Intellectual Property
Nov. 18, 2003
Invalid Provisionals Are Trouble for Patent Applicants
Focus Column — Intellectual Property — By Laura Majerus — A 1995 change in the patent law allows applicants to file a provisional patent application for an invention instead of a regular "utility" patent application. During the Internet boom of the late 1990s, more companies began filing provisional applications, thinking that the significant difference in preparation cost and filing fees made provisional applications "the poor man's patent application."
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