Introduction, when to file and where to prepare the application -- Parts of a patent application -- Electronic filing in the patent office -- Working with the inventor -- The novelty search -- Drawings -- Preparing the claims -- Writing the specification -- Information disclosure statement -- Design patent applications -- Provisional patent applications -- Plant patent applications -- Electrical patent applications -- Patent applications for software and methods of doing business -- Patent applications for chemical invention -- Biotechnology patent applications -- Preparing foreign patent applications based on a U.S. application -- Reissue patent applications.