In a decision issued today, the Federal Circuit addressed the issue of whether an Examiner can rely on the filing date of a provisional application under pre-AIA 102(e) to support a rejection based on ...

To participate in the pilot program, the provisional application filing must include: (1) A Certification and Request for COVID-19 Provisional Application Program (PTO/SB/452) form. (2) A provisional ...

“Provisional patent applications are widely touted as the go-to thing for startup companies or independent inventors, but they are always the wrong thing to do,” says Russ Krajec, CEO of BlueIron, a ...

There is a great misunderstanding among many inventors and entrepreneurs regarding what many simply refer to as a provisional patent. The first thing that needs to be said is that there is no such ...

I am a big fan of provisional patent applications, and they can be a very useful tool, but only when they are done right. When provisional patent applications are done poorly you not only don’t get ...

JUPITER, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BioCurity, a private preclinical biotech, is developing oncology supportive care drugs that are designed to prevent or mitigate some of the side effects associated with ...