Legal Question in Intellectual Property in New York

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The "poor man's patent" provides no protection whatsoever to the person who would claim priority in an invention. You can file your invention with the USPTO for $100 (a "provisional patent"); THAT establishes a priority date. BEWARE: PROVISIONAL PATENTS EXPIRE AFTER ONE YEAR, and you cannot claim priority to an expired provisional patent. Thus, if you want a patent to issue and you need to claim the benefit of the provisional application's filing date, you MUST file a nonprovisional application for patent within one year of filing your provisional application. One year and one day is too late.

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