Provisional Patent Application - Patent Attorney Los Angeles Trademark Lawyer CA

PROVISIONAL PATENT APPLICATIONS

A provisional patent application is a temporary application that lasts for only twelve (12) months. After the provisional application is filed with the USPTO, a nonprovisional utiilty patent application must be filed within twelve months from the filing date of the provisional application. The major benefit of the provisional application is that if the utility patent application is filed within twelve months of the first provisional filing date, the later filed utility patent application will gain benefit of the earlier filed provisional filing date.

The provisional patent application can be very useful when there is not enough time to file a full utility patent application. Also the cost of the provisional application with our firm is substantially less than the utiility patent application. Although the cost of a provisional application is less, and the provisional application is never actually reviewed by the USPTO, there are requirements that a provisional patent application must meet.

Provisional Application Requirements:

First, the provisional application must have a thorough description of what the invention is. The description must have sufficient disclosure to meet the best mode and enablement requirements. Further, the provisional application must include the names of the inventors, drawings if it is necessary to understand the invention, and filing fee. However, claims are not necessary for a provisional application.

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