What is the Attorney Docket Number in a patent application?
Question by Pnina : What is the Attorney Docket Number in a patent application? When filling out a patent application, the form asks for an “Attorney Docket Number” the website is very unspecific about whether this is a number that I just make up, or I am assigned. Best answer:
Answer by ron_mexico
The attorney docket number is the internal docket number of the law firm/patent attorney/client preparing the patent application. It is not assigned by the USPTO. For example, law firms typically maintain attorney docket numbers to internally identify and distinguish between cases.
http://www.uspto.gov/ebc/portal/infodocketnumber.htm
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The previous answer is correct. It is the internal tracking number used by the patent attorney to track your patent application.
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