provisional patent application
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How do I patent an improvement in an existing item?
I know three cool ways to improve a commonly used musical instrument. No one else is doing anything like this, and I'd like to get a patent. Do I patent all three ideas together or seperately? Is a provisional patent application enough to start hunting up a licensing deal? Thanks.
5 months ago - 1 answers
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There are pluses and minuses to filing one application or three. For licensing, there might be some advantages in being able to offer the ideas for separate licensing. You could still do that with one application, but it might be cleaner with separate applications. On the other hand, the 3 ideas together might be patentable whereas any one of them on its own, might not. A provisional application probably isnt going to scare anyone into taking a license. Since they are filed for cost reasons, they usually dont even include any claims. Claims are what people take a license for. If there are no claims, there is no way for the potential licensee to determine what you have invented and whether they think you will actutally get the patent.
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