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Why 1995 Was a Key Year for Inventors 1

Why 1995 Was a Key Year for Inventors

For several decades filing a patent with the USPTO required a time-consuming and tedious process of attaching multiple claims to the application. A claim can be thought of as a ‘fence’ that circles your invention and describes where rights to your idea end and another entity’s rights begin. This provisional patent created challenging hurdles for […]

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Beware an Improperly Filed Provisional Patent Application 2

Beware an Improperly Filed Provisional Patent Application

Provisional patents can be a valuable avenue for inventors and startups in the first-inventor-to-file system, but there are inherent risks if not done carefully and methodically. These risks are often not explained carefully enough by low cost document preparation companies that push these types of patents. In my following video, I offer further details about

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