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Search by U.S. Provisional Application Number?
TOPIC: In the United States, an inventor may file a provisional application for a patent, which is a means to establish an early effective filing date in a patent application. The applicant then has up to 12 months to file a non-provisional application for the patent.
In this example, you will search for patent US 60/512001 filed October 16, 2003, to find out whether any patent documents reference this number as a priority application (the first application filed for an invention). The applicant then has up to 12 months to file a non-provisional application for the patent.
Provisional applications are always assigned the series number "60" followed by a 1-6 digit serial number. Unlike the series numbers used for regular U.S. applications (e.g. 09/, 10/, 11/), the series 60/ does not indicate a range of filing years.
COMMAND SUMMARY
BEGIN 340
EXPAND AN=US 60-512001
SELECT E3
TYPE S1/3/ALL
HOW TO...
1. BEGIN 340, which contains both published applications and granted U.S. patents.
2. In the U.S. files, use VISUAL EXPAND on the provisional application number after converting the 60/ to 60- and select the relevant entries.
It is not unusual to get more than one hit on a provisional application number since it may be referenced as a priority application number in more than one patent document. |
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3. Display your records in Format 3 to view the bibliographic data for the two records.
Note that the first record is for a U.S. published application. |
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The second record is for a U.S. published application that was subsequently granted as a patent. |
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