The Importance of Provisional Applications in the Patent Process Do you have a provisional patent application that you want to convert to a non-provisional patent? As seasoned patent attorneys, we often receive questions on the conversion process and what documents are necessary in order to successfully convert a provisional patent application to a non-provisional patent…
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Applicant will not have to deal with combating their own prior art under § 103 in the United States, international jurisdictions tend to be more stringent in their considerations.
Once a public disclosure is made, the public disclosure bars the filing of a patent application in almost all jurisdictions. However, in the United States, there is a 12 month grace period starting from the public disclosure to file a patent application. A patent filing in the US does not count as prior art if we make a US filing before a public disclosure. Therefore, we have two routes to file applications in other countries.
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…
In order for an invention to be granted a patent, an inventor must disclose and claim his invention in a patent application filed to the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Properly describing and claiming an invention in a patent application is a highly technical legal practice with a vast amount of formalities and…
Patents are composed of several different parts, each of which serves a particular purpose in securing the rights of an invention.
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