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 ...

I am a big fan of inventors using provisional applications as a first step toward obtaining a utility patent. Indeed, provisional patent applications provide many benefits. Provisional applications ...

I think inventors should try writing their own provisional patent applications, even if they end up hiring a patent attorney to write the final version. Why? Because committing your thoughts to paper ...

In a notice published in the Federal Register (85 Fed. Reg. 58038) on September 17th, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced that it was implementing a deferred-fee provisional patent ...

That's shortsighted, since patent protection is useful in our litigious society. For start-ups, filing for patents may be a luxury when the issue at hand is survival. But there is a way around the ...

As part of the effort to harmonize global patent systems, the United States introduced the provisional patent application in 1995 as part of the GATT Uruguay Round agreement. The provisional patent ...

While the United States is alternately lauded and slammed for its characteristic unilateralism, in at least one area — intellectual property (IP) policy — the US is no longer alone, as Israel has ...