If an inventor wants to protect his or her ideas, then he/she can go for the provisional patent application. While using this application, the inventor can continue to refine as well as develop such ideas. The provisional application protects the ideas and inventions of a person by establishing a filing date or priority for the invention. After that, the provisional application is converted to the utility patent application within 1 year. The filing date or priority of the provisional application can be claimed by utility patent application for all the inventive concepts which were included in true or original patent application.

However, most of the inventors stop thinking and worrying about the intellectual protection of property after filing of the original provisional application until it is converted into the utility application. Because of this, they failed to miss most of the important opportunities for improving the quality as well as breadth of their utility application.

Most of the times, it has been seen that inventors try to experiment with number of embodiments of invention. This helps them to refine that invention for market introduction. Most of such embodiments will ultimately make the products viable. If you do not have much time, then you can choose only one embodiment so that you can focus on the single candidate more as compare to many. All such embodiments are part of inventions, even though they are not be productized immediately. It is important for the inventors to record all such embodiment as well as to provide these embodiments to their patent attorney when converting the provisional application.

When it comes to refining as well as productizing an invention, it is essential for the inventors to solve lots of implementation problems. Most of the solutions can seem to be insignificant, but they can prove to be essential in providing protection to their invention. Inventors must note the implementation details and talk about them with the patent attorney when converting the provision app. By including such implementation details, one can strengthen a patent to a great extent.

A design patent can prove to be essential for your company. If you do not know anything about design patent, then there is nothing to worry. As the name suggest, the design patent is used for granting rights to the inventor regarding how an invention looks actually. Certainly, the design pattern is very unique as it is given only when an inventor has made something new and it protects the appearance of his or her invention.