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Can I keep my invention and application secret?

by Clifford D. Hyra on August 29, 2008

Unless you request otherwise, utility applications are published 18 months after the earliest “priority date”.  Ordinarily, this is 18 months from either the filing date of the utility application, or of the provisional application, if the utility application claims priority of a provisional application.  Allowing your application to publish has some advantages.  It may help [...]

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