SHOULD YOU START WITH A PROVISIONAL PATENT FILING?
LET’S WORK TOGETHER
A licensed Patent Attorney will:
- Contact you for a consultation
- Guide you in drafting your application
- Optimize your content with formalistic standards and technical requirements in mind
- Review, formalize, and file
LEAVE IT TO US
A licensed Patent Attorney will:
- Contact you for a consultation
- Assess patentability
- Draft an optimized application including patent claims
- Review, formalize, and file
WE’LL DO THE RESEARCH
A licensed Patent Attorney will:
- Contact you for a consultation & perform a patent search
- Provide a search report and refund if necessary
- Draft, optimize, and file your patent application
- Review, formalize, and file
The inventor entitled to a patent would be the first inventor to file a patent application. This is known as the First-Inventor-to-File patent system that the U.S. adopted in March of 2013. The only way that the earlier inventor can restore his/her patent priority to the invention in this scenario is if the earlier inventor can prove that the first-filing inventor derived the invention from the earlier inventor’s public disclosure.
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 public on notice that your invention has “Patent Pending” status.
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, and seek funding and do market research.
With a Provisional Application on file, you can feel safe promoting your invention. Having a Provisional Application on file also means that you can disclose your invention with everyone on notice that your invention is “Patent Pending.” Best of all, Provisional Applications are not published or disclosed by the USPTO, so your invention’s secrecy is never compromised.