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What is a Patent Search?

A patent search is a service where we search issued patents and published patent applications for inventions that might be considered conflicting with your invention ideas. This patent search should be performed prior to the you filing your patent. A "conflict" or 'prior art" is anything in the public domain, patented or not patented, that may already exist and will determine whether your idea or invention is newly novel or already in the "public domain" as a patent.

What is a Provisional Patent?

A provisional patent is a quick and inexpensive way for inventors to establish a U.S. filing date for their invention, which can be claimed in a later filed non provisional application. A provisional application is automatically abandoned at 12 months after its filing date and is not examined. An applicant who decides to initially file a provisional application must file a corresponding non provisional application during the 12 month pendency period of the provisional application in order to benefit from the earlier provisional application filing.

What is a Non-Provisional Patent?

A non provisional patent is examined by a patent examiner and may be issued as a patent if all the requirements for patent are met. Each year the USPTO receives more than 500,000 patent applications. Most of the applications filed with the USPTO are non-provisional applications for utility patents.

What is a Design Patent?

Design patents are issued for a new, original, and ornamental design embodied in or applied to an article of manufacture, it permits its owner to exclude others from making, using, or selling the design for multiple years.

What is a Utility Patents?

A utility patent is issued for the invention of a new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of

matter, or a new and useful improvement thereof, it

generally permits its owner to exclude others from

making, using, or selling the invention for a period of

up to twenty years from the date of patent application

filing ++, subject to the payment of maintenance fees. Approximately 90% of the patent documents issued by the

USPTO in recent years have been utility patents, also referred to as "patents for invention".

Patent Questions or Patent help?

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