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  2. Provisional application - Wikipedia

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    As of May 6, 2021, the USPTO small-entity filing fee is $150 for provisional patent applications having 100 or fewer pages of specification and drawings. [3] Complexity involved for a provisional application on the part of both the applicant and the USPTO is generally much less than that of a non-provisional patent application.

  3. Continuing patent application - Wikipedia

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    Continuation. A "continuation application" is a patent application filed by an applicant who wants to pursue additional claims to an invention disclosed in an earlier application of the applicant (the "parent" application) that has not yet been issued or abandoned. The continuation uses the same specification as the pending parent application ...

  4. Term of patent in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Under United States patent law, the term of patent, provided that maintenance fees are paid on time, is 20 years from the filing date of the earliest U.S. or international application to which priority is claimed (excluding provisional applications). [1][2][3] The patent term in the United States was changed in 1995 to bring U.S. patent law ...

  5. Large and small entities in patent law - Wikipedia

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    The small entity status allows small businesses, independent inventors, nonprofit organizations to file a patent application and maintain an issued patent for a reduced fee—a 60% reduction. [1] Under 13 C.F.R. § 121.802 (a), an entity qualifies as a "small business concern", and so qualifies for small entity status, if its number of ...

  6. Patent application - Wikipedia

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    A patent application is a request pending at a patent office for the grant of a patent for an invention described in the patent specification [notes 1] and a set of one or more claims stated in a formal document, including necessary official forms and related correspondence. It is the combination of the document and its processing within the ...

  7. Backlog of unexamined patent applications - Wikipedia

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    Although not clearly defined, [1] the backlog of unexamined patent applications consists, at one point in time, of all the patent applications that have been filed and still remain to be examined. The backlog was said to be 4.2 million worldwide in 2007, and in 2009 it reportedly continued to grow. [2] The United States Patent and Trademark ...

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