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How to review a draft patent application and provide useful comments

Patent Trademark Blog

MS Word also allows you to insert comments which your patent attorney can review and respond to with their own comments. To mark up drawings, consider using a different color and then emailing a color copy of your marked-up figures to your patent attorney.

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Full Patent Protection vs. a Provisional Patent Application

TraskBritt Intellectual Property

In that case, skipping the provisional patent application and going straight to a non-provisional utility patent application may be a cost-saving measure. . The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) does not evaluate provisional patent applications for patentability. Keep Trade Secrets Secret.

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ChatGPT and Intellectual Property (IP) related Topics

LexBlog IP

Marshall Gerstein’s practice areas include patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, and related litigation, as well as IP licensing, counseling, and transactions. Patents: Drafting In view of the above, patent drafters should be careful as to what information (if any) is provided to ChatGPT.