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patent application
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Noun1.patent application - an application for sole rights to an inventionpatent application - an application for sole rights to an invention
application - a verbal or written request for assistance or employment or admission to a school; "December 31 is the deadline for applications"


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Under the current acceleration rules, patent applications can be processed relatively quickly (in under a year, ideally) if they, among other things, are filed electronically, contain three or fewer independent claims and less than 20 total claims and have claims directed to a single invention, include a prior art search and a support document and identify all claim limitations that are disclosed by each reference.
You can file additional patent applications to cover improvements in your own product as they are conceived (or as they are about to become public), and can target improvements that you think of to block development by competitors.
The patent office is so delayed with respect to its evaluation of patent applications (according to Goldsmith, it can take three to four years for a patent to be issued), that companies are frequently past the early stages of their development by the time a patent is issued.
 
 
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