All tagged Provisional

Using Deep Neural Networks to Analyze Priority Claims to Provisional Applications

Using Deep Neural Networks to Analyze Priority Claims to Provisional Applications

James Busch
Due Diligence, Deep Neural Networks

However, often provisional applications are not as detailed as the later filed non-provisional applications. The patent claims are only entitled to the date of the provisional application for material that was disclosed in the provisional; not new matter that was added in a later filed non-provisional application. Like the analysis that was performed in the article Using Deep Neural Networks to Automate the Creation of Specification Support Charts, Deep neural network can also be used to help analyze priority claims to provisional applications.

Proactive Patent Prosecution

Proactive Patent Prosecution

James Busch
Patent Prosecution

When an inventor starts down the path of obtaining patent protection, it is important to understand that the process does not end with an issued patent. Unless superficial protection is desired (e.g., a piece of paper to hang on the wall), patenting an invention is an ongoing process. Inventors should keep at least one application in the patent portfolio pending at all times. When the portfolio is pending, it can adapt as an offensive and defensive tool as the market for the technology evolves.  I call this ongoing process “proactive patent prosecution.”