A provisional patent application is filed for establishing a filing date and expires after one year of its filing. A non provisional patent application establishes the filing date of the patent application and begins the examination process. The patent application will be examined by USPTO if it is a US application. The non provisional application is known as the utility patent application. Provisional application establishes a filing date and allows claiming the original application when you later file a non provisional patent application. A provisional patent application is inexpensive as compared to a non provisional patent application. The filing of provisional application was introduced in 1995 which offers inventors to file a lost cost utility application.
The major advantages of filing a Provisional Patent Application are:
• For getting an earlier priority date
• It is a simplified form of application as compared to non-provisional one.
• The 12-month time period helps him in deciding whether he want to patent it or commercialize the invention.
• Similarly the 12-month time allows an inventor to further work on his invention.
• Allows the inventor to use his invention with “Patent Pending” applied on it.
• For getting an earlier priority date
• It is a simplified form of application as compared to non-provisional one.
• The 12-month time period helps him in deciding whether he want to patent it or commercialize the invention.
• Similarly the 12-month time allows an inventor to further work on his invention.
• Allows the inventor to use his invention with “Patent Pending” applied on it.
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