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If your provisional patent application expired or was abandoned, it is as if the application was never filed. Because it is as if you never filed the application, you can file the same or updated application again.
Fortunately, after a patent application has been declared abandoned, it can usually be revived by completing a few simple steps: Filing a petition to revive abandoned patent application. Paying a revival fee and any other fees that are owed. Correcting the issue that resulted in the abandonment.
For unintentional delays, you must explain the delay and then pay the correct petition fee for your entity: Large entity: $1,700. Small entity: $850. Micro entity: $850.
United States Patent and Trademark Office (.uspto.gov) Copies of patents, patent applications, and many other patent-related filings are available on the USPTO web site. Patent searching can be done directly on the USPTO's web site. Full text and images are available for patents from 1976 to the most recent Tuesday.
Under certain circumstances, yes. An abandoned patent application may be revived depending upon the following key factors: reason for abandonment; and. length of time it took for the applicant to seek revival.
It is possible for the patent owner to reinstate the patent, if it expires, by paying a surcharge in addition to the maintenance fee. It's also possible for the patent holder to put the expired patent up for sale and sell the patent and their rights to someone else who could renew the expired patent by paying the fees.
The simple answer is YES. When a patent expires or is abandoned, you (i.e., the public) are allowed to make and use the invention described in the patent. The patent owner's invention has been dedicated to the public.
Patent expiration Once the fee is paid, the patent is renewed. It is possible for the patent owner to reinstate the patent, if it expires, by paying a surcharge in addition to the maintenance fee.