf location, the site will not let me upload them because of the forward slashes and I'm not sure how to remove them????
For anyone that when they are doing it only see save as a pdf and no other options, you are on the online version of Microsoft word. If you go to the desktop version you should see it. Hopefully it will save you the 3 hours I wasted on the phone talking to different customer support people
I am receiving said errors. This solution might work for my Specification file which was created in Google Docs but I don't see how it will work on the following files "with errors:" SB16, which is a downloaded "fillable PDF" mandated from the uspto site and then my drawings, which were formerly jpgs which the uspto site mandated to save as PDFs. Please advise. TYIA
About your message:
1) This solution WILL (not 'might') work for your Specification created in Google Docs, because Google docs allows you to convert Google docs to Microsoft Word docs: ua-cam.com/video/OXc7-GAyYOw/v-deo.html . Seems to show Google Docs has an in-built option to allow you to convert to WORD document. (Then just use free trial of Microsoft OFFICE if you don't have Microsoft WORD already)
2) Your SB16 problem should not occur if it's been filled out in the normal way. What program did you use to fill it out? Other option is you could print it out from your computer, then scan it back into your computer as a PDF. That will likely go through fine on the USPTO system. You could even use Adobe Acrobat (or maybe even Adobe Reader) to 'print as PDF', which may create a file that the USPTO system allows.
3) I don't really understand your JPG issue- why not just copy and paste (or drag) your JPG drawings into a single Microsoft WORD document? That would be the obvious thing to do. Many/most patent practitioners bring various drawing files into Microsoft Word, before numbering them up in Microsoft Word itself anyway. So if you bring the JPGs into one Microsoft WORD document, you could then just save as PDF and file them on the USPTO system (and use the technique in this UA-cam video, if there are any 'embedded font' issues).
With regards,
Jethro L Bennett
Captain of SHIINE® ENTERPRISE
Creator of The Inventor's Journey™ ( www.TheInventorsJourney.com )
Inventor, Professional Product Designer, Elite Patent Specialist
'@Alexandria Lukes Hi, Alexandria. I just tried uploading an SB16 provisional cover sheet PDF, and the USPTO system had no problems with it. It went through fine. Is there any chance you could contact me (on help@TheInventorsJourney.com), so I can find out what's happening? There's always lots of workarounds, and if this is happening to multiple inventors, I want to find out why, and solve it.
With regards,
Jethro L Bennett
Captain of SHIINE® ENTERPRISE
Creator of The Inventor's Journey™ ( www.TheInventorsJourney.com )
Inventor, Professional Product Designer, Elite Patent Specialist
Solved my problem. Thanks!
It keeps saying file naming convention is incorrect...do you know anything about this?
Yes- this means that the actual NAME that you've named your PDF file as does not conform to USPTO filing requirements. Basically, things like SPACES and PERIOD MARKS (and other things) are not allowed in your file name. It's just a quirk of their filing system. Change any period marks to regular hyphens, and make sure the file name has no spaces in it. For full rules, check out this USPTO file name guidelines page: www.uspto.gov/patents-application-process/applying-online/files-be-submitted-naming-pdf-files
With regards,
Jethro L Bennett
Captain of SHIINE® ENTERPRISE
Creator of The Inventor's Journey™ ( www.TheInventorsJourney.com )
Inventor, Professional Product Designer, Elite Patent Specialist
Thanks...but I have my files on a jump drive using a laptop, it doesn't give me those options, please help! I have even tried to do it in Google docs and it is not working..😓
Just drag the files onto the laptop from the 'jump' drive (eg onto the Desktop), and then use Microsoft Word (you can download a free trial from Microsoft of the whole OFFICE suite of programs, including Microsoft Word, if you don't have it already, and it can be downloaded for PC or Mac). Then just do exactly the same as this UA-cam video shows. You need to drag the files off the USD/jump drive, ONTO your laptop (eg the Desktop), so you can edit them. That's probably the problem you're having. Please post here if this works, once you've successfully filed them.
With regards,
Jethro L Bennett
Captain of SHIINE® ENTERPRISE
Creator of The Inventor's Journey™ ( www.TheInventorsJourney.com )
Inventor, Professional Product Designer, Elite Patent Specialist
@@shiinetheinventorsjourney8012 thanks for getting back with me..i thought I had my documents prepared correctly for USPTO standards, but i kept getting that non embedded files error. I checked in the properties section as if I was going to print them, and it said that all of the fonts on the files were embedded already. I didnt know what to do. I don't have a desktop, so I ended up having to email my documents to the email i use on my phone. I then took screenshots of each page of the specifications part and claims. I had to edit them first and then convert them into pdf's ( I used a free app in the playstore). I then downloaded them to my jump drive and uploaded them from there on to the EFS..the drawings did well..i had issues with the cover page too, it was saying it wasn't a pdf..i had to screenshot a completed hard copy, convert it to pdf, and up load it from there..i had been up all night last week on my first couple of attempts, two days (about 3 hours of sleep in between) this weekend, trying to get the documents in..i hate red triangles lol!! I had 2 yellow triangles out of 27 documents in the end that I uploaded. I did about 15 attempts all together! This was a major migraine😭🤒!! Even though I had to screen shot off my phone, the documents still look very professional and nice.. through it all, I can now claim.. "patent pending status" as of 6:00pm today! Yayyy! I really see why inventors might hire someone to do this for them.
@@cameemichelle5619 It sounds like you've made it far more complex than it needed to be. Why couldn't you just use the solution shown in this video above? Did you create your files originally with Microsoft Word?
@@shiinetheinventorsjourney8012 i used google docs to prepare my documents...that pdf/a was not available, I could not locate any of those pages you are showing, I was on a laptop..yes, I made it wayyy more complex than it is. thanks
@@cameemichelle5619 I just did a 2 second Google search and found this video immediately, which says it shows how to convert Google docs to Microsoft Word docs: ua-cam.com/video/OXc7-GAyYOw/v-deo.html . Seems to show Google Docs has an in-built option to allow you to convert to WORD document. So you could have done that in 5 seconds, and then just followed the instructions in my video above, which would have only taken about 30 seconds. In other words, you could have done the whole thing in about a minute, instead of 3 days..... If you don't have Microsoft Word, you could still do it, because, as the video states, Microsoft allow you to download a free 1 month trial of OFFICE, which includes a fully functional version of Microsoft Word. My advice for you, (and I learnt this by doing things like you've done, earlier in my life when I was staring out), is this: ''IF IT FEELS LIKE IT'S GETTING TOO COMPLEX, IT'S BECAUSE YOU'RE MISSING A MUCH MUCH EASIER WAY OF HOW TO DO IT''.
Just check on your version of Google docs to see if it allows you to convert to a Microsoft Word doc as in this video: ua-cam.com/video/OXc7-GAyYOw/v-deo.html. If so, that was all you needed, to be able to use the simple solution in the video above.
how about from google chromebook?
No problem with Chromebook. Should be just the same as using any other PC- If you have Microsoft Word, simply follow as this video (above) shows. If you haven't got Microsoft Word, simply download the Free Trial of Microsoft Office from the Microsoft Website, and you can download and use Microsoft Word free for a month to get this done. (They also do a very good monthly deal if you want to keep it beyond the trial). The video (above) mentions you can get it on a free trial.
With regards,
Jethro L Bennett
Captain of SHIINE® ENTERPRISE
Creator of The Inventor's Journey™ ( www.TheInventorsJourney.com )
Inventor, Professional Product Designer, Elite Patent Specialist
@Fabian Asensio When you 'save as pdf', under where it says PDF, please click the 'more options' text underneath. Even if it is a new version of WORD, it will still have these options. So please make sure to look for that 'more options' option. If you cannot find it, feel free to take a screen capture of where you get stuck, and email it to us.
Awesome, thanks heaps :)
Thank you
its not working for me i need help
It should always work. 1) Where are you getting stuck, and 2) what's not working?
I am sure u are not fast talking ,u are normal not rubot