This Handbook provides an overview of federal patent and trademark law. Information discussed includes types of patents and trademarks, duration of registration, requirements for obtaining, a guide to the application process, protecting your patent or trademark, and much more in 18 pages of materials.
If you have an invention, our office will provide guidance on potential patent claims and possibly file a provisional patent application. You can file an application to register your trademark or service mark with an intenttouse (ITU) filing basis.A claim of priority allows a later filed patent application to have a priority date as of the filing date of an earlier filed application. A priority date patent establishes the priority date as the earliest date an application may claim precedence. Interested in filing a patent? Our team of experienced attorneys and patent agent are here to help. As a result, later-filed claims in the utility application may not be entitled to the priority date of the original. The priority date is the date you filed the first application. Below is a timeline for the PCT system. Time limits under the PCT are measured from the "priority date" of the application.