A document description is a USPTO-defined description of forms and documents that are received and processed in the USPTO. These document descriptions have corresponding document codes that are established and managed in IFW.

Document Descriptions [Excel, 122KB] (17FEB2008)
The document descriptions spreadsheet contains USPTO-defined descriptions of forms and documents that are received and processed in the USPTO. The spreadsheet provides users the flexibility to sort document descriptions according to preference. You must select from the list of pre-approved document descriptions to describe any files submitted via EFS-Web.
also see >> Document Descriptions & Rules for Indexing Documents [PDF 90MB]

Document Indexing
General rules for document description indexing