Filing Date
Personal Finance
This is the date a filer submits a financial disclosure report to the supervisor or senior legal counsel for review, usually the date the filer eSigns the report in FDM.
Intellectual Property
the date of receipt in the Office of an application which includes (1) a specification containing a description and, if the application is a nonprovisional application, at least one claim, and (2) any required drawings
-- see MPEP 506 for more
Patent
The date when a sufficiently-complete patent application reaches a patent office. MPEP 506.