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The filing date is the date when a patent application is first filed at a patent office. The priority date, sometimes called the “effective filing date”, is the date used to establish the novelty and/or obviousness of a particular invention relative to other art.

Application date is the date on which the patent office received the patent application. Publication date is the date on which the patent application is published (i.e. the information is available to public). This normally occurs 18 months after the priority date.

To determine when your (or your competitor's) patent expires, first identify the correct filing date of the patent application. A U.S. utility patent (filed on or after June 8, 1995) expires 20 years from the earliest filing date of the patent.

For most countries, the patent number is in the upper right corner of the patent. In the U.S., the date the patent was issued is in the upper right corner below the number. See line 22 in the left columm to see when the patent was filed. Two years is common for a patent to issue from date of file.

Priority date refers to the earliest filing date in a family of patent applications. If the earliest-filed patent application for a particular invention was a provisional application, then the filing date of the provisional is your priority date.

The date of Patent is the date of filing the application for patent, accompanied either by provisional or complete specification. In case of a convention or PCT application the priority date is taken as the date of Patent.

A filing date is the date a patent application is received by the US Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO). Filing dates are important in patent law because they are often used to determine who invented something first and therefore able to hold patent rights to it.

Claim date: The term claim date refers to the date of a claim in a patent application. The claim date is the filing date, unless: there is a prior application that discloses the subject-matter defined by the claim, the subject patent application is filed within 12 months of the filing date of the prior application, and.