Time to Start on the Patent Application

Okay, time to start filling out the Provisional Patent Application. http://www.uspto.gov/forms/sb0016_fill.pdf
I seem to be lacking on some drawings and specifications. I will need to investigate how intense this needs to be.

Provisional Patent

Straight from the USPTO website. http://www.uspto.gov/patents/index.jsp

"Provisional Application for Patent Filing Date Requirements
The provisional application must be made in the name(s) of all of the inventor(s). It can be filed up to 12 months following the date of first sale, offer for sale, public use, or publication of the invention. (These pre-filing disclosures, although protected in the United States, may preclude patenting in foreign countries.)
A filing date will be accorded to a provisional application only when it contains:
a written description of the invention, complying with all requirements of 35 U.S.C. §112 1 st paragraph and any drawings necessary to understand the invention, complying with 35 U.S.C. §113 . If either of these items are missing or incomplete, no filing date will be accorded to the provisional application.
To be complete, a provisional application must also include the filing fee and a cover sheet identifying:
the application as a provisional application for patent;
the name(s) of all inventors;
inventor residence(s);
title of the invention;
name and registration number of attorney or agent and docket number (if applicable);
correspondence address; and
any US Government agency that has a property interest in the application.
Form PTO/SB/16, available on the printable forms page of the USPTO website at http://www.uspto.gov/forms/sb0016_fill.pdf be used as the cover sheet for a provisional application."

Documenting My Idea

I have an idea, now I have to document it, proof of conception. This documentation first can be used to prove that it is my idea, second that I came up with the idea first, and last to antedate any prior art. My plan is to document the idea in my Inventor’s Notebook and sign and date it. Then I will find at least one or two people that I can trust to sign and date that they understood my invention.


Things I will include in my documentation; Name of Invention, how I thought of it, purpose it will serve, how it works, a drawing detailing the important parts, market it could serve, and anything else I can think of.

Is there anything else I need to include?
http://www.bookfactory.com/inventors-notebooks/inventors-notebook.php?gclid=CLuJtYXItaICFRRjnAodjTsi6A