Top ELEVEN Reasons for filing a U.S. Patent Application by March 15

Top ELEVEN Reasons for filing a U.S. Patent Application by March 15, 2013

11. Beat the U.S.Patent Office (USPTO) fee increases (starting March 19).

10. Tackle the easier task of preparing a patent application before moving on to the more complicated task of preparing your 2012 personal tax return.

9.  Avoid new class of foreign patent applications and foreign country use/sales as prior art being used to reject your patent application.

8.  Eliminate the threat that an earlier, oral disclosure of your invention can be used as prior art.

7.  Peace of mind in the more certainty of prior interpretations of the existing patent statute through established case law rather than the ambiguity of how the new patent law will be interpreted.

6.  Thwart the risk that a third party disclosure of your invention (up to a year before you file your patent application), will prevent you from getting a patent.

5.  Avoid new post patent grant review at the USPTO.

4.  Be able to rely on the "first-to-invent" rule to establish an earlier date of invention than that of your patent application filing date (allowing you to prove you were the original inventor before another).

3.  Your patent application filed by March 15 can later be used as the basis for a future continuing patent application which will be examined under the "old"/current patent laws rather than those starting March 16 (e.g. reason #4, above).

2.  Always better to file sooner rather than later.

1.  Frees up time to concentrate on filling out your NCAA March Madness Basketball Bracket.

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