Guidelines on Filing of PDF or Mulitple Tiff Group4(tiff) documents

Date Added : 27-Oct-2003

As you are aware, descriptions, claims, drawings, abstracts and their amendments / corrections may be submitted to the Registry of Patents in either PDF or Multipage TIFF Group 4 (TIFF) format.
To enable the Registry of Patents to expedite the processing of your submissions, it is recommended that you base your decision on the choice of using the PDF or TIFF format on the following guidelines:
(A) The descriptions, claims, drawings, abstracts or their amendments / corrections should only be saved in PDF format if the documents are converted directly from an electronic document by using the recommended Adobe PDF Writer Software, i.e. if you have a softcopy of the specification, you should convert and save the specification as PDF files by using the recommended Adobe PDF Writer software.
(B) In all other cases where scanning is required, the descriptions, claims, drawings, abstracts or their amendments / corrections should be saved in TIFF format, i.e. if you only have a paper copy of the specification, you should scan the specification and save it in TIFF format.
(C) If the descriptions, claims, drawings, abstracts or their amendments / corrections are electronic documents already in TIFF format, you should retain the format and submit the documents in TIFF format.