A provisional patent application is a 12-month place-holder for a utility patent. The USPTO allows you to label your invention…
Provisional
One provisional may serve the basis to as many non-provisionals as you would like. As long as you file at…
I usually get asked the question: If I rush to convert my provisional to a non-provisional patent filing, does that…
A provisional patent application filing receipt indicates that the USPTO has granted you a patent priority date. The patent priority…
If an inventor disclosed his/her invention to his partners/university/employer, probably had some form of public disclosure, but did not have…
I am creating a social media app. Do I have to patent the process of what the app does? To…
In the US, provisional patent applications are kept as confidential documents, away from public availability. There is no publically accessible…
I have a provisional patent filed, and I am speaking at a Conference about my invention. However, at the conference,…
A USPTO provisional patent application simply secures your ‘spot in line’ or patent priority date to a later patent application filing. After you…
Yes, because it will ensure that any patent rights to the subject matter of your application are reserved for you,…