A provisional application is not examined by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), and therefore it never itself issues into a patent. On its own and without any further action, filing a ...

Since 1995, the United States has allowed patent applicants to file provisional applications as an alternative to filing non-provisional utility patent applications (often referred to as “regular” or ...

Believe it or not, the patent process is getting more efficient. It is easy to have a nihilistic view about patents with tech companies suing each other into oblivion, or the occasional mentor telling ...

Speed to market is paramount today. Whether you are a creative person, inventor, entrepreneur, startup, medium-sized enterprise, or Fortune 500 company, there’s no doubt that filing intellectual ...

“Refiling a provisional is just a bad idea when you can, for a few hundred dollars more, keep hold of that earliest priority date and continue on the path to obtaining a patent.” The question that we ...

There is a great misunderstanding among many inventors and entrepreneurs regarding what many simply refer to as a provisional patent. The first thing that needs to be said is that there is no such ...