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Establishes an official United States patent application filing date for the invention;
Permits 12 month’s authorization to use «Patent Pending» notice in connection with the description of the invention;
Provisional applications are not examined on their merits.
Provides simplified filing with a lower initial investment with 12 months to assess the invention’s commercial potential before committing to the higher cost of filing and prosecuting a non-provisional application for patent.
A provisional application cannot result in a U. S. patent unless one of the following two events occur within 12 months of the provisional application filing date:
1. a corresponding non-provisional application for patent entitled to a filing date is filed that claims the benefit of the earlier filed provisional application; or
2. a grantable petition under 37 CFR 1.53(c)(3) to convert the provisional application into a non-provisional application is filed.
Provisional applications for patent may not be filed for design inventions.
Independent inventors should fully understand that a provisional application will not mature into a granted patent without further submissions by the inventor. Some invention promotion firms misuse the provisional application process leaving the inventor with no patent.
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