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Provisional Patents Glossary

PROVISIONAL APPLICATION FOR PATENT

A method by which an inventor may quickly and inexpensively file for an invention date. A PPA does not require most of the elements necessary to file a full or "non-provisional application" and is not examined for patentability by the U.S. Patent Office.