“Provisional patent applications are widely touted as the go-to thing for startup companies or independent inventors, but they are always the wrong thing to do,” says Russ Krajec, CEO of BlueIron, a ...

“Refiling a provisional is just a bad idea when you can, for a few hundred dollars more, keep hold of that earliest priority date and continue on the path to obtaining a patent.” The question that we ...

Filing a provisional patent application was introduced into U.S. patent law in 1994. The ability to file a provisional application was widely applauded at the time and filing provisional applications ...

Integrated Cyber Solutions Inc. (CSE: ICS) (OTCQB: IGCRF) (FSE: Y4G) dba Integrated Quantum Technologies ("IQT" or the ...

The USPTO has announced yet another COVID-19 pilot program, which began on September 17, 2020. Under this new pilot, the USPTO allows applicants to defer the application fee for any provisional patent ...

An ongoing challenge during the COVID-19 pandemic has been to meet the filing deadlines of non-provisional patent applications that claim priority to prior patent applications (e.g., prior provisional ...

NEW YORK, Nov. 17, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Raphael Pharmaceutical Inc. (“Raphael Pharmaceutical” or the “Company”) (OTCQB: RAPH) , a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing an innovative ...

You have an invention you want to patent. To qualify in most countries, your invention must meet the standard for so-called absolute novelty. This means it cannot have been sold or disclosed in prior ...

NEW YORK, Nov. 17, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Raphael Pharmaceutical Inc. ("Raphael Pharmaceutical” or the "Company”) (OTCQB: RAPH), a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing an innovative ...

Under the new pilot program, filing fees for provisional patent applications may be deferred and, in some cases, need not be paid at all if certain conditions relating to Covid-19 are met. On Sept. 17 ...

VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESS Newswire / December 11, 2025 / LIR Life Sciences Corp. (CSE:SKNY)(Frankfurt:N790, WKN: A41QA9) ("LIR" or the "Company") announces that it has filed a provisional patent ...