1- Provisional Application for Patent submissions should not be prepared carelessly when filed.
2- If there is ever a dispute over the "Utility Patent" that usually follows the Provisional within a year, the Provisional that led off should be bulletproof.
3- What is meant by that is if a skilled model maker can't make one for a lack of the Provisional's information, the Provisional is declared unacceptable and the the infringement battle goes on without the date of the Provisional protecting the original inventor. This is careless and beyond excuses.
4- A good illustration can eliminate many words. that "help describe" the new product idea.
5- Information is needed describing the intention of the idea. Where will it be used and what is it's use.
6- It's all about knowing what it is you've invented and then describing it in writing.
I take very seriously critiquing the bugs out of new product ideas of others, and preparing the informative, descriptive information for their new product idea.
The fee is $400 for the ideas that "hang together. No charge if they're fantasy land.
The Patent candidates that require additional conceptual definition (something less than reinventing) takes longer if and when the idea is even possible.
7 - The primary reason for the Application for Provisional Patent is once filed, the innovator can "openly" work on as well a promote the idea.
8 - Working in seclusion isn't productive and asking anyone the inventor wants to communicate with to file a non-Disclosure is not productive by any means.
9 - The filing date of the Provisional will automatically become the filing date for the Utility Patent, as long as it happens within twelve months.
For Your Information
Provisional Patent Basics
1-I am not a lawyer or patent writer.
2-I have submitted approximately two dozen Provisional Applications.
3-I feel they were done with the knowledge I am, as a layman, sharing with you.
4-My main source of information is: United States Patent and Trademark Office – Inventor and Entrepreneur Services – Provisional Patent Application – Nonprovisional (Utility) Patent Application Filing Guide.
5-Briefly, a Provisional Application for Patent is a legal document filed with the United States Patent and Trademark Office that establishes an early filing date but does not mature into an issued patent unless the applicant files a regular non-provisional patent application within one year.
6-From patent law: The written description of the invention and of the manner and process of making and using the same invention must be in such full, clear, concise, and exact terms as to enable any person skilled in the art or science to which the invention pertains to make and use the invention. (Anything less than this may be a waste of time!)
7-You can file anything you want. It will not be reviewed until, or if, it is challenged for any reason by someone, or a corporation, claiming your provisional is a joke and should not stand in the way of their Non-Provisional Patent being granted.
8-If examined at that point, it’s description of the invention must be clear and concise to be considered a properly prepared document.
9-The PPA offers the inventor twelve months to protect his idea providing he files a non-provisional application within twelve months, and he eventually receives the non-provisional patent.
12-This is important because the opinions of many others should be sought regarding the merits of any invention.
13-This is difficult to do when feeling vulnerable doing it.
14-The PPA is meant to establish quickly and cost-effectively a filing date for the eventual filing of the utility patent representing the invention.
15-However, I feel the PPA should not be filed until the idea can be defined intelligently and accurately.
16-Filing an incomplete idea is not a good use of time and money.
17-We know why just by understanding the words of the cut and paste above.
18-For it to be effective if ever reviewed, it must be thorough.
19-If the invention is complicated in construction as well as for use, the PPA will be very long.
20-If it’s a simple invention, that could also require many words as well, especially if it is a unique example of simple.
21-If an application is ever examined, it must be obvious the description and sketches totally support the idea.
22-As I mentioned above, this is not a hurry up and get it done routine for me and shouldn’t be for other inventors as well.
23-Even with my experience, I often walk away from the task, solve a problem, and then go back for another round.
24-The PPA is our product idea protection while assessing and promoting it.
25-We should assure ourselves if it is ever examined for any reason, it contains enough information to support the utility patent filing it precedes.
