The following pages show what a patent application should look like. This is the format of what your application should follow for filing.The patent law of the United States of America requires that the applicant in a patent application must be the inventor. In the Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS), we have one initial application form with two filing options: TEAS Plus and TEAS Standard. To file online, use the Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS) or fill out the free application form to get help filing a trademark. In order to obtain a patent an invention must be useful, novel and nonobvious. Patents must be registered with the patent and trademark office. This searchable database contains all recorded Patent Assignment information open to the public from August 1980 to the present.