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. In ...

Provisional patent applications are popular in the U.S. for the various advantages they may provide applicants, including lower filing costs, less restrictive United States Patent and Trademark Office ...

Believe it or not, the patent process is getting more efficient. It is easy to have a nihilistic view about patents with tech companies suing each other into oblivion, or the occasional mentor telling ...

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 frequently asked about the benefit of filing a provisional patent application. I am a big fan of provisional patent applications and encourage independent inventors, small businesses and ...