A provisional patent application (PPA) is a document issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) that helps protect a new invention from being copied during the 12-month period before a ...

You need time to gather this critical information — which is why you should absolutely file a provisional patent application (PPA) first. To be clear, this is business advice not legal.

A well-intentioned decision to reduce expenses can result in a poorly written provisional patent application that actually destroys an institution’s future patent rights in an important technology.

The question that we receive most frequently from inventors, usually independent inventors, relates to whether a provisional patent application can be refiled with the United States Patent and ...

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 ...

Commentary The Hidden Dangers of Provisional Patent Applications and How to Avoid Them Filing a provisional patent application was introduced into U.S. patent law in 1994. The ability to file a ...

Instead, what you file is called a provisional patent application. Like any other patent application, a provisional patent application is effective to stop the clock relative to so-called ...

A provisional patent protects your claim to your innovation for 12 months. Provisional patent applications require drawings and a description of your idea. The application must be in your name or ...

Backed by in vivo data, the provisional patent application displays the potential effectiveness of thylakoid extracts in treating and slowing the progression of metabolic dysfunction-associated ...

THE FACTS: The patent application, for a system to determine if someone has a viral infection such as COVID-19, notes that a related provisional patent application was filed in 2015. But while the ...

Devonian Announces the Filing of a New Provisional Patent Application Relating to the Use of Thykamine™ for Treating Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatohepatitis (MASH) Devonian Health Group ...