Sentences with phrase «effective patent application»

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Like any other patent application, a provisional patent application is effective to stop the clock relative to so - called statutory bars and immediately upon filing a provisional patent...

Following the regulatory reform of July 2007, which introduced the substantive examination of national patent applications, and thanks to the growing competence and quickness of specialised IP Courts, alongside the effective EU and national customs rules concerning importation of alleged counterfeiting products, patents in Italy are considered more and more as an indispensable tool for competition.

If your international patent application has entered the national stage and you paid a basic national fee on or after Dec. 8, 2004, you may be affected by the revised fees published by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for some patent cooperation treaty applications, effective Feb. 1,patent application has entered the national stage and you paid a basic national fee on or after Dec. 8, 2004, you may be affected by the revised fees published by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for some patent cooperation treaty applications, effective Feb. 1,Patent and Trademark Office for some patent cooperation treaty applications, effective Feb. 1,patent cooperation treaty applications, effective Feb. 1, 2005.

This type of patent is an effective and relatively cost - friendly way to safeguard your invention for a year while you decide whether to file a utility patent application.

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.