What Is The Difference Between A Provisional Patent Application And A Non-Provisional One?
A provisional patent has a 12month pendency period from the date of filing. The U.S. Patent Office will not grant extensions for any reason. A patent inventor must file a full (nonprovisional) patent application to take advantage of the provisional patent’s filing date. If a full patent is not filed within a year, the provisional patent application is considered abandoned. A full or “nonprovisional” application establishes an invention’s filing date and initiates the official examination process with a U.S. Patent Office examiner.
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- If a provisional application is filed and then after 12 months expires without filing a non-provisional application filed, does this prevent a patent ever to be issued?
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