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  2. Provisional application - Wikipedia

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    A provisional application can establish an early effective filing date in one or more continuing patent applications later claiming the priority date of an invention disclosed in the provisional application by one or more of the same inventors. The same term is used in past and current patent laws of other countries with different meanings.

  3. First to file and first to invent - Wikipedia

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    Glossary. v. t. e. First to file and first to invent are legal concepts that define who has the right to the grant of a patent for an invention. Since March 16, 2013, after the United States abandoned its "first to invent/document" system, all countries have operated under the "first-to-file" patent priority requirement. [1]

  4. 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 ...

  5. United States patent law - Wikipedia

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    United States patent law. The United States is considered to have the most favorable legal regime for inventors and patent owners in the world. [1] Under United States law, a patent is a right granted to the inventor of a (1) process, machine, article of manufacture, or composition of matter, (2) that is new, useful, and non-obvious.

  6. Divisional patent application - Wikipedia

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    A divisional patent application, also called divisional application or simply divisional, is a type of patent application that contains subject-matter from a previously filed application, the previously filed application being its parent application. [1] While a divisional application is filed later than the parent application, it retains its ...

  7. History of patent law - Wikipedia

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    The first patent was granted on July 31, 1790 to Samuel Hopkins for a method of producing potash (potassium carbonate). The earliest law required that a working model of each invention be submitted with the application. Patent applications were examined to determine if an inventor was entitled to the grant of a patent.

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