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Filing a patent application

Filing a patent application

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Filing a patent application

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- [Instructor] Filing a patent application. Once you file the patent application, you wait. In some cases, it takes several years to get the first response from the patent office. This is because in some fields, they're impacted because they have so many patent applications. In other cases, you might get an office action in six months. What's an office action? That's a rejection. It's a refusal to register, to let your patent through. Is that okay? Yes. In fact, you haven't done a good job of crafting your patent application if it goes through. When filing patent claims, most patent applicants ask for broader rights than they may eventually get. Most attorneys will help an inventor claim as broad a rights as they can get and force the patent office to come back and narrow the claims. So typically, you'll get a refusal after filing your patent application. But this isn't bad news. It's just the USPTO examiner doing their job to evaluate the merits of your patent claims, and in many…

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