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Full Patent Protection vs. a Provisional Patent Application

TraskBritt Intellectual Property

A provisional patent application is temporary and only lasts one year before a non-provisional patent application must be filed, or the application will lapse and expire. In that case, skipping the provisional patent application and going straight to a non-provisional utility patent application may be a cost-saving measure. .

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ChatGPT and Intellectual Property (IP) related Topics

LexBlog IP

Resistance to an AI as an inventor primarily stems from the fact that the written text of existing patent laws refers to human inventors, e.g., “individuals” or “persons,” which leaves little or no room for interpretation of a non-human AI as an inventor. For example, under U.S. ” 35 U.S.