Working with a Patent Attorney to Draft a Provisional Patent Application

• Author: Dylan O. Adams
• Profession: Seattle-based patent attorney
• Pages: 155-169

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Working with a Patent

Attorney to Draft a

Provisional Patent

Application

“However, patent lawyers who work with small clients

have said that they advise their clients not to treat a

provisional application any less seriously than a ful l patent

application. If there is part of an invention that is le out of

the provisional application, that will not be protected.”

—Senator Dianne Feinstein dur ing debate on

the America Invents Act, Marc h 2, 2011

“ey tell me that the balm of ‘cheap provisionals’ is snake oil,

because a provisional still has to meet c ertain legal standards...”

—Senator Harry Reid dur ing debate on the

America Invents Act, March 2 , 2011

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