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What You Need to Know About Provisional Patents

Are you an entrepreneur with a novel idea? Do you want to learn how to protect your vision and use it to start a business? Then you should know and understand the importance of provisional patents.

If you have an idea you’d like to protect, you file a provisional patent to protect the date on which you had the idea.

What Is A Provisional Patent?

Who Needs A Provisional Patent?

Doing so protects the date at which the investor had the idea and the people involved and gives you time to start the research process to see if your idea is unique.

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Why Do You Need One?

Having a provisional patent is what can differentiate you from others because legally, whoever had the idea first, can lay claim to the idea itself.

How Do You File A Provisional Patent?

You can hire a lawyer to take of it for you, though be aware that this will include the patent filing fee and lawyer’s legal fees.

As soon as you have an idea you think you can protect, file this application. Then you have a year to refine it and submit it for a full patent officially.

When Do You File a Provisional Patent?

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