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I have a quick question about patent applications.If you file a provisional patent application how closely does it need to match the real patent application one would file within a year. In other words, if you make modifications or improvements in the 12 month period after filing the provisional are you able to include those into the regular patent application or do you need to file them under a different name?
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Hello
Does my q make sense?
Okay, so the provisional will be reviewed then, I thought it was kind of just a place holder that gets disregarded... Do you anywhere I could read more about this specific topic, like a specific doc at USPTO or something .
I just want to know what the boundaries are here regarding supported by the PPA claims
no you are right, it is a placeholder and does not gets reviewed...BUT it could get reviewed at some time in the future if there is an issue/dispute as to whether all the material in the subsueqent utility patent is support by the provisional (And thus entitled to the provisional's filing date)
you need to have adequate description and disclosure in the provisional to support a filing date, you cannot add new material or significant details/descriptions/elements later on and still get the earlier filing date
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