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To: babygene

“There’s a lot of incentive for a buyer with deep pockets to buy it while it’s provisional.”

Yes and the provisional patent can be renewed annually if I’m not mistaken. Also you don’t have to be a patent agent or patent attorney to write one, I believe.


10 posted on 06/22/2016 8:06:29 AM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: Huskrrrr

“Yes and the provisional patent can be renewed annually if I’m not mistaken.”

You are mistaken. You have a year to apply for a patent and if you do not do so, it passes into public domain. So a company who is interested in it has a year to buy it or they lose the exclusive rights to it.


14 posted on 06/22/2016 8:38:51 AM PDT by babygene (Make America Great Again)
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To: Huskrrrr

No, cannot be renewed. You have one year to file the non-provisional off the provisional.


20 posted on 06/22/2016 10:51:09 AM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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