Figures submitted with a provisional application can be informal. A figure can be a hand drawing, a photograph, a CAD illustration, VISIO files, flow charts, block diagrams, or any other type of visualization of your invention. They do not need to contain labels or be referenced to the description portion of your Provisional Patent, though…
How to Patent: Benefits of Provisional Patent The most affordable way to begin the processing of patenting something is to obtain a Provisional Patent. To obtain a Provisional Patent, an inventor (or an attorney acting on behalf of the inventor) must file a description of his invention along with a small fee to the USPTO. Notwithstanding…
A provisional Application for patent may be filed anytime after your invention is created – once you are able to coherently describe how to make and use it. It is recommended that you file a provisional application before you publicly disclose your invention. In this way, you can publicly disclose your invention and put the…
A provisional application for patent is the most cost effective way to begin protecting your invention. It establishes your priority to the patent rights for your invention while you put the finishing touches on it, work up your non-provisional patent application, seek funding and do market research. With a provisional application on file, you can…
A patent grants an inventor rights to exclude others from making, using, or selling the idea claimed in the patent for a period of 20 years. A non-provisional patent application begins the examination process to determine if an idea is eligible for patent grant. This examination process (known as “Patent Prosecution”) can be long, highly…
A USPTO provisional patent application simply secures your ‘spot in line’ or patent priority date for a patent for one-year under “patent pending” status. After you file a provisional application, you will have one-year to follow with a non-provisional (full) patent application to maintain your patent priority date. It’s important to secure your patent priority…
You do not need to have realized, developed, implemented the subject of a patent application in order to be granted patent protection. Many inventors and companies file non-provisional patent applications on simple ideas and they are awarded patents. The USPTO, or most any jurisdiction of the developed world, does not require that the subject of…
A Provisional Patent legally establishes the date from which an inventor is entitled patent protection to his or her idea (known as the ‘priority date’) and allows the inventor to describe the idea as “Patent Pending.” Filing a provisional application for patent (commonly known as a Provisional Patent) is the first step in securing patent rights…
A joint-inventor (that is, one inventor of a group of inventors of a patent) who does not assign his patent rights remains in full possession of those rights. A person or entity that does not receive rights to the patent from every inventor is considered as a partial assignee. The partial assignee must share his/her…
Owning a patent is much like owning property. Just as you can sell or lease your property, you could do the same with your patent with assignment or license, respectively. Patent assignment is an inventor’s granting of all of his patent rights (or future patent rights) to another person or entity. In contrast, a license…
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