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Provisional Patents
A provisional patent application establishes your priority with a “date of invention.” In other words, it tells the world “This is my invention.” The reason it’s so important to file a Provisional Patent Application is because in Patent Law, it’s often not the person who came up with the idea first who wins – it’s the person who takes action and files the patent application first.
The advantage of a provisional patent is that it’s much faster and easier to file than a utility patent application. A utility patent application can take months to prepare, and it can cost $5,000 or more. With a provisional patent application, you will have 12 months to file a utility patent application, and you can legally announce to the world: “patent pending.”
If you decide not to move forward with your utility patent, then you can simply abandon it, knowing your upfront costs were minimal.
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Welcome, my name is Brian R. Rayve, an attorney and former product development manager who helps inventors protect
and make money from their inventions and new product ideas.