Sentence examples for provisional application from inspiring English sources

He said that the office already offers a $110 provisional application that secures a place in line and gives the applicant time to develop an idea before submitting a full application.

But Mr. Smith said that for a $110 fee an inventor could file a provisional application that would allow a year to prepare a formal application.

In the case of Tanzania, the provisional application was first sent to government officials in 1993; a further application was made in July 1997; the application was considered over several months last year before the decision was made in December; recent reports have indicated that the decision may yet be overturned.

If negotiators for President Obama and President Dmitri A. Medvedev of Russia reach agreement on a follow-up treaty that the two leaders can sign by Dec. 5, then the administration may seek what is called "provisional application," putting the terms of the treaty into place on a temporary basis pending a Senate vote.

A provisional application is faster and cheaper than a full application, as it doesn't typically include a full set of claims.

It contains the same basic information as the provisional application (perhaps a little further refined) but typically adds a full set of claims.

His lab has published a hundred and thirty-one journal articles on graphene — second only to a lab at the University of Texas at Austin — and his researchers move rapidly to file provisional applications with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, which give them legal ownership of an idea for a year before they must file a full claim.

While it is always best to file patent applications as soon as possible, prior to implementation of first-to-file, companies should consider whether provisional applications should be filed to secure first-to-invent filing dates.

Ofcom is now making good on its side of the deal — publishing a chronology for the 800MHz and 2.6GHz bands that will see provisional applications from auction bidders accepted next month; bidding beginning in January; licences granted in February/March; and 4G services going live in May/June.

If the technology is worthy of patent protection, filing a series of low-cost provisional applications during the course of development of the technology can be a cost-effective way to establish a series of early "first-to-file" filing dates for the technology.

Provisional applications cannot be filed for design patent applications, however.