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…
Please submit the contact information of the individual who is designated as the contact point for: 1.The Patent Attorney Consultation that will follow your submission, 2.The Staff Attorneys and Customer Service Representatives, and 3.All correspondence from the United States Patent and Trademark Office regarding the Provisional Patent. If you are interested in more detail related…
Each inventor has the full spectrum of patent rights to his/her claimed invention. This means that each inventor can separately assign and license the patent without the other’s permission. However, each inventor must account for and share all the profits he has earned from the license of a patent with the other inventors. When multiple…
A Patentability Opinion provides you a Patent Attorney’s professional determination of the likelihood your idea, invention, or invention will be granted patent. The Patent Attorney first performs a Patent Search and then applies legal standards and case law for Patentability to determine if your innovation may be patentable in view of the patent search results….
Most of us like to feel that we were the first to have conceived of our great idea. Before investing the time and resources into applying for a formal, non-provisional patent, it is good to know if there are any other patents or publications disclosing something similar to your idea. Ultimately, this information will help…
Intellectual Property: What is Patent Search? A Patent Search is a search of the United States Patents and Publications (USPP) database to see if there are any Patents or Patents Pending disclosing something similar to your invention. There are two types of searches; keyword searches and a class/art unit search done within the USPP Database….
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