6 Steps to Protecting Your Startup

[MJ DeMarco]

6 Steps to Protecting Your Startup

Found this great article ... has some information regarding patents too since that is an active topic of around here.

2. Stake Your Claim

Since 1995, the USPTO has offered the option of filing for a provisional patent, which is valid for 12 months from the filing date. Some advantages to filing for a provisional application are as follows:

It is a simplified and therefore lower-cost filing procedure because not as much information is needed upfront as with a non-provisional patent application;
It establishes an earlier filing date so that upon applying for a non-provisional patent (which must be done within the 12-month period in order to receive the benefit of the provisional patent), patentability would be determined from the earlier date;
It permits the applicant to promote the object of the patent immediately, including using the label "patent pending"; and
It provides an extra year's time for testing out of the object of the patent before investing in the cost of a non-provisional patent.
Note, however, that the 12-month period is non-renewable so if you don't file a non-provisional patent application within the year, it is as if you never had any patent protection at all—and in reality, you didn't.

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