Note that this will add months to the term, equal to the amount of time that passed between filing the provisional and
the actual patent application.
Not exact matches
Apple files thousands of
patents per year, and an
application is no guarantee that the idea will ever become an
actual product.
Moreover, the specific disclosure requirements for
patents where utility is based on sound prediction is the consideration an inventor pays for obtaining a
patent without having proved
actual utility as at the filing date of the
patent application.
When a Provisional
Application is submitted to the USPTO, the applicant has 12 months to submit the
actual Non-Provisional
Patent Application.
Upon publication, applicants may have provisional rights against infringers using the design despite
actual notice of the
application, if the
application subsequently issues as a
patent.
For an
application filed on or after March 16, 2013, the effective filing date of a claimed invention is the earlier of: (1) the
actual filing date of the
patent or the
application for
patent containing the claimed invention; or (2) the filing date of the earliest
application for which the
patent or
application is entitled, as to such invention, to a right of priority or the benefit of an earlier filing date under 35 U.S.C. 119, 120, 121, or 365.
It comprises 24 chapters, comprehensively regulating the
patent examination process, from the
application requirements, through the
actual examination itself, to appeals and protests.
Samsung calls the device «Earphone» in the
patent application, but like all other
patented designs we come across, it's hard to speculate on exactly what the purpose of the device will be, and whether it will ever be realized as an
actual product.