What food products/processes can be patented?

Usually, you can patent food products that achieve an unexpected result. Like mushing pieces of chicken with some gel and reforming to look like a...

What does this mean about provisional applications?

If you are still developing the invention, you still might have some elements that make the invention unique already. The provisional would give...

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What are the potential cons of a provisional patent? besides the "added" cost.

In the scenario that you describe, I would file a provisional patent application. If something changes with your invention, then at least you...

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Mobile App with multiple enhancements to existing offerings - Looking to patent key features for future development.

You want to do a patent search first to see if patentable. Then file a patent application. Then look to get it developed.

Provisional Patent, public disclosure and International Protection

www.archive.org has a way back machine I have seen it used by the Patent Office to show when a website looked a certain way.

If I can cannot find a patent or an application for one when I search the USPTO database, am I clear to go ahead with my design?

Patent applications typically published 18 months after having been filed, but not always. So no patent search is every perfect. Plus, you need...

Question regarding provisional patent and patenting a business method/process

My advice is to find an attorney who will give you a fixed cost to fix that which you have already written yourself. You might wrote rather well,...

If you are going to make some NFL garb, choose the Ravens at least! :) GO RAVENS! I think the answers to your question say the same basic...

HOW DO YOU FILE A PATENT

You can do yourself, but better to use a patent attorney or patent agent. There are many pitfalls so best to find someone that you can afford and...

Can a business/service be patented if its a new way of doing something?

I have seen coupon methods patented. For example, ways to print coupons from shopping carts based on location in a store. If you have a unique...