“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 ...

Carol M. Kopp edits features on a wide range of subjects for Investopedia, including investing, personal finance, retirement planning, taxes, business management, and career development. A provisional ...

As patent reform moves forward with the first to file provisions still intact we can expect to hear from many corners that the thing that inventors and businesses need to do is file provisional patent ...

Provisional applications are not low-cost substitutes for utility applications Provisional applications are often improperly used as low-cost substitutes for utility applications. The problem with ...

Jeffrey Proehl is a registered patent attorney with Woods, Fuller, Shultz & Smith P.C. in Sioux Falls. Inventors often have questions about the difference between filing a “provisional” and a ...