John Powers
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- Sep 14, 2026
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The 24-Month Provisional: A Better Way for Inventors to Test the Market (opens the original)
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“Provisionals are only a partial way for inventors to test the market without spending unnecessary sums of money. When it comes to launching inventions into the market, one year is often not enough time.” Congress should let provisional applications be renewable for an extra year, and then publish them if a nonprovisional is not filed. Filing a nonprovisional is a big deal for small businesses. In some cases the expense pays off because it lets inventors recover from infringers, while in others
Pay for What You Traverse: Ending After-Final Practice with Content-Based Fees (opens the original)
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“The USPTO already charges more for longer applications because they take more effort to examine… Patent prosecution should follow the same principles.” For many small businesses, uncertainty in patent prosecution can mean the difference between a strong issued patent and either abandonment or suboptimal coverage. One source of uncertainty in today’s system is final office action practice. Recent data suggests that roughly 42% of patent applications receive a final office action, meaning they ar
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