Provisional Patent Outline
Posted on June 20, 2017
A provisional patent application (PPA) offers a low cost way to reserve protection of an invention idea for one year. With a provisional patent application in place you can say "patent pending" and maintain your claim of patent priority when presenting your invention idea to investors, designers, manufacturers and possible licensees. With respect to United States law, a provisional patent application can be filed by a citizen of any country. However, some countries, like China, require inventors to obtain a foreign filing license for all inventions completed in their country before seeking patent protection elsewhere.KEY POINTS:A PPA is not reviewed ...