Can a provisional patent contain more than one invention?
More than one invention may be described in a single provisional application. Note that a provisional application is not examined and a patent cannot issue from that provisional application. If you wish to obtain a patent after you have filed a provisional application, you must file a non-provisional application no later than one year after the filing of the provisional application. If the non-provisional application contains claims to more than one invention, the examiner may make a restriction requirement and require you to elect claims to one invention for examination in the non-provisional application.
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- Can a provisional patent contain more than one invention?
