Please ask any patent question and the patent attorney will answer it on a future show! Patent attorney Vincent LoTempio answers questions about patents and the patent process in an interview setting. This week the patent attorney comments on these topics: The new patent rules…First inventor to file. Provisional patent application vs. non-provisional patent. Patent […]
In my last column on this blog I shared some of my conversation with my neighbor, Jim, about suitable subject matter for a patentable invention. (If you missed that column, you can find it in the archives of this blog.) I also mentioned that, since Jim is an independent inventor and interested in getting a […]
What Inventors Need to Know… Inventors often ask me “can I get a provisional patent?” But there is no such thing as a “Provisional patent.” A provisional patent application is a patent application that is used by a patent applicant to secure a filing date. A provisional patent application never matures into a patent. And […]