Timeline for When is the right time to apply for my provisional patent
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| Jan 31, 2017 at 13:09 | comment | added | user18033 | Rick, if your provisional is bad, you might never get a patent for your invention. In patents, there is almost no correcting mistakes later. It has to be done right the first time or your own disclosures might impede you from ever getting a patent afterwards. | |
| Jan 31, 2017 at 12:02 | comment | added | Rick James | sadly I cannot afford a lawyer. I have spent a great deal of time on the application, I had to work on this project only since 2016. So, my funds are kind of low. Thanks a lot for the detailed information. I am using the patent to discourage anyone from imitating the project until I get my funds from Kickstarter or a sponser. I am hoping a large company would invest in this and help me with the non-provisional patent. | |
| Jan 31, 2017 at 11:19 | comment | added | Maca | @RickJames Being boringly thorough is the essence of being a patent attorney (and also the essence of not being invited to dinner dates). Strictly speaking, there are no formality requirements for a provisional, however following the typical format for a non-provisional is sensible. That template doesn't look terrible though I don't fully like it. I would therefore also suggest looking at as many similar granted US-originating patents in your field as you can, to get a feel for the typical approach used (assuming you can't just hire a patent attorney to do it for you). | |
| Jan 31, 2017 at 11:11 | vote | accept | Rick James | ||
| Jan 31, 2017 at 11:11 | comment | added | Rick James | thanks a lot for the information. I guess I will made do with what I have and try to be boringly thorough. Last question do software or mobile apps have to have a special provisional template or I can just use the one I mentioned earlier. | |
| Jan 31, 2017 at 10:30 | comment | added | Maca | @RickJames You should talk in general about the invention: your product is irrelevant since you're not patenting your product. There is also no scope for including an executable (since a patent specification is solely text and drawing based). Moreover, "abstract" is unrelated to whether you can provide an executable: it is related to the subject matter. So a method for trading currency would likely be abstract, whereas a method for printing security features on currency would likely be fine. It is, unfortunately, a supremely complicated point. | |
| Jan 31, 2017 at 10:26 | comment | added | Maca | @RickJames There is no such period, as with a provisional, nobody checks what you file: you are solely responsible for ensuring that it is sufficient. You may only find out many years down the line during prosecution or enforcement that something is missing (at which point it will be too late to fix). | |
| Jan 31, 2017 at 10:23 | comment | added | Rick James | Is there a period where they could say, wait something is missing and we have rejected your application? I am planning on filing a fully thorough detailed description of my application plus add flowcharts. I am using the "Realtime Cloudbased Mobile Web App and Social Rootkit" template from docracy dot com to do my patent. Should I put my application name in the template or talk in general? I am really worried about the "abstract" aspect that I keep hearing about. Can I provide a compiled version of of my mobile app to prove it is a fully developed idea and not an abstract one? | |
| Jan 31, 2017 at 9:47 | history | answered | Maca | CC BY-SA 3.0 |