Your input is important to us. Please review the four calendar options under consideration for the 2016-2017 school year and take a brief survey to provide feedback for Scott County Schools to use in making this very important decision. Deadline for completion is Wednesday, October 28, 2015 at 11:00pm.
Under United States patent law, a provisional application is a legal document filed in the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), that establishes an early filing date, but does not mature into an issued patent unless the applicant files a regular non-provisional patent application within one year.o obtain the benefit of the provisional filing date, a non-provisional patent application must be filed, claiming benefit of the filing date of one or more specific provisional patent applications, prior to their expiration. The provisional patent application is only pending for 12 months prior to becoming abandoned.
A provisional application for patent (provisional application) is a U.S. national application filed in the USPTO under 35 U.S.C. Â§111(b) . A provisional application is not required to have a formal patent claim or an oath or declaration.Provisional applications also should not include any information disclosure (prior art) statement since provisional applications are not examined.A provisional application provides the means to establish an early effective filing date in a later filed nonprovisional patent application filed under 35 U.S.C. Â§111(a) . Provisional applications are not examined on their merits. 2  Provisional applications for patent cannot claim the benefit of a previously-filed application, either foreign or domestic. 3  It is recommended that the disclosure of the invention in the provisional application be as complete as possible.