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18-month publication provision provides provisional protection from the date of 18-month publication until the patent is granted. 18-month publication provision allows third parties to file pre-grant observations on the patentability of the invention.

Unlike a non-provisional application, the PPA does not need to include an abstract or summary, a claim or claims, a Patent Application Declaration, or an Information Disclosure Statement.

Policy makers at the time considered that 18-months publication of the patent application provides a balance to protect applicant's/inventor's rights, provides sufficient time for competition and allows the patent office to assess the prior art and reduce backlog.

A patent publication is a published utility patent application which is not the same thing as a patent. While a published patent application may eventually issue into a patent, the patent publication consists of only the application itself, namely, the drawings and written specification.

Applications will be published after the expiration of a period of eighteen months from the earliest of: (1) the U.S. filing date; (2) the international filing date; or (3) the filing date of an earlier application for which a benefit is sought under 35 U.S.C. 119, 120, 121, 365, or 386.

Each individual inventor may only assign the interest held by that individual; thus, assignment by one joint inventor renders the assignee a partial assignee. A partial assignee likewise may only assign the interest it holds; thus, assignment by a partial assignee renders a subsequent assignee a partial assignee.

37 CFR 1.55 (relating to foreign priority claims) and 37 CFR 1.78 (relating to domestic benefit claims) require applicant to inform the Office via a statement if the transition application contains or ever contained a claim that was not supported by the earlier filed domestic benefit or foreign priority application ...

A utility patent will cost between $7,000 to $20,000. This patent cost estimate includes the short-term costs to prepare and file a utility patent application which gives you patent pending for your invention.

You can draft and file the provisional application yourself using the USPTO's online web portal or use an online service to create and file a patent application for you. If you file patent yourself, ask a lawyer to gently review it before your file it.