Registry

The Registry page is your personal master list of inventors and applicants. It lives on your account, not on any one project. Every party you add here is reusable across every project and every application you draft. Switch between the Inventors and Applicants tabs using the toggle at the top of the page.

Why a registry

Most patent practitioners name the same handful of people again and again: the same in-house engineers across many filings, the same parent company across every application. Keeping inventors and applicants in one place means you enter their address once, fix a typo once, and every future application picks up the corrected detail.

Adding a party

Click Add inventor or Add applicant in the top-right corner of the page. A dialog opens with the same form you see when editing an existing row:

• Inventors: name, nationality, and address.
• Applicants: name, kind (person or company), and address.

Save closes the dialog and adds the row to the top of the list. Cancel closes without changes.

Editing a party

Click anywhere on a row to open it in a dialog with the same fields. Make your changes and click Save in the dialog footer. Cancel discards them. Pressing Escape is equivalent to Cancel.

The "Used in" column

The right-hand column shows how many distinct applications currently have this party attached. Hover the number to see a list of the application titles.

The count is by distinct application: a party attached to several versions of the same application counts once.

Edits and frozen versions

Editing a party in the registry updates the live row only. Frozen versions are immune. A version that was already saved keeps the exact name and address you had at that moment. Renaming an inventor here does not rewrite filings you have already named them on. See the Versioning tab for the full snapshot contract.

This is the point of the registry-plus-snapshot split: you can fix typos, update addresses, and rename people freely in the master list without disturbing the record of who was named on which filing.

Deleting a party

Open the row's editor and click Delete in the footer (next to Cancel and Save). A confirmation dialog appears.

Delete is hard-blocked when the party is in use. If the party is attached to one or more applications, the delete is rejected and the dialog shows you which applications are blocking. You have to detach the party from each of those applications first.

This is intentional: a deleted party has no row to render from in any live current draft. Frozen versions are unaffected either way (they carry their own snapshot), but live drafts would lose the reference.