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Provisional patent applications became available on June 8, 1995 in response to the General Agreement on Tariff and Trade (the GATT treaty) whereby applicants in the United States are able to ...

Provisional patent applications offer a relatively inexpensive way for applicants to secure an early filing date for potentially patentable subject matter. They also provide a one-year window during ...

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 ...

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Speed to market is paramount today. Whether you are a creative person, inventor, entrepreneur, startup, medium-sized enterprise, or Fortune 500 company, there’s no doubt that filing intellectual ...

“Provisional patent applications are widely touted as the go-to thing for startup companies or independent inventors, but they are always the wrong thing to do,” says Russ Krajec, CEO of BlueIron, a ...

This article originally appeared in DermatologyTimes. Reprinted with permission. In this follow up to last month’s topic on intellectual property and technology transfer, we will extend our discussion ...

The cost for a typical US patent, from start to finish, is between $10,000 and $40,000, and generally takes 2-7 years. Currently, the published average time from filing to grant is about 3 1/2 years.

We made a bold prediction in September, 2014 (How to Lose Your Billion: The America Invents Act) about how the AIA would wreak havoc in the patent market, especially in the University technology ...