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Full Patent Protection vs. a Provisional Patent Application

TraskBritt Intellectual Property

If a provisional application is not followed by a non-provisional patent application claiming priority to the provisional patent application, the disclosure to the patent office will remain unpublished and confidential. For this reason, filing dates are extremely important in patent law.

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Tesla’s Lasers on Vehicle Patent

TraskBritt Intellectual Property

Second, if the invention is possibly patentable, a patent attorney will be best situated to determine how to obtain patent protection. Third, a patent attorney will be able to assist inventors and associated parties in navigating the confidentiality obligations that accompany filing a patent application.

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ChatGPT and Intellectual Property (IP) related Topics

LexBlog IP

In one example, I asked ChatGPT to describe my law firm, Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP. ChatGPT responded with the following, which for the most part is accurate, but gets details such as the “founding date” wrong: Marshall Gerstein is a law firm based in Chicago, Illinois, that specializes in intellectual property law.