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Provisional patent application are not examined by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Instead, they act to provide you with a priority filing date with respect to the subject matter disclosed in the provisional patent application.

We recommend filing an ADS or application data sheet in any provisional or nonprovisional application to ensure that the Patent Office has the data that it needs and in the form that it wants the data to reduce errors.

Provisional applications may not support the broadest claims for an invention. As a result, later-filed claims in the utility application may not be entitled to the priority date of the original.

Consequently, the filing of a provisional application delays the patent examination process. Provisional applications may not support the broadest claims for an invention. As a result, later-filed claims in the utility application may not be entitled to the priority date of the original.

While a provisional patent application does not provide any immediate legal protection from infringers, a provisional patent application can preserve your future patent rights in the United States and in foreign countries by establishing an earlier priority filing date.

Describe the Invention with Precision and Clarity Ensure the title clearly defines the invention. Discuss the operation of the invention in detail. Refer to the drawings and specify their relevance to the description. Comply with the guidelines of the Patent Office regarding format and content.

A normal US design patent application can take 16 to 36 months to receive the initial examination by an examiner. Without a Rocket Docket request, you need to be OK with waiting 1.5 to 3 years to get an initial review of your design patent application.

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The applicant for the patent can make a request to the Controller to add a person as one of the inventors, if such person is also the applicant or is at least one of the applicants.